I Killed My Husband (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 37

I am Julia of the Marquess Bennett.

Lady Bennett, I am delighted that we can converse like this. I am grateful for your blessing that love may linger.

Thus, I could gracefully respond, “Thank you for blessing my love with His Imperial Majesty.” It was a response possible only because I had already accepted my lowly station.

For a moment, her perfect smile cracked, but she quickly regained her composure.

“Oh, nothing of the sort. I only hope we may get along well with Empress Mercedes.”

“It is an honor, Lady.”

“Heh heh. Ah, yes. You’ve been making such delightful jokes earlier. Do not mind the reactions of others. The room is a free space; someday, Empress Mercedes’s jokes will be accepted.”

It was an implied critique: “Even though this room is free, your jokes are too much.” Simultaneously, the surrounding ladies began to murmur as if ready to call her a vulgar woman.

But before their slander could grow, Mercedes widened her eyes and nodded.

“I truly hope so. Still, I think she is quieter than prison guards in their speech habits… Ah! That was a joke too.”

“….”

“You seem quite startled. I am truly sorry. You see, His Imperial Majesty finds it most amusing when I joke as if I’ve actually been to the underground prison. So I thought it would be acceptable at the banquet.”

Mercedes deliberately threw out an absurd joke, subtly implying both that she had never been to the underground prison and that His Imperial Majesty found such jokes delightful. The former was a claim impossible to verify.

And the latter… was the perfect dagger to pierce the lady before her.

Julia had always believed she was destined to ascend the throne as Empress. She had always been certain. She even considered it a divine blessing that her husband would be as beautiful as Carlos.

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