The people remaining in the reality, especially those who personally knew Ermedillin, were surprised at the situation with various expressions.
Anri kept his face calm like a sovereign, hiding his trembling heart, Valierre clenched his fist so hard that the nails drew blood, shaking all over.
Pellio also maintained a relatively calm attitude, but his eyelids were twitching and he could not stop them.
Even Priest Luiz showed a compassionate face when looking at the child, but when he looked at Ermedillin sitting on the floor, he sent an inscrutable expressionless gaze and approached her.
“I remember… I remember it all…”
“Your Majesty the Empress?”
“Yes… That’s what happened…”
“Your Majesty the Empress!!”
At Luiz’s urging, consciousness returned to Ermedillin’s eyes.
“Since you have been in contact with a patient who may have the plague, you must be purified.”
“Purified?”
“Yes.”
‘Is it something like disinfection? Then do it, why the grave face?’
“If necessary, I must.”
“Are you serious?”
“Eh?”
“If you purify with divine power, you won’t be able to use the power of blood for about two days.”
“Ah…….”
‘Curses and blessings are opposite, so this is it. But I don’t want to die of disease after coming to this world…’
“It doesn’t matter. The Empress cannot fall ill in such a turbulent political situation, can she?”
“Understood. I will purify you right away.”
A dazzling but somehow gentle light enveloped Ermedillin’s body for a moment and then disappeared.
“Is it done?”
“Yes. You will be safe from the plague for the time being.”
“Thank you.”
Glancing at the reaction, Luiz still seemed to find it awkward to hear the word thank you from the Empress’s mouth.
‘Ha… I still have a long way to go. Why does my life keep going like this?’
The almost astonished eyes of the people, and even Henri’s praise, did not give Ermedillin any particular excitement.
It was because the memories of being possessed at the time, which had just been hovering like a fog, came to mind.
Her lover of 7 years spoke to her like this and left her.
“I’ve been really grateful all this time. But now, I want to quit living hand to mouth. I want to enjoy the virtues of family too.”
The lover, with whom she grew up in the orphanage and dated as soon as they became adults, handed her an envelope.
“I’ve put it in earnestly. It’s not to belittle you or anything. Just because I’m grateful… so that’s why.”
She wanted to throw the envelope back, refusing such money, but obediently, she accepted the money envelope.
In the face of reality, her pride was helpless against the money she had poured out for her lover’s college and civil service exams.
With a calm face, she opened the envelope and looked inside.
At a glance, it was a much larger amount than what she had squeezed out of his salary without her knowing.
“A bit much?”
“It’s not for repaying debt. It’s your heart, so just take it.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
Although a 7year relationship was ending like this, she put the money envelope in her pocket with a composed face.
“I’m sorry.”
“Yeah.”
His father was a judge, his mother was a prosecutor, and his brother was a lawyer.
Such a family would make a good background for him, who had no connections.
She didn’t really resent him.
She knew better than anyone how lonely and desperate it is to stand alone in a world without anyone.
She had also contributed to her boyfriend’s savings and helped him, but her boyfriend had run 4 private lessons at the same time and slept only two hours a day for several years.
His always sallow eyes and pale, slender wrists without vitality come to mind.
He who would meet her with a tired face as if he was about to die but always showed her a bright smile.
He who managed to get surgery money when she had emergency surgery because of her appendix.
He who studied for his exams under the dim light of the waiting room as he spent the night outside her hospital room full of women.
Thanks to him, she felt like she could accomplish anything.
She thought it was really fortunate that she was not alone.
But now all those memories are about to become a meaningless past and disappear.
“Yeah. You’ve struggled to seize the opportunity. Go up as far as you can.”
Rather than resenting him, she wanted to cheer him on.
But separately from that, she didn’t want to live any longer. In an instant, her reason to live disappeared.
So she went to the Han River.
The Han River at night looked more like a dark, profound creature than a river.
When she tried to jump in, resentment and disgust came rushing at her.
“Yeah. Is that kind of breakup a big deal? Have I been living all this trouble just because of him until now? No!”
When she felt her chest, she could feel the thick money envelope she had just received.
“With this money, I can even pay my college tuition and have some left over! If I combine it with the money I’ve saved, I can even graduate from college! Why die now? I can study too! I’ll succeed completely, climb higher than him, and appear with a bang!!”
Once she had a goal, suddenly her zest for life sprang up.
“What should I major in? I haven’t thought about it.”
“I have to go to Noryangjin, right? Will my brain work at this point?”
‘I only need to sleep for two hours, too! What can that kid do that I can’t?’
Various thoughts in mind, Hyeyoung was returning to her rented room with excitement when a sight that should not have been seen caught her eye.
A small child, wearing clothes that were undoubtedly dirty and ragged, was wandering the road.
And a car, not seeing the small child, speeding up.
‘No!!’
The orphanage was a reasonable place, but it was not affluent.
Sick children could receive medical support, but it could never be the same as having a mother to tend to them all day long.
Once she grew up, Hyeyoung always took it upon herself to comfort and console her sick siblings whenever they would whimper.
If she had a mother, wouldn’t she have done this for her? Imagining such, she soothed her siblings.
Most of the siblings got up and brushed themselves off if their illness was not serious, but during her time in the facility, Hyeyoung lost three siblings to disease and accidents.
She hated the children dying.
That small body, which was bursting with the vitality of life just a while ago, the sight of it limply stretching out, lifeless, was something she truly did not want to see again.
‘No!! I said no!!’
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
