After the Ill-Fated Relationship Had Ended

“I intend to become both Empress and Duke.”

Diana, an empress of merely two months, was kidnapped, and later rescued, after being taken by her brother-in-law, the man who had led a rebellion.

She was carrying a child in her womb.

However, caught up in a scandal with her brother-in-law, Diana soon suffered a miscarriage.

“I would be lying if I said I never doubted whether the child you carried was mine. But so what? The one who wanted that child to be mine more than anyone else was me. Me!”

The emperor, Licht, both wounded her, and clung to her desperately.

“Even if the child wasn’t mine, I was prepared to raise it.”

Diana, who had wanted nothing more than to die, found herself wanting to live again, within Licht’s arms.

Then everything collapsed.

Her natal family, who had aided the rebellion, fell into ruin.

And her father came to find her.

On that fateful day, Diana was murdered by her own father.

***

Perhaps even the gods pitied such a cruel death.

When Diana opened her eyes again, she had returned to one month before the kidnapping.

And she came face to face with him once more.

The man who had seen her at her lowest,

The husband who had shielded her family from annihilation,

And the father of the child she had lost.

Determined to prevent the tragedies awaiting them, Diana resolves to sever ties with her natal
family, the true architects of the rebellion.

“I intend to become both Empress and Duke.”

Seizing her family’s title becomes the goal of her second life.