I was going to acsend the throne, today of all days. Unfortunately, I was in a cage heading towards the town sqaure to be executed.
"Hah! What an ugly woman!"
"How did she seduce the Crown prince?!"
"Did she really think our newly crowned emperor was going to marry an ugly woman, a loose woman at that."
The rumors of me seducing the previous emperor to kill him was ringing in the voices of the crowd, disgusting. I look up to see the evil grins of the people of the crowd. Blurry faces and the hot sun beeming in my eyes.
'I loved you, Silas Ruiz, yet you betrayed me. Did all our work mean nothing together?'
I was released from the cage as soon as we reached the chopping block. The blank look on my face as I watched the crowd, laughter, pity and malicious looks. Silas was watching from the execution balcony with his new lover, a lowly noble girl named Rita Van de Berg. The eyes of the girl will filled with psychotic gleam. She was waiting for my end.
"Flavia de Vries."
I flinched at my full name being called but my facial expression never changed. The priest that looked me in my eye had a smile an unnatural one.
"You have committed crimes to the royal family and in the end you have gotten your family killed as well. Were you satisfied with your crime?"
'What kind of question was that?! Is this person truly a priest?!'
"No, I am not." I cried out in hatred as my eyes shoot up at Silas and Rita who flinched. Silas frowned and stood up to get ready for the final execution prayer.
"Well, I can change that." The priest stated with a smile that made me extremely worried. But I'm already at deaths door. He quietly "prayed" for me as I heard whispers of an enchantation instead. I have never heard a prayer like that.
"May your soul be moved peacefully through your next life!!" As a gleam of light is glowing in his hand and he slipped it into my restrained ones. Silas noticed this as he leaned forward over the balcony.
"Gaurds-!"
Before, I can hear the command I felt a warmth overcome me, was this heaven? My hair was longer, my face felt softer not rough like my last life. I looked down at my nude body. No scars, no painful aches. This was before I intruded into battle, I was raised to be a warrior. l was called ugly due to a potion splashing on my face. I watched my last life before me to know the poison on my face was caused by Silas.
The tempered, embarrassing dress at the ball was Rita's work, the plot to seduce men to sleep with me to ruin my reputation. The emperor was killed by me during a lunch in the garden, I'm sorry Uncle. I felt disgusted but somehow my body didn't react. Am I truly being reborned?
I closed my eyes and felt like my body was drifting peacefully into a bed. As I woke up, I looked around I was in a night gown, who did I sleep with?
"She is married to that prince now, we can not abuse our power. She is the duke's daughter not any girl." a maid whispered outside.
"Oh, you are all being chickens! She married that foolish like what is she going to do?! She is equally as foolish as him I heard."
'First ugly? Now foolish? What rumors are spreading now?'
As the door burst open, I sat up to see a confident maid walk up to me with a bucket.
"Wake up! We have to get you ready!" She threw the water on me waking me up more. She smirked as she threw the bucket."Not, so confident anymore your majesty!? Of course you a spoiled girl, this is how we bathe our unfavored."
I stayed silent appeasing the maid. Only for me to grab her by the throat with a murderous look.
The other maids gasped as I stood up and left the maid by the throat.
"Oh my God! She's really the duke's daughter! She is using brute strength!"
"The Duke taught all his children to fight but I didn't expect his daughters were no exception. We only heard he spoils them."
The maid I was grasping was gasping for air as I raised her higher. The blank look still on my face, gasp for mercy was being heard.
"I think, you should learn a lesson. Gaurds!"
The gaurds came in quickly as they salute me and the maids in the back, backed away from them in fear.
"Take this disrespectful maid to the dungeon!" I threw the maid on the floor hearing her cough and gasp. "When I get ready I will torture her myself! She needs to be taught a lesson do it for me in the meantime!"
The maid eyes widdened and she crawled to my feet. It pleased me because I will not be a door mat in this life as well.
"I'm sorry your, grace! Please!! Your grace!!" The screams of the maid could be heard as she was being dragged away. I sit on the elegant armoire in the room then lean back into it.
"Prepare my bath! Let this be a warning to you all, if you disrespect me or my husband. I will not hesitate to torture and sell you!"
My cold gaze meet the rest of the maids as I watch them scurry for bath products and flower petals.
"Before you start my bath, my uncle has always prepared me the gift of diamond dust crystals for my bath, beauty elixirs and rose petals. Where are they?"
"Right here, milady!" The dust has been halfed used, the elixir was slightly used along with the jar of rose petals being poorly replaced with another flower petal.
"Who's been using my beauty set!?"
"C-Concubine Melanie, my grace, she took a liking to your set and wanted to have some. We told her she will punish you but she didn't care."
"Let's pay this unruly concubine a visit after my bath!" I growled with as I gritt my teeth as I got in the warm bath. I think I will like this life better, because I can show the imperial court what a princess consort can do with backings.
I relaxed in the bath as I glanced at the mirror In front of the tub. My face was pure perfection from before the incident and my hair was still long, silky and gorgeous.
"I missed this face, now we have to use it to turn the imperial court upside down! Rita, Silas! Wait for my unruly choas!"