Seducing the Tyrant Instead of My Favorite (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 149

Emma pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the soldiers’ conversation.

“Marquis Pipe is famously overprotective, isn’t he? If anything were to happen to Empress Emma, wouldn’t he give His Majesty an earful?”

“Who’d even target a mere empress? It wasn’t His Majesty who assigned the guard knights—it was Marquis Pipe.”

“How did he manage the Imperial Guard?”

“I heard he begged His Majesty relentlessly—asked him to uphold his daughter’s dignity. He even offered to cover three months’ worth of the knights’ stipends and all travel expenses. Isn’t it laughable how she struts around, completely unaware of all this? Heh heh.”

Their snickering continued for a long while afterward.

Nikolai hadn’t been worried about Emma—he’d merely agreed to Marquis Pipe’s proposal.

‘O Goddess, why have You inflicted such a harsh trial upon me…!’

It wasn’t the orphans who wept secretly in the monastery chapel—it was Emma.

She resented the Goddess and hated Nikolai.

She loathed him, yet longed to see him.

She yearned, even just once, to feel his touch.

Just then, a female nun with long, flowing black hair approached her.

“Who made you cry, Emma?”

How could she ever forget that mesmerizing, low voice?

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