However, the knights seized Reneb’s arms with their rude hands.
“What insolence is this! She’s the Empress!”
Suddenly burst into the room, the knights caused Kael, who was crouched in fright, to yell.
“Prince Kael, don’t worry. There must be some misunderstanding.”
As Reneb was soothing her son, the knight commander emotionlessly commanded the knights.
“The Empress and the Prince, both will be taken!”
“….!”
(This is a time separator.)
In the square situated in the capital, people gathered like clouds to see the execution of the Empress.
“Execute the traitor!”
“Burn the Empress who colluded with the enemy nation!”
Being dragged through the crowd, Reneb furrowed her brow at the piercing shouts.
‘Traitor? Colluding with the enemy?’
All of it had nothing to do with Reneb.
But it seemed certain that the angry reaction of the people was all directed at her.
“Something’s… wrong.”
Reneb mumbled with a vacant face,
Thwack!
A sharp pain struck the back of her head. And then something hit her forehead.
Before she could cry out in pain, hands reached out from all sides to tear at Reneb’s hair and dress.
Her finely coiled soft silver hair became disheveled, and her once immaculate dress was now a mess.
Thus, dragged and pushed in chaos, she found herself in front of the guillotine.
“Patrick…? Why?”
Before the guillotine was Reneb’s brother, Count Siren, kneeling in a humiliating position.
The sight of Reneb’s terrible ordeal deepened the pallor on Patrick’s face.
“Reneb, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you….”
As Reneb looked at Patrick in confusion, a knight beside her kicked her shins.
The pain was so intense that Reneb couldn’t even scream, and she knelt beside Patrick.
A sinister voice then sounded from behind her.
“Deposing Empress Reneb Paradium for colluding with the enemy! Count Siren will be dismissed. Seize the assets and territory of the Siren family and annex them to the Paradium dynasty….”
The crowd’s shouts grew louder. Reneb also screamed at the top of her lungs.
“It’s not true! This is someone’s conspiracy!”
But no one paid attention to her desperate plea.
“Emperor! Bring Lucius. He can prove my innocence….”
Reneb begged the nearby knight.
“Dare you mention His Majesty’s honor so casually. Do you still think you are the Empress?”
But what came back was criticism and a punch.
“Aaaah!”
Screaming and falling to the floor, Reneb’s sight caught the image of Patrick being dragged to the scaffold.
“No, don’t! Patrick!”
At that moment, the sword blade that had been honed to a razor’s edge reflected the sunlight and obscured her vision. It was when Reneb clenched her eyes shut and thrashed about.
“Waaaaaaah!”
The crowd’s cheers intensified, then,
Thud!
Something heavy fell with a thud onto the wooden floor. Immediately after, something rolled towards Reneb.
Reneb slowly opened her eyelids that she had closed.
“……!”
Her eyes met the halfclosed eyes of Patrick. A scream burst from Reneb’s mouth.
“Eeeeeeeah!”
But her misfortune merely fueled the excitement of the onlookers.
“Execute the former Empress!”
Just as her brother had said earlier, Reneb, who was kneeling in front of the scaffold, shouted to a knight beside her.
“Prince! What has become of Prince Kael, the blood of Emperor?”
“I’ll tell you since you’re asking in the yard, he’s likely to be exiled to another country.”
“Exile……! The child is innocent. He’s just a child who knows nothing!”
Reneb screamed and thrashed, but no one answered her cries.
They merely silently carried on with their duties.
She had devoted her entire life to her husband, Lucius, since before he ascended to the throne until now. He repaid her with cold indifference.
That was not all.
When she could not bear a child for years after their marriage, when she miscarried and he immediately made Esika his concubine, she endured and bore it.
To change the future, to preserve the stability of the royal family and the dignity of the Empress.
That this was the result was indeed tragic.
Just before the wellhoned blade plunged into the ground,
‘Something fun will happen soon. You can look forward to it, Empress.’
The voice of Lucius, who had whispered into Reneb’s ear with an excited voice a few days ago, seeped into her mind.
“…So this was it.”
A sneer hung on the tearstained lips of Reneb. Her expression looked rather strange.
Several years since she had incarnated into the body of a villainess in a novel she had briefly read on the subway.
No matter how much she struggled, the villain’s ending never changed.
(This is a time divider.)
At the time of the execution, Emperor Lucius and concubine Esika were entwined in the Emperor’s office.
As if familiar with the scene, the commander of the knights reported the situation.
“Your Majesty, the execution has been carried out as planned.”
“Is that so…….”
Lucius, lost in thought, dropped his gaze.
Esika, sitting on his lap, brushed his cheek with an alluring smile.
“Your Majesty, do you regret your decision?”
Lucius shook his head.
“Of course not. How was the former Empress before her death? Did she plead for her life?”
“No.”
One of Lucius’s eyebrows shot up.
“No……. Then?”
“She was smiling.”
“Ha, she smiled?”
Lucius’s mouth snapped shut with a hollow laugh.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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