I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 102

In truth, from Henri’s perspective, the slander against Lineti might seem somewhat unjust.

The moment Henri was declared the Former Emperor’s heir, Lineti began treating the imperial palace as her own home and even openly demanded tribute from the capital’s nobles.

Moreover, she took up a new lover and paraded him around before the Former Emperor’s funeral had even concluded—just as an added insult.

Though their mother-son relationship had never been warm to begin with, Henri would have shuddered and exiled his own mother overseas precisely because of such behavior.

Yet Lineti still failed to recognize her own wrongdoing and instead felt bitter resentment toward her son, Henri.

It felt unjust to her that while her son was emperor, she herself was wandering foreign lands like a vagrant.

Had Lineti been a woman with any sense of shame, she would have quietly lived abroad for her son’s sake—but if she had ever possessed such shame, their relationship would never have deteriorated to this point.

Watching Lineti, red-faced and speaking ill of her own son, Innian felt a bitter pang as a fellow mother—but at the same time, she sensed a golden opportunity.

After all, a useful pawn had conveniently fallen right into her hands.

‘So the heavens truly do favor the victor.’

“You must be deeply hurt. The bond between mother and child is something even heaven cannot sever.”

“Bond? A bond? Not even a speck remains. I wouldn’t shed a single tear even if my mother died alone somewhere in obscurity.”

Of course, under normal circumstances, Innian wouldn’t have cared in the slightest whether Lineti wandered foreign lands or died alone.

She likely wouldn’t have even let Lineti into her residence had she come calling.

But now, with Leopold eyeing Henri’s imperial throne, Henri’s birth mother—no matter how estranged—was undeniably useful.

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