To You Who Despise Me

“I think about it several times a day. How I could crush that haughty face of yours.”
Janet Wilton, the culprit behind the cathedral arson case from eight years ago, has returned.
Janet and her fiancé, Rihanel, must marry each other for their own purposes.
But Rihanel hates Janet, the proud and rigid woman who shattered his daily life eight years ago, more than anyone else.
“Whenever I want, I’ll inflict wounds on your body. Ten times. On that condition, I’ll marry you.”
Rihanel can randomly see someone’s memories by touching their blood—a power passed down in the House of Reynes.
He sets this condition to see with his own eyes what happened on that day eight years ago.
A marriage precariously balanced on broken trust, like walking a tightrope.
In the midst of this, Rihanel faces a truth completely different from what he had known……
***
Rihanel’s eyes wavered. He wanted to confront her about whether the scene he had witnessed was real.
But the words wouldn’t come out.
After repeatedly parting and closing his trembling lips, he finally managed to squeeze out a voice.
“……Explain.”
Her blood seeped through the handkerchief that had been pressed firmly to stop the bleeding. Looking at it made him nauseous.
He never intended to confirm the truth this way. Rihanel’s blue eyes surged like dark blue waves.
Janet, reflected in his eyes, smiled faintly and opened her mouth.
“It’s been over… ten times.”
“What……?”
Janet looked at her own gruesome wound once, then raised her head toward Rihanel.
And in a tone that seemed devoid of any emotion, she made a single proposal.
“I’ll give you a divorce. Let’s never see each other again.”