At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 25

After the embarrassing and simultaneously strange wedding night, Caella awoke and tried hard to regain her composure under the sharply bright morning sun.

Although what had happened with Pheon yesterday was her first experience, she knew well that reacting emotionally to every such incident would only leave her at a loss in their one-sided, tiresome, and stubbornly unbalanced relationship.

‘Don’t forget. He was originally someone highly respected. He’s only being kind because I still have my father alive and my title remains secure……’

As Caella continued this line of thought, urging herself to pull herself together, she suddenly paused. Had Grand Duke Lusenford ever been someone whose attitude changed depending on the person he dealt with?

While she was lost in thought, people came out to see off the newlyweds heading to Lusenford. Pheon greeted the Emperor first among them.

“Thank you for your care, Your Majesty.”

“What care? I didn’t do anything special.”

True—he wasn’t the type to offer such polite formalities to the Emperor. Thump-thump, thump-thump—her heart started racing with unease.

“Caella.”

She turned toward her father. Adeo gently embraced his daughter, who would soon depart for Lusenford.

“You’ve been terribly busy these past few days. Are you feeling all right?”

Between endless banquets, receptions, the main ceremony, and even a civic wedding, the entire marriage schedule had lasted four days and three nights.

Although they’d scaled things down due to the Empress’s illness, the Emperor insisted that as members of the Imperial Family, Princess Ostein and Grand Duke Lusenford deserved a celebration befitting their status—leaving frail Caella utterly exhausted.

Adeo, who had inherited his wife’s tendency to fall ill under stress, worried deeply for his daughter.

“I’m fine.”

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