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Oh, Lord. The empress bit her nails nervously.

The problem was his camera. Perhaps, it was the camera that made Thomas Dunger got the curse in the first place.

“Tell the priests about this. No matter what, we have to stop the congregation from exploiting bad things.”

The empress the camera to be banned by law, but the emperor did not allow it. The reason was because foreign countries were using this technology to do many things. Therefore, the Empress chose to ruin the camera’s reputation. Anyone who are a good noble and believer in God, don’t use the product of the devils.

When Fionia was living as a witch, she knew a red-haired witch who had been trained by her teacher, Mamabuta. The red-haired witch’s name was Parbella. Parbella had more power than any other witch.

‘At first, I wanted to get to know her.’

The closer she got, the more jealous Fionia became of her marvelous friend.

Her friend was the only one who shone in a way that was noble enough to be called a witch or something.

Fionia despised her. Above all, she had always detested her friend’s gaze on her.

‘She looks at me as if I’m a bug.’

In fact, there were times when Bella looked at her and clicked her tongue while saying, “This bug.”

Was what Fionia did to survive wrong? When people are born again after they die, they only take the body and life whoever they want and pass it on from generation to generation. Fate just threw a bad environment at her, so she just found a shortcut.

Even now, when Fionia thought of the past, her head and heart were frozen cold. Fionia’s eyes dropped.

When the queen’s expression looked strange, her lady-in-waiting, Madame Mariche, tried to freshen up her mood. To cheer up the queen’s mood, the lady-in-waiting smiled while speaking in a bright and high tone.

“Your Majesty, have you heard the story of the Crown Prince?”

When the story about her only son came out of the servant, the empress’ expression became even more foul. She raised her voice nervously.

“Why, again? Which red hair did he touch this time?”

In all her life, the empress had only one goal and that was to defeat Parbella, whom she treated like her immortal enemy. Her son got mad just when he thought she had won. No, to be precise, he was not her son.

The witch, who had only aimed to defeat Parbella for some time, entered the manor 24 years ago in the form of an old midwife. The original owner of her current body, who was just a noble at the time, collapsed from the pain during childbirth. At that time, the witch stole the noblewoman’s body and locked her soul in a bottle. In the process, the child on board was also killed, but the witch solved the problem by inserting the one soul she kept into the child.

This was already the 14th time she had lived that way. She realized that this was her last life. She felt that her abilities as a witch were slowly declining.

With one last effort, she cursed her husband’s healthy brothers. If her husband becomes emperor, she would become an empress. Her curse only worked on Miladen, who was the emperor back then. The curse didn’t work on Gateron Lischer, so she had to hire some people to create the horse carriage accident, and so on.

After such attempts, she became an empress. She thought there was nothing that stood in her way now.

‘My son is my enemy.’

Edmund had only met the red-haired girl when he was young. If the person who met her son was a young noble lord, the empress think it wasn’t a bad sign. The empress could’ve used the scandal as an excuse to bind him in an engagement.

However, regardless of his status, her son called a beautiful girl with red hair into the bedroom. Since this has happened a few times, the empress had to refined the crown prince’s reputation. If there were rumors coming out of the palace. Using this as an excuse, the empress was also worried that the nobles who oppose would rise again. The nobles, who are in the opposition fraction, still complained that the succession to the throne, which took place about nine years ago was unfair.

Fionia, thinking about her son’s future, chased away all the red-haired women who were working in the palace.

‘It would be fine if the palace had no red-haired woman…’

The Empress’s actions only increased the unnecessary opposition against her son. Then, Edmund started wandering outside the palace. He always manage to fool the guards easily and got out of the palace. Because of this, the empress was worried whether the crown prince would be killed outside.

The Countess of Mariche began to whisper sweet words into her grumpy lord’s ear.

“Lately, the Crown Prince has been refraining from going out of the palace and concentrating on his studies and swordsmanship.”

“Is that… really?”

‘What happened to that dork?’

Empress Fionia, who had been troubled by Edmund’s behavior, was somewhat anxious even after hearing the good news from her son. He acted like the calm weather before a typhoon. There was something suspicious about her son’s quiet behavior that happened all of a sudden.

Of course, Edmund living a decent life was something that she should have been thankful about. The crown prince, who had the right to ascend the throne, was finally crippled by the engagement to a weak noble family. The empress didn’t want her people to talk about the crown prince’s qualities to ascend the throne anymore.

The empress walked up to the drawer. She wrote a message on a piece of paper that she took from there before handing it to Mariche.

“Give this to Edmond’s escort. Don’t forget to tell him check and burn it.”

*  *  *

Time went by and eventually that day became Gloria’s wedding day.

Nowadays, it has become popular among the royal family to open their mansions and hold outdoor weddings. However, the Baron insisted on having a traditional wedding ceremony in the temple. Everyone knew, of course, that the temple was where Baron Stephen’s former first love Julie Innis and himself got married. However, no one talked much about the young bride.

In the bride’s waiting room in the corner of the temple, Gloria was waiting with a miserable gaze. In the mirror was a well-packed doll, whose pale face was covered with thick makeup. Now, she must marry someone who are supposed to be her grandfather, Baron Stephen. He was worried about the night where they would do the deed for the first time as a married couple. She felt hateful and terrible, but there was no way to avoid it.

‘If I escape, my father and sister will be in danger.’

However, they’re still her families whom she shares the same blood with. They were worse than others by now. Her sister despised her, and her father also went outside to take the little money his daughter earns and acted violent all the time. However, for the sake of her love for the family. She was the one who finally chose to go along with this terrible marriage.

She wore a mist-like veil and held a bucket of yellow lilies in her hand. There was still some time left before the wedding ritual began. Just when she was starting to calm down, her only friend, Haley, walked into the waiting room.

“Gloria, here you are!”

Haley smiled and walked up to the bride. A glass of red raspberry juice was held in her hand. Gloria’s eyes were fixed on the glass of red juice. Then, Haley shrugged her shoulders.

“Oh, this? I thought you couldn’t eat anything because you were preparing for the wedding. So, I secretly went to the banquet hall and brought you this. You have to drink this so that you can survive the wedding.”

“I’m a bit tipsy,” Haley whispered in the bride’s ear. A faint smile lingered on Gloria’s lips. She shook her head slowly.

“I don’t think so. I don’t have to drink anything, Haley.”

Even though the bride didn’t want it, Haley still handed a glass of juice to her.

“Try this. Come on!”

At that moment, Gloria was forced to accept her friend’s drink. Haley intentionally pulled on the glass. The unbalanced glass of juice tilted toward the hem of the newlywed’s white dress. It was before Gloria’s fingers could reach the cup.

“Oh, my mistake!”

Haley’s face remained calm even though she said that she had made a mistake.

The Baron’s servants who were watching the scene from behind looked shocked. Some of them fell to the ground, as if fainting. The bottom part of Gloria’s extremely tight dress was splattered with a horrible red color of the raspberry juice. The stain could not be erased unless someone performed magic right

away. The red splatter, like their unusual wedding, looked horrible.

Gloria hardened when she saw the disaster on her skirt. It was a sacred wedding that attended by high-ranking officials. No matter how bad the wedding was, she couldn’t go into the ceremony in such horrible clothes. She shot her friend an annoyed look.

“Haley…. What do I have to do with this?”

Haley, who caused the accident, however, seemed quite calm. Instead of feeling embarrassed or remorseful, she smiled at the servant behind her. For a moment, Gloria wondered if her friend had a headache because she was so embarrassed by her action.

Haley spoke in a shameless voice.

“Gloria. I can’t help it. Let’s change into the additional dress that is kept at the shrine.”

The additional dress at the shrine. The dress was used by someone else at the wedding and was donated for free to the shrine. It was clear that the color must have turned yellow from lack of care, or it was a cheap wedding dress that wasn’t very good quality. A dress loaned to a poor person for free couldn’t possibly be that clean.

Despite having known it, her friend told her to wear a temple dress.

“Why are you doing this to me, Haley…”

Gloria cried and blamed her friend for a moment. Although it was a bustle dress that had already been outdated for a long time, it used high-quality materials that fit Gloria’s body perfectly. The price range of the jewelry on the dress was also quite large. Ruining such a dress and then changing into the worst dress that ever existed. Is that what you would do to a friend?

Clap. Clap.

Haley clapped twice.

Then, as if waiting for a signal, the P&P dressing room employees, who has been waiting outside, came in with their white dresses. Gloria blinked absentmindedly when seeing the new dress.

It was safe to say that the dresses brought by the staff are the style that was currently in trend. Even without wearing it, Gloria could feel that it would suit her well.

“This… is this the additional dress from the temple?”

“Yes, it’s the dress that is kept in the temple because it will be donated to the temple after you wear it today.”

Upon seeing Haley smile, Gloria instantly understood what her friend was thinking. This quirky friend was now recommending Gloria to get married in a trendy dress that suited her.

“Phew…. Hailey. I’m surprised. Cough.”

Gloria dropped her head, she thought she was about to cry at any moment. In order for the bridal makeup not to be removed, she had to prevent tears from running down her face. To do so, she had to tilt her face a bit so that the tears wouldn’t fall.

Haley gently stroked Gloria’s back with her head down.

“Gloria. Let’s get changed quickly. At this rate, you’ll be late.”

“…Yes.”

‘Thank you, Haley.’ Gloria pulled her mouth close to her ears so that the only one who would hear it was her friend and thanked her sincerely.