Resetting Lady - Chapter 214

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Karen grabbed Guiz’s weakened hand. The knot that had been tied had somehow come loose. It had slipped off when Guiz grabbed his head and struck downward.

She wanted to blow his head off with a gun right then and there, but Karen held back. She didn’t have a gun right now. For now, she should only think about surviving. She forced her unwilling lips to curl upward.

“Your Majesty is my husband, after all.”

“What utter nonsense you’re spouting.”

“I hear that a lot.”

Guiz swatted her hand away as if she was talking rubbish. His tone suggested she should stop her tricks.

“What are you, some kind of saint? Virgin birth? Don’t make me laugh.”

But it’s true.

Why don’t you have the temple do a blood test or something.

Karen grumbled inwardly, thinking about the bloodline characteristics that weren’t properly known because they were passed down through the maternal line. If women rather than men had led the family, they might have reached the truth much faster.

Prince Guiz also seemed a bit confused as he recalled his conversation with Catherine, wondering if there wasn’t some corner of truth to it after all.

“Crazy talk.”

“…”

Though he hadn’t completely come around. Karen didn’t speak at length and simply kept her mouth shut, smiling meaningfully. Prince Guiz seemed displeased with such behavior, but he also didn’t seem in the mood to immediately cut Karen’s throat.

“It’s amusing but too absurd, so it kills the fun. Husband, indeed. Ha, haha… Really not funny at all. I’m seeing you for the first time now.”

“Your Majesty is seeing me for the first time in this life, but we definitely met in the previous life. I’m living a life of rebirth. Didn’t Mother tell you? Did Mother really look her age to you?”

“I don’t believe such preposterous nonsense.”

“I know.”

But it was enough to capture Prince Guiz’s interest. Karen continued to ramble on.

“I also know that Prince Louis is not Your Majesty’s child.”

“Right, I don’t have that ability. Did Catherine tell you?”

“No, Mother never said such things.”

Catherine had left her nothing. Nothing at all. Not even memories. Catherine might have learned more hints or life skills from her mother or ancestors, but Karen had to live entirely on her own strength.

But there was something she had learned during those years – how to lie.

Prince Guiz had dismissed everyone including servants, leaving only Karen behind to kill her, but this meant there was no one to stop Karen’s nonsense and make her restrain herself, forcing him to focus on her. That was enough.

She could survive with her silver tongue. Even if he called it preposterous nonsense, he couldn’t cut off her words and had no choice but to focus. This issue was his most sensitive point.

Guiz still hadn’t escaped Catherine’s trauma. He looked down on Karen, calling her merely Catherine’s shadow, yet couldn’t kill her at crucial moments.

“Mother left Your Majesty because she had a child from my father. Even if she remained Your Majesty’s mistress, she had to spend her wedding night with Father. I was already conceived that day.”

“But she never came back to me after that. She didn’t return even after giving birth to you.”

Prince Guiz spoke with a distorted face. But this was when she needed to push further. With words he would like to hear.

“How could she return? Carrying another man’s child! How can Your Majesty be so indifferent! How could a woman do such a thing to the man she loves!”

Mother, Father, I’m sorry. But I need to survive too, don’t I.

Karen apologized to her parents inwardly.

“I heard from Mother about Your Majesty’s dark side, your suffering… So from a very young age, I wanted to meet Your Majesty.”

With a pitiful voice, even shedding real tears.

“In the previous life too, Your Majesty kidnapped me and showed me this room. But eventually, Your Majesty and I fell in love.”

“…Ha…”

His face showed disbelief, but Karen stubbornly pushed forward with that storyline.

“Your Majesty, you simply haven’t met a proper doctor yet. If Your Majesty meets a suitable doctor and heals your body, you will truly be able to have children. And the child in this belly is truly Your Majesty’s child. At that time, Your Majesty met a proper doctor and embraced me afterward.”

“Your explanation seems to have more than one or two holes, but I’ll let it pass for now. Then why did you die again and end up here?”

“I died without being able to give birth. I live repeatedly, and this life can only end when I bear a child. But in the previous life, I conceived Your Majesty’s child and came back to life while pregnant.”

“…Haha.”

“Your Majesty.”

You’re really trying hard not to die.

Prince Guiz looked down at Karen speaking pitifully with cold eyes, thinking such thoughts. The talk of living again was absurd enough, yet this woman he’d never known claimed to be pregnant with his child. Even toward a man without reproductive ability, a seedless man.

“The child in my belly is definitely Your Majesty’s child. The prince in the previous life received treatment and became healthy. If you have doubts, call that doctor again for treatment. In a few months, Your Majesty will know my words aren’t lies. Your true child will be born. Once born, you’ll immediately be certain this child is yours.”

Her belly wasn’t even showing anyway. It would take quite a while for a child to be born. Usually ten months, they say. Even a few months would be good. It was enough just to buy time.

And Prince Guiz was contemplating.

“…Haha.”

Prince Guiz couldn’t stop the laughter that leaked out from sheer disbelief. If anyone else had spouted such crazy talk, he would have immediately cut off their limbs and thrown them as dog food. Because it was tantamount to mocking him.

But the fact that the one spouting this crazy talk was Catherine’s daughter, and her appearance perfectly matched his tastes, kept holding him back.

“Your Majesty, when the child is born, you’ll know. You’ll know the moment you see it. Last time, we succeeded with such difficulty. To meet again like this – we must truly be destined.”

Prince Guiz stood up. Listening to such lengthy nonsense, words seemingly spewed out desperately to survive, made him feel like his own head would go strange. Guiz turned around.

He wanted to think. And at the same time, he wanted to immediately stop thinking and shut that woman’s mouth. But even so, he wanted to keep listening. Even while dismissing it as nonsense, her words were exactly what he had desperately wanted, making him continue to listen.

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The queen he had married was now a dim person he couldn’t even remember. At first, he had scorned that queen as barren and thought he had found grounds for divorce.

But after embracing countless women afterward and not one becoming pregnant, he realized he was impotent. It was miserable. An emotion he had never felt once in his life.

When news finally came that a child had been conceived, it was children that women had borne after sleeping with other men. Of course, Guiz never let such women live, but that didn’t make the miserable feeling disappear.

And when his younger brother, born by the king’s mistress, was finally given to him as his child, he felt anger beyond misery.

His younger brother, Prince Louis, would someday take his position.

It was utterly unpleasant. But that would happen after his own death. Since princes with children tend to receive the throne sooner, Guiz endured it. For stable succession to the throne.

‘…Why?’

However, Father was reluctant to abdicate.

Guiz grew impatient. Father wouldn’t pass the throne to him despite being sickly. Prince Guiz tried to fill key government positions with his own people, but that wasn’t as easy as expected either. Since the current king hadn’t stepped down, they had no reason to step down either.

Guiz belatedly realized that the king was maneuvering to pass the throne directly to Louis instead of him. From the beginning, his brother was tantamount to proof that he himself was problematic. Now that brother was trying to take his position directly.

Guiz only looked for an excuse to cut off Louis’s head.

If he had his way, he wanted to make him into one of the decorative pieces hanging on the wall right away. His favorite was women who had just reached adulthood, so Louis didn’t match his tastes, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t hang him up.

There was the rarity of being his blood relative, and above all, killing and displaying something that only hindered his path would put his mind at ease.

But putting that thought into practice wasn’t easy. Before he knew it, Louis was gradually growing up, and not only Guiz but Louis also always had escort knights and maids with him. Those loyal to the king were loyal to Louis, not Guiz.

Guiz became anxious and gradually began to immerse himself in his own hobbies. It was the only means to relieve his frustration. Though it was a hobby the world couldn’t tolerate, he couldn’t stop what he had already started. And he never would.

However, even that was becoming difficult to find materials for lately, so Guiz’s frustration remained unexpressed and continued to accumulate.

On such a day, truly premium material obtained after a long time.

Guiz was utterly satisfied the moment he saw it. People really couldn’t live by work alone. One had to enrich life with appropriate hobbies.

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