Chapter 1 - Prologue

Chapter 1 – Prologue

“Your Highness, Madam has come.”

Elysia, standing in front of the enormous door, swallowed a gulp over and over in order not to tremble. Meeting the man beyond this was like walking into the tiger’s mouth.

‘But, I’m going to tell you today!’

If she dragged on like this, she never knew when she would be killed. Even in a reborn life, dying in vain was unacceptable.

Besides, it’s poison!

How painful it is to die that way. Her body trembled as it felt like her intestines were already on fire.

“Your Highness.”

The man inside the door still didn’t answer. It was only natural that he had been avoiding her for days. At some point, Elysia sighed deeply because of the man who came and watched her, but now, she came and he hid instead.

“Damon….”

Despite her call, no words came from within. She wanted to give up and go today, but she had nowhere else to back down.

Now, the back is a dead end. There was only going straight for her.

“…I want to see you.”

Squeaak.

Elysia’s eyes widened as the door opened in an instant without notice. Does this mean to come in? Still, she couldn’t get her feet off right away because she was afraid of Damon, who was going to be inside.

What would she do if a knife flew because she went in at will…? In that case, she would have been better off waiting quietly for him to tell her to come in.

At that moment, the butler opened his mouth as though he was pushing her back.

“Go in, madam.”

“Ah… Thank you, Sebastian.”

It was dark all around the office to the extent that she wondered if it was possible to work in this dark place. It was doubtful whether the documents would be visible. If it wasn’t for the sunlight coming through the curtains, she wouldn’t even recognize the man sitting in the middle.

“Da… Damon?”

Standing in the dark room, Elysia’s shoulders shook slightly. It really felt like striding into the tiger’s den.

“Elysia.”

“Can I turn on the light? Roll up the curtains… ”

It was terrifying to see the blue eyes of a man shining in the dark like the eye of a beast. It was time she got used to it, but still, when she met those eyes, fear prevailed.

Duke Raphael without blood or tears…

This word was not for nothing. Damon was the man who could easily kill her even now.

“Ah…!”

Before she could finish her words, she tightly closed her eyes. Suddenly, the sun shone inside and brightened the surroundings.

“Kyaak—!”

When she pried open her eyes, Elysia stopped screaming at the blue eyes that reached her nose. Even though the distance was close, it was too close. They could feel each other’s breath.

She unknowingly took a step back, trying to get away from him.

“Wife.”

Elysia could feel the steps twisting with her hasty back steps and her body moving backward. If he hadn’t grabbed her back in time, she might have had a concussion before she was poisoned.

“You always have to be careful. Didn’t I say it every time? Your body is precious.”

“Let me go, let me go.”

“Yes.”

There wasn’t anything strange about Damon’s behavior as he wiped his hands cleanly at the sound of being asked to let go. Rather, she was the one to thank him.

“Thank you.”

“It was nothing.”

A smile that raises one corner of his lips. Elysia turned her head at her favorite look of Damon. Also, she wouldn’t be able to say what she wanted to say because her heart is weak on that face.

There was really no time now.

“Damon, I’m here today…”

“Didn’t you say you wanted to see me?”

“That’s right… Though that’s not the only reason…”

She had to bring up the idea of divorce, but Elysia’s lips did not open. It wasn’t just that she was scared. He was horrifyingly her taste. So, while she knew he was a scary person, she couldn’t get herself to say goodbye to him.

However, she can’t be deceived by that face anymore!

“Shall we have dinner together?”

“Damon, that’s—! Us… Divorce!”

“….”

There was no response to the words she had plucked up with courage.

At that, Elysia’s heart burnt to the ground at the suffocating cold stillness.

“Why? Did I do anything wrong to the wife?”

Damon’s words meant he was at fault. Divorce was not a given in the Kaeser Empire. Under Imperial law, divorce was never permitted unless the spouses were seriously at fault.

“No, Damon did nothing wrong. The fault lies with me.”

“The wife was wrong…?”

“Yes…”

She didn’t want to divorce Damon unless she herself was poisoned. He was overly handsome, and there was nothing out of taste in every corner. Even now, when she looks at his face, she is afraid that she will not be able to look at him.

“Who is it?”

“Yes?”

“Who is the one who persuaded you to get a divorce?”

Everyone wants to be special. She was one of those people.

However, that dream gradually faded with age.

Ordinary is the best. As she became an adult, she came to think that if anything was ordinary, everything would be okay.

So, she dreams of a normal life and studies like everyone else, and after graduating from college, she gets a job in a company. The company was also a very ordinary small business. Literally, it means that she was a common office worker.

She believed that she would continue to live her life as normal as this.

But, God doesn’t care. God didn’t listen to her when she wanted to, but God gave her a very special moment in the end.

Motiveless crime…

She lived her whole life thinking she was far from that. Home, company, home—A crime that is extremely unlikely to happen to a person who leads such a boring life.

That day was also a day to go out on an errand from the boss. As she was returning to work after sending documents to the post office, she felt someone grab her arm. Then, a sharp thing pierced her body and entered.

She got stabbed so many times, and she thought.

It was a truly miserable life.

‘I hope that in my next life I will die as normal…’

And, when she opened her eyes, she had become a beautiful girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

When she opened her eyes, she became a different person.

This magical thing happened to her too. She had possessed extra that passed only in the name of a novel her friend wrote.

“Elysia!”

Elysia let out a small sigh at the voice calling out her name in a nervous tone. She has possessed it for twenty years.

Since becoming Elysia Caitlyn, she hasn’t had a single quiet day.

“Yes, mother!”

This was her only hobby. It was reading a romance novel that made her feel as though she had become a special protagonist in her hectic daily life.

She, of course, also read some, stealing work hours from her company. She read dozens of novels a day, and she used her hobby to help her friends. It was because her friend was just writing a novel, and she gave her friend some advice.

‘Seol-ah, isn’t this too much?’

‘What are you talking about? Do you think an ordinary villain will work these days?’

‘Still, this is…’

At the same time, her friend was contemplating the setting of the villain in the novel. The villain that her friend had previously written was somewhat plain. Just an ordinary villain. He was the kind of villain you could see everywhere.

So, she overhauled everything.

More vicious, more cruel.

The result was a success. Her friend really hit the jackpot. The villain, Damon Raphael, was famous for being the greatest trash. He was such a cruel character that his name was mentioned more often than the male protagonist. Even those who hadn’t read the novel knew everything about Damon Raphael.

‘The problem is, I’m the wife of that sexy trash, Damon Raphael.’

To be precise, she was an extra who became the wife and was poisoned to death. Elysia Caitlyn was a character that didn’t exist. Elysia Caitlyn was created solely to emphasize Damon’s viciousness.

To let the reader know that he’s a real villain that can’t even be edified by love, only a wife passing by in name. They even added the cruelty of poisoning his wife.

“But, nobody ever told me that I was going to be Elysia Caitlyn…”

Had she known this, she would never have made the character Elysia Caitlyn… No, she would have just left Damon as a suitable villain.

“Elysia Caitlyn!”

“Yes, yes!”

Nevertheless, there was no time to blame anyone. Her friend set the character, Elysia, as a passing extra. Though now, when she realized that she had become Elysia Caitlyn, her life was a pity itself.

So, even after possessing her at first, she did not know where this place was. Of course, it was her fault that she was too young. How much information would there have to be if there was a lot of information that a newborn child could know?

“Tsk, you’re slow as a snail…”

“Sorry… Mother.”

Elysia was the illegitimate daughter of County Caitlyn. She was someone no one wanted. She was harassed every day and was a maid without a proper room. Rather than a daughter, she was more of a maid to be bossed around comfortably.

“What are you?”

“Huh…?”

“Who are you to call mother?”

“I’m, I’m sorry…”

There it goes again.

Elysia’s brow frowned at Rowena’s remarks, not for only a day or two. Rowena was her sister, exactly one year apart. Whenever she had spare time, she would always use her urges to torment Elysia.

“That’s why you should have never been born.”