Chapter 15

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No, I wouldn’t have.

The only reason why I tried to avoid the Empress was because she killed the “original Charlize”, but I wasn’t the original Charlize.

The Empress could be the same.

It was as if I was someone who was wrapped up in their prejudice and couldn’t see the truth.

‘…maybe it was my fault.’

I bit my lips in shame.

“And as I spent time with you…I discovered something.”

“What?”

“Your eyes, they were too mature for your age.”

She paused. Eventually, the Empress, who seemed to be having a hard time choosing her words, gave out a long and deep sigh.

“It was the look of someone who seemed to have given up on everything. It was similar to myself, so that’s why you intrigued me even more.”

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The look of someone losing hope.

I knew what the Empress meant.

I struggled to not get onto the path the original novel had set up for me.

I endured the bullying from the maids-in-training, thinking that it was alright as long as I survived.

But inside of me, the Empress saw herself.