The Deposed Empress and Her New Husband

"The Empress must bring in a consort who can give me an heir." Those were the cruel words that her ex-husband spoke to Reneve, even before she had recovered from losing their child. She had spent ten years living inside the body of the so-called villainess, trying tirelessly to mend their broken bond. Yet, despite her efforts, the villain's fate followed the same tragic path as in the original story. When Renéeve awakes after her death, she seizes her second chance. In order to escape her doomed ending, she volunteers to become a hostage bride in a peace treaty between empires. However, the man she must marry — the enemy emperor, feared as a war-mad butcher - turns out to be nothing like...