I Just Raised Men for Revenge (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 15
“Hah….”
Sesenia, who had just stepped outside, began laughing like a madwoman. Lizbet, who had been waiting outside the room, looked at Sesenia with a deeply worried expression.
“My lady… are—are you alright?”
“Yes. I’m fine. I’m fine. It’s just… so incredibly amusing, that’s all.”
She laughed right there in front of the room, as if to prove it. Nothing could possibly delight Sesenia more than this moment. Not even the time she learned of her family’s curse and turned back time, nor when her father, the marquis, granted her startup funds, had she ever felt this exhilarated.
‘It’s really… truly too entertaining. Could it be that the gods are on my side? Otherwise, how else would they have sent my dear sister back to this exact moment?’
And yet, her sister remained just as foolish as ever.
‘If it were me, I wouldn’t have revealed it so plainly.’
Sesenia, who had been laughing so hard tears streamed down her cheeks, slowly hardened her expression.
In fact, this felt more like an opportunity granted to her—to stay alert against an Elzer different from the one she remembered, and to devise new strategies knowing her opponent now possessed the same knowledge she did. The sudden rush of tension was nothing short of welcome.
‘I don’t know how she returned… but now I’ve learned something new.’
That anyone could return from death.
“Let’s go back now.”
“Ah… y-yes, yes!”
Sesenia turned to look at Lizbet beside her. The circumstances favored her so much it almost seemed as if she were blessed by the gods themselves. Yet Sesenia’s expression remained grim.
‘I don’t trust the gods.’
Capricious deities—who knew when they might next turn the tide against her?
In truth, she was already at a disadvantage. Just as Elzer had said, capital was crucial in business, and in that regard, Elzer held a far stronger position than Sesenia.
“My lady… are you really alright?”
She looked at Sesenia with anxious eyes.
“Of course I am.”
“But… the cotton business….”
Sesenia shook her head firmly, signaling Lizbet to say no more. Lizbet finally closed her mouth and followed Sesenia quietly. Only after they returned to their room did Sesenia whisper into Lizbet’s ear.
For a long while. And gradually, the worry etched on Lizbet’s face lifted.
“Oh….”
“She’ll never succeed.”
“If she’s merely copying your business plan… then yes, that’s likely.”
“So don’t worry.”
Though Lizbet still looked uneasy, Sesenia was certain—Elzer would never succeed in this venture.
**
After Sesenia left, Elzer clenched her fists tightly.
“Why… why?! Everything was perfect! Why is she the one who came back first?! No wonder things felt different from the past… it was because of this?!”
Elzer began throwing every object around her in a blind rage.
“Aaargh!!! It’s so infuriating! So infuriating!!! I should’ve realized it the moment I heard she’d suddenly abandoned the marquisate and asked for money to start a business! What do I do… what do I do…? No, no—ultimately, the marquisate will be mine. How much can she possibly accomplish? In the end, I’ll be the one to save the marquisate with cotton. I’ll be the one to claim the marquisate entirely for myself…!”
Amid her outburst, Elzer abruptly stopped panting with frustration.
Elzer—she, too, had turned back time. She, too, had been murdered.
Remembering this, her hands trembled violently.
“This time… this time I will succeed. It will all be mine. Yes, what can Sesenia possibly do? In the end, she’ll be utterly powerless. Only I can do it. And this time… I won’t let that emperor get away with it.”
Unable to control her emotions, Elzer clutched her chest and headed for the bed.
“Hah… my chest… it hurts…”
She quickly lay down and took a deep breath. The memory of that time—when she thought everything was over—flooded back. Anger surged within her, but fearing she might faint if she grew any more enraged, she forced her eyes shut.
And then, it came back to her.
[Everything had been perfect. After Sesenia’s death, the world bent exactly to Elzer’s will.The current emperor, Rashidel, had started suspecting her. On top of that, due to the things Sesenia said before her execution, strange rumors began circulating—that the child Elzer bore was not the emperor’s, and eventually, that the child wasn’t even of imperial blood.
Yet Rashidel still embraced Elzer. Rather, he had no choice but to.
If he abandoned her now after causing his own empress’s death, he’d become a laughingstock. As a result, his reputation plummeted, and rival princes began eyeing the throne.
But that was as far as it went. A hidden threat emerged—after Sesenia’s execution, the previous marquis, father of the two sisters, returned to reclaim his title. Elzer, who had expected the marquisate to naturally fall to her after Sesenia’s death, was left utterly shocked.
Moreover, due to Sesenia’s final words at the execution grounds, the marquis harbored a strange wariness toward Elzer.
‘Father, you’re getting older. Let me manage the marquisate. You should rest comfortably.’
‘No. It’s my house—I must lead it myself.’
‘But I can do it well.’
‘Didn’t you bear the emperor’s child? You’ll soon become empress—you must think of the nation. Besides, weren’t you overwhelmed back when deciding who would inherit the marquisate? So let your old man handle it. Don’t worry—I’m still strong.’
No matter how much she pleaded, he wouldn’t listen. She needed the marquisate’s wealth and influence to depose the emperor at his weakest, yet the marquis refused to budge.
‘Then, Father, there’s someone I’ve met—I’d like you to support him.’
‘Hmm? Who?’
‘He’s a prince, but…’
‘Nonsense! The empress’s family supporting a prince? You’ll stir up baseless rumors. An empress must always be careful—unless you want people gossiping about you.’
‘Father… please, just once… trust me.’
In the past, that would’ve been enough to win his support. But no matter how much Elzer insisted, he remained unmoved—even after she visited him daily.
Finally, after a week of persistent visits, the marquis began to suspect her.
‘I don’t understand why you’re acting this way.’
‘Father, please just do as I ask—just this once!’
‘No. Under no circumstances will I do it. In fact, your behavior only makes me uneasy. Sesenia’s… her final words keep coming back to me…’
Realizing then that her father suspected her, Elzer schemed anew. If her father died, the marquisate would finally be hers. So, just as she had done to Sesenia, she poisoned her own father.
Administering the toxin subtly over several days, she succeeded—her father perished.
It happened exactly two weeks after Sesenia left this world.
Now the undisputed mistress of the marquisate, Elzer set out to crown her lover as emperor. Everything was perfect—the marquisate was hers, and the emperor’s throne was teetering. But then the emperor uncovered everything.
‘I grew suspicious of the marquis’s sudden death and ordered an investigation. Everything seemed so strange.’
‘What are you talking about? What investigation? The funeral’s already over—what more is there to investigate?’
‘It was all too odd. According to the marquisate’s household, your father’s face bore marks as though poisoned. And the funeral was rushed through far too quickly. So I had the grave exhumed—and poison was confirmed.’
“Good heavens… was it really? Who on earth could’ve done such a thing?”
To avoid suspicion, Elzer feigned late concern for her father. But the emperor, clearly knowing everything, gave a faint, mocking smile.
‘Wasn’t it you who killed him?’
‘Me? Why would I kill my own father?’
‘Because you needed the marquis title. To collude with my brother, isn’t that right?’
‘Are you framing me?! I’d never do such a thing!’
Watching Elzer throw another fit, the emperor shook his head.
‘Are you truly telling me there’s nothing between you and my brother Ian?’
‘Absolutely nothing!’
‘I find that hard to believe. Sesenia’s last words keep echoing in my mind… and recently, I’ve learned you were trying to support my brother Ian, weren’t you?’
‘That’s…’
Elzer knew all too well how her lover lived his life. The emperor, helpless before any woman—he knew that even if she became his empress and bore his child, she’d end up just like Sesenia.
That’s why she’d chosen Ian, who loved her wholly and would do anything for her, to become emperor. That was all there was to it… just that…
‘Even the child you claimed was mine now seems doubtful. Perhaps… perhaps everything Sesenia said was true.’
‘Are you… doubting me now?’
‘It’s not doubt—it’s fact. That’s why I even exhumed Sesenia’s grave. Though the poison differed in type, traces were still found in her body—too faint due to time, but unmistakably poison. And the herbs you’ve recently acquired match exactly the poison used on both the marquis and Sesenia.’
Her body trembled uncontrollably. Everything had been within reach—just the emperor’s removal stood between her and total victory. She couldn’t let it end like this.
‘Don’t frame me!’
‘Lady Sesenia said it herself—you poisoned her. Back then, I thought she was just grasping at straws to survive… but you really did poison her.’
‘I told you no! Are you trying to take revenge on me now?’
‘Revenge?’
‘Why else? Have you taken another woman? Is that why you’re fabricating this to cast me aside?’
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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