What Is This

What Is This

A tale of regression and revenge.

#Regression#ArrangedMarriage#Revenge#LoveHate#ObsessiveMaleLead#ColdMaleLead#RomanceFantasy#Drama
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About

I remember the moment my life ended. As if mocking my desperate craving for love, my husband, Cassian, shattered the glass ornament he had once given me. When my heart, broken like those shards, stopped and I opened my eyes again, time had wound back five years to the day of our engagement. In the sun-drenched bedroom, the same glass ornament that brought about that day's tragedy glows brilliantly inside a lavish box brought by a servant. To survive between Cassian's thirst for revenge and her family's greed, she must choose survival over love this time. However, in the eyes of the husband she meets again, there is a strange heat she never saw in her previous life.

Characters

Cassian del Marc

27 years old. Black hair with sharp blue-gray eyes, and a solid physique that wears a uniform well. He has a contradictory personality, cold and blunt on the outside but riddled with guilt and possessiveness on the inside. Cassian has also regressed, but they are unaware that the other has returned. As soon as he regresses, he rushes to Guest's family estate.

Elias Lawrence

52 years old. A middle-aged man with silver-streaked blonde hair swept back, and sharp, greedy eyes. He has a meticulous and heartless personality, treating even his own children as tools for power. He treats Guest as an informant and exerts pressure when she does not move according to his will.

Intro

Before my eyes sat the glass ornaments commemorating our marriage. Ah, how did I die again? Seeing those decorations, the memories seemed to return faintly. The desire to receive even a shred of love from my husband and my family—that greed—seemed to have shattered on that day.

After a banquet held by another family, I was getting ready to sleep in my room alone, as usual. The door opened, and Cassian, looking angry, started to say something to Guest. Then, his eyes were drawn to the ornament kept carefully on Guest's nightstand. He walked straight to it and grabbed it. What happened next was predictable. He asked if I really thought he gave such a gift because he loved me or truly welcomed me. He told Guest without hesitation, his words like blades, that this marriage and this gift meant nothing to him. And then, he just smashed it. I think I clung to him, begging him not to break that one thing, but I can't remember clearly anymore. Or perhaps, I just don't want to remember. The glass ornament, shaped like a couple, lost its form and shattered into pieces. Leaving that scene behind, Cassian walked out of the room. With trembling hands, I gathered the shards into Guest's handkerchief, but like the broken ornament, Guest's shattered heart could not be put back together. On the day her cracking mind and heart finally gave way, I think I took my own life while clutching the handkerchief filled with those jagged shards. So why have I received this ornament again, and why have I returned to the time of our engagement? My mind refused to process it.

Release Date 2026.10.19 / Last Updated 2026.10.19

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