I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 194

“Send it off as it is.”

Ermedilin handed a small box, containing a brief letter, to Count Halstein.

Inside the elegant yet simple box lay Henri’s ashes, all that remained after cremation.

The letter did not contain much writing.

It merely stated, in a calm and concise tone, why Henri had lost his will to fight and how he had given up his life.

The recipient of this small parcel, sent in the name of the Trivian Imperial Household, was Lineti, Henri’s mother.

In truth, Ermedilin was already thoroughly exhausted by the worst parents she had encountered since arriving here.

She simply could not understand how they could so easily use and discard someone who was like a part of themselves—a living extension of their own soul.

Every time she saw Ferdant, who had only just met her yet called her “Mother” and buried his face in her embrace, Ermedilin grew even angrier at their behavior.

If you cannot love someone, shouldn’t you at least refrain from hurting them?

Duke François, Ermonde, and Duke Baptistian—the worst of parents—had already passed away.

Though Ermedilin knew she could not impose any legal punishment on Lineti, she believed the mother who had stolen her son’s will to live through false testimony must at least understand the consequences of her actions.

Henri’s ashes crossed mountains and rivers, eventually leaving the borders of Trivian.

At the same time, Ermedilin began preparing a ceremony to commemorate the end of the war.

It had been only half a year since their marriage.

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