She has the best eyerolls. Looking disgusted at the sight behold to her, she just had enough. It's her 3rd reincarnation. Looking at the familiar room with many attendants assisting her she exactly knows what shes into in a blink of an eye.
She was about to curse in crisp yet she tried to hold back her profane words while looking at the reflection in the mirror. Dolled up for her first meeting with her one true love.
Thinking about it makes her, wanted to escape this ducal residence. Looking at her emerald orbs looking back at her, a young woman in her fifteens with a jet black hair crowning her head. She was sought after in the empire which exudes delicate and elegance. A saintess blessed by millenium prophecy, beloved by the masses with pure adoration.She exactly knows that she is the female lead. Her name is Cara Margaux Fiernoux.
Cara Margaux is the born to be the female lead despite being an illegitimate child of the most influencial Equinoux Ducal Family of Argent Empire ; with her ideal setting wouldn't she be grateful to have all the adorations on her? A perfect romance crafted just for her would be perfect but not for the reincarnated her who stared with pure resentment in the mirror.
The hair pin grazed her scalp that she startled and rammed back with reality.
"I'm so sorry my lady," the maids were panicking that she might bleed. She just look uninterestingly at them.
"It's fine." she replied in monotone voice.
Today she must be the woman to be center of attraction for tonights ball for the crown prince's birthday. The most crucial part of this nonsical scheme.
The crown prince. A pang in her heart activated. She would meet him again in this lifetime. Her disdainful look replaced with brokenness. This lifetime is unforgiving as well she thought. Happy ending is to stingy at them. She just dissolved the thoughts in her head while looking at herself in the mirror.
"I won't make the same mistake again." she murmured to herself.
Cara descended in the Duke's mansion like a goddess. Her escort was her scheming father who would love to sold her off to royalty. Looking at him satisfied, she knew that she will be meeting the crown prince on purpose. Just like in her first lifetime. A fated encounter is a mere deception. She was utilized by her father in her first life and trick in her second life to put leash on that poor prince. This time she won't be naive to submit as he wishes. Looking at her father with hidden resentment reflected in her emerald eyes.Then she smiled at him while reaching her hands.
"You were the star tonight my beatiful fox." Duke Tiexery complimented while kissing the her delicate hands.
"You surely are generous father." she exclaimed while laughing shyly. Then they departed to the castle with eagerness.
The atmosphere is filled with prestige and anticipation. Who would the lucky lady smitten the Crown Prince's attention? Her name sung on the streets is already a default. A saintess is perfect match for a crown prince. The empire will be filled with divinity yet some nobles were opposed to the idea. The maternal family of Duke Tiexery's daughter is unknown. She just escaped the ruthless remarks since she possessed the saintess powers. Many nobles still prep their daughter in the hopes of catching His Highness eyes even for a glance.
As soon as the Duke's household announced all the curious gaze fixed on the entrance. Her white gown glimmers and her careful steps elegantly thud on the carpet. Her divine smile plastered while her expressive eyes gaze randomly. She is an epitome of beauty. She choke every bachelors' attention that they were all flustered meeting her gaze. Cara Margaux's beauty sang on the streets is indeed not a rumor. It is definitely more than what they expected. The lady served as the main course as she will caster of blessing to the crown prince. Her first appearance in the public her first debut in the society repeated twice.
Her smiles warmth everyone yet frost her heart.
Everyone's attention shifted when it is time for the crown prince entered the hall.
"His Royal Highness Vernon Argent is entering." Everyone bowed even her. Cara inhaled deeply while looking for his shoes direction towards her way. Then she slowly raised her head and meeting her eyes. Vernon. The man who she shouldn't meet in this lifetime. Vernon. The man who give up everything for her and loved her in 1st life while loath her in her entire life in the 2nd.
"We shouldn't have to do anything with each other this time Vernon." she inwardly said while locking eyes with him. Cause in this lifetime, I'll make sure you will live by not marrying me. She just smiled painfully at him.
"Greetings your royal highness, I'm Cara Margaux Fiernoux. Hail to the next sun of the Argent Empire."
You should live in this lifetime Vernon, in this way I don't owe you anything nor my love, my guilt and my resentment. You were my greatest mistake. Her life flashed before her looking at his handsome apparel, his stoic and cold expression. Cara brushed her self aside as she was in the way of the crown prince. He might discern her cheap stunts. As he ascended and seated lazily on his throne, she meet his disdainful look against her brokenness hidden in her lovely expression. The crowd looking at them as if it is fated encounter. A woman with her adored and envied by all and a man with a crown in his head. Yet it wasn't a prologue in a romance novel rather an ending. This 3rd lifetime should be properly ended in this banquet. Bewitch by this enchanting spell of fated concidence paused as memoirs of her first and the second life flashed before her. The agony and misery gave her an aftertaste of happy ending. This faint memory is nothing but a curse rather than a blessing.