IHTMP 01

I’ll Change My Husband First with an Abduction Marriage- Chapter : 01

A lovely girl with pink hair spoke provocatively.

She had clearly come because she had something to commission.

But no one could have anticipated such an absurd demand would come flying out.

No, this couldn’t be called a commission or a request.

It was pure blackmail.

Toward a sturdy man a head and a half taller than her.

So the person who heard this absurd statement voiced the thought that came to mind.
“Am I hearing things?”
“I’ll even specify the time and place.

Just before noon tomorrow, when the carriage carrying me passes through the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace, carry out the abduction marriage there.”
“You want me to carry out an abduction marriage with you in that crowded plaza?”
“Yes!

Exactly!

You understood perfectly well!”
The girl nodded, her mysterious violet eyes sparkling.

Her gestures looked terribly excited.

She didn’t look like a madwoman who would make such a nonsensical threat, either.

The man being threatened pressed his temples as if he had a headache.
“You do realize what you’re saying right now, don’t you?”
“It can’t end with kidnapping alone.

You mustn’t forget to sign the marriage contract right away, and even get it notarized at the temple!”
The conversation wasn’t going anywhere.
“…As I thought, you’re not in your right mind.”
“And!

Most importantly!

Everyone has to be told that I had no say in any of the process!”
Gerald, the Mercenary King, the owner of this hideout and the victim being threatened, let out a sigh.

Then he rang the bell to call a subordinate waiting outside.
“Drag this crazy woman out right……!”
Snatch!

But surprisingly, the woman was a beat faster.

She practically threw herself at Gerald, clinging to him and stopping him from shaking the bell.

She was an unpredictable woman.
“You have no choice but to listen to me.”
“Unless I’m insane, there’s no way I’m doing that.”
Then the woman replied with a confident smile.
“Then you’ll be insane soon.

No, you’ll have to go insane.”
Her voice sounded like a prophecy.

This little woman let her cotton-candy-sweet hair sway, smiling with utter innocence and wickedness.

She issued the order once more.
“Abduct me.”
And in a whisper, she dropped a bomb.
“If you don’t, you’ll die.”
“…!”
At that, the Mercenary King even missed the timing to get angry.

The woman’s hand holding his was lighter than a feather, and her skin was as soft as milk—it seemed it might be wounded just by brushing against rough cloth.

She didn’t suit the role of someone making such threats.

The Mercenary King scoffed at her.
“You don’t look like you have the ability to kill me.”
And just as he was about to shake off that slender, soft hand.

The woman’s voice, sharper than any blade, stabbed into the man’s very core.
“If you don’t accept my proposal, everyone will learn that the Mercenary King Gerald’s true identity is His Highness Crown Prince Arpad.”
The scoff that had been on the man’s face vanished completely.

Tension rose in its place.

The woman grinned.
“It’ll get very interesting, especially if His Majesty the Emperor finds out, won’t it?”
‘So it’s not just a bluff.’
This woman was a real threat.

A sharp blade hanging over Arpad’s nape.

So the man decided to take off his mask.

He didn’t know how it happened, but this woman already knew his identity.

Making excuses or insisting otherwise here would have no meaning at all.

There were only two paths he could choose.

Accept this woman’s threat, or else…….
“Even if you kill me right here, you won’t be able to silence it.”
“…What?”
The woman formed that sharp smile again.
“If I don’t return within the set time, a letter containing your secret will be sent to the Imperial Palace.”
“…Hah.”
It was enough to make him laugh out of sheer disbelief.

Of course, it wasn’t a very pleasant laugh.

Arpad let out a short, hollow laugh, then grabbed the woman by the back of the neck.

He hadn’t even used much strength, but her toes lifted off the ground.
“Ah!”
She was dragged along far too easily and trivially for someone who had just made such brazen, insane threats.

To the point that Arpad was the one more flustered.
“You mean it.”
“That’s right.

I’m making this commission in earnest.”
“More like blackmail disguised as one.”
Even though she was restrained by the back of the neck, the woman wasn’t shaken at all.

Even the Emperor himself couldn’t keep such composure in front of him, after all.

Arpad pulled the woman’s face right up to his, asking in a tone like a beast’s growl.
“So why exactly do I have to listen to you telling me to abduct the bride of my younger cousin, whose wedding is tomorrow?”
The woman’s violet eyes trembled.
“You… know who I am?”
“Of course.

Lady Hylia Delphine, the duke’s daughter who is set to become my cousin’s wife tomorrow.”
At that, the girl called Hylia broke into a broad smile.
“What a relief.

That means we won’t have to waste time with me explaining my personal details.”
“Then I suppose I’ll need to hear a different explanation.”
“A different explanation?”
“Not the threat that you’ll tell the Emperor my secret—what proper benefit do I get out of this?”
“Benefit?”
“Right. Otherwise, there’d be no need to use the word ‘commission.’”
The woman smiled with a sense of victory.

Her choice had been right.

The Crown Prince, whose crimson eyes gleamed with madness, had a keen mind, contrary to the rumors.

Keen enough to catch the hidden meaning in a single word.

Hylia declared confidently.
“In return, I can ensure Your Highness ascends the throne safely without going mad.”
And Crown Prince Arpad realized he had been caught in a trap he could not escape.

Because that ‘price’ was something Arpad could never refuse.

Chapter 1.

In fact, I was the original female lead
“Goodbye.

Miss heroine of the original story.

Now everything you have is all mine.

Don’t worry.

I’ll treasure it all dearly.”
“…What?”
“So die without worry.”
They were utterly shocking words.
‘And besides, she’s speaking Korean right now?

How……?’
But before all of that could even fully sink in.

The guillotine’s blade struck down on my neck.

The shock shook the world, and soon my consciousness blurred.
“I wondered why I’d possessed such an awkward, in-between body, but it was all for this moment in the end…….”
Even then, I was able to hear one last line.
“Ahaha!

Now I’m the real female lead.”
And then, darkness.
* * *
“!”
When I opened my eyes again, only one thing came to mind.
“XX!”
I spewed out filthy curses I could never have imagined in my first life.

Once more.
“XXX!”
The first curse was for the situation itself.

But the second was different.

Aimed at a very specific target.

At the one who had said those shocking words just before my third death.

The woman who had taken everything from me over the last three lives.

Approaching me while pretending to be kind and close, she always became my husband’s mistress.

In the end, she framed me for adultery and treason and had me executed.

Only now, foolishly, did I learn that woman’s true identity.
‘That woman—she’d possessed someone?!’
Belatedly, every question was answered.

The reason she had stubbornly tormented me and tried to take everything I had.
“Goodbye.

Miss heroine of the original story.”
Because I was the true heroine of ‘this world’.

Romance, fantasy,