The Knight Who Broke Off Our Engagement and Told Me to Never Show My Face Again Still Clings to Me Today, Even Though I Was Possessed and Turned Into a Villainess for Ten Years - 50 - A Closed Future
Three days have passed since I woke up in Eliza’s body.
I haven’t been allowed to step outside the room even once. I’m being kept here like a prisoner.
The room is large, with even a private bath.
Everything I need to live is in this room. Because of that, I’ve been wearing a shackle around my ankle the whole time—chained to a spot far from the door. It has never been removed.
“Eliza, miss. I’ve brought your meal.”
Meals are served three times a day.
They’re all fancy and rich—but of course, I don’t feel like eating anything.
Even so, this is Eliza’s important body.
I force myself to eat, believing that I will definitely return to my real self.
“Please… tell the Baron and his wife that I want to speak with them. Please.”
“I’m… very sorry.”
I have two personal maids who take care of me, but they only speak to me when needed.
No matter how much I try to explain, they only look at me with pity—like I’m something sad and broken.
—Right now, I’m being treated as someone with a mental illness.
They believe I think I’m someone else.
Before switching bodies, Mabel had prepared everything.
She arranged to be attacked by a fake thug, acting like she was emotionally hurt by it.
After that, she told the Baron and Baroness Haynes, as well as close servants, that she was starting to feel like she wasn’t herself anymore.
Then, with the fake doctor’s diagnosis, everyone started to believe that the real Eliza had a mental illness.
That she was pretending to be someone else in order to protect herself.
So when I finally woke up in her body and said, “This isn’t my real body,” no one would believe me.
They only thought I had gotten worse.
“If you scream about switching bodies, you’ll only make the Baron and Baroness sad. It’s better to give up.”
Gerald said that with a smile, like he was completely sure I could never escape.
When I met the Baron and Baroness before, they didn’t seem like people who would lock up their daughter with shackles.
That’s why I begged them so desperately when I saw them—to please let me go.
“If I ever stop being myself, please don’t let me leave this room. Don’t let me see anyone except Father, Mother, and Lord Gerald. I want to remain the lady everyone remembers me as.”
Because mental illness is a huge scandal for a noble girl—especially for Eliza Haynes, who is loved and admired by all— Mabel had made them promise to keep her hidden away, as the past Eliza.
The Baron and Baroness cried while telling me this.
It was all so perfectly prepared, I couldn’t even speak.
Even with Gerald, it was the same.
He had been visiting the Haynes family often, pretending to be deeply in love with Eliza.
Their engagement was almost official.
The Baron and his wife completely trusted Gerald, who stayed by ‘Eliza’s’ side to support her, even with her ‘illness.’
The story now is that Eliza forced herself to attend my birthday party with Gerald, but collapsed from the poison and reached her mental and physical limit.
“…What should I do?”
No one believes me.
I can’t even leave this room.
But what hurts the most—is knowing that Gerald had planned to betray us all along.
“Today, I brought your favorite cake.”
Gerald came again today after lunch.
He visits every day without fail.
To everyone else, he must look like a kind fiancé, visiting a poor sick girl.
But to me, he’s terrifying.
He acts like nothing is wrong—smiling, talking like usual.
“Next month, we’ll be officially engaged. We can’t hold a wedding in your condition, but I’ll prepare a ring for you.”
“……”
“Maybe I’ll use amethyst—the same color as Sadie’s eyes. These days, couples use gemstones that match each other’s eye color for engagement rings. It’s popular now.”
Even though I stayed silent, Gerald kept smiling and talking alone.
I sat on the bed, looking down, gripping the sheet tightly.
“…How is everyone doing?”
“Oh? You’re finally speaking to me? I’m happy.”
“……”
“Actually, I visited the Arclight family again today.”
I looked up in shock. Gerald chuckled.
He stood from the chair beside the bed and sat down on the edge, close to me.
“Everything’s exactly the same. No one has noticed I betrayed them.”
“That can’t be…”
“The plan failed, and no one knows what happened to Eliza. And now, Mabel, inside Sadie’s body, is being loved and cared for by everyone.”
It felt like I was hit in the head.
The shock spread through my whole body.
…Deep down, I had believed that my family and friends would somehow notice that I wasn’t myself.
That’s why I now feel so crushed with despair.
“Oh, and Rufus Langridge too. He visits Mabel every day.”
“……!”
Even Rufus didn’t realize I’m not the real Sadie.
Thinking about him becoming close to Mabel using my body—it made me want to cry so badly.
It felt like the ground was crumbling under my feet.
My vision blurred.
Am I going to stay trapped in this room, in this body, forever?
Soon, tears began falling onto my hands, still holding the sheets.
“Don’t cry, Sadie. It just means you weren’t that important to them.”
“…Ugh… hic…”
“But if it were me—I’d recognize you no matter what body you’re in.”
As he said that, Gerald reached out and took my hand, gently touching my ring finger—as if checking the size.