Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 155

Chapter 78.1

If I had known this would be wrong, I wouldn’t have taken the perilous escape.

…I betrayed Raniero.

He would return to Actilus with a clear mind, and he would come to know that I betrayed him. He would get angry. Of course, he’d be angry! What I thought was the best choice has turned into the worst outcome, coming back to me like a boomerang.

“Ha, ah…!”

I ran my hand through my hair and laughed like a scream. Laughter was the only thing that came out.

Terror surged over me. As it crept up my ankles, coiled around my waist and strangled my throat, I clutched my throat and coughed. My throat felt itchy and scratchy. Subconsciously, I dug my fingernails into my neck.

“Angelica!”

Seraphina grabbed my shoulders with a panicked voice. She was stronger than I thought. Removing her hand from my neck, she looked at my face.

“Calm down.”

Those words felt too empty and meaningless. After all, she was in a position that had nothing to do with this right now.

A mirthless laugh escaped from my lips.

“Don’t worry too much. There must be another way, surely…”

“Another way…”

“This won’t solve anything.”

What should I do to solve this? I hastily grabbed my belongings in a panic, then donned the bag over my shoulder and put on my winter clothes and boots.

“Angelica.”

Seraphina’s voice trembled.

“Eden… Eden.”

But now, Seraphina didn’t matter to me. I needed Eden, my destined community, who had come here with me. He would come up with some plan, right? Even if he was insensitive and indifferent, he was always more rational and daring than me…
[ T/N: It sounds kind of strange, but the author actually used the word’ 공동체,’ which meant ‘community—a group with the same ideology or goal’ here. ]

A lump welled up in my throat, and my eyes suddenly grew hot.

‘First of all, Eden asked me to come here. Eden…!’

…So, Eden should take responsibility for what happened to me

I got dressed and went out into the hall and shouted.

“Where’s Eden? Eden! Eden!”

A paladin approached me as though he were going to subdue me as I was screaming as if I was out of my mind. With tears in my eyes, I glared at him and enunciated each syllable.

“Where’s Eden?”

The approaching paladin flinched and then cast a pleading glance toward the Archbishop, who was still standing there and looking at me with a deeply sympathetic expression.

I was irritated, because sympathy didn’t help.

“Where is he?!”

I snapped in frustration. At the same time, I couldn’t help but burst into uncontrollable tears. The paladin who had blocked my path hesitated before he moved aside as the Archbishop gestured.

“Come with me.”

I followed him.

The Archbishop took a bundle of keys from his robe and unlocked the lock on the innermost chamber.

Creak.

When the door opened, I saw a man sitting forlornly on a rough bed, his eyes closed.

“Eden!”

I immediately ran to him.

Opening his eyes, Eden looked at me and asked.

“What about the Emperor?”

I couldn’t answer immediately, but he didn’t say anything more. It seemed he realized something was amiss when he saw me crying.

I stammered.

“The, the Emperor didn’t… didn’t take Seraphina. The original story is distorted.”

Eden’s face turned pale at my words.

“Hasn’t Seraphina met the Emperor?”

“She did meet him! She met him, but…”

As I grabbed Eden’s arm and sobbed uncontrollably, I heard him muttering curses under his breath.

“I thought it was written like that in the book you brought.”

“That’s right, it was written like that, h-heuk… but… it went wrong…”

“Try to calm down. Stop crying. We missed our chance now, but…”

My anger flared.

The problem wasn’t just that we missed the opportunity!

I pressed my contorted face closer to Eden’s.

“That’s not the problem right now! He didn’t go crazy for Seraphina. He’s… he’s going to find me!”

While Eden had a stunned expression, I sobbed and let go of his arm.

In the end, he was only thinking about himself, and I needed to deal with the crisis in front of me on my own.

I took a step forward without thinking. Just as I was about to pass through the door to the room where he was being held, Eden walked up behind me, grabbed my arm and spun me around.

“What are you doing? What are you going to do?”

Why was he asking the obvious?

“I have to go back!”

I shouted with tears in my voice.

“I have to go back to the imperial palace as if nothing happened…”

“Can we outrun the Actilus army?”

His sharp remark left me breathless, and the tears that had been flowing continuously also ceased. My eyes widened, and I hiccupped.

“If you want to pretend that nothing happened, you have to arrive at the Countess Tocino’s estate before the Actilus army. Can you do it?”

I sank down onto the floor.

…What am I supposed to do?

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