After Being Driven to Death by a Scummy Countess

[Western fantasy, regret and redemption.]

Dong Ting mysteriously came back to life after dying.

She entered a noble academy as a shepherdess and, in less than half a year, became the saint everyone adored. Yet she could never discover how she had died, and even began to lose herself in dreams.

In her dreams, Dong Ting had someone she loved, but she never knew the woman's name. She only remembered her sweet voice, which made Dong Ting's heart race.

Dong Ting climbed higher and higher, trying to recover her memories, until she met the countess.

"I hear Countess Asta is searching all over the imperial capital for someone?"

"She says she's looking for a servant, but really she's looking for a lover!"

"Good Lord, her lovers look so much like the princess of the Eastern Kingdom!"

From the moment Countess Asta saw Dong Ting, she clung to her like a parasite, insisting again and again that they had once been lovers.

Dong Ting heard the sweet voice she had yearned for in her dreams, but only asked softly:

"Then why did I die?"

Hannah burst into tears.

The Asta family stood at the pinnacle of power.

Predatory merchants wove a web of gold, maintaining their outward splendor by any means necessary. Hannah was one of them.

She lifted a slave's chin with an extravagant feather fan and sneered:

"No matter how fine the merchandise, it can't compare to her."

Thunder and lightning raged outside, and the expensive lace curtains billowed.

Hannah was about to scold the servants when she saw a black-haired woman standing outside the window, her face deathly pale.

It was none other than Dong Ting, the supreme princess of the Eastern Kingdom.

Hannah would never forget those eyes. She knew that if she ever fell into Dong Ting's hands, every night from then on would be restless, until she sank into ruin and died.

After winning Dong Ting's affections, Hannah seized her wealth and stole her title.

Dong Ting only smiled and said, "It's all right, my Hannah."

The Eastern woman's reserve and restraint only fed Hannah's greed. Like a wildfire, she took and took until she had burned away everything Dong Ting owned.

It was only after the princess died of sorrow that Hannah finally understood.

She had fallen in love with Dong Ting.

Hannah was overcome with regret.

To bring Dong Ting back to life, Hannah sold her soul and became a witch.

But what will she do when her beloved remembers everything?

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1. A humble and gentle princess who is secretly lustful and calculating x an obsessive witch who is secretly a romantic.

2. The princess is the pursuer. Both are each other's first and only. A melodramatic happy ending, with no third party!!! Nearly everyone who has romantic entanglements with Ting without being a man is a scumbag bottom or one of their secret identities.

3. Set in a fictionalized Western European setting. Dong Ting is a princess sent from the East on a diplomatic mission.

4. The scumbag is genuinely awful until she understands her own feelings, so the regret-and-redemption arc will be explosive.

5. The early chapters focus more on the plot, with a long buildup.

Theme: Hope is something you give yourself