Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress
Falling for his warm touch despite his usual coldness, she loved him only to be disappointed and betrayed in the end. When love turns to darkness, it festers to be poisonous and consumes the soul. The naïve Arabella evolved. *** “Thank you for becoming my wife,” was her cold husband’s last words before he died, coupled with a smile that had never before graced his lips. Not on their wedding day. And not even at the birth of their only child. Emperor Ferdinand, someone Arabella loved so much, killed their son. She became a villainess and vowed revenge for her beloved child. For a decade, she used everything she could to make Ferdinand pay. Until finally… he fell to ruin! With her revenge complete, Arabella's life soon ended with her dead husband in her arms. But fate wasn’t done playing with her. All of a sudden, she was back two decades ago right after their wedding. Was it a curse or a blessing? It didn’t matter. Because there is only one thing she needed to do. “I will ruin you in this lifetime too!” This was her hateful promise to herself upon realizing she was reborn. But in her second life, Arabella was unexpectedly bestowed a gift to uncover the truth. Who was wrong and who was right? Only time will tell.
Fleeting Happiness
Esmeralda watched over her descendants' fleeting lives and continued to give them the blessings of the forest and protected them.
The Safirans were her kin and her only memento of her husband, after all. She cannot leave them behind even if it meant having to watch her own descendants die before her.
Esmeralda was currently three thousand years old. She got married when she was two thousand years old and only briefly lived with her beloved Safiro in the short span of a human's life. It was a fleeting happiness to someone long-lived.
Arabella realized that marriages between the long-lived races and humans were a bit too sad.
One would remain longing for the other and continue to relive their memories together after they were long gone. It was something too painful and lonely.
It was what would happen to Ferdinand once she dies due to old age? He would watch over their children and their descendants as well for a long long time?