Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90 - Light And Shadow>
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112 - The Morning Comes>
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118 - After The Storm
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132 -
Chapter 133
Chapter 134 - Epilogue 1.3
Chapter 135 - Epilogue 2.1: Traces Of Life
Chapter 136
Chapter 137 - Epilogue 2.3
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141 - Epilogue 4.1: Ever After>
Chapter 142 - Epilogue 4.2
Chapter 143 - Epilogue 4.3
Chapter 144 - Epilogue 5.1>
Chapter 145 - Epilogue 5.2
Chapter 146 - The Most Romantic Weekend>
Chapter 147 - Short Stories 1.2
Chapter 148 -
Chapter 149 -
Chapter 150 -
Chapter 151 -
Chapter 152 -
Chapter 153 -
Chapter 154 - Short Stories 3.1: Unexpected Things Happen>
Chapter 155 - Short Stories 3.2>
Chapter 156 -
Chapter 157 -
Chapter 158 -
Chapter 159 -
Chapter 160 -
Chapter 161 - Short Stories 5.1: The Man Behind The Mask>
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164 -
Chapter 165 -
Chapter 166
Chapter 167 - Short Stories 6.2
Chapter 168 - Short Stories 6.3
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189 (End)
Categories Genre: All, Completed, Fantasy Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 189
Estimated words: 290059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1450(@200wpm)___ 1160(@250wpm)___ 967(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 290059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1450(@200wpm)___ 1160(@250wpm)___ 967(@300wpm)
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Yulia looked down at the floor. After thinking for a few minutes, she finally raised her head. Her eyes were shining and confident.
“On this land, a woman cannot simply be herself.”
“…”
“A woman lives as someone’s daughter, wife, and eventually a mother. If I follow this route, there will be no room for me to live as ‘Yulia.'”
I finally understood.
I knew there wouldn’t be many people who would appreciate Yulia’s ideals. Even in the 21st century Korea, women were pressured to live as a wife and a mother, and it was even worse in this world.
“In a marriage, I may end up unhappy like my mother or happy like my aunt, but it’s not a matter of happiness to me. I just… don’t want to live as an extension of someone else.”
It was such a modern way of thinking. Even in Korea, this was not something everyone could accept as a norm. Here, I could see that Yulia would be seen as an irrational woman.
“Yulia…”
Yulia murmured bitterly, “Your highness has no idea what it meant for me to hear your offer of a maid position.”
In this world, living as a single woman was almost impossible. A woman usually couldn’t possess wealth. She had to be married and that was the end of the story. If her husband died, she often remarried. By doing so, everything belonged to men.
Being my maid was one of the very few ways a woman could legally become independent. Most maids wanted to serve the royal family because it meant better marriage prospect, but to Yulia, this was a career.
I took Yulia’s hands.
“I’m sorry, Yulia.”
“Pardon?” Yulia’s eyes widened. “Why are you apologizing to me, your highness?”
“I planned your life without even asking you. I didn’t consider what you may want and how you may feel. I was incredibly inconsiderate and I’m sorry.”
Yulia smiled thankfully. “See? I was right. Your highness is a kind and warm person. There is no need for you to apologize.”
I shook my head. “No, whether you accept my apology or not, I need to do it. I should have known better.”
I meant what I said. I had made so many mistakes last night, and I had to make amends.
“I’m sorry, Yulia.”
She held my hand tightly.
“… So you understand and accept how I want to live my life.” When I nodded, Yulia murmured, “I never imagined there would be someone who would… understand me. Even my sister and my aunt… they thought I was being unreasonable. They told me I was being silly because I was too young to know better.”
“Being a wife and a mother isn’t the only way for a woman to be happy.”
Yulia’s eyes filled with tears at my statement.
“You are the first and only person who ever said that to me…” Her voice trembled.
On this day, we were able to become genuine friends.
I felt like I made my very first friend in this world. I was excited and happy. We talked for a long time until Samantha returned.
Yulia was intelligent and cautious, and she had a very unique way of thinking. Her ideals would have been considered strange here, but they were very familiar to me.
In history, there were people who were born at the wrong place and at the wrong time. If they lived in the right time or place, they would have had better lives.
Yulia was one of those people. In fact, of all the people I met in this world, I found her to have the most things in common with me, even more so than Lucretius. Yulia and Lucretius were the two people I met here who had the most exceptional ideas and personalities.
At first, I saw Lucretius as a typical entitled rich boy with power, but I was mistaken. He did have qualities of a tyrant, but he also was one person who saw me as the real me.
As a person named Sa Bina.
Of course, he did try to use me at first. In fact, he saw people as tools or means to an end, which was strange.
The fact that his attitude towards me changed probably was because of his feelings for me.
His feelings for me…
Suddenly, I felt warm. His confession from last night still made my heart beat fast.
While I was remembering last night, I must have had a telling expression on my face. I found Yulia looking at me with a knowing smile.
“W, why are you smiling at me like that?”
Yulia smiled happily. “It’s nice to see you like this.”
“L, like what?”
Yulia looked naughty as she replied, “You were thinking about his highness, weren’t you?”
“Pardon? What? N, no! It’s not like that!”
When I shook my head, Yulia said to me unconvinced, “I’m not sure if you are aware, but your highness looks relaxed when you are with his highness.”
“…”
R, really?!
I was mortified! I wanted to disappear into the thin air.
“Just now, you were thinking about his highness and that is why you were smiling happily.”
… please tell me this is not true! It can’t be!
I screamed silently. Arrggg!
I was so embarrassed.
Seeing my reaction, Yulia took my hand with a kind smile.
“So please don’t try so hard.”
“Hmm?”
Wasn’t this what Lucretius said to me last night?
Yulia continued, “This must be painful for you, your highness, and that was why you became ill.”
“W, what are you talking about?!”
While I panicked, Yulia said to me consolingly.
“It may be your duty as the emperor’s wife, but I can see how painful it would be to get women for the husband you love so much.’
“…”
Gosh, I couldn’t be any more embarrassed.
Total Chapters in book: 189
Estimated words: 290059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1450(@200wpm)___ 1160(@250wpm)___ 967(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 290059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1450(@200wpm)___ 1160(@250wpm)___ 967(@300wpm)
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