Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 122
Clemente de Bartolini nimbly caught the look of reproach clouding Isabella’s expression.
Tears immediately welled up in her innocent eyes.
If her younger brother, Ottavio de Contarini, resembled a Rottweiler, Clemente de Bartolini resembled a Minipin. Though the siblings clearly shared some similarities, unlike Ottavio, Clemente appeared harmless and fragile, like a tiny puppy.
“Isabella….”
Isabella looked straight at Clemente, who was on the verge of tears, and spoke firmly.
“Why are you crying, older sister?”
That was precisely Clemente de Bartolini’s trigger. Upon hearing those words, she immediately burst into loud, wailing sobs.
“I didn’t… I didn’t mean to do that….”
Isabella crossed her arms and leaned back against the sofa, staring at the sobbing Minipin. I came here to collect a debt I’m owed—how did I end up as her counselor?
Clemente’s tearful confession went as follows: Count Bartolini was a truly kind man. Feeling pity for his young wife, he let Clemente do anything she wished.
Though Clemente was timid and indecisive, she constantly sought reassurance of love. Once her husband gave her free rein, she fixated only on things he would never permit.
It was a warped, self-destructive impulse—somewhat like asking, “Even like this, can you still love me?”
Her first lover had been a young priest from the Imperial Cathedral who heard her confessions. They had merely grown slightly intimate, yet somehow crossed a line before she realized it, and afterward, things spiraled out of control.
Next came a young fallen nobleman, then a coachman. It was her silent scream toward her husband: “Even like this, do you still love me?” The final name on her list of men her husband would absolutely never tolerate was Marquis Campa.
She had met him in an art dealer’s shop. The wealthy and impeccably mannered Marquis Campa had utterly enchanted her.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
So Alphonso is misunderstanding now?