One Day My Sister Died (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 028

Chapter 28. The Horse-Headed Count’s Family

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Yuan followed them in a daze, only snapping out of it when their elongated shadows had nearly vanished beneath her feet.

She saw the Emperor ascending the stairs to the second floor, following Clade Euphris.

And from somewhere, the First Prince Bollonico passed by Yuan, tailing them like a shadow.

A single parrot brought by Bollonico, along with dozens of foreign servants, trailed behind in a line like ducklings obediently following their mother, entering Clade Euphris’s private domain.

The excited atmosphere, the hushed whispers—everyone was brimming with anticipation, like spectators entering a circus.

Yuan stood alone on the landing, covering her face with both hands.

Tears, endless and helpless, seeped through the gaps between her fingers—tears she didn’t even realize she still had left to shed.

She wept without even knowing she was crying.

Then, a man’s anguished cry gripped and shook her, distant as if from far away, or perhaps echoing from within her own mind.

She clamped both hands over her ears, unable to block the flood of sobs, and silently screamed in that very spot.

Just as she had done for the past ten years, locking herself in a room in the Pelliese mansion and screaming into the void.

Just as she had desperately hidden her writhing pain from others, no matter how much it hurt.

Perhaps Clade Euphris had locked himself in that bedroom all this time, refusing to come out, merely to preserve the last shred of his dignity.

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