Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 449

“Wow.”

At the lunch table, Ariadne—having just heard from Julia what had transpired that morning in the “Royal Palace Court”—set down her forkful of Macaroni Acireto, which she’d been about to put in her mouth. Her jaw remained agape.

Julia had rushed straight to the de Mare mansion as soon as she’d learned the full story, and even she was shaking her head in disbelief. It was an utterly unbelievable scandal.

“The Bartolini family is in chaos too. Apparently, as soon as Old Count Bartolini returned home, he sent word to the Contarini family?”

“Did he threaten to kill her? Or send her to a convent?”

“No. He said the union was over, so take his daughter back and return the dowry.”

Ariadne shook her head slowly.

Whether to annul the marriage on grounds of adultery or due to the lack of consummation between the old count and his countess was a matter for Viscount Elba, the official handling the case. Regardless, Old Count Bartolini had made his stance perfectly clear:

It was over with Clemente.

“Still, he’s being generous. I thought he’d never let her go so easily.”

“Ottavio apparently begged and pleaded, sobbing, just to spare his sister’s life. At first, just like you said, Count Bartolini was going to have Clemente beaten to death under customary law—but then he changed his mind and declared he wouldn’t even annul the marriage, and instead, using his authority as head of the Bartolini family, would lock her away in a convent for the rest of her life. He was dead serious.”

“He kept flip-flopping himself, so maybe he finally relented because Ottavio begged him?”

Julia furrowed her brow.

“Exactly. Never in my life did I think I’d witness a man’s love defined by his refusal to kill his wife.”

Ariadne clicked her tongue.

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