Chapter - 2

"The princess remembers this heavy book so well, I'm so glad as your governess princess." Olivia smiled with ecstasy which made me even more uncomfortable and guilty. Well I'm a grown up possessing the body of an eight year old. I'm sure his majesty will be quite pleased to hear about this. I paused "No need governess" "your highness?" "i said no need, the emperor....i don't want to disturb his majesty while his busy with the matters of the empire." The emperor, Eloise's father, always prioritised Rudolph while ruthlessly casting Eloise aside. Eloise, as child was unaware of why his father was being partial. They may be related by blood but Eloise didn't inherit what a Frodium should've inherited, the power of the light. To make things worse, empress the emperor loved so much died giving birth to Eloise. She thought she could compensate her father by being good in her studies regardless of her lack of powers and the death of the empress hoping that his father will finally take a glance at her. She completed hardcover history books, learnt fencing and equestrian always beating Rudolph in all fields except the divine powersonly at the age of 12. Yet the emperor dispised her still the same. Why? She was overshadowing the crown prince of the empire, the future heir to the throne. Her hatred for Rudolph grew day by day. She did everything she could to take out on Rudolph and was very cruel to him. But the more Eloise was cruel to him, the more she grew distant from the emperor. Eloise went to great lengths such as falling down in front of the emperor or flexing off her intelligence in order to gain his attention but always failed against Rudolph. Eloise was dejected, she hated that he loved Rudolph even after he did nothing yet he had the thing she coveted the most. The emperor's love. He would listen to irrelevant things like how his day went and how he was doing that she wanted the emperor to ask her as well yet he didn't spare her a glance even after all of her efforts. For Eloise, gaining emperor's love was like reaching out to grab moon. In the end, she became evil and cruel causing the deaths of many innocent people and later was executed. My heart clenched remembering my past life, my busy parents and my same attempts to be loved. To think I'd have to go through the same suffering once more, isn't this so cruel. We share the same fate Eloise, but it was just that she was just strayed onto a wrong path....

"Your highness!" i broke out of my chain of thoughts when my nanny called out to me. "My goodness are you okay.... your Highness your expression worries me." she looked at me startled while i was caught off guard, i shouldn't be too suspicious after all Eloise isn't the type to express emotions very easily. "It's nothing. Please leave me be for now nanny." i commanded. She worriedly nodded and left the refreshments at the table.

If I want to live as Eloise, I have to imitate her as much as possible. So let's recall the novel's story and write down stuff before i forget. The novel, "The fair lady of the golden ambers", was a tale of a young girl named Cerise Blanche, belonged from the family of counts as i remember. The family suddenly goes bankrupts because of Cerise's father's lavish expenditures. Cerise's father was a man who saw his daughter as an asset, and was waiting for the right opportunity to display his most treasured possession. That's when the invitation of the spring festival came from the royal palace. A huge extravagant palace ball that's held every spring when the flowers bloom. A perfect opportunity for him to showcase his jewelled investment. That's when Cerise meets the Renon Eckhart, Duke of the Eckhart duchy, well known for establishing many refined swordsman and their contributions in the foundation of the empire.

The Duke only had a son and he longed for daughter. When the Duke gets knowledge of her father's selfish plans, he adopts Cerise Midford as his own daughter. That was the beginning of the Cerise's bright future or to be more precise, beginning Eloise's downfall. Cerise had pure divine powers of light which had only been inherited by the imperial family which she had kept a secret from her selfish father. Her divine powers reached it's prime when she was eighteen, at her debutante ball immediately being recognised as a blessing to the Frodium empire.

The novel had two male leads, one of them was the outstanding son of the Eckhart duchy, Killian Eckhart, the first male lead. As a heir to the prestigious family he had also inherited the immense powers of the dark abyss, which were getting out of control which will lead to a aggressive rampage. That's when Cerise meets him and helps him to control his powers with her divine abilities. He helplessly falls for her demure and moralistic personality to the point of breaking his engagement with Eloise. When Eloise hears of the annulment of the engagement, she gets extremely upset and envious of Cerise. But she couldn't hurt her, hurting her was the same as hurting Killian. That's how much she helded him dear to her. So after the rebelling and ascending throne, she decreed Killian to be her spouse and he couldn't deny the sovereign's order. But all of Eloise efforts and attempts to make him love her went in vain and everyone turned against her.

The citizens were extremely dissatisfied with their ruler and soon it lead her to her downfall. She was escorted to the guillotine by the Duke Killian for attempting an assasination against the Saintess Cerise. After the death of the villainous, the Saintess and the Duke ruled the prosperous empire together... "to think I'd live to feel this regretful and dejected even more then my past life...." my heart clenched. She was just a child who yearned to be loved yet was labelled as the villainous. It was just her way of doing things was cruel but what was she to do when the whole world didn't give her a chance to be kind? Alright I promise to give you a much better end this time Eloise and perhaps another chance for you to be good in this life?

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