The Duke's Flower is Precarious (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 134

The Grand Duke Elyos, long presumed dead, was alive. Though wounded by a gunshot to his waist, his life was not in danger.

Aidel, who had supposedly ingested medicine to induce a miscarriage, was astonishingly unharmed. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the physician’s confirmation that the fetus in her womb was also perfectly safe.

Over a month had passed since then, and the Grand Duke and his wife, reunited at the House of Count Fleur, had fully recovered their health.

“…Have all preparations truly been completed?”

Rainian, having finished his recollection, quietly asked Kaeron seated before him. Aidel had briefly stepped away to wash her hands after finishing her meal.

“Of course. It’s something I’ve been preparing for a long time.”

“So now, my only remaining task is to guide you as far as the imperial palace?”

Kaeron was preparing a coup to coincide with Emperor Jupiter’s wedding and the coronation ceremony of the new Empress. Rainian, having agreed to aid him, had fabricated false identities and brought the Grand Duke and his wife along with his delegation as disguised members.

“Yes. Thanks to you, entering the palace has become much easier. As you know, I am currently a man whose very existence—and identity—has been erased.”

Hearing Kaeron’s response, Rainian finally voiced a question that had long occupied his mind.

“…Did you deliberately fake your death all this time for the sake of the coup?”

“That’s right. It made moving around far easier—in many ways.”

A sharp glint flashed through Kaeron’s deep blue eyes, barely visible beneath his robes. He had feigned death intentionally—to deceive and lull the enemy into complacency.

After all, he intended to seize everything back in one fell swoop the moment they believed they had already won it all.

Moreover, there was another reason Kaeron had pretended to be dead…

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