I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 197
A strange delight lingered in every one of Ilyd’s replies. Was this not the most excited she had seemed in recent days?
Unable to bear it any longer, Lynette shot Rivel a pleading look asking him to intervene, but he showed not the slightest intention of doing so. In fact, he had turned his back entirely and was laughing with shoulders shaking.
“……Somehow it feels as though Her Imperial Majesty the Empress is the more excited one.”
“Captain Rivel does not seem to have the slightest thought of stopping her either.”
“It appears she intends to vent all the resentment she has bottled up until now inside the Empress Consort’s palace.”
“Will that really be alright? The nobles will immediately lodge protests…… Ah.”
Alice suddenly straightened as if something had occurred to her. The Empress was deliberately creating a pretext to be attacked right now.
If this incident were to erupt, Ilyd would become the mad empress of the century who, blinded by her “shadow,” had aimed a gun at the Empress Consort. It would be the perfect justification for deposition or divorce.
Lynette approached the chair where Ilyd sat. With the authority of the nobility now so strong, a single misstep could put her very life in danger.
“Yet I am worried because that pretext seems far too dangerous. Especially since Her Highness the Empress Consort is already with child—if the commotion becomes too great……”
“I think I have already held back quite a lot.”
She had been an exemplary empress. From the gentle and affectionate Crown Princess to the wise Empress—how many long years had she endured? She had run without pause even to catch her breath, so it would be believable if she now claimed to be sick at heart.
“I am not going to do something insane like firing wildly inside the Empress Consort’s palace. But a gun is something that merely having in hand is enough to threaten people.”
She could claim she had personally come out after receiving a report of a suspicious person entering. The Empress Consort’s palace fell under the jurisdiction of the Empress’s palace, and she had ample reason to enforce order.
“To the meek noble ladies watching, how utterly deranged I must appear. She intends to create a rather convenient excuse to drive me out of the position of Empress.”
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
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