The Ghost Lady Of The Duke's Family (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 42

Aeli couldn’t understand at all what was going on.

She had only followed Lutis downstairs because she couldn’t quell her curiosity—she’d expected him to head straight to the bedroom, but instead of even climbing the stairs, he’d turned toward the estate’s cellar.

After all, the last time she’d come to the mansion searching for Adrian, she’d wandered everywhere except the cellar. She’d thought she might as well check now whether anything had changed since then.

[Duke—]

[Quiet.]

There were guards posted at the cellar entrance—not just one, but several stationed repeatedly along the entryway.

After passing all of them and entering the deepest room, then walking a great distance through a secret passage, what she finally discovered there was…

—……

If that was truly her own corpse, then what reaction was she even supposed to have?

Aeli staggered, her face pale.

‘I just came from seeing my own tombstone… Then what is that supposed to be?’

Could it be that the tombstone was fake? But if so, why?

It was utterly incomprehensible.

Staring at her own peaceful, sleeping form with eyes shut, an inexplicable wave of nausea surged up. Aeli clenched the hand she’d been pressing to her mouth and quickly turned away.

She tried to flee the cellar as if pursued by something unseen, but her body refused to obey.

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