The Empress' Scandalous Paramour (5 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 39

It meant that even commoners, as long as they had decent looks, could enjoy for an entire week the luxuries they’d never experience in their whole lives otherwise.

“If only I were ten years younger, I’d give it a shot myself!”

“Ha! You, sir—your face belongs in the ‘entrance cut,’ the ‘entrance cut’!”

“What on earth is this new slang?”

“It means you get cut before you even make it past the entrance!”

Most commoners heard and saw this news in taverns, on streets, in parks, and at their regular vegetable stalls.

Every one of them was deeply intrigued—after all, it was common knowledge even among village bachelors that the Emperor and Empress had a strained relationship and thus had no heir to this day.

And now this? An act so blatantly dismissive that anyone with eyes could read it as “Get lost.”

It was as if she had spat directly in her husband’s face—

and done so with the grandeur expected of Her Imperial Majesty, backed by an enormous budget and broadcast nationwide.

“We common folk may not understand the affairs of the high and mighty, but… he did indeed cheat with the Saintess.”

“Ahem, just between us—what if my own husband ran off with a priest?”

“I’d tear out every strand of hair on my head and still it wouldn’t be enough! Is there really no one else to have an affair with that he must go after someone who worships the gods?”

Women carrying armfuls of laundry laughed as they headed toward the well.

Curiously, not a single one of them cursed the Empress.

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