Selected as the New Stepmother (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 78

I was only asking after your well-being. Isn’t that something you could answer?

Ascal felt his stomach twist. How dare she wonder about Rublion’s welfare after abandoning him so callously.

He looked at the Crown Princess, her demeanor forlorn, and spoke coldly.

“I cannot answer.”

“You must have grown so much. Your name is Rubli……”

“Enough.”

Ascal clenched his fist.

“How dare you…… speak that name with your lips? Not until the day you and my brother die.”

Hegelia’s expression turned pitiful. Naturally, but seeing it made Ascal’s nausea worsen.

“I must be going now, Your Grace.”

As Hegelia watched him bow slightly, she gripped her dress skirt and bowed in return. She stared blankly after his retreating figure until her shoulders, once tense with solitude, finally slumped.

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Blackswan, after a long vacation, reopened its doors. The florist across the street, who had been worrying that he hadn’t come as usual, came by and gifted a small cactus, no bigger than a palm.

Indeed, during the festival season, people’s generosity seemed heightened.

Seizing this opportunity, Murten appeared the moment he heard I had returned, bringing several paintings related to beast hunting.

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