The emblem of Libertan disappeared in an instant, as if the sight a moment ago was an illusion.
But there was no way Johan could have been mistaken about such a thing.
‘It wasn’t found on Estelle.’
That unpleasant woman who was known as the saint had the protection emblem of Libertan.
‘Is this a coincidence?’
Stella gathered the hem of her dress and carefully rose to her feet. The saint looked at Johan with an innocent face, trembling.
“I wiped it as much as I could with a handkerchief, but I couldn’t completely remove the moisture.”
The distance was closer now than before.
Close enough to accidentally bump into each other or embrace.
But Stella’s blue eyes were pure, as if knowing nothing.
‘A disgusting smell.’
The closer Johan was to Stella, the more he smelled an indescribable stench.
‘Estelle always smelled good.’
“……If it’s okay with you, next time I’ll wear similar clothes–”
The very moment Stella’s slender hand was about to lightly touch Johan’s shoulder.
Johan ignored Stella and walked straight past her. It wasn’t the time to deal with that woman now.
The protection emblem of Libertan.
Only one person had received that protection emblem that wasn’t on Estelle.
Yestella Libertan.
The woman who was originally Johan’s target for revenge.
‘But Yestella Libertan died of an incurable disease.’
Above all, Stella’s face was completely different from Yestella’s.
‘Is it a Libertan bloodline that I didn’t realize?’
If they had been under the protection of the Holy Kingdom, it’s possible he wouldn’t have discovered them.
‘I need to confirm it.’
Johan immediately sought the underground dungeon of the royal palace.
There, the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, soon to be executed, were present.
The appearance of the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, tormented by severe torture, was pitiful.
“Wake up.”
The jailer poured cold water to wake the Duke and Duchess of Libertan and left.
“……Estelle? You finally came to rescue us–”
The two looked as if they were still wandering in a dream.
“Snap out of it?”
Johan, sitting elegantly with his legs crossed, asked them.
“Why would my wife come to see you?”
“Duke Blanchet?”
“There is something I want to ask.”
The Duke and Duchess of Libertan screamed in fear.
“We, we told you everything! We even admitted to the rebellion!”
The Duke and Duchess of Libertan had confessed to a false charge of rebellion.
Johan looked down at them with a cold face.
“Where did you put your own daughter?”
Daughter.
Rozaria sighed sadly with teary eyes.
“……I don’t know.”
“Don’t even think about lying.”
Johan’s red eyes flashed a warning.
“Don’t even feel relieved now that you are about to die.”
“I really don’t know, I also……. ”
When Rozaria began to sob, Demian coughed up light blood and gritted his teeth.
“She’s dead! If you want to desecrate even her corpse, her body has already been cremated in the temple. She’ll be resting in a place where you can’t defile her!”
Johan’s red eyes narrowed.
‘Taken to the temple?’
Johan slowly got up and took a step.
“You look quite sure. As if you saw it yourself.”
“Yes! With these two eyes, I saw it. That pitiful child…… becoming a handful of ashes, undergoing the temple’s purification ritual.”
The temple’s purification ritual is the highestgrade funeral, leading to where the deity resides.
Johan picked up a doubt from those words.
“So you didn’t see it yourself?”
Parents could not watch the purification ritual up close.
“So what? My daughter, an angel, must have gone to heaven. That’s enough……. ”
“But darling.”
Then, Rozaria, who had been staggering, grimaced as if her head hurt.
“Did our child really die? But why……. ”
“What on earth are you talking about, snap out of it.”
“No. That can’t be. Why do I keep feeling like I saw our Yestella after the funeral?”
Rozaria looked down at the floor, muttering.
“It felt so vivid, like she came back to life and hugged us, but I guess it was an illusion.”
“Stop talking about that!”
“Yestella seemed to have come back to life?”
But Johan did not miss that small clue.
“Tell me properly. What do you mean by that?”
Johan grabbed Rozaria and scrutinized her.
“No, she is indeed dead, my sorrow for losing a child…….”
Rosaria’s eyes were clouded, just like the last time with Libertan.
“I have one last request. I beg you.”
That’s when Rosaria grabbed Johan and pleaded.
“Please let me see Estelle just once. Before the execution… I want to see her face.”
“Yes. I don’t know why, but…….”
Demian quietly spoke, dissuading Rosaria.
“Let me apologize to her one last time. Strangely, I feel like I must apologize to her.”
Johan looked at Duke and Duchess Libertan, thinking it was very strange.
‘I thought it was because they cherished their child, but….’
As if their personalities were continually coming and going, weren’t they saying something entirely different?
“No. You cannot see my woman.”
The faces of Duke and Duchess Libertan crumbled.
Johan looked at the two and smiled leisurely.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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