I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 104

Seeing Ermedilin looking up at him so resolutely, Henri was overcome by a strange feeling.

After all, the wife he had previously despised was not a woman with such clear and transparent eyes.

Everyone in the capital knew of her obsession; people believed the witch was hopelessly infatuated with the handsome Emperor—but Henri alone thought differently.

Though her violet eyes appeared calm at first glance, what he saw within them was unmistakably a madness-tinged obsession, yet it was certainly not directed toward someone she loved.

Rather, if anything, it resembled hatred.

But in any case, they were a couple bound by no true affection.

Henri let people believe whatever made them comfortable.

Because doing so was more convenient for preserving his own honor.

As long as people believed that the wicked witch, infatuated with the Emperor, had murdered his half-brothers herself, he could at least feign innocence outwardly.

Yet recently, Ermedilin seemed to have severed even that inexplicable, intense obsession she once displayed—so much so that even the madness in her eyes, when she looked up at him, had vanished entirely.

She had become the most difficult opponent in the world—impossible to understand or predict.

But Henri, who had survived this brutal political arena by protecting himself since childhood, was no pushover either.

Henri judged that Ermedilin wasn’t genuinely worried about the maids.

Having secured Pelio of the Imperial faction, she naturally didn’t want to lose Beleste of the Noble faction.

And if she added that thorn-in-the-eye cleric to her side as well, she would gain a force quite troublesome to deal with.

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