Fortunately, they were able to reach Heyvil Hospital quickly in Klaus’s carriage.
The doctor, who had hurriedly come out after discovering the Duke, examined him for quite some time and mentioned that the Duke seemed to have fainted and suffered a severe blow to the head.
Although there was no immediate threat to his life, the doctor advised keeping a close eye on him for a while. As the doctor spoke, Roselia felt as if blood was draining from her toes.
Suddenly, the original story crossed her mind. In the original, Duke Bernas, amidst suffering from dementia, left numerous masterpieces whenever he regained consciousness. Later, as his dementia worsened, he entered a nursing home. There, he lived a lonely life until his last breath.
Could it be… she wondered if, in her attempt to change the original story, she had unintentionally accelerated the inevitable?
With a sense of unease, Roselia spoke to the doctor, “The Duke has been suffering from dementia. Could it have worsened?”
“We’ll have to observe further, but there’s a possibility. Moreover, he experienced an external shock along with the mental one…”
“Sigh…”
Everything felt like her fault.
Seemingly having read her thoughts, Klaus, who quietly approached, muttered softly, “It’s not your fault, Antonio.”
Perhaps if she hadn’t met the Duke, none of this would have happened. The thought lingered in her mind. However, self-blame wouldn’t resolve the situation. They needed to find out as much as they could right away.
“Why did the death notice for the Duke from Escavan arrive again?”
“I had just told Alejandro to look into it. What I heard earlier is that the Duke requested a retransmission from the Duke’s mansion.”
“The Duke? That’s unlikely!”
“Yeah, it doesn’t make sense for a Duke who didn’t even know about the death notice to request a retransmission.”
Klaus’s expression suddenly stiffened as he said this.
“One thing to note is that Lord Bernas mentioned he had something to show me today.”
Roselia’s gaze, puzzled by Klaus’s words, turned towards him. Facing her, Klaus continued to speak in a cold tone.
“My guess is that someone who doesn’t want the identity of that item to be revealed may be behind all this.”
“Who could that be?”
“…We’ll have to find out.”
In truth, he had some suspicions.
As they were discussing the Duke and Duke Rubellio, and the Duke mentioned showing him an item, even though there was no confirmation, he was in a state of suspicion.
However, he didn’t plan to convey this story to Antonio, who was already confused.
Everything had to quietly end in his hands.
“I’m extremely grateful that we attached a shadow to Duke Bernas.”
“How the hell did that damned inspiration have that potion? Surely, he must have told the servant to use the poison on the emperor and burn the potion. Rubellios Duke, uttering the words like chewing and spitting, contorted his features fiercely.
The vial was a container of poison obtained from Raphaelios.
In small doses, there were no signs of poison reactions or peculiarities in appearance. However, when a bottle was fully consumed, it led to sudden death due to heart failure.
Having bought the imperial servant, he had fed the poison to the emperor through her and even took her life to prevent any aftermath.
But that insignificant servant had left a tail behind…
Rubellios threw the vial into the roaring furnace on the wall of the study.
????Crack!????
With a crisp sound, the glass bottle hit the inner wall of the furnace, shattered, and twisted into the flames.
Staring at the scene, Rubellios muttered displeasedly, as if he had a bitter taste in his mouth.
“If I make a mistake, I might be exposed to what happened in the past.”
It was an affair where he had tried to instigate between the duke and the crown prince merely using a woman named Roselia, but things had started to escalate. It seemed that everything originated from her.
“I guess we should handle this somehow.”
“Are you talking about Duke Bernas?”
“Both the duke and the servant.”
“The duke is an old man with dementia anyway, so you probably don’t need to worry too much. Moreover, his condition might have worsened after this incident.”
In response to the calm words of the shadowy man, Rubellios calmed down his excitement.
“Then handle that woman too.”
In response to Rubellios’s words, heavily laid down, the shadowy man bowed deeply and replied.
“The vigilance of the duke’s shadows is strict.”
“What about the beggar claiming to be the real Antonio?”
“He’s steadily under pressure as planned.”
Upon the man’s words, Rubellios, who seemed to regain composure, buried his upper body deeply into the sofa, crossed his legs, and said,
“That guy should play his role well, so that woman will be rejected by the duke.”
Silence filled the air between Klaus and Roselia, who were sitting face to face in the Duke’s office.
Klaus, sipping the tea he had ordered, looked at Roselia, who was absentmindedly staring down at the table, and spoke heavily.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
