“I gave you my soul in my last life. In this one, I’ll settle for your crown.”
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In my first life, I was the devoted Queen. I waited two months for my husband, King Lauren, to return from the front lines—only for him to walk through the palace gates with a beautiful young maiden by his side and a decree in his hand: ‘She would be the new Queen’.
And because of that evil beauty he brought to our kingdom, I died a discarded "nobody," executed for a crime I didn't commit.
But death didn't take me. It sent me back.
I woke up on the morning of his return. The crowds are cheering, the flowers are blooming, and my husband is about to humiliate me in front of the entire kingdom.
But he doesn't know I've changed. He doesn't know I've returned with a special skill that makes me the most dangerous woman in the room.
Before he can introduce his "New Queen," I hand him the one thing no one in this kingdom has ever dared to ask for: Divorce papers.
In our land, a Queen asking for divorce is an abomination punishable by stoning.
But Lauren thinks I’m bluffing. He looks me in the eye, tears my petition to shreds, and growls, “You are my wife. I will never stamp those papers.”
He thinks he is keeping me trapped. He doesn't realize he has trapped himself in a palace with a woman who knows every one of his secrets—and is prepared to burn his kingdom to the ground just to see him sign his name.
My goal is simple; I will make him fall... not in love, but to his knees.
Since he spent my first life making me cry. I’ll spend my second making him bleed.

"Peculiar," I softly called her name and that was when she rushed at me with the motive of pushing me down the stairs.


But since I knew what she was planning, I tried to move away but I tripped over a stair and felt my life flash before my eyes.


It was so frightening and dangerously real that I screamed so loudly only for me to jerk wide awake in my chamber.


My face instantly paled as I scurried out of bed with my limbs trembling in fear.


"It was just a dream," I said as I quickly looked at the floor of my bed just to find the same black bird sitting there how I met it, bringing instant fear to my heart.


My body went cold when it finally occurred to me that I was repeating this nightmare again, but how?


This time, instead of running, I went to my bedside table and hurriedly opened the last drawer before I pulled out a dagger I had kept for my protection.


Chapter 52 - The loop