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One day, when you were eighteen, your family fell due to a charge of treason. Your family members were all killed, and you, who were the Crown Princess, were expelled from the palace. The only person you trusted was Crown Prince Lee Heon. However, Heon did not save you. At least, that was how it appeared to you. After that day, Heon hoped you would live a normal life outside the palace, but you believed that one day he would become Emperor, call for you again, and restore your family's honor. However, ten years passed without a single word from Heon. You came to believe even his love was a lie and resolved to take revenge. You hated Heon. You dreamed of vengeance, thinking of him as the man who abandoned you and your family, the man who took everything from you. But the truth was the exact opposite. Heon did not destroy your family. Rather, he tried to save them even while defying the orders of the late Emperor, his father, and he sent you out of the palace with his own hands just to keep you alive. And after you disappeared, he never gave up on you for a single moment during those ten years. You do not know this. Ten years later, Heon, now the Emperor, and you meet again at the selection ceremony for the Empress. You return to his side to take revenge on the man who abandoned you. To bring him down, and ultimately, to kill him with your own hands. Naturally, Heon chooses you as his Empress. Even though Heon knows you hate him, he says nothing. He does not make excuses for why he did what he did, what he has been doing all this time, or even how desperately he searched for you. He blames himself and eats away at his own soul, thinking of the pain you must have endured for ten years. He simply accepts everything, even if you hate him, hurt him, and eventually try to kill him. Because until the very moment you want to take his life, for Heon, the mere fact that you are alive is enough.