Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 342

Ottavio felt like his nerves were about to snap.

His beautiful wife was about to face again that exceptionally handsome scoundrel—whom she had naively been toyed with in the past, or so Ottavio still believed.

That alone was horrifying enough. What if his wife fell for that bastard all over again? What if she compared his face to that fellow’s and thought, “My husband really is ugly”?

If that were the sum of his worries in life, he might have endured it—but Ottavio was now on the brink of bankruptcy.

“Damn Lemu merchant!”

That man had been as pliable as a tongue in the mouth while old Count Contarini was alive. Yet the moment leadership of the house changed, he vanished without a trace, embezzling all their money.

“He didn’t just take the principal and interest he’d collected from loans to others—he also borrowed business capital from partners by selling the Contarini name. Every loan shark in San Carlo is clamoring for the Contarini family to repay their debts.”

It was a meticulously planned, grand-scale swindle.

“Damn Lemu! Untrustworthy merchants! Anyone who doesn’t believe in Yesap is trash! I never should’ve associated with money-grubbing merchants like them!”

He was barely managing to carry out his daily duties while on the verge of madness. Had it not been for today’s Resa Curia Regis meeting—chaired personally by the king—he would have stayed home, crying alone and gnawing on his blanket.

Thus, when Ottavio ran into Cesare, he was utterly unprepared to face him.

“!”

Ottavio de Contarini froze like a statue in the palace corridor upon encountering Cesare de Carlo. It was already right after the Resa Curia Regis meeting.

Whenever he attended that meeting, Ottavio had nothing worthwhile to say, yet feared appearing foolish, so he’d furtively glance around before blurting out some nonsense and then bury his head in shame.

For a moment, Ottavio’s mind went blank white, then his vision darkened, and finally his whole body began trembling uncontrollably.

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