She blinked two times. She was beheaded, right? How come did she go back to life?
"Are you alright lady Zeianna?" they asked, still holding her neck as if it was decapitated.
She nodded, as she looked at her room, it's still luxury, but unlike that day... Where she faced death.
"Please prepare me tea" her only command that the maids did.
It was only a couple of minutes to see where is she and why she is here. It is the same room before she got fallen.
She scratch her neck, there's no scar on it, not even blood was flowing. She didn't believe it.
Did her bloody abilities help her?
Luckily the mirror was on her bedside, she get it and looked at her. No scars. No blood either.
She confirmed it. She's alive!
"Here's a chamomile tea for a better sleep and against nightmares" her nanny gave her a tea. A chamomile tea.
Did she knew that she'll die soon?
"What is the date today?" she asked out of nowhere. "October 10, 531" the old women answered.
It is five years behind the day she died!
Her eyes widened at what she heard. "is it really year 531?" she muttered in sadness. The nanny shocked at her crying.
"Yes, you're alive my lady" she answered. Zeianna cried at the fact that she indeed is alive.
She deserves to die. She doesn't deserve to have a lovingly maid around her. She doesn't deserve to have a life like this.
Suddenly, her maid that is so close to her, Grace, asked her nanny. "what did you do?" she asked in a snarl voice.
The nanny smiled at the young maid. "she cried out of nowhere, I don't know if somethings happened to her" staring at the lady crying, Grace held her a handkerchief.
"Here, wipe your tears" she said, still helding the hankie on her. "what is her tantrum old lady Helena?"
"She cried, I don't even know what's happening, so I gave her a chamomile tea to soothe her, especially the scent of the tea can help her forget those nightmares" the nanny answered.
Grace put the handkerchief on the lady's lap. "wipe your tears and drink tea. It's good for you" she advised, watching until Zeianna wipe her tears and drink the tea.
The maids smiled at the sight of her being relieved. They bowed to her as they got out of her room.
Meanwhile, Zeianna is still wondering... Is it a dream? Or reality?
"My lady, crown prince Ylium wishes to see you" one of the maids told her. "let him in" she responded, looking at the outside of the mansion, valiantly in the sun, birds chirping, and flowers swaying with the wind as their scent spreads across the exterior of the mansion.
As the door opened, it reveals the crown prince, blond swept hair with his soft cyan eyes, comes to the manor.
"It's a pleasure to meet you again lady" the price started. She smiled at the sight of the crown prince, as same as the light of the sun.
"So" the young lady drink a tea, together with eating a cake. "how's the business affairs?" she asked. "you know how much I've missed you, it's been a year since we met last time" she smiled, hiding her heartbroken demeanour.
She heard from one of her confidants that the crown prince is already in a secret relationship of a commoner living in another empire.
"About the business, it was fine, there were few anomalies but I fixed it" he answered with such confidence. 'Yeah, he excels in business' she thought.
"And you? How are you? I heard from your nanny that you had nightmares earlier" he added, looking at her with such expiry. He's waiting for a day to break off the engagement.
"I'm fine for now, I don't know if this will happen tomorrow, but don't worry about me, I'm fine and strong" she smiled proudly, indirectly telling him that she's happy without him by her side.
"That's what I like about you Zeianna" he smirked, looking at the lady with such disdain.
She nodded, as she looked at him, in her lonely eyes, the prince yelp with such agony.
"Wait, no, don't cry" the prince patted her back, she remembered what happened that day...
Where she said the truth about her dying sibling but he didn't listen, as a prince-captain relationship.
Well, things faltered in that timeline, her father accused her, everyone think of her as a criminal, a greedy wench, and a nuisance to the Rufino Empire.
She had to stop this, she's scared that even this second life will be in ruins.
She doesn't want to waste this time. It is given by someone and she will never waste this just to repeat the same way.
"No. I'm just happy that I touched you again for so long" she faked it, to think that it is time to change the fate.
They hugged each other, fake laughters and backstabbing decisions on their mind.
She think of something...
No matter what it takes, she'll use her potential, to change the fate, and to bring the selfish prince into demise.
And the prince thinks of something.
She thought that none of the Imperial family knows about her power bestowed by her mother's family.
It is a sacred power bestowed in Juvelino family, Zeianna's relatives from her mother's side.
Only the girls from that family will be chosen to be bestowed by that destructive power.
They were considered as goddesses, war material, an angel in the Rufino Empire, and most of all...
The devil in the empire.
The Imperial family knew about this, and have an agreement that they have to stay silent to people regarding to powers since almost of the people are after to them.
After the late duchess Adelia Catherine Emery died from childbirth, Zeianna Yves and Ylium are meant to be married when they turn into their legal age.
And this is the perfect timing... To kill the lady.
He knows the process how to kill her since every girls in the Juvelino family has two hearts. One that is used as human, and one that use their powers.
If they slash the elemental heart, she'll die and the overpowered strength will be his.
He smirked at his plan, killing her and annihilate the whole Juvelino and Emery family to stop the people from rushing onto them.