A barren, sick hen. A phoenix with clipped wings. Everyone in the palace mocked the empress openly, without a shred of respect or fear. The Emperor merely turned a blind eye — no, he laughed. “Even the Empress’s hands are pitifully unsightly.” *** “Your Majesty, I beg you, please send a royal physician to my…
“Why was it you, of all people?” Simple. You were the most pitiful and the cheapest.” She met him in the ruined marriage market after her family had fallen from grace. Her husband, Lucas, was a capable businessman who had been devoted to her throughout their marriage. Until the day of their anniversary, when she…
It was the age of the plague. She had already experienced the fifth cycle of hell, having been exploited by the imperial family and the powerful elite as the sole cure. No matter what she did, she couldn’t die. Not until her thirtieth birthday, when the holy relic would finally drain her of all her…
“Your Majesty, I love you!” Olivia threw another fastball straight at Edmund. “What’s on the agenda today?” Once again, he casually ignored her. “Aren’t we fated to be together, Your Majesty?” On the day of Olivia’s umpteenth declaration of destiny, Edmund finally lost his temper. “I thought I told you there’s no way I’d ever…
He and I were destined to be enemies. But the moment we fell in love, it happened in the blink of an eye. You gave up everything, took my hand and ran away with me. “Did you really think that paradise would be waiting for us at the end of our escape?” But our end…
It was loving my husband that marked the beginning of my misery. “Penelope must remain a virtuous wife until I cast her aside.” To her husband, Penelope was merely a means to an end — a vault and a tool. “I should have gotten rid of a nuisance like you from my life long ago.”…
The moment she lost her child, Saronne realised with a shudder that she was living this wretched life for the second time. Her husband had treated her as nothing more than a substitute for his first love, before discarding her. That very same first love had murdered her child and hurled vile accusations at her…
My child died. The man who was both my first love and the father of my child was heartless to the very end. “That child was a mistake from the very beginning.” My first marriage, which was filled with nothing but pain, ended with my death. But in this second life, I made a vow….
The day I died, you finally called my name. You hated me until my last breath. I was nothing more than a discarded princess whom you were forced to marry — someone you never wanted. And yet, without meaning to, I fell in love with you. It was a love that I buried deep inside,…
***This work contains potentially triggering content, including coercive relationships, explicit language, and unethical elements. Please proceed with caution.*** Reina’s thirst for revenge only grew as the man who had claimed her as a war trophy—and later called himself her stepbrother—tormented her, both physically and emotionally. One day, she encountered a child on the estate of…
“You must become the War Demon’s bride in my place.” Yuis Everett, who was working as a maid in the household of the Duke of Johannes due to her family’s circumstances, was offered up as a pawn in a political marriage at her employer’s whim. Her fiancé was Edric Descartes, the Duke of the far…
“It’s a marriage contract.” The man her father had once sacrificed his life to save suddenly appeared after eight long years. “Marriage… You mean… you and I…?” “I’m asking you to become my wife.” While Ji-an was flustered, Se-hyeon was calm and unwavering. “I heard life has been difficult for you since your father passed…