I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 109

Having returned to the imperial palace, Ermedilin finished giving Henri a brief report and immediately headed to her bedroom.

She had decided to open the notebook she’d found at the bottom of the wardrobe—the very object of her original purpose.

Although the writing was far too small and densely packed to read comfortably in the dim, gloomy cellar, Ermedilin didn’t want to read those records in her brightly lit bedroom either.

“Guess being meticulous about keeping records must be in my nature.”

To her astonishment, that notebook turned out to be the original Ermedilin’s diary.

A thick chronicle detailing how an ordinary girl transformed into the empire’s most infamous witch—a history steeped in darkness.

She couldn’t even begin to count how anxious she’d been while riding back, terrified Pelio might discover the thick notebook hidden beneath her cloak.

“Wow, Hye-young actually reads thick books with tiny handwriting like this?”

Ermedilin hadn’t particularly disliked reading in her previous life, but she certainly wasn’t the kind of bookworm who’d willingly buy and read something that looked this dull.

Yet what lay before her was perhaps the only point of connection to understanding the original Ermedilin.

Ermedilin began reading intently through the girl’s history—one that would surely keep her awake for several nights.

The beginning was boring.

Well, not so much boring as horrifying and cruel at first—but as the same content kept repeating, it eventually became tiresome.

Entries like: what experiments she endured today, where she was struck, how much she bled, or how much it hurt.

Sad, heart-wrenching passages about how, while Ermonde joyfully flew kites with their father, Ermedilin remained locked inside the castle, suffering from high fever, secretly watching them from afar.

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