Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 86

Ophelia continued.

“If pirates start prowling the Reden sea lanes, that business will suffer as well. Since the handicrafts enterprise is Mahanas’s largest source of funds, the blow would be severe.”

Yet Ophelia felt this wasn’t her usual way. Disrupting Reden’s economy directly would be far more effective than merely tightening Mahanas’s finances.

No matter how much she pressured Mahanas this way, as long as Reden itself remained intact, he could always rise again.

Thus, to settle matters most cleanly, she ought to shake the nation itself—just as she had in her previous life.

But Idren weighed heavily on her mind when it came to trampling Reden so thoroughly.

Of course, Idren had said he would respect her wishes and wouldn’t interfere with her plans.

He wouldn’t break his word or judge her by his own morals. No—moreover, it didn’t matter how he saw her; she had no reason to care.

She knew this clearly, yet whenever she tried to move against Reden as she once had, Ophelia found herself involuntarily recalling Idren’s words.

“But before that, let me clarify one thing. It isn’t because of what you said—I chose this myself.”

From the day she’d asked him to raise canal tariffs,

“You are certainly the kind of person someone could easily come to like. You’re intelligent, honest, and rational. I also think you have a gentle side, though since you likely wouldn’t agree, I won’t include that.”

All the way back to even earlier words she’d heard.

Ophelia knew well that being swayed so easily by mere words wasn’t like her at all.

Since when had others’ opinions mattered to her? She only needed to finish what had to be done, then rest.

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