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It was a marriage without love—
A sacrifice made for the sake of a crumbling noble house.
But the estate I was sold off to—Eiffel—became a comforting home to me.
And my husband, Siegfried, taught me what it meant to love someone.
But I was the one who ruined that estate.
I was the one who killed that very man.
When the time came to pay for my sins, as I stood at death’s edge, my sister smiled down at me.
“Thank you… for dying in my place.”
By the time I realized everything had been her plan, it was far too late.
The next time I opened my eyes, I was supposed to be in hell.
I was never meant to see him again.
That’s how it should have ended.
But I returned in the past—
On the very day I was to marry Siegfried and leave for Eiffel.
This time, I had to save him.
I had to erase every trace of the Lichar family from his life.
I would give him a new beginning—
One without me. A life of freedom.
And yet…
“Please, I’m begging you.”
In this life, the man who had once been cold and distant now clung to me desperately.
“…Don’t leave me.”
With a face that looked as though he had lost his entire world.
