IHTMP 02

I’ll Change My Husband First with an Abduction Marriage – Chapter : 02

Evangeline Ruth.

She was strange from the very beginning.
“Please take care of me from now on, sister-in-law.”
Even the way she called me “sister-in-law” didn’t fit.

They said she was practically no different from my husband’s cousin, but she wasn’t a real cousin either, was she?
‘In the end, those two ended up having an affair.’
Yeah.

Up to this point, I could have dismissed it as her being just a strange adulteress with flowers in her head.

But there were one or two things that made no sense.

Everything was far too easy for her.

Not only my husband’s love.

A promising chief priest, the continent’s strongest knight, the master of the mage tower, a powerhouse of the underworld, a media tycoon, and so on.

Every outstanding figure in this world became hers.

As she collected their help and devotion as if it were only natural.

Evangeline finally became the Crown Princess.

In that process, I was nothing but an obstacle blocking the seat she was supposed to take, cluelessly.

I could only be removed in the most miserable way.

In each of the past three lives, every time.

And I learned the reason only at the very last moment.

Through Evangeline’s confession.
“Now I’m the real female lead.”
All my suffering had been a process for the possessed one to steal my place.

Evangeline clearly spoke in ‘Korean.’

Certain that I would understand.
‘I never told anyone that I had memories of a past life.’
That I lived and died in Korea under the name ‘Yushina,’ and then was reborn in this world.

Only now could I be certain.

Of why Evangeline got everything so easily, as if she knew the future.
‘Because she was a possessor who had read the original story.’
And according to what she said, the protagonist of this world—that is, the ‘original story’…….

Was me.

Honestly, I didn’t care about that ‘female lead’ position Evangeline talked about.

Because I didn’t even know I’d been reborn into the world inside a book.

My husband Ludwig and the others, the position of Crown Princess, wealth and glory—if they wanted it, they could have it.

If, when I ran away in the second or third life, she had just let me go…….

And if she hadn’t killed the few precious people I had in such a miserable way…….

Then maybe I wouldn’t have made up my mind this ruthlessly.

But.
‘This time, I’ll take everything from her.’
Wasn’t that to say that everything she held in her hands and laughed over had actually been mine?

Grit—my teeth ground together.

That woman’s face, sneering just before my head was cut off, was vivid before my eyes.

What’s mine.

This world.
‘I’ll take it back.

Every last bit of it!’
But there was one serious problem.
‘I don’t know that original story.

I’ve never read it!’
If I had, I would have known long ago.
I was born and raised in this world for nineteen years, and after that I experienced regression three times.

Suddenly, a thought struck my head like lightning.
‘Could this be the reason I regressed three times?’
I was reborn into this world with the memories of a Korean.

That would probably match the ‘original story.’
‘Because the possessor knew I could understand Korean.’
But I don’t know the contents of the ‘original story.’

That is a clear weakness.

Instead, there was something else I had.
‘Knowledge of the future gained through regression!’
During the past three lives, I never felt that Evangeline recognized the regressions.

Then it meant that only I had the memories from the regressions.

If Evangeline had knowledge of the original story, I had information gained through regression.

And all of it… it was as good as Evangeline had told it to me.
‘I’ll use it and pay her back for everything!’
With that resolve, I sprang up from the bed.

And.
“Ah!”
My vision went black and I collapsed right back down.
‘I thought I regressed again!’
Thankfully, I hadn’t died again.

It seemed I’d stood up too suddenly and briefly fainted from anemia.

Come to think of it, at this time I was on an extreme diet ahead of the wedding.

A fresh surge of rage rose up.
“This X-eating wedding!”
Spitting out a curse, I pulled the ring from my left ring finger and threw it to the floor.

Maybe because a thick carpet covered the floor, not even a small sound rang out.

I knew what day it was today.

The day before the wedding.

The fact that the wedding ring was on my finger was proof.

In my first life, I had fallen asleep smiling brightly, unaware of the future, with this ring on.

And the next day, as planned, I held a lavish and splendid wedding.

And the result was…….
‘It was horrible!

I got sucked dry, used, had the Crown Princess position stolen, and died as a traitor!’
As you can tell from my third death, all three times the outcome was the same.

The process became more complicated than the first life and there were many changes, though.

There were many people besides Evangeline that I resented and needed to take revenge on.

Of course, the first among them was ‘him.’

In every life, my husband—and a bastard of an enemy who used me and drove me to death.
‘Damn Ludwig!’
The current emperor’s beloved nephew.

A dog X-bastard who drained my family dry, seized even the position of Crown Prince, and then threw me away!
‘No, no.

Comparing him to that makes the puppies pitiful.’
Puppies are cute, kind, warm, and fluffy.

Comparing them to Ludwig, who is more horrible than non-burnable trash—no, rotten food waste, is far too unfair.
‘Sorry, puppies.’
After taking a moment to apologize to all the cute little furballs in the world, I snapped my head up.

This wasn’t the time to be like this.

Because the time left was too short.
‘The wedding is tomorrow.’
Look at that dazzling wedding dress draped on the torso in front of the mirror.

It was like a symbol of the miserable future waiting for me.
‘Come to think of it… that was chosen by that possessor, too.’
“On sister-in-law’s complexion and figure, I think this design is perfect.

Please take good care of my brother.”
That’s right.

I had stupidly worn a dress chosen by my husband’s mistress and gotten married.

Three times!

Of course, the only time I didn’t know was the first, and for the other two, it didn’t matter even if I hated it.
‘Ugh!

Aaagh!

My dark history!’
My vision burned red.

I took a paper knife out of the desk drawer and walked up to the dress.

Then I tore the hem and the veil to shreds.
“Ha.

That feels good.”
Well, tearing up a dress won’t stop tomorrow’s wedding anyway.

But I wanted to vent at least a little.
‘This is the first time I’ve ever torn a wedding dress!’
Even though it’s my fourth run at life.

Now that I’d let off some steam.

I began to think as hard as I could.

First, I picked up the wedding ring I’d thrown earlier and checked it.
‘As I thought… all the light is gone.’
This ring had three purple diamonds set into it.

One of the treasures passed down in the imperial family, said to have been personally bestowed by the emperor for the marriage of his beloved nephew.

Every time I regressed, I returned to the night before the wedding, lying on the bed with this ring on.
‘And each time I regressed, the light disappeared from the ring’s gems.’
This strange light was visible only to my eyes.
‘As if it’s telling me that the chances I was given are disappearing one by one.’
And now, no mysterious light could be seen in this ring.

Even to my eyes, it was just an ordinary ring.

There was only one thing that meant.
‘My chances to regress are all used up.’
If the ring’s power truly sent me back into the past, then this is the last time.

During the past three lives, in my own way, I tried all sorts of efforts and attempts.
‘And all of them failed.’
But.
‘This time is different.

Because now I know the true identity of the enemy.’
Even so, there was one thing I lacked right now.
‘An ally.

And it has to be a very powerful ally.’
Just like how the possessor has Ludwig at her side.

And how she enthralls and gathers countless capable people and reigns as the queen of high society.

If this chance is the last one anyway…….
‘Maybe I need an extreme prescription.’
Poison against poison.

A villain against a villain… no, a madman even more insane than that!

There was only one person I could think of.

Under crimson moonlight, drenched in blood, wearing a maddened smile.

And yet so beautiful that I couldn’t help but be bewitched and have my gaze stolen…….
‘Crown Prince Arpad.’
He was also someone who, in the past three lives, never once fell into the possessor’s hands.
‘Of course, because he died before that happened.’
But this felt like a very important hint to me.