Hadn’t the maid said that? She accused me of putting on a show because I didn’t want to marry. It felt like a death sentence, reminding me that I didn’t have much time left.
The male lead was meant for the female protagonist. Touch him?
“That’s why I meet an assassin and die!”
This novel, ‘The Forsaken Saintess Goes to the Northern Duke,’ was the first romance fantasy novel I had read.
As the title suggests, it featured a saintess and a duke as the main characters, who join forces to defeat the demon king.
Annette Forshe was just a minor extra, not even a villain, in this story.
The male lead, a noble lord in love with the North, had always been in a land of poverty.
Then, the wealthy Southern Forshe Duke’s family, not on good terms with the North, offers a marriage with a hefty dowry, and the male lead marries without love.
The male lead, having married Annette without love, sends her away to a separate palace and deliberately neglects her. Annette lives a lonely life in neglect until she is suddenly killed by an assassin.
When the male lead hears of Annette’s death, he shows no significant reaction.
“That’s unfortunate.”
After expressing his mild condolences, the male lead finally meets his true love, the female protagonist, and lives happily. That was the story of ‘The Forsaken Saintess Goes to the Northern Duke.’
As a reader, it was entertaining, but now I see it was a conclusion that could have made the real Annette return as a vengeful ghost.
“If I had been possessed by Evangelin, I would have proudly claimed the lonely Northern Duke Darius as my man.”
Knowing what would happen in the novel, I wouldn’t have worried.
But Annette, just an extra in the novel with not much time left to live.
“Wait, even as Annette, don’t I know what’s going to happen?”
The problem with Annette was that she gets sent to a separate palace right after marriage and dies meeting an assassin before she can start a different life.
So, what if I change that route?
For example, what if I use my knowledge of the original story to warn Darius about upcoming events, proving that I can be of help to him?
Then Darius might not send me away. Wouldn’t that mean I avoid meeting the assassin?
Staying by Darius’s side, helping him and watching him meet the female protagonist, staying quietly might even start a second life different from the original story.
“Yes, an extra who helps the protagonist has a much higher chance of survival!”
I clenched my fist and made up my mind.
After the chaos of the first day passed, I quietly assessed the situation. If I had to continue living in Annette’s body, the longer I was imprisoned, the more it would be my loss.
When I kept my mouth shut and stopped making noise, the servants, with sharp glares, untied the ropes binding me.
“The Duke will be here soon, so stop your foolishness and change your clothes!”
The maid leading the charge against me was Annette’s own nursemaid.
“Miss Annette has come to her senses!”
The first voice I heard upon waking up in Annette’s body was also that of her nursemaid.
As an experienced reader of romance fantasy novels, I’ve noticed a pattern: when a heroine regains consciousness, there’s a 51% chance that the first line, “Miss, you’ve awakened!” is spoken by her loyal maid. The other 49% is by someone who wants to harass or exploit her.
Sadly, this nursemaid did not belong to the loyal group.
She was the one who should have been closest to and protected Annette the most, yet she was the most enthusiastic in mistreating her.
How did I know?
Paralack.
A tightly bound leather diary fell over.
In my hands was Annette’s diary. I was a bit disgusted when I first found it. There were dozens of volumes.
“What did she have so much to say about?”
That’s what I thought.
“After my stepmother scolded me, the nursemaid called me aside and advised. ‘Miss, you have a habit of sounding unpleasant even when saying the same things as others. Maybe it’s better not to speak much in front of others.'”
“Wow. This house, they really know how to crush a child’s spirit.”
Every page of the diary was a record of how Annette lost herself and became timid.
“Thanks to it, I know what this mansion is like and how Annette has been living as if I experienced it myself.”
“Are you uncomfortable being with me right now? Why such a face while eating?”
“When adults speak, you should at least pretend to listen. Again, you’re rolling your eyes.”
“I was born with these eyes. If you give me money, I’ll get surgery to fix my expression. If not, don’t tell me what to do with my appearance… Ah!”
Pfft. I couldn’t help but laugh, recalling similar conversations that often occurred at home.
To be honest, it was a familiar situation to me too. The difference was that Annette couldn’t respond, while I fought back as hard as I could.
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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