After I Sent the Divorce Letter, My Husband Went Mad - Chapter 22
“Why is he going?!”
However, that wasn’t the end.
There was no way they would send him off to war when he was still unmarried, as the Empire didn’t customarily treat unmarried men as adults. That was why the newspaper also wrote about whom he was going to marry.
“With Count Eloisa’s loyalty, they were able to decide on a marriage partner quickly. The chosen marriage partner is none other than Leilia Eloisa, the eldest daughter of the Eloisa family…?”
Leilia jumped up from her seat.
She was his marriage partner.
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After reading the newspaper, she went to see Cowell. She opened the door and entered to find him drinking wine.
Leilia’s expression hardened as she smelled the faint scent of wine in the room. Cowell had been drinking several bottles of very expensive wine, even though the Elroisa family wasn’t wealthy enough for him to drink such wine.
How much did he receive from the imperial family?
Seeing Leilia enter the room, Cowell glanced at her and said brightly.
“You came quickly. I was about to call you.”
As she trudged along and stood before him, after a few moments and another glass of wine, he handed her a portrait.
“As you know, the person you’re going to marry has been chosen.”
“I know.”
“Well, it should have been in the newspaper today.”
After saying that, Cowell ran a hand through his hair.
“His Highness Cassel will be dispatched tomorrow.”
It was truly incredible… to put out an announcement in the newspaper of the marriage the day before he was to leave the battlefield.
Still, it was a marriage…!
“So?”
Nonetheless, even when she rampaged, it was only an echo, inaudible to them so Leilia only let out a sigh and asked.
“So what am I supposed to do?”
“You will go to the place where Her Highness Cassel is now and say your marriage vows.”
It seemed that he had handled things so that she couldn’t get out of it somehow. Perhaps the imperial family did the same thing.
“And you won’t be able to hold a ceremony until His Highness Cassel returns. Father will take care of your property.”
There were a few cases where a war broke out in the empire, and the prince who was taken away returned alive. Though for the image of the imperial family externally, the prince was sent to almost all battles and then died in most cases.
And if the prince died in battle, he would be treated as a hero.
It was to raise the authority of the imperial family by using the prince as a scapegoat.
‘…Really.’
No matter how aristocratic families marry for convenience, there would be no parents who would willingly marry their daughter to a man who was about to die.
Leilia knew what her father was thinking.
He must have benefited greatly from this marriage.
And… Cassel was going to die anyway, so he would continue to manage her properties in that cause. That way, he could stall until she was married… and he could remove the thorns like her from the house as well.
It seemed that he had calculated many things.
“You need to get ready to meet your husband.”
Cowell opened his mouth sweetly and rose from his chair.
Leilia curled her fist.
“Yes.”
Still, the most disillusioning thing here was… herself.
‘…I can’t believe he’s my marriage partner.’
Leilia thought she was a little happy inside after reading the newspaper.
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‘The imperial family really prepared perfectly.’
She was led by his father into a small room, where she found a gift from the imperial family. The dresses and accessories were of a higher quality than what a mere noble could afford, and Leilia soon got dressed up with the help of Seychelle.
With her long oiled hair falling down smoothly, she wore a white dress with a tight waist. Even if there were no guests and even if she was hastily making wedding views, these were the things that told her to be formal.
In addition, the earrings dangled from beneath her ears. They were engraved with a butterfly, the symbol of the imperial family.
Wearing a veil, Leilia climbed into the carriage with Cowell as they were escorted by the knights of the imperial family as if they were prepared in case she would escape.
‘It’s like I’m being dragged away.’
Smiling wryly at the sight, Leilia turned to the window, not wanting to look at her father, who was sitting across from her. She liked Cassel. It wasn’t just that she liked him, but she couldn’t help but love him because he had saved her as a child.
And to become his wife…
‘For me…’
Even if he had married another woman, she wouldn’t have let him die regardless. However, he became her husband…
‘…That’s why I have to save him all the more.’
As she made a resolve, Leilia clenched her fists.
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