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Villainess' Revision ~Farewell, My Beloved~

Description: “I have found my true love! I am breaking off my engagement to a woman with an ugly heart like yours!”

It was His Highness, the Crown Prince of this country, who said that to me at a dance party in the royal palace.
He, who has been in love with me ever since we got engaged at a young age, has apparently found true love in a Viscount’s daughter whom he had been in rumors with lately.

That's enough. Because His Highness has broken off our engagement, I cannot simply return home. If I die like this, will he remember me at least a little?

Those were my thoughts when I threw myself off the balcony in the royal palace.

But why did I wake up back at the age of five, just before I met him?
His Highness, the Crown Prince, whom I loved so much. This time, I will refuse to be engaged to you again.

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The Night of the Broken Engagement
Tonight, there was a dance party held in the royal palace.

I was standing at the entrance in a daze, waiting for my fiancé, who was supposed to escort me.

The truth is, I already know. I know that my fiancé will not come to get me even if I wait here.
He is probably already at the venue with the rumored Viscount's daughter.

When I was five years old, my father, a Duke, took me to the royal palace where I met His Highness for the first time.
He fell in love with me at first sight and I became his fiancée.

Eleven years have passed since then.
It wasn't love at first sight for me, but little by little I began to fall in love with him.
He was the Crown Prince, and a beautiful man to behold, but I was also attracted to him because he took good care of me and was always kind to me.

A few months after he entered the academy, strange rumors began to circulate.

He was in close contact with a Viscount's daughter.

“No way”, I thought. He might have been the Crown Prince, but he was also a man who was kind to everyone. I'm sure that's why the rumor started.

However.

I also began to see him around with the rumored Viscount’s daughter.

I tried to advise him casually, but he didn't listen to me at all, and he began to distance himself from me.

He was the Crown Prince.
I thought he was just exhausted from everything. I decided to think that he just wanted to be free and unencumbered for a little while he was in the academy.

I was sure he would come back to me. That's what I thought, so I told His Majesty the King, the Queen, my father, and my mother that it was nothing with a smile on my face.

But.

“A woman with an ugly heart like you is not worthy to be the Crown Princess! I have been awakened to true love! I’m breaking off my engagement to you!”

He shouted this in the middle of the dance party with the Viscount's daughter standing beside him.

Ugly heart… you say?
It seems that I wasn’t his true love for the past eleven years he spent getting closer to me.

Your Highness. What was the point of the eleven years we spent together then?

"Very well. I accept your proposal.”

“I don't want to see your face ever again. Get out of my country!”

I didn’t reply to His Highness's words, but curtsied to him and walked away from his presence.
The stares of the people around were piercing, but I no longer felt any pain.

Exile?
It would be a disgrace to the Duke if any of his daughters were subjected to such a thing.
I cannot even return home anymore. Father, Mother, I'm sorry for being an unfilial daughter.

I stepped onto an unpopulated balcony.
This was the place in the palace I have been frequently visiting for the past eleven years.
It's easy to see which areas are uninhabited from up here.

Your Highness.
Eleven years. You asked for my hand in engagement, saying it was love at first sight, and many things happened since then.
When I, when I die...
I wonder if you will remember me at least for a while in your heart?

Without hesitation, I threw myself off the balcony.

Farewell. My beloved prince.

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This is just a teaser, I'm not sure whether I will be continuing this novel yet.