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Two questions. One: are you trying to depress us? Lol Second: Have you read The Great Wish? The idea you’re proposing reminds me of it in a way. But basically the MC is already dying and everything we’re reading is just her simple delusions to cope. Everything is already lost, she never married that man, she never became empress, that sort of thing.
Imagine this, what if this is a back story? What if...For example, their story is a back story of someone else? Like in the present, this is a story of an old duke, didn't really end up with her but end up with someone else? Like the prince became the duke and has a different family-- because of some politucal churva. Then happens to meet the mc of that sort of a story? What if this story is just all memories from an old lady the mc met at the forest waiting for her beloved? Or a story from an old duke? Just a what if...