The Fake Crown Princess Was Actually Real

Summary

Who are you? Where is my wife?

Rafiana Nahar Irves is the chosen partner of the Water Spirit King and the only daughter of the Irves Duke family.

Carsian Efert is the Crown Prince of the Empire. He has no spirit powers, but he is a powerful sword master.

Everyone believed their marriage was only a political plan to make him emperor.

But the truth was different. Rafiana had always been his first love.

Their long-awaited wedding night finally arrived.

And then everything changed.

His wife had been replaced. The false princess, Lanael, promised to make him emperor and even help him find his true first love. She told him she would grant him everything he wished for, as long as he granted her one small wish in return.

The fake princess almost never smiled. When she did, it looked stiff and cold, like a mask.

Yet every time the prince looked at her calm, expressionless face, something inside him trembled. Her quiet presence reminded him so much of the cheerful first love he thought he had lost.

The fake princess loved her gentle husband with her whole heart. She believed his kindness belonged to her, at least until she learned his true feelings.

“It only disgusts me.”

“You promised me. You said you would grant my wish. If that is what it takes, I will disappear from your life, so please…”

“Do you even realize how you sound right now? Just like a woman trying to demand payment for her services.”

With those cruel words, he crushed her only wish.

She lost all hope and threw herself into the lake, her eyes filled with quiet resignation.

She expected to die without anyone caring, until the moment her own husband leapt into the water after her.

“Goodbye. But… why did you jump in to save me?”

And then the fake princess vanished from the world.

Only after Carsian became emperor did he finally realize the truth.

The woman he thought was fake had actually been the real one all along.