Rua is a saintess-in-training blessed with healing powers-but her gift comes with a cruel flaw: to cure others, she must take their pain and afflictions into her own body, suffering the consequences herself. Branded "defective," she endures the scorn of the other saintess candidates-except for her closest friend, Arianne, who always stands up for her.
One day, Commander Garrot-the man Rua secretly loves-lies at death's door. Rua heals him completely, only to collapse and hover between life and death. When she finally wakes, it's a nightmare: the credit has been stolen, and Garrot is already engaged to Arianne.
Betrayed and cast aside, Rua swears she will never heal anyone again. Then the second prince, Sven, offers her a deal: revenge on those who humiliated her. Armed with a hidden power-to inflict on others the very ailments she once took into herself-Rua joins hands with Sven and begins a new life... not as a "saintess," but as a villainess.
Why am I to be executed?! Catherine stands before her execution with a passionate look of anger on her face... it has been 3 years now living in the kingdom of Hyrant after moving from her homeland of Woltera. She was clearly set up by someone, but regardless of what is really happening, she is the one to die. The last thing on her mind before all goes black is that she swears to have revenge on the kingdom that did this to her... Suddenly, she wakes up to the morning she was to be sent off to Hyrant. Everything is as it was 3 years ago. Now begins Catherine's plot for revenge!
When Claudia's father dies, her stepsister ensures she loses everything-her family, her home, her status-and sells her to live out the rest of her days in a squalid brothel. At her lowest point, one person reaches out to her: a ruthless marquess known across the nation as the Crimson Devil. Vowing revenge, Claudia joins hands with the marquess to rebuild her life as his wife, Luce, and seeks out revenge against her stepsister. What comes to follow is a tale of revenge that will shake the very foundations of the nation's court...