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>>OBS.: I'm reposting this so more people who want to know how this story ends can find it<<

So I just read the end of the novel (spanish translation) and came here to share with those who want to know what will happen. I'll write a summary of everything since the novel has 230+ chapters and I can't detail everything that happened. I'm not fluent in english so there will be a lot of mistakes, please bear with me.
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-Yvonne, the duke's lost daughter, actually died and her body is being used by the last survivor of a cult called "Leila" (that's the spanish name, idk if in english there will be another name for the cult). The cult members eat humans, specifically those who have mana, and they once wanted to exterminate all humans and govern the world;
-The cult was stopped by ancient mages who united and imprisoned/killed all the members of Leila, with the exception of one, who was hidden; after using all their forces the ancient mages disappeared;
-This last survivor wants revenge against humanity, and plans to dominate the world. It can use some kind of brainwash and makes people think that they are good. After a lot of years going around and eating some humans to gain strength, it found Yvonne, and possessed her body;
-Some things happen and Penelope finds out that Yvonne is the cult leader (this was b4 Yvonne comes back to the Duke's house), but she doesn't say anything 'cause no one would believe her;
-Iklies betrays Penelope and brings Yvonne back home (in the past Vinter was the one who did it). He did this so Penelope would want to get out of the duke's house and run away with him. His love is more like obsession, but I still pity him don't ask me why;
-Penelope is a descendant of the ancient mages, so she's the only one who can stop Yvonne;
-Yvonne actually won once, she brainwashed people around her, got Penelope killed, since everyone thought she was a villain, and dominated the world;
-Vinter, who was brainwashed and helped Yvonne, came back to his senses and understood that the only one who could stop Yvonne, Penelope, was killed by them. He then sacrifices himself and uses a forbidden magic: the magic to turn back time, just so Penelope could defeat Yvonne;
-Because he used forbidden magic, that version of Vinter became trapped in a magic circle;
- Yvonne was the only one who came to the past with her memories. And Penelope, who didn't remember anything of the past, kept making the same mistakes again and again. And Yvonne kept winning, and the time kept coming back to the past, due to Vinter's magic.
-After dying so many times, Penelope's soul broke into pieces;
-A small piece of her soul reincarnated as our MC, in korea. So in fact the MC is Penelope, that's why she was summoned to the "game". Her body in korea is in a coma, dying of cancer;
-A lot of things happen, Penelope and the crown prince fall in love with each other but they can't communicate and misunderstandings keep happening;
-Vinter from the present probably died in a confront with Yvonne. I say probably because it's not clear, but he exploded his office with him and Yvonne inside to try and kill her, but she survived. Penelope couldn't find his body;
-Instead Penelope finds the other version of Vinter, the one that reversed time and that is trapped. He tells her the truth abt everything. She tries but is unable to free him;
-Iklies helps Yvonne 'cause she promised him the crown, and Penelope. They invade the imperial castle and kill the emperor (the queen, the second prince and some nobles also help Yvonne because she promised they would become members of Leila and gain power);
-Yvonne gets an artefact that was in the castle and that she needed to become more powerful;
-There is a war in the castle. Yvonne's people and the duke's/the crown prince's people fight each other. At this point the duke already knows that that isn't his real daughter;
-Derrick gets badly wounded and almost died, we discover that he had romantic feelings for Penelope, that's why he treated her badly, to cover his improper feelings towards his sister;
-From what I got Reynold's feelings towards Penelope aren't romantic but as brother and sister. He is just an annoying asshole who hurts the people he likes;
-In the battle Iklies sacrifices himself to save Penelope, he said that he loved her. She gets really sad because it was kinda her fault that he became obsessed with her. If she didn't use him to get out of the game, he wouldn't become like that, is what she thinks;
-Penelope doesn't actually see him dying since other things happen in the battle and she goes off to fight Yvonne, but she believes he died because the wound was too serious;
-Penelope kills Yvonne;
-The game ends and she can choose to go back to korea, but the crown prince is heavily wounded and is dying;
-Penelope told him b4 that she wasn't from that world and that se would come back to her real life after killing Yvonne;
-Even though he's dying, the crown prince says to Penelope that she should go back to her home, that he will always love her and that he would go after her no matter where she was;
-Because she won the game, Penelope got a reward: dragon's fangs, wich she could use to cure her sick body back in korea;
-But she decided to use it on the crown prince and stay in that world with him;

The actual story ends here. Now there's an extra story, abt life after everything. It is still being translated. Until now Penelope couldn't find Iklies body, so I'm kinda hopeful that he survived. She's now trying to find a way to free Vinter from the magic circle, but she is not sure if he's even alive anymore.

And that's it. I'm not fluent in spanish so some parts of the story got lost to me, but it was still an enjoyable read. The only thing I didn't like much is the lack of romance, it was more of an adventure, but maybe we will get more romance in this extra story, I'm hoping for it.

okay so here's my understanding of the story so far (with spoilers from the novel)




Sovieshu's plan is to both acquire an heir and a perfect empress.

When he was a child, he sneaked into the previous empress's (his mother's) room and found cookies which he gave to young Navier. Navier suggested they ate it together. Soon after, the previous empress was more anxious than angry that he took the cookies because it was for a countess that was favored by the emperor at that time (this is where I gag at Sovieshu's hypocrisy. he literally hated his dad for having concubines but look at him now) Sovieshu found out the cookies were mixed with poison that caused miscarriage with a side effect of infertility. His mother asked him if he shared the cookies but he quickly replied no. He lied instinctively, feeling that it's something no one should find out.

So because there is still no child between Sovieshu and Navier, Sovieshu concludes that one of them is infertile.

At that point in time, he was very stressed with the pressure the nobles and aristocrats were putting on him for not having a child to inherit the throne. Not only that, if he didn't bear an heir soon the throne would go to his uncle's son and his bloodline would ultimately lose the reign of the monarchy. That's what scared him because he knew how brutal being a member of the royal family was. After all, he spent some of his childhood watching the previous emperor (his father) with his concubines while his mother was abandoned. So when Trashta comes in, she's like a stress relief away from everyone's prejudice as well as the seeming indifference of his wife Navier.

Mind you, Sovieshu may be an asswipe but he is not one to crave countless women in order to satisfy his ego. He'd consider it, but his pride would never let him. Even though Navier was not the perfect wife, she was the perfect empress and a child between them would've been perfect as well had it not been for that cookie. So if he could not bear a child with her, Trashta had to do (his plan sounded perfect in his own head lmao).

So Trashta is already pregnant but the child is still an offspring of a commoner so he/she cannot become a prince/princess. This is why Sovieshu kept bugging Navier to adopt Trashta's child, so that he/she will have a legitimate right to take the throne.

But because Navier would not give in to adopting the bastard child (thank goodness queen) Sovieshu diverts to a different plan: divorce Navier and make Trashta empress for a year so that the child claims a royal right. Then when that year ends, he takes Navier back and kicks Trashta out. So Sovieshu basically didn't see much value in Trashta except for her ability to get preggers and her "feminine" side that Navier didn't have. fsr he has this fetish with women who depended on him like damsels in distress. And because Navier was independent af he also had some type of inferiority complex.

Soveishu's downfall is not telling Navier of his plan. Before Trashta came along, like waaay before all the issues, Navier and Sovieshu loved and trusted each other. Idk how to describe their past relationship but if you'd ask me, Navier was not good at expressing herself and Sovieshu was the worst in understanding that trait of hers. That didn't become much of a problem until the topic of an heir was brought up. Sovieshu started worrying a lot and he basically started blaming it on Navier; saying crap like the reason they had no child was because she wasn't affectionate to him or that she was infertile all along. Regardless, Navier continued to love him silently and although at first Sovieshu did the same for her, he began to lose sight of his love for her as he focused on figuring out how to produce an heir.

Sovieshu will soon snap back to his senses though, but it'll be too late. Because by then, Navier would've fallen for Heinly already and he won't be able to do anything about it. Sovieshu was the one who pushed Navier away after all.

So not only were they colleagues (on the throne) they were childhood friends who knew each other by the back of their hands. But because of Sovieshu bitch's inferiority complex, he decided he could handle batshit on his own. He basically plotted everything and since he didn't tell Navier, he made it seem like he was in love with Trashta and hurt Navier beyong comprehension.

Another thing is that he didn't calculate how crafty and cunning Trashta could be. So shit was gonna get loose when Navier stepped down from the throne.

Soon, Sovieshu ends up mentioning his plan to Trashta (1-year empress trial). Without his knowledge, Navier was actually listening to their conversation. This makes Navier leave the palace where she bumps into Heinley in a pub. Heinley confesses that he needed a queen to stand by him in his kingdom (Heinley's home is a kingdom, not an empire) and he wanted Navier to be queen. Navier, remembering what Sovieshu told Trashta, then offers marriage and Heinly accepts but he's confused because she's still married.

Navier continues sending letters through the blue bird (Heinley's attendant) and Sovieshu takes notice of this; speculating Navier is communicating with Heinley. So he orders to kill any bird that goes near the empress's chambers. Navier sends a warning but the bird confuses it and ends up getting hurt (blood, feathers, and all). Sovieshu bitch even sends a bird stew to Navier as warning. The bird isn't dead though, because Trashta finds it and gives it to Duke Elgy (Heinley's friend and the man Trashta is borrowing money from) who then becomes the means of communication between Navier and Heinley.

Meanwhile, Trashta (already knowing Sovieshu's plan) feels that she cannot compare to Navier. Duke Elgy suggests she studies so that's what she does. She studies while being accompanied by Sovieshu but she keeps complaining so Sovieshu keeps comparing her to Navier which infuriates. This keeps happening; she studies, acts fake-cute af in front of Sovieshu, borrows money from Duke Elgy, and pays money to Viscount Rostechu. At some point, Trashta also hires assassins to kill the Troby couple (Navier's parents). Then Navier's brother also attempts to poison Trashta to kill her child. He ends up being exiled by Sovieshu for it. Sovieshu then uses Navier's brother's crimes as leverage to solidify the divorce.

On the day of the divorce with the High Priest present, Sovieshu embarrasses Navier and claims she tried to harm his daughter. This is when Heinley enters as Navier asks the High Priest to bless her second marriage.

Sovieshu is salty af and even locks Navier, Heinley, and Navier's fam in their house while he searches for any laws that could null Navier's second marriage. The blue bird (Heinley's attendant) then appears to take them all to the Western Kingdom (Heinly's kingdom). Sovieshu goes crazy and demands to find them.

Some time passed since Navier left and Sovieshu goes paranoid because he felt she really wasn't coming back. So he doesn't drop Trashta from the empress seat because he put a lot of effort into doing it (faking Trashta's noble background and shit) but he does question whether their daughter is his or not. He uses magic to clarify the paternity; he was scared because he made so many enemies by divorcing Navier just to have an heir so there's no way he could save his dignity as emperor if his plan backfired. If the child really wan't his, it'd also shatter his confidence that he isn't sterile because Navier was already pregnant with Heinley's child (Sovieshu and Navier are both infertile because of the cookie but Navier and Heinley did (づ￣ ³￣)づ on a magical bed which is why she got pregnant). Sovieshu prayed the child really was his because he couldn't bear to live with the possibility that he lost Navier for nothing.

The truth was that when Trashta left Allen (the Viscount's son) years ago, she was already pregnant with their second child. But because she was sleeping with Sovieshu soon after, she didn't know Allen was the baby daddy. At some point, she also gets a scar on her face so Sovieshu starts to lose interest in her cause like you know the taboo with women in high society having scars.

It's revealed that Duke Elgy had only been getting information from Trashta. He's Heinley's friend and so, by Heinley's request, he got close to Trashta and got her to borrow money from him. Everything Trashta did, he told Heinley.

So Trashta's crimes are brought to light and she's imprisoned. She also ends up killing herself in her cell.

Sovieshu rejects the bastard child and has no heir to the throne.

Heinley and Navier live happily ever after with their little twin babies :)