To You Whom I Don’t Love That Much (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 147

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147.

The sky began to turn red. The sun was setting, and slowly a pale moon was emerging through the clouds. Even from afar, one could see the wicked flower joyfully unfurling its bud. Tonight, under the light of the full moon, it would finally bloom.

“Twenty years. A full twenty years.”

Audrey Young-ae gazed out the window with a pleased expression. The dark violet flowers in the garden and the endless line of carriages stretching from the city’s second gate to the entrance of the imperial palace were clearly visible. The carriages resembled fireflies rushing heedlessly toward their deaths. Ro rubbed her damp palms against her skirt and pressed insistently.

“I want an explanation. How exactly can you become a goddess?”

“Why should I tell you?”

“You’re going to die anyway. Might as well satisfy my curiosity before I go.”

Audrey sneered, but true to her nature as a vain and prideful spirit, she obediently answered.

“Clear water mixed with the sap of a flower that feeds on human flesh is required for the ritual. Into it, I must place a part of what I value most, along with a pure physical body.”

The words alone sounded horrifying. Ro feigned composure.

“Originally, your body would have needed a hundred days of purification. But because Léa disturbed things, we had to rush. A hundred days of ‘emptiness’ would have made the body even more purified. Unfortunately, we have no choice now. We can’t wait hundreds of years again—especially not another twenty-year window when the timing aligns.”

“Hundreds of years… and only twenty years?”

“A span of suffering no mere human could imagine. Most importantly, I found the seed of that flower ten years ago and quietly planted it in the palace. In my son’s greenhouse.”

“…….”

“At first, I thought the seed was dead. Who would have known the shell was so hard it would take six years to sprout, and another year feeding on human flesh as fertilizer? Still, my son was obedient and blindly followed my words.”

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