After the Villainess Left

“I’ll disappear from your life for good now.”

“I don’t consider that woman my wife. It’s only for appearances’ sake.”

Cornelia Odil Blant, the infamous villainess of the Blant Duchy.

Though she was never once loved by her husband,
she had tried—truly tried—to give everything up and make it work.

She endured her mother-in-law’s contempt and abuse,
the servants who constantly looked down on her,
even the woman who walked in and out of the ducal estate like she was the true daughter-in-law.

All because she wanted to be acknowledged as Erich’s wife.
Her husband’s wife.

But after all those years of effort, what she received in return was—

“His Grace wishes to marry Lady Arzen. So all that’s left is for you to disappear.”

—her husband’s betrayal and the death of her child.

In the depths of despair, she took her own life.

But then—she woke up.

Seven years in the past, pregnant with her child once again.

“This time, I’ll protect you, no matter what.”

When she proposed divorce to her husband,
she received an answer she never expected:

“Now that a child is involved, I said I won’t allow a divorce.”

And suddenly, her husband began to change.

“What’s wrong? You don’t like the gift?”
“I’m saying this because I’m worried about you.”

But Cornelia was no longer swayed.

She now knew that the sun she’d been chasing had been nothing but an illusion.

“So I’ll end it—this life I lived as the villainess, Cornelia.”

Soon, she would leave the ducal estate behind. Forever.