I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 187

Ermedilin let out a soft sigh and, as if having made a decision, firmly pressed her lips together.

Then she immediately reached into her bosom and pulled out the ribbon Runi had once given her.

“If it hadn’t been for Runi, I would have died long ago. Had that happened, I couldn’t have stopped King Priannton’s cursed corpses, and the capital would have soon fallen to the enemy. Your daughter didn’t merely save me.”

Ermedilin held out the ribbon she’d been treasuring toward Runi’s Mother.

“Raise your daughter and grandchildren on the land Runi protected. This ribbon was a gift from Runi, so I wish for you to keep it.”

Runi’s Mother stared blankly at the ribbon for a moment, then stretched out both hands as if to take it.

But instead of accepting the ribbon, she gently clasped Ermedilin’s hand that held it.

“Do you see this thick hair? And these long fingers? I passed them all to Runi. Moreover, I carried Runi in my body for ten months and raised her for nineteen years. My very body and all my memories are proof that my daughter once lived in this world. Therefore, it would be best if Your Majesty the Empress kept this ribbon.”

Overwhelmed with emotion, Ermedilin gazed silently into those brown eyes so strikingly like Runi’s, then nodded and carefully tucked the ribbon back into her bosom.

Runi’s Mother gave Ermedilin, who was on the verge of tears, a hazy smile.

That smile looked so forced and weary that it seemed blood might pour from her eyes at any moment, yet Ermedilin deliberately pretended not to notice.

“Live for your son. I, too, shall live for my remaining daughters and grandchildren.”

A mother can be endlessly irrational when it comes to her children—but she can also be endlessly pragmatic for their sake.

Even faced with this unreal reality of having lost a child, Runi’s Mother was confronting it squarely for the sake of her surviving children.

Not wishing to disturb the family’s morning any further, Ermedilin quietly withdrew.

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