At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 96
He had aged. That was Caella’s first impression upon seeing the Emperor again after several months. The wrinkles etched by anxiety and ill temper had deepened, his eyes had grown dull, and time seemed to have suddenly settled all at once upon the face once widely praised for its handsomeness.
The Emperor had only just entered his fifties, yet his hair was already turning gray.
Of course, her own father—Adeo, the Emperor’s younger brother—had also aged, but not nearly to this extent. Moreover, there were even rumors that the Emperor possessed a magical artifact meant to preserve his youth—so what could possibly have caused this?
Though he had already enjoyed everything there was to enjoy, held supreme power, and was the wealthiest person in the Empire, his childlike excitement, with his flushed face, looked utterly unbecoming.
Because she had returned through reincarnation, Caella could now completely discard any lingering reverence for the Emperor. That man was nothing but a human butcher, a beast that had never become truly human.
“What is this? I’ve truly never seen anything like it.”
When she opened the gift box, there was yet another box inside—but even that box alone delighted the Emperor immensely.
And understandably so: the golden case was intricately crafted with branch-like patterns, and curved golden twigs converged toward a purple spinel set right at its center. The spinel sparkled like clusters of ripe berries.
“A new mine was recently discovered, and some gems were extracted. Although there are diamonds as well, the rarest find was this purple spinel, so I thought it fitting to present it to Your Majesty. It isn’t very large, though.”
“Not at all—this size is enormous.”
Caella, who had been quietly listening, chimed in.
“It matches the color of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress’s eyes, Your Majesty.”
At those words, the Emperor’s eyes even reddened.
“Indeed… it truly resembles the Empress’s eyes. It’s been far too long since I last saw those eyes. Thank you. How beautifully they mirror the Empress’s eyes.”
The path Pheon was walking appeared, on the surface, to be the perfect course for a skilled politician.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
MANGA DISCUSSION
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The more I learn about beatch the worse it gets
JUST DIE DIE DIE, JUST DIE ALREADY YOU LEECH EMPEROR
Seriously !! Kill him and be done with it
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“Then let me ask you instead.”
I understand that you want to get her out of her depression but you are honestly annoying… Give her time to recover, give her time to be silent and sad, and when she wants she will speak up.
Afterward, he’d even show her the results of those tasks during their walks. She
Huh now she’s high maintenance NOW SHE’S HIGH MAINTENANCE!!YOU KIDDING ME!!she wasn’t like that she never like that YOU MADE HER LIKE THAT !! SHE WANTS TO DIE YOU..YOU
“I assumed you’d still be alive, so I went to save you at least—but that bastard
No you are a bastard your the real bastard man I’m choking right now i can’t even write cause of the tears
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How is this sub-human still alive