The promised ten months with Carson had already passed. Ines wanted to go to him without hesitation, but the growing impatience made her feel smaller.
It was appropriate for her to rise to the highest point like the midday sun, but the more she tried, the further she got from the lowest of the low.
“Hopefully, the current tribulations will be incomparable to his glory in the future.”
Ines swallowed dry saliva to steady her mind, reciting a verse from the Bible. She took a deep breath, standing confidently with a dignified posture. Walking towards the window, she faced it.
“If he forgives your sins, no one else will question your sins anymore.”
Only in front of him was Ines not a sinner.
So, it was time for her to prepare to confront Grandel. To protect Carson and his people.
Ines focused her mind on the mission, not allowing herself to think of anything else.
A week before Carson’s ascension ceremony as the crown prince, he led his elite forces and knights to attack Wollumingsung, an inner palace within the imperial palace.
In truth, the term “attack” wasn’t appropriate. The emperor willingly opened the gates of the palace. He allowed his knights to directly guard Wollumingsung.
While the empress’s knights tirelessly guarded the empress’s palace day and night, they didn’t even realize the existence of intruders until all five halls of Wollumingsung were empty.
They managed to discover Carson and his group, drawing their swords, but couldn’t swing them recklessly.
Killing an emperor’s knight who hadn’t attacked them first within the imperial palace meant rebellion.
Carson gathered perfect evidence supporting the empress’s wrongdoings.
Especially the diamond he received as payment for selling common children and orphans as slaves in another country enraged even the noble-born knights, unrelated to the incident.
“Now it’s better for you to leave.”
The leaders of the riot had already seen the spectacle of Wolluming’s splendor, like a tragedy. Even though they now knew that the temple was not their enemy, they remained.
Carson, after taking a look around the palace, nodded.
“Just wait a moment.”
Carson left the people in their places and headed to the room where he had seen the former emperor’s sword. Without hesitation, he took out the sword. When he unsheathed the sword from its scabbard, the sharp blade glimmered with light.
The living sword, sharp as if defying the years, heated his chest. He walked to the portrait of the empress in the golden frame and cut it into four pieces with the sword. The empress’s portrait, separated from the golden frame, fell weakly, like leaves meeting winter.
Carson picked it up himself, shaping it into a scroll.
Now, only the day he would ascend to the throne as emperor remained, not the emperor’s appointment by others.
The news that Wollumingsung had been attacked, and all the empress’s belongings inside were confiscated, quickly spread throughout the jurisdiction.
Simultaneously, a document was revealed, offering a portion of diamond mining rights in exchange for handing over the young slaves. It had the signature of Count Graham, but everyone knew that behind it was the empress.
Four days later, three days before Carson’s ascension ceremony, he led an even larger crowd of rioters to Jakohehna Square.
As the sun began to set, Jakohehna Square was filled with people without a single space to step.
The crowd gathered there all shouted loudly towards one place.
“Empress, come out. Face the people of the empire directly!”
“The empress, who led the people into ruin and indulged in luxury and pleasure, must come out and pay the price for her sins!”
“The one who caused chaos in the country by starting a war and endangered the people of the empire must come out and receive judgment for her sins!”
“Bring back my daughter who died from the plague!”
Carson brought high priests and judges to the scene. Although the accused didn’t appear, the judge began to pass judgment on the sins right there.
As the judge began to list the empress’s crimes, Jakohehna Square fell unbelievably silent.
Among them was the content of the empress murdering aristocrats. The empress spent nearly thirty years in the imperial palace as the supreme lady of Kains. Including distant relatives, the number revealed easily exceeded thirty.
Carson’s mother was also assassinated by the empress. He had thought he could never hold the empress accountable for that incident throughout his life.
After the details of the empress’s crimes were revealed, one offender was led to the stage where Carson stood.
It was none other than Count Grandel, the one who intended to attack Landhill a while ago but failed, and the father-in-law Carson wanted to make Anthony Marquis the crown prince.
Count Grandel, who was captured by Carson’s knights a while ago while attempting to attack Landhill, was brought to the jurisdiction.
Before passing the sentence on the empress, the court first hinted at the death penalty for Count Grandel.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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