LOOKING BACK...
...THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS FATE IN OUR MEETING.
MY PHILOSOPHY TEACHER TOLD ME THAT FATE DIDN'T EXIST.
BUT THE MOMENT WE ACCEPT FORTUITY AS INEVITABILITY...
...WE, AS HUMANS, BELIEVE IT TO BE FATE.
IF THOSE WORDS ARE TRUE, THEN IT MEANS...
...FATE NEVER EXISTED FOR US.
Episode 1
HEINER.
WON'T YOU READ THIS?
TO BE OPENED BY ADDRESSEE ONLY: MS. ROZENBERG.
I'M BUSY AT THE MOMENT, SO WE'LL TALK LATER.
I WENT THROUGH SOME TROUBLE DIGGING UP YOUR PAST, HEINER.
I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED...
...WHY YOU ARE LIKE THIS TO ME.
WHY SOMEONE WHO LOVED ME SO DEARLY CHANGED.
EVEN IF YOU FELL OUT OF LOVE, THIS IS TOO MUCH.
...ANNETTE.
BUT NOW I KNOW.
YOU APPROACHED WITH ULTERIOR MOTIVES FROM THE START, DIDN'T YOU?
YES, I DID.
HAHA.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT PRETENDING TO LOVE YOUR ENEMY'S DAUGHTER.
THE MEETING I HAD REGARDED AS FATE...
...HAD ALL BEEN UNDER HIS CONTROL.
I'D BEEN PLAYED BY HEINER FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
THE KINGDOM OF PADANIA.
MY FATHER, MARQUESS DIETRICH ROZENBERG, WAS THE KING'S NEPHEW,
AND WE WERE A PART OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.
YOU NEVER DISAPPOINT, WALDEMAR.
MY FATHER, GENERAL OF THE PADANIA ARMY.
COMMANDER HEINER WALDEMAR WAS ONE OF MY FATHER'S SOLDIERS.
AFTER A FATEFUL MEETING AT THE ROZENBERG MANSION WHEN THE ROSES WERE IN FULL BLOOM...
A TWO YEAR COURTSHIP FOLLOWED BY MARRIAGE.
HOWEVER...
...THE HAPPINESS I THOUGHT WOULD LAST FOREVER QUICKLY CAME TO AN END.
THE KING HAS BEEN DEFEATED!
WE WON!
THE ROYAL FAMILY FELL TO THE REBELLION, AND THE NOBLES MET THEIR DOWNFALL.
JUST LIKE THAT, MY FATHER WAS KILLED BY THE REBELS, AND MY MOTHER TOOK HER OWN LIFE.
THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE REBELLION WAS HEINER.
H-HEINER...
EVEN IF HE HAD BETRAYED MY FATHER, I TRUSTED HEINER.
AND THAT WAS WHEN...
OW!
...HE TURNED INTO SOMEONE DIFFERENT.
BUT I NEVER IMAGINED THAT HE HAD APPROACHED ME ON PURPOSE.
DOWN WITH THE ROZENBERGS!
BRING US ROZENBERG'S DAUGHTER!
I TRIED TO UNDERSTAND YOU...
...TELLING MYSELF THAT YOU HAD NO OTHER CHOICE,
SINCE THE TIMES WERE CHANGING.
OFF WITH ANNETTE ROZENBERG'S HEAD!
BECAUSE I HAD BLINDLY TRUSTED YOUR LOVE.
HOWEVER...
...THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE MILITARY OFFICER WHO OPPRESSED THE REBELS AND CIVILIANS.
A SUPERFICIAL WOMAN WHO PROFITED OFF THE BLOOD OF OTHERS.
DESPITE KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT POLITICS, I TOOK ON ALL THE BURDEN.
I WAS ALIVE BUT NOT LIVING.
I WAS LEFT ALL ALONE IN EVERY SPACE TO EXIST.
BUT I WAITED HOPING YOU WOULD STAND BY ME.
WHAT HAD I DONE WRONG?
SHOULD I NEVER EVEN HAVE EXISTED?
THE ANSWER TO ALL THOSE QUESTIONS...
...HAD FINALLY REACHED ME IN THE FORM OF A SINGLE LETTER.
I TRIED EVERYTHING TO CHANGE YOUR MIND.
LIKE A FOOL.
IT TURNED OUT YOU HADN'T CHANGED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
YOU JUST NEVER LOVED ME FROM THE START.
...AM I WRONG?
...NO.
THEN YAP AWAY, HEINER.
BECAUSE I MUST HEAR THE TRUTH FROM YOU MYSELF.
I...
...LOATHED YOUR FATHER AND THE MONARCHY.
THAT'S THE SIMPLE TRUTH.
APPROACHING YOU WAS JUST A PART OF THAT PLAN. THAT'S ALL.
AM I...
ALSO... INCLUDED IN THAT OBJECT OF LOATHING?
...TWO YEARS AGO.
THERE WAS MUCH RUCKUS OVER REPORTS THAT THE MONARCHS WERE FOSTERING SPIES.
I WAS A SPY AT THE TRAINING CAMP YOUR FATHER OVERLOOKED.
WE WERE KILLED DURING MISSIONS OR ELIMINATED TO KEEP THINGS SECRET.
I ALONE SURVIVED DUE TO MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KINGDOM.
HAVING STRENGTHENED HIS POSITION, YOUR FATHER HAPPILY KEPT ME BY HIS SIDE.
AND THAT IS HOW...
...I MET YOU.
I HEARD YOU RETURNED ALONE.
SEEING YOU SMILING INNOCENTLY, DRAPED IN JEWELS AND LACES...
MY CONDOLENCES TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR THE NATION.
...SPEAKING OF CONDOLENCE AS IF YOU WERE BESTOWING SOMETHING GREAT...
...MADE ME THINK THAT SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG.
WERE YOU INCLUDED IN THE OBJECTS OF LOATHING?
OF COURSE. I DESPISE YOU.
OH.
...I SEE.
THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTIONS WAS SIMPLE.
HE MERELY HAD APPROACHED AN OBJECT OF LOATHING FOR REVENGE.
HEINER WALDEMAR DESPISES ANNETTE ROZENBERG.
THAT MAKES THINGS EASIER.
AND NOT EVEN KNOWING THAT, I HAD LOVED HIM.
I WANT A DIVORCE, HEINER.
I CANNOT GRANT THAT.
WHY IS THAT? HAVE I ANY USE LEFT?
MY PARENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY, THE MONARCHY HAS FALLEN...
...AND I HAVE NOTHING LEFT.
ANYTHING I DO HAVE LEFT IS THAT OF HEINER WALDEMAR'S WIFE.
YOUR REVENGE IS OVER!
ANNETTE.
HOW DARE YOU TRY TO BE HAPPY ELSEWHERE?
...THERE IS NOWHERE I CAN BE HAPPY.
THAT MAKES THINGS EASIER.
IF THAT'S THE CASE ANYWAY, THEN BE FOREVER UNHAPPY BY MY SIDE.
SEEING HIM ENVELOPED IN THE SCARLET SUNSET MADE ME REALIZE.
THIS MAN'S REVENGE HAS ONLY NOW BEGUN.
My Beloved Oppressor Chapter 1 follows Annette Rozenberg as she confronts her husband Heiner Waldemar with a letter exposing his past. She learns their fated meeting at the Rozenberg mansion was planned, that Heiner was a spy turned rebel commander, and that he loathed her father Marquess Dietrich Rozenberg and the monarchy. When Heiner admits he never loved her, Annette asks for a divorce, but he refuses and vows to keep her miserable by his side.
