Cheryl felt her body float away in the wind like cotton. She had no idea how long she had been tossed around in the air until she became exhausted and fell asleep.
Cheryl awoke to find herself in this location, lying in the middle of nowhere.
The location is deserted. The floor below was clean and level, but it was surrounded by nothing. Everything was white as far as the eye could see, with not a speck of any other colour in sight.
Cheryl raised her hand when she awoke, as she always did. The black dot on her left wrist was caught in her eyepiece.
"Eh?!"
The young lady jerked awake. Her movement parted the snow white dress she was wearing. She looked at her wrist as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"And this mole..." Cheryl rubbed her wrist several times. However, the small black dot remained. Her skin actually turned red as a result of that action.
She looked stiffly at his left knee, knowing the mark was genuine. A mole was also in a very familiar position.
Cheryl exhaled a cold breath. Her heart shook as she realised something.
"Claudia doesn't have these moles on my wrists and knees, but they're on my real body! Does this imply that my true self is also no longer alive?" The young woman shrieked in terror.
Cheryl slaps and pinches herself. And the pain she was afraid of was very real.
She was certain that the woman inside Claudia's body had died before she arrived. There was only one possibility if she arrived in a strange place with her real body.
"Oh my ... Is this the afterlife?"
Cheryl was taken aback by her own guess.
She appeared to have just realised something and covered her mouth with both of her palms. Her voice seemed to be swallowed by air in some way. When someone's ear is wet, they can hear themselves speak but their voice is muffled.
"What an odd place..." Cheryl didn't dare to say anything else. She was only thinking in her heart.
She rose to her feet. Her knee-length snow-white gown made her feel strange as well.
"Before... did I not wear a white gown?" Cheryl pondered something for the umpteenth time.
The oddities she encountered shortly after waking up made the 25-year-old woman dizzy.
Cheryl took a step forward, her heart full of motivation to find something in the middle of nowhere. Her feet were bare as she walked across the cold, pure white floor.
"It's like stepping on a piece of ceramic." In her heart, she gave a thumbs up.
Cheryl simply continued walking. She went from slow steps to wide steps, but she didn't find anything. Below and above, there was nothing but white. There are no boundaries, lines, or anything else. In this white place, she is the only "thing."
Cheryl grumbled, "This white colour makes my head spin even more."
Cheryl kept walking, refusing to give up. She ran as fast as she could, hoping to see something ahead of her.
However, she eventually gave up as well. She discovered nothing but fatigue biting her leg. The woman sat on the cold floor, her face desperate.
"Everything looks the same from wherever I am. I'm not even sure if I walked forward or stayed put from the start ...."
The young lady was panting heavily. Her wavy hair cascaded down her back.
Cheryl sat down because she was tired of sitting. The last scene before he vanished from the novel's world flashed before his eyes as he stared at the white and empty ceiling.
She had previously heard the Baldwin Mansion healer say that she had been exposed to a poison that weakens the body.
She is now unemployed and happily investigates this seemingly simple matter.
"Isn't it a poisonous substance? But how could it possibly lead to my death?" Cheryl bit her nails. "Could it be that Claudia's body is so weak that even a body-weakening poison could kill her?"
"You are the one who is most familiar with your own personality. Why are you still wondering?"
Cheryl was startled by a girl's voice. She immediately straightened her back and turned left and right, looking for the source of the sound.
However, no one was present. Just a novel with a red cover on the floor.
Cheryl took the book in her soft fingers.
She came across the book, and the cover and title reminded her of her online novel.
"Did someone print it?" Cheryl was perplexed in her heart.
Her curiosity drove her to turn page after page. Cheryl was taken aback when she discovered that the novel's contents, rather than being similar to hers, were more similar to the world she had just left.
Claudia was terrified the first time she met Edgar at the welcoming parade, and she still is now.
Cheryl kept reading until she came to a chapter that described her exact experience.
"Here, Claudia was poisoned..." Cheryl muttered.
Her heart trembled in the corner. As she turned the next page, she couldn't help but be filled with excitement.
"So, what happened after I—uh, Claudia died?"
The final chapter mentions Edgar's insistence on not burying Claudia's body. He unreasonable requested that the Marchioness's body be preserved by reputable mummy makers from East, West, and Central.
Not quite there yet. Claudia's poisoning is investigated by Edgar.
It is later revealed that Yvette poisoned Claudia twice, at the engagement party and the tea party.
In the first place, body-weakening poison was fatal to weak-bodied people, and Claudia happened to have a weak body. Her immune system was also concerned because she was pregnant. That's why she passed away that night.
Edgar went insane after discovering the cause of his wife's death. He went directly to Yvette in the palace, intending to kill her.
Yvette, on the other hand, is guarded by a protective knight who appears immediately if the Princess is in danger. The appearance of the guardian knight almost immediately alerted the royal party to the fact that there was someone out to harm the royal family. The king immediately dispatched an elite bodyguard to protect Yvette and flush out intruders.
There are clashes between Edgar and the royal party.
Cheryl could see the man's face through the book, so firm and fearless, alone facing the siege of dozens of elite royal guards.
The man stood on the pile of bodies, brandishing a bloodied sword, ready to slay anyone who stood in his way. His expression had changed from gentleness to ruthlessness and unending killing intent.
Marius Laverty was hiding Yvette behind him, along with the prince's elite group, far in front of him. Marius' group of archers was on the roof of the pavilion as well as the balcony of the palace, locking Edgar as a target.
By stepping on the bloody corpse, the archers raised their bows and aimed the arrow spears at the standing man. They were just waiting for a cue from Marius before turning the man from Northland's back into a hedgehog.
Edgar was aware that he was under siege, but he appeared to be laughing dismissively.
He charged forward, drawing his sword at Marius and Yvette with bloodthirsty eyes.
Marius wasn't yet within striking distance of his sword, but arrows shot and pierced through Edgar's body, slowing his movement.
Shoulders, backs, and legs now have arrow thorns embedded in the flesh.
Edgar refused to give up. Despite being pierced by arrows, he took a step forward. An arrow shot into his flesh as he took a step forward. And so on, until, with the exception of the head, there is no empty space in his body that has not been strewn with arrows.
The man collapsed to his knees in front of Marius.
Marius sneered as he saw the helpless Edgar. "You being like this as a man with the moniker Demon General really irritates me. I'm sure you can go on much longer than this."
Marius prepared to behead the marquis with a gleaming silver sword. Edgar gave up because he was exhausted. The man even closed his eyes, expecting the sword to slash his throat.
Instead of the slashing pain, a huge commotion broke out behind there from both sides. Edgar opened his eyes to see Harold approaching with soldiers from the Baldwin family. Eugene, on the other hand, arrived with his elite troops.
Marius' group of archers clashed with Harold's group of archers, while Harold's group of swordsmen dashed forward, picking up their master.
Marius took a step back. Eugene's elite troops, on the other hand, had already constructed an impenetrable siege barricade. He cornered Marius, who was sitting on the horse, like a cat playing with a mouse.
Eugene remained silent. He aimed his long trident-forked spear straight at Marius' chest.
Marius sheathed his sword once more, feeling critical. He unexpectedly dragged Yvette, who had been hiding behind him all this time, while moving backwards. The man grabbed Yvette and handed her to Eugene.
"Unexpectedly, your love for a woman who does not belong to you is so strong that you dare to confront me."
Neither Eugene, Yvette, nor Simon, who stood beside his master, knew who Marius was referring to.
Eugene replied coldly, "I'm not afraid of you."
"Really? So it makes no difference if the emperor comes to you to exact revenge on me, right?" Marius burst out laughing. "Here. I'll leave this lady to you. It's entirely up to you how you want to murder her. But please excuse me."
Yvette was dragged in front of Marius like a living shield. He ignored the woman's terrified screams.
"You don't mind sacrificing the woman you love for your own benefit. So cold-hearted!" Eugene adds his thoughts.
He threw his spear and stabbed Yvette and Marius together without saying anything.
Both Yvette's and Marius' faces blanched in shock, followed by a gush of blood from the corners of their mouths.
Marius' eyes widened in surprise. "Are you still in injury? Why should you..."
Eugene's stab pierces the heart and kills a person in under a minute.
Eugene abandons Marius' remaining group to Simon's care. He rushed over to Edgar, who was sprawled on the ground. Next to him was Harold, who was trembling but unable to do anything.
"How is the Marquess?" Eugene inquired.
"He... he's already left." Harold responded. His voice was trembling and barely audible.
Eugene fixed his gaze on Edgar's pale face. The man's white lips curled into a smile, like a relieved husband who could finally see his wife again.
"Take him from this location. Make an appropriate funeral. I'll clean up this mess."
The purpose of the chaos was to crush Marius' faction and weaken the king's power. Eugene forces the king to abdicate in this case after suffering a humiliating crushing defeat.
Eugene ascends to the throne of Zizvania after forcibly deposing the old king.
The coronation ceremony was flawlessly executed. Eugene begins his reign, which lasts decades, with Simon on the right and Harold on the left.