To My Beloved, I Present My Exquisite Nightmare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 50

Unexpectedly—she didn’t want to phrase it that way, but truly, unexpectedly—Laila felt slightly hurt by Eustar’s words. And she was startled all over again by the very fact that she had been hurt.

“Are you saying it’s fine to be treated like that?”

Laila spoke again. This time her tone was sharper, and she herself noticed it. Eustar, too, seemed to sense her attitude was different from usual, and raised one eyebrow in a puzzled frown.

“Laila, I already told you. This isn’t something only I go through.”

“Just because it’s not only you doesn’t make it right. If everyone had to live as slaves, would that make slavery justifiable?”

Eustar let out a low chuckle. Normally, whenever she saw him smile, a quiet calm would settle somewhere in her heart—but not today.

Laila struggled to suppress her rising emotions while also wondering why she was so furious in the first place.

“That’s an exaggeration, Laila.”

She thought she heard a faint *pit*. Of course, it was just her imagination, but Laila felt as though he had grazed something deep inside her chest with a tiny, sharp hook.

Eustar was completely excluding her from this matter.

Whether King Od treated him poorly, regarded him merely as a stallion for the nation’s sake, or dismissed him as a useless royal unworthy even of being matched with a witch in marriage—it was all his problem alone, and never hers.

That isn’t wrong, Laila thought. Isn’t Eustar’s judgment actually the reasonable one?

Exactly. And that’s precisely why she was even angrier—because it felt completely natural that he’d exclude her personally, or even that he *had* to.

“Yes, I see.”

Laila rose from her seat, casting a hollow gaze across the empty audience chamber. The unfamiliar hem of her dress caught slightly on the chair leg, causing her to stumble.

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