“I’m sorry… for not killing you sooner.”
Claire, the scarred Empress on the brink of death from a mysterious illness.
Just before her last breath, she learns a devastating truth.
The friend she cherished like her own life, Lilliana, was the one who ruined her face, stole her husband, and cursed her with this sickness.
Claire forces out the last of her divine power to uncover the truth.
“You… you’re not the saintess… You’re a fraud…”
But even so, her end is nothing but a wretched death.
“From this moment, the Empress is dead. Burn this cursed tower, and leave not even ashes behind!”
Yet, perhaps by the mercy of the gods themselves—
Claire found herself back in the spring of her twentieth year.
Now, she fears nothing.
Having died once and come back to life, what is there left to fear in dying again?
If she is to fall once more, then she will bloom and wither as the most radiant, poisonous flower.
“Like a frog slowly being boiled alive, I’ll make you suffer, Lily.”
Thus begins the first act of her vengeance.
