‘Where am I...? That’s my face in the mirror but… why do I look so young?! Have I…gone back in the PAST?!?!’ Apate Warhurst, the oldest daughter of Baron Dalbright, is the villainess of the light novel, The Duke Loves Me. She fell in love with Theodore , marquis of Dalhurst and in line to be the Duke of Beachton, the very first time she met him and put everything on the line to win his affections, even her morals. Alas, the author had other plans for she gets brutally slain by Theodore’s older brother, Maximillian, while Theodore watches her in disdain, arms around his love, Amelia-known as the fairest rose of Beachton. As Maximillian’s sword pierces Apate’s heart and she feels her soul leave her body, her eyes close. The next time they open, she is…alive! And she has gone back seven years in the past! She has been granted a second chance at life! This time, she vows to herself, will be different. In this life, she vows to herself, she will not love the duke anymore.