Chapter 1 

"Your highness, Claudette. the king is asking for your presence."

announced my personal maid, as she knocks on my chamber's door. 

Laying down on the cold marble floor, I wipe the blood off my left wrist that has new self-inflicted scars. Quickly, I pull down the thin laced sleeve of my elegant dress. 

"Tell him I'll be right there." 

I say, my voice soft and melodic. I hear her walking away and I stand up feeling like crap. 

As I walk down the halls, I feel off. the walls that I didn't grow up to, portraits of me that isn't my own face, and people that I don't even know. It all makes me feel alone in this one of a hell world. 

I arrive in front of my father's office door. my heart beating irregularly and I'm feeling nervous. 

I knock three times. *KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.*

As I walk inside the office, my body instinctively feeling the invisible thread of pressure.

"You're here, dear." he says, his tone quiet and demanding authority. 

I shift uncomfortably under his cold gaze. 

"I have found a worthy husband for you."

"You will do this for us, right? because you love your family..." he continues. 

A deep and low voice cuts me off just as I was about to respond. 

"My dear sister... are you truly happy with this?" It was my older brother, Ulyseus.

I was silent for a moment until I flash a bright and pretty smile. 

"Of course, brother!" I say cheerfully. 

Ulyseus lets out a low soft chuckle as he approaches and wraps an arm around my waist. 

"Good girl" he whispers to my ear, making me shudder subtly. 

***

I thought that my life would be better when I crash into a truck while I was driving my car. I thought that this dumb, tiresome life will finally come to an end and I could FINALLY rest. But as always, I was wrong. I reincarnated as a princess in an era I wasn't even familiar with, and it was a novel that I once read years ago, and, to make my life even more worse than it already is, I'm being forced to survive a life that was just as cruel as my past life. What the hell did I do wrong for God to hate me like this? 

Even if I were to be reincarnated as a princess, couldn't it be at least have a decent life? 

"Mmph.." 

I can feel my body go numb and more calmer as I let out a soft and quiet hiss. feeling the cold and metal blade against my skin. I always resort to self-harm whenever something happens and I want to feel more calmer and controlled. Nobody has noticed. yet. 

Out of all the things I could've bring into this life, it just has to be my habit of self-harm. Before I became this Claudette Florence Se Alitzel--- I was an adopted daughter of a wealthy family in Korea. 

Being adopted and once coming from a poor background, I knew nothing about the wealthy life or how things worked around politics. I didn't know much Korean, so my parents hired a tutor for me. I studied well, ate well, and I treated people well. In the family, I had one older brother. I thought he was a nice person and nothing like my monstrous father, but I thought wrong. 

Although treated well outside, the inside of my family home was all chaos. everyone was always fighting over something new each day and I was always the target of my father. The only person I had was my older brother. He treated me well and tended my wounds when I was hurt by my father's beatings. 

Everything was going well. until I had come back with a low score on an exam. That day, I saw my older brother differently. He was just the same as my father.  In a blink of an eye, I was already beaten badly by him. I could barely open my eyes. 

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After that incident, I played the role of the cheerful, obedient, and innocent daughter. A way to survive until I finally get my hands on my own house and live far away from this shitty family. 

That did happen. I got to live on my own, but it didn't last long. After the car incident, I wake up and I found myself as Claudette Florence Se Alitzel. A princess of a novel I once read. She was the only daughter of the southern king. A story about two kingdoms that wants everybody to unite and have a sense of teamwork. I never finished the side story, but what I do know is that, I will die at the hands of my husband. 

Claudette randomly went crazy like a madman and killed the male lead's sister and best friend. It was as if she was someone new. Her husband, Ozias Wellington De Salvatore. was the only son of the northern kingdom and is the grand duke. Having to witness his mother get killed protecting him, he suddenly went cold after that. In the novel, he didn't like Claudette. He liked his sister's best friend, Kirim La Katz. Everyone in the northern kingdom liked Kirim and thought that she and Ozias would be the future queen of the northern kingdom, until Claudette arrived. 

Claudette was rude to everyone, including Ozias' sister. demanding Kirim and Ozias' sister, Lilian. she had them over her thighs like a dog, demanding that she has to be followed with no exception because she's to be the future queen. 

Claudette poisons Lilian. Leading to Ozias' sisters death. Ozias went crazy because not so long after that, his best friend dies at the hands of Claudette. At the end, Ozias goes out to find his wife and Claudette ends up dying with the hands of her husband. 

A fact that I do remember is that, when she first arrived to the North, she had countless of rumors circling around her. be it that she was supposedly the South's whore princess, or that one rumor that she kisses her brother. But one good rumor is that she's the renowned angel of the southern kingdom---it was just a stupid act of the OG Claudette. Although I would say that some rumors were... true.

***

I hear someone walk inside my chambers and I quickly pull down my dress' sleeves. It was none other than my older brother, Ulyseus. I quickly flash a bright and cheerful smile. 

"Older brother..." I say acting like a pouty and a sad child. 

"My dear, Florence.." He says. his lips curl to a affectionate smile and almost taunting. He always calls me by my middle name, and I hate it.

I hate it so much. 

"Why do you look sad, Florence?"

"I... I just don't wanna be separated from brother..." I say in response, looking at him like a pitiful and vulnerable woman.

I see that Ulyseus slightly freezes and he lets out a soft chuckle, reaching out and gently brushing his palm against my cheek. 

"I'm glad that the prettiest woman alive cares for me." 

"Of course, brother! I love you so much..." 

"Then, would Florence share another secret between her big brother?"

Before I could even respond, he had already leaned in and captured my lips in a passionate kiss. I felt like I could throw up everything I ate right here and there. he gently pushes me back to the chair tilting my head up as he continues his assault. 

I hate it.

I hate this feeling.