The Tyrant's Terminally-Ill Childhood Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 36

Lowell recalled many unofficial histories she had read. Records of countless women who threw themselves into the Emperor’s love throughout history. And tales of love stained with blood. If only the Emperor’s heart had been fickle—would that have been better? The fact that the Emperor loved only one person his entire life had driven many into tragedy.

It was common for jealous lovers to murder their partners, and countless others resorted to love potions and such tricks to win the Emperor’s affection.

Yet, struggles over the seat beside a ruler were so commonplace across other histories that she hadn’t paid them much attention.

But this concerned the von der Leyen imperial bloodline.

“Then, was Princess Eleano’s affair also due to that bloodline?”

“I’ve heard that the dragon bloodline sometimes manifests with exceptional strength—and Princess Eleano was one such case.”

“Good heavens.”

Princess Eleano von der Leyen. Her scandalous love affair was so famous that no citizen of the Belf Empire remained ignorant of it.

It happened before the Belf Empire reached its current prosperity. The famously beautiful princess, notorious for her numerous lovers, suddenly fell for a nobleman from a remote province.

The problem was that the princess already had three lovers at the time, and the man she fell for was already married.

She pleaded with the Emperor to force the nobleman’s divorce and take him as her consort. Surely, she must have believed without doubt that he, too, would love her—after all, every man who knew the princess desperately longed even for the brush of her fingertips. It was arrogance born of certainty.

Yet the man, now her consort, loathed her for destroying his perfectly happy family, while her former lovers burned with jealousy toward him.

Naturally, it could not end well. Her consort was caught meeting his ex-wife in secret and, by the princess’s own hand, lost both his wife and children. Unable to bear it, he eventually took his own life. Later, the princess discovered it was her former lovers who had revealed the affair to her, so she killed them all with her own hands—and then followed them in death.

Because the princess had been so stunningly beautiful and the story so dramatic, it had been adapted into countless romantic novels and plays, passed down even to this day.

She had always thought it was simply a tale of Princess Eleano’s arrogance and insatiable desire—but now she learned it was actually due to the von der Leyen bloodline.

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