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My husband had an affair with my closest friend.

I loved Emperor Cedric with all my heart and devoted my entire life to becoming the Empress, only to be falsely accused of countless crimes and face a miserable death.

I thought that was the end of everything—until I realized I had returned to the time before our marriage.

‘The one who betrayed me… the traitor who stabbed me in the back.’

After coming back from the brink of death, everything looked different. I no longer felt the need to please the palace or the compulsion to win Cedric’s love.

Determined not to live as foolishly as before, I was ready to leave the empire.

But then, my childhood friend, Duke Calix of the esteemed and wealthy Vartica family, confessed his feelings and tried to stop me.

“Do you really have to go? I don’t want to let you go.”

And to make matters worse, Cedric, who had coldly ignored and oppressed me, started to become obsessed with me?

It was supposed to be a happy marriage.

But at some point, her husband changed, and her family, who had sworn absolute loyalty to the royal family, were accused of treason.

Right before her death, Laila learned the whole truth, and when she opened her eyes, it was back to the happy times when nothing had happened…

To change the future, Laila secretly sent a marriage proposal to Julian Dukezan, the Grand Duke of the North, known as the Monster Duke, and Julian, who had difficulty marrying a noble lady, gladly took her hand.

“If you do your best, I will do my best as well.”

But even though it was clearly a contract marriage, this man is perfect in every way except for his appearance.

With new power in her hands, Laila seeks revenge from the past and aims to put her chosen prince on the throne. However, a dark conspiracy, which she was unaware of in the past, begins to reach out to her.

To make matters worse, her limited life due to a persistent curse from the past also catches up with her…

Despite the prophecy that she would open a new world, Princess Anastasia could neither wield holy power nor see. One day, while she was being forgotten alone in a secluded palace, a man who called himself an angel appeared by her side.

“I’ll heal you. You can’t see, right?”
“But, isn’t that… something that can only be done between married people?”
“That’s true for humans. But I’m not human, am I?”

At his cunning whisper, Anastasia gave a small nod.

“How is it, do you feel the holy power?”
“Haa…”
“Sasha, what will you do if you still can’t feel it, hmm?”

But why was it?

“Leviathan.”
“…Yes.”
“Your hair color… Didn’t you say it was blonde before?”

He must be the angel who healed my eyes, yet an unknown guilt kept pressing down on her heart.

“The truth is, I’m being punished.”

Can I trust this man?