Sure enough, Emma Woods was Natalia's original identity.
She was born and raised in Hex Hollow.
Aside from her deep knowledge of various hexes and dark arts, Emma had another obsession.
Outside of studying, she was completely addicted to romance novels, frequently inserting herself as the female lead.
At sixteen, Emma fell in love. It was love at first sight with Andres White.
In her world, Andres was the leading man of her life.
Handsome, wealthy, gentle, and polite.
Two people from completely different worlds, brought together by fate.
The novels she read always described the same scene: the rich, flawless male lead didn't care about glamorous beauties or superficial women.
He only had eyes for the ugly duckling who made his heart flutter.
Emma believed she was the ugly duckling in Andres's life.
When she got splashed with mud, she felt like the luckiest girl in the world.
Because her leading man had scolded the driver just for her and personally handed her tissues to clean herself up.
She thought the encounter would end there, but what truly gave her hope was that sleepless night.
Reading this, Andres was completely lost.
He looked at Maeve. "I swear to God, the guy who spent the night with Emma Woods was definitely not me."
If he hadn't seen Emma's secret diary.
He honestly would have forgotten that someone like her even existed during his trip to Hex Hollow.
According to the diary entries, the evening after their first encounter, a massive rainstorm hit.
Andres, allegedly traveling alone, ran into serious trouble in the storm.
He was bitten by a venomous spider, leaving one of his legs paralyzed and entirely unable to move.
Emma saved him under those dire circumstances.
That night, the two of them hid in a pitch-black cave and spent the night together.
That night, he had made her countless promises.
He promised to marry her when he came of age and make her a wealthy wife that everyone in Aethelburg would envy.
At the time, Emma was just a love-struck sixteen-year-old girl who lived inside her romance novels.
When a guy like Andres suddenly appeared—matching every single trait of a fictional male lead—it would have been crazy if she didn't fall for him.
But what shattered her world was the next morning. When she woke up, Andres was gone.
Before leaving, he had left a note calling her too ugly and saying she didn't meet his standards for a partner.
Every journal entry after that was filled with her furious rants and bitter curses against the heartless Andres White.
She loved him, but she also hated him.
As the two emotions twisted together, her mindset gradually warped into something extremely dark.
As Andres read through the text, Maeve took it all in as well.
Having known him for this long, she knew perfectly well that he wasn't the type of person to throw around casual promises.

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