I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 66

Looking back, I had lived obsessed with war and power.

It was the only thing that mattered during those days—and it was everything that shaped the man Claudius is today. He ruthlessly crushed everyone who stood in his way, launching wars and conquering neighboring nations one after another.

A man driven mad by war. The worst of tyrants. And a cold-hearted father who even forgot the death anniversary of his own child.

His reason for stepping foot here today was his own form of atonement. He thought that offering even a simple prayer would calm his uneasy conscience.

But the scene unfolding before Claudius’s eyes was utterly unexpected.

Ilyd, always as cold and unshakable as ice, had collapsed entirely into another’s arms.

Worse yet, the other was none other than the mercenary captain who had only recently entered the imperial palace.

‘Since when has she been involved with that man…?’

Had there ever been any contact between them? Claudius hurriedly reviewed the past. Yet, officially, the two had never clearly met face to face.

Thus, it was highly likely that Rivel had approached Ilyd first—circling her slowly, ever so gradually drawing her closer to him.

Where had that icy glare full of contempt gone—the same look she always gave Claudius? Now she was gasping for breath, sobbing in someone else’s arms.

Claudius had never even imagined Ilyd crying while held by another.

Was she not the Empress of a nation, always insisting on upright dignity? Yet here she was, cradled in the arms of a stranger.

And not just any stranger—a lowly man of unknown origins, from the very bottom of society.

Her swollen, red-rimmed eyes seemed vividly clear even from where Claudius stood—a sight she had never once shown him.

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