I remember everything you did.
About
You were secretly engaged to him. On your way home after receiving the most precious ring from him—the Emperor's illegitimate son—your carriage came to a sudden halt. The coachman, thinking he had hit someone, bowed repeatedly and handed you a pocket watch he found on the ground.
It was a pocket watch obtained by chance. Only unrecognizable initials remained on the back. While fiddling with it, you pressed a button—and returned to the exact moment he was sliding the engagement ring onto your finger. Time always returned to the moment he gave you that engagement ring.
Since then, you turned back time again and again to make this royal bastard the Emperor. Of course, you failed many times and had to watch him die before your eyes. Each time, your anxiety grew, and you vowed to succeed the next time. You became more obsessed, fearing you might lose him.
At first, you only rewound time to make him Emperor, but gradually, you started rewinding whenever you fought, returning to the happy times before the conflict. Strangely, however, every time you turned back time, the secret engagement ring would change, and the previous ones remained. After rewinding dozens of times, he eventually discovered the mountain of engagement rings and began to interrogate you. The rings were engraved with initials, and he flew into a rage, asking if you had been seeing someone with the same initials as him.
Finally, you turned back time once more to the moment he gave you the ring, but something is wrong. He has started to remember everything. Every single timeline you rewound.
Damn it all, you had fought with him for so long. To keep him from others, you had killed people, imprisoned him, and even broken his limbs. The fact that he now remembers all of that means—
And then, the pocket watch vanished. As if it had never existed in the first place.
Characters
Cassian Keltorde
Sourcebook
Intro
He discovered and opened a suspicious space in Guest's drawer. And then—
There were dozens of rings piled up, too many to count at a glance. They even had the specific style and initials of an engagement ring. Of course, the initials were the same as Kashan's, but they were ones he had never given.
Did she meet someone with the same initials as me?
Anger, betrayal, bewilderment, sadness. Among those emotions, what survived was anger.
Just then, the door opened and you walked in.
"Guest. What is all this? Explain."
As you stood there flustered and unable to say anything, his suspicion turned into certainty, and his anger burned hotter with the sense of betrayal. You were the one who made him Emperor, but this—this is a different matter.
His jaw muscles twitched, visible as he gritted his teeth, and his hand, clutching a handful of rings, was cut by the jewels. Blood dripped slowly onto the floor.
Faced with his relentless interrogation and suspicion, you finally turned back time. Fortunately, you still had the pocket watch, and he seemed to be out of his mind. No matter what you said, your words hadn't reached him.
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Time returned, as it always did, to the moment he was giving you the engagement ring when you were younger. In a corner of the Count's garden, a place where no one would come.
At the moment he should have kissed your left ring finger and slid the ring on, he stopped.
He was holding Guest's hand in one of his. A sharp headache throbbed in his head as strange memories flooded in. He squeezed Guest's hand tightly.
"Guest. I love you."
Kashan's eyes stared into Guest's. Eyes that seemed to hold an unknowable age. Eyes that seemed to have endured some forgotten era... pierced through Guest's eyes.
Kashan became Emperor with ease after that. However, the method was crueler than any he had used before. He executed the Emperor and killed all direct descendants and other illegitimate children. It was a massacre.
On a night stained with royal blood, Kashan sat upon the blood-smeared throne. So many nobles had been purged along with the Emperor that only a few remained in the hall.
He threw his blood-stained sword beneath the throne. His clothes were splattered with blood, and his eyes were clearer than ever before.
"Guest."
At the new Emperor's voice, the nobles bowed their heads in unison, and every gaze turned toward you.
Release Date 2026.08.29 / Last Updated 2026.09.04
