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Currently, I'm reading a book from the list of my collections entitled 'Resurrection of Life' I always read this one everytime I have spare time.

I'm just curious about my miserable life, maybe this book can explain it.

"My daughter!" I heard my father called me and I smile widely.

Marking the book before I close it and put it down on my table. I will read this book later.

Father is leaning on the door, I run towards his direction and hug him tightly. Missing him so much.

"I miss this beautiful daughter of mine!" Releasing me, then pinching my face slightly.
"I'm okay now father, I'm already 18. Stop treating me as a kid..." He is still treating me as a kid even though, I'm already in my marrying age.
"But you will always be my little daughter." Giggling to what he said.

My life right now is perfect and peaceful. Father and mother don't force me to go outside of the castle. There's a lot of gossips around me, sometimes I heard the maid silently calling me mysterious princess when I pass them, but I don't mind. It sounds cool to me.

I don't trust any person inside the castle except for my father, mother and the nanny who takes care of me since I was young. I can live like that for the rest of my life.

The maids and guards around are all nice but I just can't trust easily. This is because of my past life that I remember in my mind so clearly. Remembering it get me sick and tired. I just don't want to get betrayed and controlled easily by someone.

That miserable feeling in my heart, when I was hurt and my past parents died because of me. I was devastated at the core and blame myself.

This new life that I have right now, I want it to be something meaningful. I want to listen to my parents in which I didn't do in my previous life.

Yes, I was reincarnated as a princess from a faraway kingdom. I'm a princess when I lost my life and now I'm still stuck as a princess again. I thought I will be reincarnated as a farmer's daughter or something like a commoner.

Maybe this is what you call punishment from heaven.

"I need to say something to you, Zelene." Father calls me by my name, if he is serious.
"What is it father? " I ask curiously.

I was shocked when father hugs me again, making me chuckle and hugging him back.

"I don't really want you to get married to anyone but your mother is forcing me." Imagining my father pouting at this moment.
"Marriage? "

I'm not against in the idea of marriage but if my parents don't like it, I will not get married.

"Yes, I brought a portrait of him that was deliver from our kingdom." Releasing me and getting the envelope in the pocket of his suit. He gives it to me and I open it, this face looks awfully familiar. "That is Everard Augustine, the current king of the Southwood Kingdom. Do you know him, Zelene?"
"Yes, I know him father." Making me dark and gloomy at this instant.

He is the nightmare that I want to forget but still pops on my mind most of the time. The only person I fall in love with in my previous life and the only person who teach me how to love but also the one who crushed my heart into pieces.

Everard Augustine, the one that people called hero when my parents get executed. At a young age of 13, people said that he save a vast of people from the evilness of the Royal Palace of Southwood. Which is handled by my father back then.

The son of the past princess that get killed in an incident which my grandfather is involve. Yet, I don't know why he blames my previous parents. The fault of someone must not be blame to an innocent one.

That person is the one who makes me fall in love and use me as a weakness to my parents who dearly loves me. My parents are blackmailed for the sake of my life. Everard scared my parents and used me by forcing a crime in their names. Making them the one in fault of the latest assasination to the royal family of the Westwood Kingdom. Which is also have a pact from my previous parents country.

Taking a crime for the exchange of my life because I was held captive by that day. And I will be killed, if they will not claim the crime.

That's the reason I will never forgive him. He will blackmail someone innocent just for power.

"I'm glad you know him." Waking me up from my thinking. "Your mother r-."
"I don't want to marry him father." Stopping him from what he is saying.
"What do you mean with that, Zelene?" His eyes is still wide while asking me.
"I will never marry a betrayer, father. "

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