Gulp.

I swallowed, even though my mouth was dry, and without saliva.

With the ornate crimson carpets, gruesomely torn and destroyed luxury furniture, and the intermittent, painful groans that sound heinous.

She felt like the prey of a beast.

She stood there in the flamboyant room, like a stone that seemed to have been stirred away. I heard a voice that sank through the silence.

“Who are you?”

Her hair covering her whole body stood up with the goosebumps that arose.

It was as if a hungry black panther was making a threatening growl.

“I surely said to not let anyone in.”

I stared at his golden eyes of melting honey where they rest between his scattered black hair.

With his fascinating, yet human pupils, I made eye contact as I held my breath.

I was suffocated by the eye contact with the ruler.

‘You’re not gonna kill me if I make eye contact with you, are you?’

I clasped my skirt tightly with my trembling hands.

From just eye contact, I already felt like a beast’s prey.

‘No, I’d play dead if I were a real beast.’

His golden eyes felt bloody as if he was asking for her to move at once, yet I felt like my feet were glued to the ground.

Without even thinking about running away, I thought desperately about how to survive in this position.

In either situation, it would seem like a failure even if she decided to move or not.

‘What the hell do you want me to do?’

I looked back on why I was in this situation, crying internally.

***

A few days ago, I woke up in a slavery cage.

When I looked up, a big moon and a small moon were glowing outside of the palm-sized window.

‘Two moons?’

For a moment, I was confused by the strange, unfamiliar, peculiar feeling in my stomach, and as soon as I realized that I had reincarnated into a different world, I ripped out my hair.

“I’m doomed! I’m doomed, this life is ruined!’

Well, this is the world of the fictional romance fantasy novel, the bizarre title of “The One Who Brings the End of the World,” famous for its tragic ending.

When I realized that I was reincarnated in a world from a book, I was so dumbfounded that I had no choice but to laugh in a frustrating position for a while.

Nevertheless, I had to believe that this was real because of both the vivid memories of both lives and the pain in my throat. It was as if I were screaming, the pain allowed me to realize that this was not a dream.

It was because.

‘Yeah, reincarnation is fine. It’s possible! I admit it!’

The ability to adapt quickly is my strength.

It was because I remembered the name of this country and what I looked like that I realized that I was reincarnated into the world in the book. By the way, ha.

I was reincarnated as a background extra, scripted to die for the dramatic appearance of the female protagonist!

Why am I a doll of all things? I’d rather live as a passerby!’

The author described in great detail what my role was originally and how gruesomely I died.

In just ten lines.

Even when I thought about it again, my blood pressure rose.

“Of course, of course. You just had to make my current life suck, I didn’t even live that good of a past life. Give me a break.”

I cursed the gods of this world for a moment. I also worked myself to death in the previous life, but in the present life, he was only working to die as a slave.

I’ve been working all day.

I’ve lived the last five years in the canaries of cages.

Then I lost my voice to the former owner, who wanted to monopolize my voice a while ago, and was in the repeating cycle of being sold again.

If it weren’t for the medicine the slave trader threw to me through the bars, I would have been dead in a cage.

Though, he quickly shut me down, after saying that me dying would make him lose too much money,

At the moment, there was blood on my forehead.

‘You poisoned me to monopolize my voice, and not to mention that you put me, a child, in the same damn cage for five years. Crazy! Maybe it’s because of the worldview. These aristocrats, they’re all out of their minds!’

Of course, at the highest peak of insanity, was the emperor.

He was called a hero who saved the Empire that had fallen externally and was the most-known in the castle for the people more than anyone else.

However, in reality, he’s a sensitive, violent, uncontrollable tyrant because of the trauma he gained in the past.

If he finds it annoying, he kills them. If he attacks the country next to him, he could simply say that it irritated his eyes.

The rumors were true, so on the continent, the great empire’s aristocrats were all supporters of the Emperor, afraid of his wrath. It was true that they all stood up and begged for his approval.

‘Because of his trauma, he can’t sleep without a doll, that’s the reason why I have to be pushed into this hard role.’

Then he meets the hostess and becomes a reincarnation, but in fact, he will lose her and become a mastermind of the destruction of the world.

Then, he meets the female lead and comes back to life, but in fact, he will lose the female lead. His loss, trauma, and despair lead to him breaking, then he turns into the one that destroys the world.

The only way to calm him down was his ‘Doll’ until he met the female lead.

When I remembered the fact, I covered my face with my hands. It is because I felt so wronged.

‘Why am I the last doll of all people? I’m going to die because of the unfair plotline!’

According to the original, a year until I enter the palace as a doll and die at the whim of the Emperor.

It has been two years since the emperor fell in love with the heroine.

Therefore, the time remaining until the end of the world was only three years.

I found out I was born again, and it’s been three years since then. Why are the gods doing this in my life?

‘Yes, let’s survive somehow and leave the male lead to the female lead! Then I can live safely for at least 3 years.’

I want to save the princess so that she doesn’t run wild, and I want to die of a fine old age, but I’ll give her a criminal that’s not even known in the original book.

I want to save the female lead so that the male doesn’t try and destroy the world. I’ve decided also want to grow old and die.

‘But I still have the knowledge of the original, so if I’m lucky, wouldn’t I be able to find it?’

For five days, she thought about how to extend her life, even for a little.

“Come out.”

Early this morning, I was dragged out of the slave cage.

I had only eaten grain porridge and hard slices of bread so far, so my legs trembled.

The slave merchant washed me moderately and put me in a fairly clean dress and took me to the parlor.

Then he left me in the parlor, saying he would bring in the guests.

While waiting, I shook my heavy shackled feet.

‘Oh well.’

A sigh came out of my mouth by itself.

‘Cause I can’t run away anyway.’

Not only was security was rigid and strict, but above all, this world was too tough for a woman to live alone.

Besides, an unmarried female slave wandering the streets alone was like holding up a poster with bolded red words, advertising: ‘Catch me!’

During the five years of the current emperor’s reign, the empire has improved its security to the extent that it can be said that its borders have been transformed into a circle of guards. It’s said that the darkness didn’t allow humans to disappear to that extent.

Thanks to this, I was deprived of even the option of running away, and I had to wait for ‘him’ to pick me up from the Imperial Palace.

‘Well, if you go to the Imperial Palace, will you at least give me rice?’

I heard footsteps approaching the room.

Three men and a slave merchant came in with the hood of the mungo gray cape, the highest rank of them all.

The noble-looking man’s head returned toward me.

He approached me with his hood off.

“Is this her?”

Seeing his dark green hair and intelligent eyes, I realized the appearance of ‘him.’

I was looking forward to seeing ‘him’, and stared with sparkles in my eyes.

‘This is the Emperor’s closest aide, the cold-blooded Raven!’

I can’t believe I’m actually seeing Raven, one of my favorite characters in the original!

He was a character full of charm, that was absolutely loyal to the emperor, although he was like a cold sword in all other subjects, with his prickly mind and sharp eyes.

“Yes, it is. She’s the one who fits your terms!”

The slave trader rubbed his hands out of habit, answering Raven’s questions eagerly.

Raven glanced at me with eyes that seemed to be able to see through both my mind and soul.

“Well, the conditions for being a doll were tricky.’

I remembered the original story.

Be similar to the person who caused the emperor’s trauma.

Probably in his late teens.

Be ready and obedient.

No experience of sleeping with men.

The final conditions were unpleasant, but they were very important to them if they might serve the Emperor at night. However, it was very difficult to find female slaves in this world who had no experience until their late teens.

‘Whew, whether it’s fortunate or unfortunate, I’m the one who fits the tricky conditions.’

According to the original, the fifteenth ‘doll’ would have been disposed of by the emperor a week ago.

And because of the emperor who couldn’t sleep even after his disposition, a bloody and destructive breeze would be blowing in the palace right now.

That’s why Raven came rushing to buy me.

Raven grabbed my chin with his gloved hand and examined it back and forth.

I quietly cheered at his cold appearance, but I was a little frustrated.

‘When I read the books about reincarnation, everyone was born as ab aristocratic girl, and they ate and lived well. Why am I a slave?’

Despite his rude gestures, I stood quietly with an expressionless face. Thanks to my habits formed from being a slave. I have been accustomed to this behavior for many years.

“How old are you?”

When Raven asked, the slaver standing next to me responded immediately.

“She’s nineteen.”

“I didn’t ask you. “

“She can’t talk. She hurt her neck not too long ago.”

Raven’s gaze returned to me at the slave merchant’s explanation. He looked at me a little more and then lowered his hand.

“She looks like a doll.”

Raven nodded to see if he liked my stiff self, then turned to the slave merchant.

“I’ll take her.”

“Oh, thank you so much, sir!”

The slave merchant, who habitually answered, was stunned by Raven’s glare.

“You’d better be careful with that mouth.”

“Wow, whether or not there is mercy!”

The slave merchant tightened his head, his face full of cold sweat.

Raven still threw a heavy pouch at the feet of the slave merchant with an expressionless face.

At first glance, it is worth thousands of gold pieces. It was an excessive amount for the ransom for pariah slave.

tn: pariah means undesirable, rejects, or outcasts.

“Bring her.”

He ordered his men to do so, and then left the parlor without looking back.

I was sold as the Emperor’s ‘doll’ that day.

☾*✲⋆.Gulp.

I swallowed, even though my mouth was dry, and without saliva.

With the ornate crimson carpets, gruesomely torn and destroyed luxury furniture, and the intermittent, painful groans that sound heinous.

She felt like the prey of a beast.

She stood there in the flamboyant room, like a stone that seemed to have been stirred away. I heard a voice that sank through the silence.

“Who are you?”

Her hair covering her whole body stood up with the goosebumps that arose.

It was as if a hungry black panther was making a threatening growl.

“I surely said to not let anyone in.”

I stared at his golden eyes of melting honey where they rest between his scattered black hair.

With his fascinating, yet human pupils, I made eye contact as I held my breath.

I was suffocated by the eye contact with the ruler.

‘You’re not gonna kill me if I make eye contact with you, are you?’

I clasped my skirt tightly with my trembling hands.

From just eye contact, I already felt like a beast’s prey.

‘No, I’d play dead if I were a real beast.’

His golden eyes felt bloody as if he was asking for her to move at once, yet I felt like my feet were glued to the ground.

Without even thinking about running away, I thought desperately about how to survive in this position.

In either situation, it would seem like a failure even if she decided to move or not.

‘What the hell do you want me to do?’

I looked back on why I was in this situation, crying internally.

***

A few days ago, I woke up in a slavery cage.

When I looked up, a big moon and a small moon were glowing outside of the palm-sized window.

‘Two moons?’

For a moment, I was confused by the strange, unfamiliar, peculiar feeling in my stomach, and as soon as I realized that I had reincarnated into a different world, I ripped out my hair.

“I’m doomed! I’m doomed, this life is ruined!’

Well, this is the world of the fictional romance fantasy novel, the bizarre title of “The One Who Brings the End of the World,” famous for its tragic ending.

When I realized that I was reincarnated in a world from a book, I was so dumbfounded that I had no choice but to laugh in a frustrating position for a while.

Nevertheless, I had to believe that this was real because of both the vivid memories of both lives and the pain in my throat. It was as if I were screaming, the pain allowed me to realize that this was not a dream.

It was because.

‘Yeah, reincarnation is fine. It’s possible! I admit it!’

The ability to adapt quickly is my strength.

It was because I remembered the name of this country and what I looked like that I realized that I was reincarnated into the world in the book. By the way, ha.

I was reincarnated as a background extra, scripted to die for the dramatic appearance of the female protagonist!

Why am I a doll of all things? I’d rather live as a passerby!’

The author described in great detail what my role was originally and how gruesomely I died.

In just ten lines.

Even when I thought about it again, my blood pressure rose.

“Of course, of course. You just had to make my current life suck, I didn’t even live that good of a past life. Give me a break.”

I cursed the gods of this world for a moment. I also worked myself to death in the previous life, but in the present life, he was only working to die as a slave.

I’ve been working all day.

I’ve lived the last five years in the canaries of cages.

Then I lost my voice to the former owner, who wanted to monopolize my voice a while ago, and was in the repeating cycle of being sold again.

If it weren’t for the medicine the slave trader threw to me through the bars, I would have been dead in a cage.

Though, he quickly shut me down, after saying that me dying would make him lose too much money,

At the moment, there was blood on my forehead.

‘You poisoned me to monopolize my voice, and not to mention that you put me, a child, in the same damn cage for five years. Crazy! Maybe it’s because of the worldview. These aristocrats, they’re all out of their minds!’

Of course, at the highest peak of insanity, was the emperor.

He was called a hero who saved the Empire that had fallen externally and was the most-known in the castle for the people more than anyone else.

However, in reality, he’s a sensitive, violent, uncontrollable tyrant because of the trauma he gained in the past.

If he finds it annoying, he kills them. If he attacks the country next to him, he could simply say that it irritated his eyes.

The rumors were true, so on the continent, the great empire’s aristocrats were all supporters of the Emperor, afraid of his wrath. It was true that they all stood up and begged for his approval.

‘Because of his trauma, he can’t sleep without a doll, that’s the reason why I have to be pushed into this hard role.’

Then he meets the hostess and becomes a reincarnation, but in fact, he will lose her and become a mastermind of the destruction of the world.

Then, he meets the female lead and comes back to life, but in fact, he will lose the female lead. His loss, trauma, and despair lead to him breaking, then he turns into the one that destroys the world.

The only way to calm him down was his ‘Doll’ until he met the female lead.

When I remembered the fact, I covered my face with my hands. It is because I felt so wronged.

‘Why am I the last doll of all people? I’m going to die because of the unfair plotline!’

According to the original, a year until I enter the palace as a doll and die at the whim of the Emperor.

It has been two years since the emperor fell in love with the heroine.

Therefore, the time remaining until the end of the world was only three years.

I found out I was born again, and it’s been three years since then. Why are the gods doing this in my life?

‘Yes, let’s survive somehow and leave the male lead to the female lead! Then I can live safely for at least 3 years.’

I want to save the princess so that she doesn’t run wild, and I want to die of a fine old age, but I’ll give her a criminal that’s not even known in the original book.

I want to save the female lead so that the male doesn’t try and destroy the world. I’ve decided also want to grow old and die.

‘But I still have the knowledge of the original, so if I’m lucky, wouldn’t I be able to find it?’

For five days, she thought about how to extend her life, even for a little.

“Come out.”

Early this morning, I was dragged out of the slave cage.

I had only eaten grain porridge and hard slices of bread so far, so my legs trembled.

The slave merchant washed me moderately and put me in a fairly clean dress and took me to the parlor.

Then he left me in the parlor, saying he would bring in the guests.

While waiting, I shook my heavy shackled feet.

‘Oh well.’

A sigh came out of my mouth by itself.

‘Cause I can’t run away anyway.’

Not only was security was rigid and strict, but above all, this world was too tough for a woman to live alone.

Besides, an unmarried female slave wandering the streets alone was like holding up a poster with bolded red words, advertising: ‘Catch me!’

During the five years of the current emperor’s reign, the empire has improved its security to the extent that it can be said that its borders have been transformed into a circle of guards. It’s said that the darkness didn’t allow humans to disappear to that extent.

Thanks to this, I was deprived of even the option of running away, and I had to wait for ‘him’ to pick me up from the Imperial Palace.

‘Well, if you go to the Imperial Palace, will you at least give me rice?’

I heard footsteps approaching the room.

Three men and a slave merchant came in with the hood of the mungo gray cape, the highest rank of them all.

The noble-looking man’s head returned toward me.

He approached me with his hood off.

“Is this her?”

Seeing his dark green hair and intelligent eyes, I realized the appearance of ‘him.’

I was looking forward to seeing ‘him’, and stared with sparkles in my eyes.

‘This is the Emperor’s closest aide, the cold-blooded Raven!’

I can’t believe I’m actually seeing Raven, one of my favorite characters in the original!

He was a character full of charm, that was absolutely loyal to the emperor, although he was like a cold sword in all other subjects, with his prickly mind and sharp eyes.

“Yes, it is. She’s the one who fits your terms!”

The slave trader rubbed his hands out of habit, answering Raven’s questions eagerly.

Raven glanced at me with eyes that seemed to be able to see through both my mind and soul.

“Well, the conditions for being a doll were tricky.’

I remembered the original story.

Be similar to the person who caused the emperor’s trauma.

Probably in his late teens.

Be ready and obedient.

No experience of sleeping with men.

The final conditions were unpleasant, but they were very important to them if they might serve the Emperor at night. However, it was very difficult to find female slaves in this world who had no experience until their late teens.

‘Whew, whether it’s fortunate or unfortunate, I’m the one who fits the tricky conditions.’

According to the original, the fifteenth ‘doll’ would have been disposed of by the emperor a week ago.

And because of the emperor who couldn’t sleep even after his disposition, a bloody and destructive breeze would be blowing in the palace right now.

That’s why Raven came rushing to buy me.

Raven grabbed my chin with his gloved hand and examined it back and forth.

I quietly cheered at his cold appearance, but I was a little frustrated.

‘When I read the books about reincarnation, everyone was born as ab aristocratic girl, and they ate and lived well. Why am I a slave?’

Despite his rude gestures, I stood quietly with an expressionless face. Thanks to my habits formed from being a slave. I have been accustomed to this behavior for many years.

“How old are you?”

When Raven asked, the slaver standing next to me responded immediately.

“She’s nineteen.”

“I didn’t ask you. “

“She can’t talk. She hurt her neck not too long ago.”

Raven’s gaze returned to me at the slave merchant’s explanation. He looked at me a little more and then lowered his hand.

“She looks like a doll.”

Raven nodded to see if he liked my stiff self, then turned to the slave merchant.

“I’ll take her.”

“Oh, thank you so much, sir!”

The slave merchant, who habitually answered, was stunned by Raven’s glare.

“You’d better be careful with that mouth.”

“Wow, whether or not there is mercy!”

The slave merchant tightened his head, his face full of cold sweat.

Raven still threw a heavy pouch at the feet of the slave merchant with an expressionless face.

At first glance, it is worth thousands of gold pieces. It was an excessive amount for the ransom for pariah slave.

tn: pariah means undesirable, rejects, or outcasts.

“Bring her.”

He ordered his men to do so, and then left the parlor without looking back.

I was sold as the Emperor’s ‘doll’ that day.

☾*✲⋆.

Itrium, the institution of the Great Empire of Ivan. A city boasting a state-of-the-art civilization on the continent that takes about five hours by two carriages from the mansion of a slave merchant.

‘Wow! It’s huge.’

The imperial castle and the garden, which spread endlessly around the Imperial Palace in the center, were huge scale items that I had never seen before in both of my lives.

‘It’s definitely different from what I imagined reading the book.’

Even during the Emperor’s tyranny, the empire stood out in its own right, but since Namjoo took over, it has changed its rank.

As soon as he was enthroned, he killed the fallen royal families or expelled them to of her countries in the name of saving the empire, and freely purged the nobles who did not follow him.

Thanks to this, it is said that the screaming and bloody odor at the imperial palace did not cease for a year after the imperial power changed.

‘And in 3 years, the empire became the most powerful country ever.’

I knew it by reading it in a book, but when I actually put the majesty and his kingdom in front of me, I realized it after inspecting.

“Come this way.”

Raven called me, as I got off the carriage and looked at the Imperial Palace for a moment.

He put on a hooded cloak over me just before getting off the wagon. Then he took me to the back of a building and handed it over to the women who were waiting there.

“Elmeria’s maid, this is the new ‘doll’.”

The gray-brown haired woman, who seemed to be in her 50s, glanced at me and soon turned her gaze to Raven.

“You’ve had a hard time, Sir Isteban. Now the palace will be quiet a little.”

I became a little sensitive to their conversation. It was like telling a story that he had been looking for food to throw to a hungry lion.

t/n: I think this means, “It was like telling me that they had been looking for food to throw to a hungry lion.” This means, she feels like the meat/live animals zoo-keepers/tamers would throw at hungry beasts/animals.

As soon as he handed me over to a woman called the maid, he didn’t even look back twice and went away.

Even so, I’ve been riding a carriage, it’s been five hours since dawn, but you don’t even look at me. Yes, that’s the charm you are.

When Raven went away, the maid took me straight to the back door of the Imperial Palace.

What seemed familiar was that there weren’t one or two women who came here as dolls.

“This is His Majesty’s bedroom, and where you will work.”

As I walked through the corridor decorated with gold leaf and jewels, I expected it, but the emperor’s bedroom on the second floor was much larger and more luxurious than expected.

‘It’s amazing, it’s also the emperor’s room.’

And there was a small side room, but it was simple. One single bed, one chair, one sink and one closet. That was it. In addition, there were still small items used by my predecessors.

‘I still have everything there.’

While I was looking around the side room, the maid said in a clerical tone that I came into the Imperial Palace as a living doll of the emperor, and that I will live in this side room in the future.

In fact, the original story only describes the role of the emperor’s dolls, but does not mention how the doll s lived and how they were treated.

I can only guess that I will live a pretty hardcore life in line with the position of ‘doll’ and the tendency of the tyrant emperor.

In the original work, the time when the heroine took on the role of a doll, was a time when she was already becoming a precious person to the emperor, so the expression of an exception was followed.

Therefore, the role that the heroine lived as the ‘doll’ was not the same for me.

‘I can’t even sleep at night normally, and now I have to play with the emperor every day, right?’

I had a strict imagination, and my spine was creepily tingly. Then the maid told me.

“I will tell you what you will do in the future.”

I looked with my eyes brightly at the maid who would tell me about the ‘doll’ job I had been curious about. But I soon had to doubt my ears.

“You can open your eyes in the future after your Majesty leaves the room. After an hour of etiquette training in the morning, you’ll be waiting in this bedroom for the rest of the day. And your dedicated maid will take care of your schedule management and service.”

‘Really!?’

If I could speak, I would have screamed reflexively.

‘A dedicated maid? Besides, can I wake up later than the emperor? Even listening to manners and waiting all day. Is this a true story? Could this be the honeybojik you only heard in words?’

t/n: It directly translates to “honey-texture”, so what I’m assuming is, it means like sweet-deal. Or like something good. You know how honey is sweet and golden, kind of warm and amber undertones? yepp—im just assuming.

In my previous life, because of my family, I worked hard to death, and even after being reincarnated, it was like the sound of a heavenly trumpet to me, who was sold as a slave to work.

No, rather, the conditions were so good that it was a surprise.

It’s not like the last supper served before I’m is offered as a sacrifice, right?

t/n: she’s basically feeling like she’s about to be sacrificed because of all of the golden conditions, how it’s almost too good to be true. she feels similar to the criminals who have their “last meal” before their execution.

If the original herione appears anyway, the emperor wont even look at her, the other doll. So, endure, and not die, and when she appears, you can leave the emperor and run away.

But, if it’s such a honey job, shouldn’t she wish for the herione to appear late?

‘Are you trying to avoid my life now?’

As if I was going to drool, I was fascinated by the honey job, and the maid in a low voice asked as if yelling.

“Why is there no answer? Can’t you hear me?”

I tried to open my mouth reflexively, saying that it wasn’t, but my throat was sore and my voice couldn’t come out.

“Oh yeah. You said you couldn’t speak. I forgot about you.”

When I grabbed my neck and felt embarrassed, the maid shook her head with her hand on her forehead.

“First of all, there are three things you have to follow here.”

She raised three fingers.

“First, watch whatever you see or hear. Well, you can’t speak so I’m not worried about that.”

When the maid’s words were over, I could hear the maids and workers move around.

“Second, just act like a doll in front of his Majesty. You shouldn’t do anything yourself unless you are ordered. Conversely, when you’re not with him, you can do whatever you want.”

It doesn’t change the fact that she was a doll. It’s like giving away human rights for a dog.

‘That’s why they used the slaves has his dolls. If it weren’t for that, would these high-bridged aristocrats here have been brought as slaves for the Emperor?’

I didn’t have a choice anyway. If you are caught running away from this situation, I’d be dead in 3 seconds, not 3 years.

While I snorted internally, I nodded softly on the outside.

“Finally, your existence is kept secret and you cannot get out of this Imperial Palace. But remember, you can move with you anytime, anywhere you want.”

And the maid added a rule for the doll.

“This routine will continue until the day your Majesty says you do not need it. After that, I will send it abroad with the compensation money, so you can live as you please.”

If you play the role of a ‘doll’, you can play and eat in the emperor’s bedroom, with the help of a maid in charge, and then recieve compensation money. As long as I listened to their rules, there really was no better heavenly honey job.

‘If you didn’t know that there wasn’t a single doll that survived.’

I swallowed dry saliva.

‘I can survive until Yeoju appears, right?’

After that, I was handed over to the maids for a second bath, I was given an oil massage and hair treatment, and put in a pretty high-quality indoor dress.

Except for having a sandwich and fruit juice while having a lot people watching me (but it was delicious!), it was a very satisfying treatment.

While one of the maids tied the back laces on the back of my dress and finished the dressing up, I stared blankly at myself in the full-length mirror.

‘This is what I am.’

I knew it because I lived for 19 years, but it was refreshing when I recalled the memories of my previous life.

Pale skin, silky hair that curls up to my waist, lush lips, and sky-blue irises that were exposed only through the front of my head shone transparently.

Overall, the pigment was light, and her slim body and expressionless face gave off a strangely dreamy atmosphere.

I touched my wrist.

The bones were felt right under my skin.

‘It’s very bad.’

My whole life, I hadn’t eaten properly, but now I was suffering the consequences, from a fever high enough to die, and from a neck injury.

In my previous life, I was busy working, so I ate a lot of snacks and instant meals, so I was always obese without nutrition.

‘I’m sure you’ll be getting your beauty weight now that you have steady food?’

When she tried to turn her thoughts positively, the maid came back and picked up something from the box she was holding.

“Wear this.”

As soon as I saw the silver bracelet, I realized it was the magic tool from the original.

It was a crude bracelet with all small yellow-green mana stones only the size of a little fingernail. The dark marks, like bloodstains, bothered me, but I tried to ignore them.

As soon as I put on the bracelet, my platinum hair turned dark blond, and my sky blue eyes turned deep green. The pale complexion turned into a reddish face.

‘This is the color-plate the original heroine had. I think they dyed something.’

According to the original work, magic tools that change the appearance are extremely difficult to obtain, and they cannot entrust such national treasure magic tools to slaves, so they use magic tools that only change the color of the appearance.

The original heroine wore this as a doll, but the male lead who overcame the trauma later smashed the bracelet completely saying that he could not take it anymore.

‘No matter how exciting the scene was!’

I tried to subside my excitement and touched my hair that had changed color in an instant.

‘Shall I meet the emperor in this state?’

The sun is still in the middle of the sky, so there will be time for the emperor to return. As I know well what kind of trauma he has, I was worried about how he would react.

‘I would just cry when I meet, but?’

Then suddenly the door opened loudly and a pale, tired attendant came in.

“Hand-maid! This is a message from Esteban!”

The maid turned around calmly, but a strange anxiety-filled expression appeared on her face. When I saw that face, my heart started beating faster.

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I’m excited for when they meet—ehehe.

I love you all, please take care and stay safe. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, of course, far from perfect so please feel free to reach out and point out any mistakes!

“What is it?”

“Ah, in the main room, His Majesty is in there raging! Hurry up, he’s telling me to bring Marie!”

At the same time, isn’t the attendant looking at me?

‘Marie?’

Is that what you mean by me?

“. . .I know.”

After grasping the situation, the maid came to me hurriedly, instructing the attendant, who looked ready to faint, to get water.

“Follow me.”

Then they pulled my forearm.

Pain blossomed as dry fingers squeezed my bony forearm.

But when I saw the hardened face of the maid, the pain flew away.

When I arrived here, I remembered the conversation between Raven and the maid.

‘Well, can’t you tell me where you are going now?’

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It was this scene that I would encounter the King, dragged like a cow to a slaughterhouse.

t/n: basically about to be killed, lol.

The maid, who traveled at a flying speed to the first floor of the Imperial Palace, stopped in front of the people trembling in fear.

“Ah, the maid of Elmeria.”

Raven was there with a troubled face, and as soon as he saw me, he was noticeably relieved.

Then he pushed me straight into the room.

‘Uh? Only me? Now, wait! Is the emperor inside there?’

Fortunately, they opened the door, pushed me in, and stood behind the door to check the situation.

The situation reminds me of seeing whether a lion will eat the new meat or not.

‘At least, you should have to gave me some time to prepare myself!’

I swallowed my dry saliva and turned my gaze into the luxurious chamber.

The room was quiet.

However, the violent scent of blood that did not match that atmosphere of silence touched the tip of my nose.

I saw two sofas neatly in one side of the room.

‘How the hell can they move that sturdy-looking sofa into two-sides?’

“Who are you.”

The hairs on my whole body stood up.

The emperor, who was quietly revealing his presence in the middle of the room, growled as if he hated the presence of me.

“I must have told them to not to let anyone in.”

When I saw the emperor’s face revealed through his frowned bangs, I was overwhelmed for a moment.

‘You’re so handsome!’

Thanks to the original work, I was leaning in his favor a little, but the male lead was a decadent, handsome man.

He passed the level of handsomeness that seemed to make people’s noses bleed as he passed by them.

His milky skin, the onyx black hair, his golden jeweled eyes, and red lips shining in the middle were enough to bring statues to his knees and acknowledge him as their masters.

At the moment, I thought that it would be okay to just die from a knife if it was frim that handsome man.

‘No, wait. That’s not… Huh?’

He was close in front of me while I was fascinated.

‘What happened?’

The moment I was surprised, I choked.

It was because the emperor, who came to me in no time, grabbed my waist and lifted me into the air. When nothing touched my feet, fear came.

‘Oh My God! Have you lifted me with one hand now?’

Power was a business. But rather than feeling surprised at that moment, I was chilled by the emperor’s lively gaze and harsh actions.

‘Let’s go ahead and die for 3 years now!’

It was a moment to look back at Raven to ask for my life.

“Rav. . . huh?”

The emperor tried to call Raven.

But his annoying gaze stopped at me before he could even reach Raven’s.

My expression that had been wrinkled was released in an instant, and it became a face that seemed to be hit in the back of the head.

The golden eyes that were directed at me shook slightly.

He seemed to have recognized my face only now, and he seemed to be greatly agitated.

It was evident that I was still keeping my mind when I came in. Soon his eyes widened open, and silence flows into the room.

A moment passed, and a husky and low voice flowed through his red lips.

“Lily… Ana?”

That was the name of the original heroine.

My grip from his hand loosened, and I barely managed to land on the floor properly.

When my breathing returned, a violent cough broke out.

“Colok! Kolok!”

t/n: coughing noises

As I looked up, I could see the emperor’s eye’s focus gradually returning, releasing from madness.

‘Oh, I guess he’s properly alert now. That’s why Raven brought me.’

The effect of the dubious doll was unexpectedly awesome. But at the same time, I felt indifferent.

‘I was prepared, but it doesn’t feel very good to be called by someone else’s name.’

When I was barely stable, I set myself upright.

However, I looked down because I couldn’t bear to see the emperor’s face when his mind returned.

Then, I saw the scenery in the room that I had not seen before.

As in the original work, the emperor’s power is destruction, even with a single knife. His body was well-balanced with tight muscles, and there was blood everywhere.

The carpet was dyed black with blood, and two noblemen fell on top of it. At first glance, it seemed it was work done by the emperor.

‘Lord, are you dead?’

Fortunately, he was wriggling slightly, so you could see he hadn’t died yet.

Since my first meeting with the emperor was full of thrills and excitement, sweat soaked both of my hands holding the hem of my skirt.

The tyrant emperor was indeed the man in the tragic romance-fantasy.

Handsome, attractive, and lively.

‘Although, his personality is very bloody.’

If I had met the emperor without knowing the original, I might have just fainted here.

“Woo.”

t/n: kind of like a sigh/exhale

The emperor wiped his eyes once with his hand.

“Raven.”

Raven came in at the call of the emperor, stopped by my side, and bowed his head in moderation.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“They’re yours.”

t/n: the men on the floor

“I will take the punishment sweetly.”

The emperor frowned on his face, deeply exhausted. Roughly sweeping his curly hair, he threw a bloody dagger on the floor.

“Remove them.”

At the same time as his order, attendants rushed into the room and led the men who had been fallen.

I tried to look at them in a little more detail, wondering if the ones carried out might be in my future.

But before that, I noticed that the emperor’s gaze turned to me again, and it hardened.

‘Why, why do you look at me like that? Do you want to cut my head off too?’

Cold sweat ran down my back.

I stared at a predator that froze and looked down at me like a small animal caught in a trap.

The emperor’s gleaming golden eyes reflected my strangeness intact. For a moment, the emperor glanced at me a little more, and then gave me a congratulatory spirit in a dry tone.

“Export her.”

Then, after looking at me, he opened another door that connected the room next door and went out.

‘Sweet.’

When the door was closed, I let out a relieved sigh and sat down.

‘I lived.’

After a while, when I came out of the room with my limbs intact, the maid was showing a sad face.

From that appearance, I realized that I was alive. I breathed deeply, again and again, gently rubbing my sweaty palms against the hems of my clothes.

As before, the maid took me to the emperor’s bedroom with a cold face. Still, unlike the previous time she pulled my arm, she let my feet walk at their own pace.

‘Today, I’m going to wait in my room.’

I nodded and plunged into a chair by the window designated by the maid. From the early dawn, I didn’t care about what would happen.

‘Really, I don’t think my heart will remain if I do this every time.’

I realized so clearly why people and in the books referred to him as a tyrant. I realized why he needed a ‘sacrificial doll,’ it was in order to calm him down.

‘No, what kind of carnivore are you?’

The emperor, who became hard on his sleep, was literally a tyrant who brought blood like it was wind.

If I couldn’t soothe him that in time, it seemed that no one would have a neck left in the Imperial Palace.

A little while ago, I thought of his shiny golden eyes and trembled.

Not even the beasts I saw at the zoo had that kind of eye.

It was like a hunter’s gaze looking for weaknesses and scanning the situation. And his ferocious eyes softened as soon as they noticed the doll’s existence.

I looked down at my trembling palm.

‘Did I prove my worth?’

At least I would have found it useful if I were enough to calm the emperor. You can think of it as having gotten at least the protection from Raven or the maid.

‘Well, it’s because they’re not dead yet, anyway.’

I gave up quickly and shouted positively.

A little while ago, the maid brought my dinner. For a slave, it was too much duck meat, white bread, and vegetable soup. I thought it might be the reward for calming down the riot a little while ago.

When I grabbed a silver spoon that had been decorated with fancy craftsmanship and ate a bite of the steaming soup, my cold body filled with warmth. Somehow I felt a few tears rolling down my face.

‘Wow, it’s delicious.’

My heart pounding in surprise began to calm down in front of the delicious dishes.

Besides, it’s a steaming warm dish. Nothing could be sweeter.

The cold grain porridge eaten in the cages of the slave traders was so tasteless, enough to bring tears.

‘Hey, this is all about eating and living! Let’s eat as much as we want.’

I decided to clear the horror that the meeting had just happened in my mind, asking myself to think about the future. After dipping white bread into the soup, my whole body trembled.

‘This is really good!’

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At the same time, the personal study of the Imperial Palace.

The emperor, Ridrian, who finished his routine safely, was not very happy. He was arrogantly leaning against the chair and regularly tapping the handle of the chair with his index finger. Raven, standing across from me, was a little nervous.

“Raven.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“I would have said that I don’t need it.”

“Aren’t you already limiting? I decided that it couldn’t be done anymore, so I moved to dogma. I will gladly be punished for your dissatisfaction.”

There was no tremble in his eyes.

Ridrian laughed as he looked into the face of his impudent subordinates.

“You seem to be mistaken if you think I won’t touch you.”

A thin cut from his flesh oozes crimson from his body, which was instantly irritated.

Raven noticed this and knelt right in front of the desk.

“You are worth a million words. Your Majesty is the Supreme of this Ivant. You can order anything you want.”

“Ha! The horse is shrewd. Looks like I’ve taught you well.”

Ridrian covered his face with his hand and smiled. Tiredness was thickly buried around his dark and dead eyes. The emperor, who had not slept for more than a week, was half-sane.

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Ridrian is kinda a mood tho—like u haven’t slept well in months? same queen, I feel u.