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oh estelle, darling, let’s not go down that road. zeon is literally there

unfortunately, the author (of the novel) is still on hiatus for about 2 years? now and we still don’t know when they’ll be able to return so the novel is still to be resumed. but fear not, the english translation of the novel is still quite far from where it was halted. (if you are able to, please support the author by reading the manhwa legally!)

spoiler from the novel - the first kiss and confession !!



“Princess, do you still dislike me?”

No, not really. But I kept my mouth shut without saying anything.

“I want you to believe in one thing. I sincerely want you with all my heart.”

I know. Now, he was looking at me sincerely. Without any suspicious intentions.

Listening to him made my heart feel more stuffy.

[I still like that person, what else can I do.]

Marie’s words came to mind again.

Then, just in time, the wind blew. The trees around the observatory deck shook, and the white flowers in full bloom fell. The white flowers surrounded me and him.

I stared blankly at the figure of Orlean surrounded by white flowers. It was unrealistically beautiful.

His dark hair, as if containing the night sky, shook. His golden eyes that were more beautiful than any other jewel, turned to my face. As I stared at him blankly, he also looked at me as I was covered with the flowers.

He slowly lifted his hand. Gently removing a petal sitting on my face, he hesitated and caressed my cheek. It was a gentle, soft touch. Our eyes met. We couldn’t take our eyes off each other as if we were possessed.

Thump. My heart throbbed with a loud sound. His hand, caressing my cheek, rubbed open my lips. I felt the tension and trembling in his hands touching me. And slowly, his face came closer to me.

As the distance narrowed, I can feel his breath, and my heart fell as if it had been broken down. I’ve been breathing hard and my body stiffened. I knew what he was going to do, but why? I didn’t avoid it.

Soon his lips touched my lips. The first contact was very cautious. His soft lips rubbed against mine.

The moment I breathed in, I felt our distance, and he covered my lips again. His lips gently caressed my lips.

I groaned as I couldn’t stand his precious, careful, and yet earnest care as if he was dealing with the world’s most precious treasure. My whole body trembled as if being penetrated by electricity.

It’s no use running away. I’ll follow you wherever you go. I’ll make sure I’m the only one in your heart. I’m gonna make you look only at me.

His kiss seemed to whisper like that. That sweet yet intense feeling covered me.

I closed my eyes tight and held his hand.

“You don’t know. How intensely I’m longing for you.”

His eyes turned to me.

A deep, deep longing pierced my heart.

“So don’t think about running away. Do you understand?”

But why?

Tears suddenly welled up as I faced his sincere heart towards me.

“…Princess?”

The eyes of the Fourth Prince, who saw my tears, grew bigger. He was taken aback by my sudden tears.

“How come you’re crying? Are you all right?”

“I like you.”

“…Pardon?”

“I like Your Majesty too.”

The Fourth Prince’s eyes widened. However, I’m not done talking yet.

I smiled.

“But I can’t accept Your Majesty’s heart.”

“…What do you mean?”

I took a deep breath.

Is it because I was so emotional? I had the urge to confide everything to him. I couldn’t resist the urge to confess my feelings to him.

‘He’ll forget everything the moment he hears it, anyway.’

“I have a secret I’m keeping from Your Majesty.”

“What is it?”

The moment I confess this truth, the world’s causality will work.

Just as Marie heard my story last time and immediately got her memories erased, the intervention of Causality will make the Fourth Prince cleanly forget what he heard from me.

It was because of the curse of the forbidden words on me. But… even if he won’t remember, I still wanted to tell him everything.

“I am a cursed reincarnated being, so I cannot accept your heart.”

I smiled bitterly.

“The moment I accept your heart, I will fall into another pain.”


the 4th prince, the ML wasn’t supposed to have any succession rights but he possesses (the kings eyes) which manifested when he was 10 (?). The beholder of the kings eyes are supposed to be the next ruler and there ability is to see through someone and to know there true intentions (im not quite sure, but i think he can read minds too), but because of all this he remembered the secret fl disclosed to him

(this is the only spoiler regarding the ml and fl i could find so far :< )

i found some spoilers from the novel so i thought i would share it here!
credits to: so-chintzy


So it turns out that MC's bio father is Chloe, who is the lovechild of a noble lady who was taken by force by a member of the royal family. Chloe was the child of the lady & her fiance while Chloe's sister (Frey, the court judge) is the child of the lady & the royal. The royal found out & he exiled both his wife & Chloe. Chloe met Apple (MC's mom the prostitute) & fell in love with her but due to circumstances, he had to flee to Croa & keep his existence hidden. The noble became the marquis of Croa & took in Chloe & his mom. They are on good terms with King Lahon.

The royal family of MC's country has special powers because the first king was a half-god. It's activated through extreme desperation or regret. ML wanted to escape an assassin so he ended up gaining the power of teleportation. Chloe's mom was forcibly acknowledged as a member of the royal family through the holy spring, but she is not blood-related so the power that MC inherited has more severe side-effects compared to ML's power.

The real enemy is not MC's half-sister, but instead - the head of the Aristocratic faction, "Princess" Iris. In MC's original life, the Aristocrats suppressed ML (crown prince)'s power & continued to oppress the masses even more. ML is trying to improve things for the middle & lower classes, which is why he's attacking & targeting the wealth of the nobles, including the MC's "family".

The Count continues to disappoint & mistreat MC & Apple even after MC shows off her knowledge & abilities, so MC no longer helps the Count & just lets/encourages ML to attack the Aristocratic faction even more. MC's tutor, just like in the last life, falls in love with a Marquis & gets married to him. He is also genuinely kind to MC & the couple's lovey dovey gentleness towards MC actually moves her to tears & her first real smile. MC manages to seduce Oscar but his sister Iris forcibly stops this love, makes him get engaged to Mielle & then she starts attacking MC through Mielle, her loyal dog. MC counterattacks by brainwashing Mielle's spy (a maid called Annie) & convincing the assassin (another spy/maid sent by Mielle) to put the blame on Emma, the head maid & Mielle's kinda-foster-mom (Mielle's mom died young so Emma's the only "mom" she knows). Emma is hanged for her crimes & Mielle totally loses it, dropping her kind facade.

Cain later comes back & he turns out to be exactly the same kind of scum as his dad - easily falling in love with MC (ew) because of her face. MC points out that if she knew he was this easy in her past life, she would have used him waaaaaay earlier.

Because MC & ML are suppressing the Aristocrats & gaining both massive rep & wealth in society, Mielle finally snaps by the time they are publicly engaged. She shoves the Count down a flight of stairs during a party & screams that MC did it. However, when MC tried to catch the Count, the special bracelet that ML gave her broke. He warped in, saw what happened, grabbed MC & teleported away with her in front of a shocked Mielle. Together, they stitched together an alibi for MC (the only witnesses at the party were Mielle's friends but they didn't see the ML) by traveling through towns & leaving behind receipts in front of many witnesses. ML also gave MC his own bracelet (it's a one of a kind set made to alert him if MC is in danger) since her's was broken.

Mielle ranting about ML's powers was used to their advantage because they claimed that Mielle probably took hallucinogenic drugs at the party (which resulted in everyone getting interrogated & tested & this caused her friends to immediately retract their statements about seeing MC push the Count). Frey is the judge proceeding over this trial btw. The Count is still super paralyzed so after he regains consciousness, he doesn't say a single thing about lessening Mielle's prison sentence, even when Cain asks him to (Cain agreed to playing along with Mielle's deception so he could take the Count's power early, break off MC's engagement & then forcibly keep her confined in the house with him). The Count loses faith in his bio kids & regrets not treating MC & Apple better.

Iris was so insulted by ML refusing to be engaged to her that she immediately sent for an engagement to King Lahon, which dropped her rep as she was basically selling out to an enemy nation. Mielle & Iris escape to Croa & appeal to Lahon to invade their country via subterfuge so he can take over the royal family & hand their power over to the Aristocrats. Every member of the Aristocratic party lets their manors house "guests" aka foreign soldiers (who, under the orders of Lahon, totally exploit the hell out of the nobles during their stay), under the assumption that this would become their army once King Lahon & Iris showed up. Mielle falls for Lahon & immediately tries to steal him from Iris, which infuriates her.

King Lahon & ML were allies the entire time, so instead of invading ML's country, the army is used to arrest the entire Aristocratic party for treason. A high ranking member of that party was working as a double agent for ML & thus faked Lahon's seal on all the papers the Aristocratic party used on letters asking Lahon to invade (which meant that Lahon never agreed to it :>). Oscar sells out Iris & ML calls him out on this, saying that he was hoping Oscar was doing this out of patriotism & not because of his crush on MC. The entire Aristocratic party sells out Iris but this doesn't lessen their sentences at all. Meanwhile, MC visits the jail to spare Mielle from execution & brainwashes her into thinking that MC is truly a kind saint & Mielle an evil villainess who needs to survive, suffer & repent.

Apple divorces the Count by convincing him that Cain's arrest means that they need to be separated so she can put the Count's remaining properties under her name so they can keep living. She immediately turns cold towards him once he signs them & tells him that he should have considered treating them nicer when he still had everything & not only when his own spoiled bio kids betrayed him & he's been reduced to a penniless cripple. They bring over all the original servants at the Count's manor (as MC has won them over ever since Emma died & Mielle went crazy), which makes them think of both MC & Apple as even MORE saintly, since the servants of the Aristocratic party usually lost their jobs after their masters were arrested.

King Lahon brought Chloe & the Marquis with him to meet Apple & MC btw. MC didn't know about any of this so ML had to explain everything to her (he figured out MC's secret backstory because Chloe & her have a similar aura & there's a painting of Chloe in the royal palace. He had MC touch the holy spring to confirm her power & then went to Croa to double-check with Lahon & the Marquis.)

i couldn’t even care less who athy ends up with. i am here solely for the father-daughter story

the only reason why i am still reading this manhwa (despite having a faint heart) is too witness noah’s happy ending. he has been through so much all i wish is to see him smile once more </3