“The prestige of the temple will fall to the ground.”

“They deserve it.... No, I am not talking about that now, Abella.”

Cade kissed Abella’s neck. He rubbed his face against Abella’s hair as he continued.

“There will be no more barriers to stop us. Now there will be no one who will criticize me for loving you.”

“Therefore?” Abella whispered as she wrapped her arms around Cade.

“Let’s get married, Abella.”

In the end, what he wanted to say was this. The words that had been said so far were the introduction for the present. Abella turned around and kissed Cade’s lips.

It was after a long while before Abella whispered, tickling Cade’s cheek. “Say more.”

“Marry me, Abella. Be my bride. Stop torturing me now and be my savior.” Cade pleaded. She only heard these words after repeating two lives. Abella nodded her head with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

“Okay.”

“I love you, Abella.”

“I love you too, Cade.”

Cade rolled on her bed, hugging Abella.

“Ah! Finally!”

He then burst out exclaiming and laughed. This was what he has been looking forward to for a long time.

“When do you want it?”

“I like spring.”

“Okay, then next spring.”

“I want to wear a yellow wedding dress.”

“That’s not allowed. It’s been a long time dream of me to see you in a white wedding dress. Give it up.”

Abella looked at Cade with a smirk and nodded her head. As if she had done a great favor for him.

“Okay. You can do it however you like. And I don’t want to have a wedding in a temple.”

“I agree with that.”

Not knowing how time flew by, they exchanged stories about the marriage. Abella bit her lip, hiding her tickling inside. Abella would finally become the bride of the man she loved. She didn’t know how long she could be with Cade.

Skellus said she wouldn’t be given too much time. She will surely pay her price for turning back time. Nevertheless, Abella wanted to live with Cade, even if she only had one day to live.

Abella burrowed into Cade’s arms.

His scent was infused on her. She also liked this. It was when Abella was about to close her weary eyes.

“Ack! Duke!”

“Abella!!”

Abella rose to her feet with a wide awake face away from her tiredness. It was the same with Cade.

“I have to open the door right now!”

“Duke! Wait, wait.... !”

It sounded as if the maids taking care of Abella were trying to stop the duke with all their might. Duke Amerigo cried like a roar.

“It must have been a male voice! Even I heard that while walking in the garden!!”

It was the howl of a wounded beast. Abella and Cade made eye contact. Cade rolled down from the bed and headed straight to the balcony. Abella quickly cleared the trail of his stay. She then looked for a book in the guise of a virtuous daughter.

The duke opened the door and came in and questioned her several times with a suspicious face, but Abella naturally pulled it off.

With a face as if the world had collapsed, the duke gave Abella a full speech about how dangerous men were. Abella burst out a happy laugh in front of him, who was serious.

“For God’s sake, Abella.”

“But, it’s funny. Father, I am an adult!”

“You will always be my baby. Whoo.... Anyway, I’m glad nothing happened.”

The duke stroked Abella’s hair and left the room. Inwardly, he vowed to make a decision on that punk Emperor.

*

Cade succeeded in reforming the temple. The temple no longer condemned Skellus as a heretic and no longer referred to children born on the day of Skellus as being cursed.

The people of the Empire who watched the reformation of the temple threw stones at the temple and poured out abusive language. They were the ones who lost loved ones because of politics. After the faith was broken, all that was left was a grave stained with tears.

So Abella became free.

That day, Duke Amerigo forgot his appearance and embraced Abella and burst into tears. He protected his daughter, who he had almost lost.

Abella had regained normalcy. And she got a new title.

‘A symbol of good fortune surviving adversity.’

‘The Guardian of Amerigo.’

‘The savior of shameful history.’

Those were unfamiliar names. She was a villainess and a devil, and in an instant, she became a person who saved the country’s disgrace. They were acquired because she survived the stained history. The people who pointed fingers at her took pity on Abella.

Abella endured the long pain because of what she had to do.