I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 100
How should I put it? I feel like crying, yet all that keeps coming out is a hollow laugh.
Count Halstein, who had just reported what happened at Leopold’s mansion, was sweating nervously as he watched Henri’s expression—but Henri didn’t even register his presence.
Henri had long since abandoned any thought of making Valière his empress, but if she would just stay quiet and behave, he’d intended to keep her around out of the affection they’d once shared.
Yet it seemed the label of “imperial consort” wasn’t enough—she’d even earned herself the nickname “the woman who flirts with her lover’s half-sister.”
Henri held the letter Valière had sent to Duke François; with just a word, he could strip her of her title and cast her out. But he hadn’t done so—why? Perhaps out of a sense of loyalty.
Henri had been spreading rumors about selecting a new empress, but he still hadn’t truly considered anyone other than Valière as his true companion.
First love—that feeling he’d carried for more than half his life—was nearly a habit by now.
No, more than that—it was like breathing: so natural he barely noticed it, yet if severed, he’d surely die.
No matter how much his feelings for Valière had faded, Henri couldn’t completely sever that first love, which felt as essential as his own breath.
Because he couldn’t imagine a life without it—and without it, he felt he’d simply perish.
“Just leave her be.”
Count Halstein, who had expected some serious decree from Henri’s solemn expression regarding Valière, asked again in a slightly deflated tone.
“Yes?”
“I said, leave her be. And spread rumors that my divorce from Ermedilin is imminent—so we can gauge the reactions of nobles with marriageable young ladies.”
“Oh, then Viscount Bellian…”
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Wait what the hell. I lowkey hate henri but i feel bad for her to have to suffer with a loser like him omgn