Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 204

The king executed his own father without so much as blinking an eye.

The young man, though handsome, bore an unmistakable exhaustion in his pallid face and spoke barely a word.

“I shall impose the same punishment on those who conspired with Marquis Rohos to deceive the royal house.”

Standing where the bound prisoners dragged before him could look up and see, the king declared this with a dry expression, then scanned the surroundings and pointed to her.

“You, as the child of Taelan Rohos, shall serve as the witness to prove the justice of this punishment.”

Unable to dare defy those words, Anika had no choice but to stand still and watch as her father and his friends were executed.

Though her father had been a thoroughly despicable man—so she felt no sorrow—this was the first time she had ever witnessed so many people die before her eyes.

To be honest, she had also been terrified that she herself might be executed.

Even if she bore no guilt of her own, innocence did not guarantee immunity from punishment.

Charges could always be fabricated.

And if he executed her as well, the king could simply absorb the Rohos fiefdom outright.

He surely knew that same truth she did, yet the king left her father’s domain in her hands.

True, he had stripped away all the southern private troops, but compared to the value of her life, anything else seemed cheap.

From that day onward, Anika resolved to live quietly in the south.

If she had been alone, she might have dared throw her life away more recklessly—but she had a beloved mother who would grieve deeply if her daughter died.

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