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.
"Yes, yes. Then what happened after you were caught?" Arabella could bear such smugness since she knew he was, indeed, very much capable.
"Incidentally, among the people who caught me was Evania's fiancé and another was her loyal guard. When I said I went there to inform them someone from their kind was in the human realm, they questioned me more since they had been looking for Evania's soul which had been missing for a while. It was then that I learned she was Evania, the only princess of the shadows," Alwin revealed.
"I see," Arabella slowly nodded her head. "No wonder you said it could cause a war between Umbra and Estrella."
Alwin explained that Evania was among the long-lived races they called Shadows. Once they mature, shadows can live without the need for a physical body.
A physical body becomes their weakness so there were those who gave up their body after some time and lived completely in their shadow form.