‘If I could turn back my life, I wouldn’t even want to meet you again.’
The family that had produced an imperial consort and risen triumphantly was branded traitors and destroyed.
Father, aunt, cousins—every one of them died.
To the despairing Ines, the empress made a sweet offer.
She would spare her husband and child if Ines simply did exactly as she was told.
So Ines did it.
Because of the foolish greed of wanting to save her husband and child.
“The drug is taking rather long. I heard it was quite a potent one.”
How naive, to have believed those words.
She thought as she met the empress’s cold gaze.
If life were given to me again, Cedric, I would want at least you to have nothing to do with this hell.
“I am truly grateful that you accepted the marriage proposal, but I do not want an engagement with His Grace the Duke.”
“After deceiving everyone and running away, this is the pathetic state you’ve been hiding in all this time?”
The ex-husband who had always been affectionate looked at her with coldly frozen eyes and said,
“I no longer want that pathetic affection either. Bear my child, Ines.”
