A Different Husband Every Night (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 109

“Your Majesty the Empress… regardless of whether she truly is a saintess or not, she is indispensable to the Leonharta Empire.”

Those who had blamed me just moments ago were now praising me. Of course, they had no idea I was the Empress.

‘Should I be happy about this?’

My feelings were strange.

The woman who had just yelled at me now clasped her hands together as if in prayer and looked up toward the sky.

Though all she could see was the damp stone ceiling—no sky at all.

“Do you know what the very first thing His Majesty did after ascending the throne was?”

How could I possibly know? Back then, I was trapped in Lupeon Palace.

“He killed more than half of his loyal ministers. I’ll never forget the terror of that time.”

“Oh.”

Right. That’s exactly what happened. Immediately upon his ascension, Levanfel ruthlessly executed everyone who had worn the mask of loyalty—those who had shamelessly committed atrocities alongside his mother.

But no one knew this truth. They simply accepted “loyal ministers” as loyal ministers, nothing more.

“The atmosphere in the capital froze solid, as if caught in a midwinter blizzard. Every day, the wind blowing from the imperial palace carried the stench of blood. People were slaughtered on the Emperor’s whim, so everyone trembled in fear, wondering if they’d be next.”

While Levanfel was eliminating all those rotting corpses within the palace, the common folk trembled in terror. Seeing the inexplicably piling corpses must have made each day unbearably hard for them.

I listened quietly to their tale.

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