Absolute Empress

“Please… let me live peacefully without being hated too much.”

She lived an ordinary life and died an ordinary death.
But of all things, she possessed the body of Alexa, the female lead of the novel she had been reading.
Alexa, a daughter adopted by a ducal house, the imperial family’s maternal relatives, in order to produce an empress.
The young emperor Enoch despised the maternal relative faction, and because of that, he did not spare even a glance at Empress Alexa, who had been created for the sake of that faction.
The fresh twenty-year-old Alexa only wishes to live without being hated by Enoch, just as in the original, and to get by without any trouble.

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“Who are you?”

A voice rang out, low enough to send a chill down one’s spine.

“Who dared to sneak into my secret garden?”

The platinum blonde hair that spilled through the cloak, the blue eyes, and the sight of her cradling an armful of red plum blossoms in a white snow-covered field left an impression seemingly etched onto the inside of one’s eyelids.

“I am… Alexa Taira, who entered the palace to become empress.”

The lips of Alexa as she said those words were remarkably pure and delicate. Indeed, Alexa cradling an armful of red plum blossoms on a night of heavy snowfall was more beautiful than anyone he had ever seen.
In that moment, Enoch felt anger at himself for feeling that way.

“Do not cross the boundary again.”

Enoch said that and turned away sharply. Alexa considered herself fortunate that it had passed with just that much.
But….

“Do you dislike the idea of becoming joined in marriage with me?”
“N, no…”
“Why, does the word ‘husband’ feel awkward because we have not yet been joined in marriage?”

Unlike the original, Enoch boldly steps forward and knocks on her heart, while Alexa feels confused yet also feels joy.
However, as her fate changes, unidentified forces that did not exist in the original keep reaching out with the claws of death toward her.
Will Alexa be able to go beyond her wish of simply wanting to live without standing out, and reach a happy ending with Enoch as the empress of the empire?