The Dark Lord Obsesses Over His Fake Wife (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 74

The guests were struck speechless by the groom’s shocking announcement. But Hessen, as if having anticipated such a reaction, calmly continued.

“Miryu Juty is indeed registered as a daughter of the Juty baronial house, but she is not the child of the noble Lady Baroness Juty—she is the daughter of a courtesan. Since this marriage was pursued from the very beginning under false pretenses regarding her birth, this wedding must not proceed.”

In the Empire, it was not an issue to register an illegitimate child into a noble house. However, deceiving others by passing off an illegitimate child as one’s trueborn offspring for marriage was a grave crime.

“Perhaps… I might have known this truth all along. But…”

Hessen tightly shut his eyes, overwhelmed with despair.

“I can no longer turn a blind eye. I am sorry.”

Queen Isabella pressed a hand to her head, looking pale and dizzy, and Princess Diana quickly supported her, crying, “Mother!”

Baron Juty trembled uncontrollably, unable even to offer an excuse in the face of this sudden turn of events. The guests’ eyes turned toward Miryu, the illegitimate daughter standing beside the groom.

‘Hessen… he knew I was illegitimate?’

Miryu, pale as a sheet, denied reality.

‘Since when…?’

The horrifying truth mingled with her cherished memories of Hessen. He had always been a kind man—that was precisely why Miryu found this situation so impossible to believe.

Because it was Hessen—no one else.

“H-Hessen. That’s all a lie.”

Miryu grabbed Hessen’s sleeve desperately, pleading incoherently.

Read full content of this chapter on r e d c a t t y . c o m