The Credentials of a Couple (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 191

The carriage emblazoned with Pierne’s crest made it easy to tell who was inside, yet its occupant himself remained unseen.

It seemed, unfortunately, that the young duke had no intention of providing a spectacle for the crowd. Just as everyone had begun to resign themselves to this thought—

The courthouse doors, sealed tighter than the carriage itself, opened first. This meant the long trial, which had dragged on for more than half a day, had finally concluded.

Would Liviana emerge through that door? Or perhaps she would use another passage?

The crowd’s attention, once fixed on the carriage, naturally shifted toward the courthouse entrance.

While witnesses were protected, the defendant was not. Since no arrest or imprisonment had been ordered, Liviana would have to exit through one of the three doors leading from the courtroom.

Just as everyone expected, attendees of the trial emerged first through the two doors that opened early, and then, from the last door—opened belatedly—a golden-haired woman stepped out.

She was the rumored Marchioness Crayton—or rather, the woman who, as of today, could no longer be called Marchioness Crayton.

The onlookers’ eyes narrowed as they gazed at her.

Defying everyone’s expectations, the woman who had lost her family name was unmistakably abandoned in the eyes of all.

Perhaps her sensational confession, which had stirred such a commotion, had all been lies—fabricated merely to save herself. That must have been why neither her brother, Eden Crayton, nor her former lover, Calix Pierne, had appeared throughout her trial.

The murmurs among the crowd quickly hardened into accepted truth once the trial had fully concluded.

Had Pierne’s carriage not opened—seemingly sealed shut forever—and revealed another rumored figure within.

People held their breaths, one after another, without exception.

It wasn’t just curiosity; it was fear that gripped them more deeply.

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