Long Live the Emperor, Minus Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 83

“Or perhaps it’s merely a daydream seen before death.”

This second life was painful not simply because he had to live once more a life he thought had already ended.

What made this second life even more painful was that it overlapped with his first life in certain parts.

And those overlapping parts were all slightly better than in his previous life—that was what tormented him even more.

The second prince of a minor kingdom had now become the Crown Prince of the Grand Empire.

In his previous life, he had been a posthumous child who never even saw his father’s face, but now he had at least five years of memories with him.

His mother, seemingly cold at first glance yet uniquely understanding of his peculiar temperament, was healthy and seemed certain to remain by his side for at least another ten years without dying.

With no wars to fight, his elder brother—someone he could trust and follow just as he had his father—would not go to the battlefield. Naturally, the chance of his death had become vanishingly small.

His sister-in-law, stern and fearsome to outsiders yet gentle toward him, could not bear children, so he would not have to witness the death of a nephew at her hands.

And unlike Lee Baekryeon, Melchizedek had Blanche beside him—quietly holding his hand and dreaming faithfully of a future with him.

All these things were precisely what he had longed for in his previous life.

A great nation where he need not wash blood with more blood merely to survive; family members who remained alive and present around him instead of vanishing or dying; a partner permitted to dream of a future with him simply because he wished for it.

These were the things Zi Qingling had dreamed of in his past life—not treasures or riches that others might envy.

As if someone had read his heart, this life filled only with what he desired had become a nightmare precisely because he felt unworthy of such wishes.

“It means I wasn’t the only one reliving the past.”

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