The Wicked Wife's Dark History Keeps Coming Back To Haunt Her - Chapter 1
Everyone has at least one such memory.
A memory that makes you want to disappear into the cosmic dust just by recalling it.
‘Nina’ had such memories too.
The problem was that she had not one or two, but countless such memories.
“Ahhhh…”
So-young, no, Nina, groaned, burying her face in her hands.
She woke up to find she had returned to her past life?
How was she supposed to accept this situation?
You might think that having experienced the miracle of reincarnating into the modern world with all her memories intact, she could accept anything.
“No, this can’t be…!”
After receiving a clean bill of health from the doctor, Nina, left alone, trembled and screamed in despair.
Regardless of her lingering attachment to the life of ‘Jang So-young,’ this point in time was right after Nina had hit the peak of her dark history.
At this time, her notoriety was widespread in high society.
She was known as a wife with obsessive jealousy towards her husband, indulging in luxury and misdeeds.
To make matters worse, soon there would be a rumor that she begged her husband for a night and was humiliated.
…For reference, that rumor was true.
The former was what Nina had done until now, and the latter was what she did just last night.
“W-Why did I have to return today of all days…?”
Nina mumbled with a dazed expression.
What did she do at this time, driven mad by her unloving husband?
She bribed employees with money or blackmailed them to become her spies to monitor her husband’s every move.
She would search his belongings, suspecting he was having an affair, and would even follow him secretly.
She insulted and slapped any woman who spoke to her husband.
The things she had done until now were shameful enough, but last night, she threw away her dignity and the last shreds of her pride as a human being.
She got drunk and went to his bedroom.
“…What kind of a mess is this?”
“It’s been two years since we got married. Isn’t it time we fulfilled our marital duties? How long do you plan to neglect me?”
“That’s why I told you from the beginning. Even if we got married, there would be nothing between us.”
“Even so, how can a married couple sleep in separate rooms for two whole years? Do you have another woman hidden away? Or do you like men? Otherwise…”
He looked at her, who was almost screaming in resentment, with indifference as if she were a stranger.
“Even if I had any physical desire, it wouldn’t be with you.”
How could she maintain her sanity after hearing her husband say he felt no attraction to her?
“Ahhh! Ahhhhh!”
Nina had rampaged in his bedroom, breaking things, then wandered the halls like a madwoman before falling down the stairs.
That was what happened last night.
“Huu, this is driving me crazy…”
Nina rubbed her face with a troubled expression.
…No matter how she looked at it, it was her past self.
She messed up her hair and pinched her cheeks, but it was all real, not a dream.
“I heard that you recently lost a court case to become your nephew’s guardian. If you marry me, I can help you win.”
This marriage was a strategic one, arranged after she fell in love with Duke Bayern at first sight and manipulated and blackmailed him into it.
At that time, he was embroiled in a fierce legal battle with his relatives to become the guardian of his nephew, who was left alone after his half-brother died.
The rigid judicial system preferred a married guardian over a single man, and his relatives used this to argue that he was unfit as a guardian, thus filing a lawsuit.
They even painted him as an unscrupulous person coveting his nephew’s wealth, emphasizing that he was the half-brother of the deceased and the son of a second wife.
As a result, Duke Bayern lost both the first and second trials and was awaiting the final third trial.
“What if I refuse?”
“Then you will lose this time too.”
“…So it was you who manipulated the trial all along.”
Indeed.
The reason he had been losing the trials was due to her leveraging the name of her grandfather, who was a sitting Supreme Court judge.
The year her grandfather became a Supreme Court judge, he was bestowed a commemorative signet ring by His Majesty the Emperor.
‘Grandfather said that although the signet ring has no legal binding power, no lawyer could ignore it…’
But Nina, with the sole intention of marrying Ash Bayern, used the commemorative signet ring and forged her grandfather’s handwriting to exert pressure on the trial.
“…Fine. Let’s get married. But know that you will not get anything you desire from me.”
Supreme Court judge.
Even if her grandfather, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice in modern terms, intervened, it would be impossible for him to become the guardian of his nephew, married or not.
That was why he married her right before the final trial.
‘I was foolish…’
Back then, she firmly believed that once they were married, he would have no choice but to accept her as his wife.
With a prestigious family, beautiful appearance, and excellent upbringing, there was no one in high society with better credentials than her.
But her expectations were completely wrong.
…Her husband kept his word meticulously.
