Refusing Your Ex-Husband’s Obsession: A Guide - Chapter 199

Chapter 199

Translator: Yonnee

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“What did you just say?”

Having woken up from a nap, Seo-yoon snapped at the young priest attending her with a sharp tone.

“P-Pardon? No, um…”

“Can’t you speak properly? Why do you always stutter?”

Seo-yoon, who had reached her limit of irritation, didn’t bother to maintain her usual composed image in front of the priest.

She felt like throwing everything away and leaving this wretched country. Nothing was going her way.

“…I-I’m sorry, Saintess.”

“If you’re sorry, can you speak properly? Do you think you’re the only one who wants to attend me?”

“I’m sorry!”

“Enough. Just tell me what you were saying.”

“W-Well, a believer came to visit, and His Holiness the High Priest went out to meet her personally. Despite their acts of blasphemy against the Goddess, the High Priest didn’t rebuke her.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes…”

Seo-yoon waved her hand dismissively.

“Fine, you can go.”

“Sh-Should I prepare your meal?”

“No need. I’m going to the palace.”

The food at the temple was too bland for her taste. Feeling gloomy, she wanted to go to the palace and enjoy a delicious meal.

She wanted to meet the crown prince to cheer herself up. He’d do anything she asked.

Remembering how they had parted last time, Seo-yoon thought it might be good to make up with the crown prince on this visit.

“Hey, do one more errand for me.”

“…Yes, Saintess.”

“Tell the coachman to prepare the carriage. I’ll be leaving in exactly five minutes. Make sure it’s ready.”

“Yes, I understand.”

After the young priest left, Seo-yoon took out her phone.

“Ah, seriously. I left it on and the battery drained.”

Just leaving it on had caused the battery to drop by three percent, which annoyed her.

“Why does nothing ever go right?”

Muttering to herself, she opened an app on her phone before turning it off again to conserve the battery. She wanted to check if the locations on the map had changed, but…

She was so startled by what she saw that she dropped her phone.

“No way!”

She quickly picked up her phone, feeling a chill down her spine.

“I must be crazy… What if I break it.”

She wiped the phone screen clean with her sleeve and checked the locations again, only to be shocked and slump to the floor.

“What is this…?”

The dots that had been scattered around, teasing her, were now evenly positioned around the temple. It wasn’t just their arrangement that was startling. The dots were closing in on the temple at regular intervals.

It meant they were heading towards the temple. Even more alarming, two of the dots were already inside the temple. Among them, one particularly bright dot seemed to be the same one she had initially targeted, and she couldn’t shake off that intuition.

Seo-yoon felt an ominous hunch.

Somehow, she felt this phenomenon was happening not because of her.

She quickly turned off her phone and hid it in her dimensional pouch.

Not wanting to stay in the temple any longer, she hurriedly left her room. As she headed towards the main gate to catch the carriage, she noticed priests and paladins gathered near the prayer room.

They didn’t notice Seo-yoon approaching, engrossed as they were in their conversation with flushed faces, whispering among themselves. Seo-yoon, feeling curious, greeted them.

“May the grace of the Almighty Asteras be with you…”

“Ah, Your Eminence?”

Only then did the priests and paladins notice Seo-yoon and greet her in return. Amidst the confusion, Seo-yoon spoke to the vice captain who had accompanied her on the journey.

“What’s happening? Why is everyone gathered here?”

“Ah, well…”

The vice captain started to speak but then hesitated. He remembered the woman who had come to pray earlier. When she prayed, an incredible scent of roses filled the prayer room, and bells started ringing.

It wasn’t just him who noticed—everyone in the prayer room had heard and smelled it.

Then, the woman started walking towards a place where only the high priest and main priests were allowed to enter. They tried to stop her, but the high priest intervened.

With a content smile, the high priest hurriedly followed the woman, his expression resembling a child following a mother promising candy, evoking a strange sentiment. After that, the ringing of bells and the scent of roses ceased.

Although no one spoke of it, everyone felt a miraculous sensation and couldn’t leave the prayer room. They all wanted to meet the woman again.

Among the murmuring crowd, Seo-yoon spotted a familiar face.

That wretch.