Noah Kieran Hertz, the son of the Duke of Hertz slowly gets up as his gray eyes observe the mess of papers around him.
The 10 year old boy with dark purple hair felt like his heartbeat getting stop as he realized he was at the magic tower and got so mad that he couldn't even speak.
Memories of his past life's started to flow inside of his head again and gritted his teeth as he silently screamed on his mind.
'Who couldn't save who this time?!'
It took him more than thousand years to finally get what he wanted, he was finally living normally but then why is he back here again?!
'Didn't the imperial curse break off?'
'Why I am back here again then?'
Noah has watched this empire to grow up, emperor's fall and rise, the empire getting destructed before it was again written down in history as the golden civilization.
All his memories which he had forgotten after being reborn in the modern timeline also come back successfully.
He sighed heavily as he felt defeated towards fate.
'I couldn't even take out my food from the oven!'
As that thought came into his mind, Noah suddenly pauses and a smirk shows up on his face.
'Wait… does that mean I don't have to pay my rent, debts and all the other utilizes fees?'
'And… I even blast out my rented apartment which should definitely explain the reason of my death?'
'My body can't be soulless after all;'
Noah couldn't stop chuckling as he wondered the look on his renters face after he will discover the accident on his apartment.
'Serves him right!'
'That bastard would always annoy me for rent at the first day of the month despite knowing that I was a student and had no families to help me out!'
But soon he returns to his senses again and a gloomy look appears on his face as he walks away from the huge window of his room.
'But that was still better then getting your soul reborn in every generation… I am tired of living alone and miss them all so much.'
He pauses for a moment as he walks by the door of his room; right after he could use his magic powers again in this life, he choose to leave his family and start living in the magic tower.
Noah was always afraid of people, getting attached to them.
He didn't want to experience the pain of losing everyone he loved and continue to live alone.
A part of him also felt guilty as the imperial curse existed because of him.
Only if he had consoled the emperor instead of helping him to revive the saintess, then maybe he could put an end to all the tragedies.
Only if he had reached earlier and stopped the first emperor to use dark magic on himself, no- if he hadn't told the emperor about the dark magic at the first place, nothing like this would happen.
The emperor only looked good on the surface and ruled the empire perfectly, but he knew what the emperor was actually waiting for.
The first emperor divided the two huge empires into kingdoms; he made the marquise's to defend the border and kept the duke's around the central to increase the central power.
He raised his daughter perfectly so that she won't face any problem while he isn't there…
Because the longing he had for the first empress still existed on him even after years had passed.
Noah thought that the emperor had finally given up on his will to revive her, but he was wrong.
The day his daughter, the crown princess had turned 20 and he declared her as the next emperor, the first emperor used dark magic on himself.
Unfortunately not only he failed to revive her but also his soul turned into a vengeful evil spirit.
And as he was Noah's master, so Noah's sprit also existed as long as the first emperor's soul was around.
[A/N: Noah is also a descendant of the dragons like the first emperor. He had sworn life and death oath with the first emperor thus as long as the first emperor's soul existed, he continued to live.]
But the time reversal during the reign of the 34th emperor had created two different timelines.
One timeline ended with the destruction of this empire, while the other one continued till the modern timeline; people also remembered the second timeline too.
Everything was the same except the souls of the 34th emperor and the empress, as the actual ones got reborn in the modern world just like Noah.
The imperial curse also ended as the first emperor's soul disappeared in the second timeline and every emperor lived happily with their own empresses after that.
Noah died naturally as the master of the magic tower, the duke of Hertz and got reborn in the modern world with no memories like Eleanora of the past and was living normally.
But then they are suddenly backed in the first timeline again as someone again messed up with time.
[A/N: Noah doesn't know that Eleanora and Cathain are back in the past too yet.]
A long moment passes by as he kept furrowing his eyebrows while holding the doorknob with hesitation.
He has to step out if he wants to find the answers of his questions, but he is afraid.
What if he gets struck in the curse again and his immorality comes back when he finally gets attached to the people around him?
Can he really watch everyone to die before him again?
Or is it time for him to accept a new change?
…
In the carriage of Duke of Dalton~
"So, what did you two talked about?"
Eleanora feels goose bumps on her body as her father stares at her intensely and averts her gaze to think what she should say?
Alexander crosses his arms over his chest as he waits for her answer.
He doesn't even recall her ever talking with the crown prince except necessary greetings; instead he was like a non-existing fiancée in name to her.
She just thought of him as a responsibility to bear for the rest of her life and took empress lessons because she was needed to take them.
Or maybe because she was still too young to get the feelings between a man and woman that the crown prince never actually made her heart skip a beat yet.
Also she seldom interacts with people, her all attention was directed on her father after all.
The frown on his face deepens as he couldn't understand the sudden change of his daughter.
She was feeling like a complete different person to him but he likes these changes except her sudden closeness with the crown prince.
'Just what is happening?'
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[A/N: The past Eleanora mainly started to fall for the crown prince after she was saved by him from the lake; she was 12 at that time. After her father left for the border inception and she was staying at the imperial palace, she got attached to the crown prince, eventually grew obsessed with him.
Another thing to explain, Eleanora is character whose feelings can be said as obsession rather than love.
She became an insecure person after the death of her mother and grew obsessed with her father as she needed someone to hold on to because of the criticism's she had faced from the other noble families.
And then she finally found Cathain, whose extreme possessiveness used to make her feel secured like someone really cares about her.
So rather than saying the past Eleanora loved him very much, it's more reasonable to say she was obsessed with him because of his bipolar behavior towards her.
His cold and dominant but possessive personality attracted her towards him even more as that was the exact thing she was looking for to feel.
Everyone was trying to please her, get her attention; except the crown prince who had hidden his feeling because of his pride.
He was someone who can protect her and make her feel safe; unable to predict his next move as she could easily read people.
She wanted someone who can dominate her as she actually had a submissive personality.
This was why she loved the crown prince and holds on to him despite everything as he was the only one who can make her feel the feelings she wanted to feel.
Okay, I know it's not a normal personality… she is not normal and not me either; this is why I am writing it.
I am sick of poor female leads getting dominated by the powerful male leads.
I want to see a strong but submissive, Dominant but weak lead couple.
And this time, this book is R-18, as I want to write some kinky scenes... I am sick of normal romance too -_-]