REBORN AS THE VILLAINESS- THIS TIME, I WIN

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mance. And the queen was i

ent. Dressed in crimson velvet and adorned with black opals - always black, neve

vet stretched over broken glass. "You're bloom

her head bowed just en

plied smoothly, "I hav

ugh the queen's gaze

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's time we address your future. You're nearing the age where th

xactly what this was: th

said. "I'd be honored to serv

ed an elegant

- calm, unreadable

so easily from

way one might examine an unfamiliar

g Ball," she said. "The court needs to be rem

display. The same one that ha

u wish," Thali

she was already

ile, and bow

tain, she would be