My Husband Has Changed (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 91

That evening. As Mikhail had said, the king was dead.

The funeral rites and period were drastically simplified, and exactly three days after the state mourning began, Mikhail ascended the throne.

Though there was an adult heir, the king’s death had been far too sudden.

Unsettling rumors swirled inside and outside the kingdom, and the Nurembergs needed a suitable scapegoat to strengthen their unity.

Adelheid’s trial proceeded amid all this.

The judges were frantic, unable to heap even more crimes upon her head.

The crime of daring to take vows with an impure body and thus defiling the sacred, the crime of being a soul corrupted from the start and thus unworthy of magic, the crime of resorting to wicked sorcery to gain magical power, the crime of shamelessly seducing her own blood kin…

All of it had occurred with Mikhail’s silent consent.

Her honor had instantly plummeted into something utterly worthless and sordid.

Something too pitiful even to trample upon—something that had always been faint to begin with.

And each time Adel was vilified thus, Mikhail smiled with rapturous delight in the courtroom.

He seemed to be waiting—waiting for her to become utterly wretched, so tattered that no one would pick her up.

‘So that when your life becomes utterly wretched, I’ll reluctantly gather you up like your savior.’

The root of that emotion was obsession, stubbornness, and, most horrifyingly, desire.

With each passing day, as the final verdict of the trial drew nearer, she grew drier and drier, unable to swallow even a drop of water.

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