Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 183

Chapter 92.1

Those words seemed to have come out of nowhere without any thought.

No, let me correct that.

Because I had been thinking about other things all along, the words seemed to have burst out without me realizing it. It might seem romantic to someone, but I felt angry and unjust. When grappling with the question of whether I live or die, the most important thing to him was merely… the truth of the whispered love I expressed.

I was angry at the imbalance of power between him and me.

‘He never thought that I could kill him, did he?’

The fear and dread that had been gnawing at me all along began to be pushed away by the feelings of frustration and resentment.

I asked, unable to control my falling tears.

“Is that the only thing you’re curious about?

“Only?”

“I envy you.”

Just as the question he had been thinking about the whole time came out, I also blurted out something unknowingly.

It was something neither I nor he expected.

…Perhaps behind the most fundamental emotion hidden behind fear and a desire to rely on something may have been envy. I was truly envious to the point of dying. Having never experienced weakness in his life, he was in a position to unhesitatingly say that the weak must be eliminated. He had an overwhelming power that made everyone kneel before him, unable to resist even if he behaved rudely.

I couldn’t stop crying out of sadness.

Raniero slowly raised his upper body and picked me up. He sat me on Seraphina’s bed as tears streamed down my face and momentarily left the room. When he returned, he held a bottle of medicine and bandages in his hands.

He casually knelt before me, took my hand and started disinfecting it.

“I don’t know how to deal with you.”

His voice was dry and monotonous, and it felt a little unfamiliar. I pressed my eyelids against his forearm while entrusting him with my injured hand.

“At first, I tried to soothe you, but then you got angry. Now I don’t know what to do. It’s really a difficult situation.”

From the deepest cuts on my palms to my fingers, which were sore from minor cuts, they were meticulously covered with bandages.

“One thing for certain is that neither you nor I will die. I have no intention of killing you or dying.”

As his lips touched the bandage, he buried his lips in my palm and looked at me.

His splendid eyes trembled faintly.

“I’ll give you a choice.”

The corner of his lips raised crookedly, but that smile didn’t reach his eyes at all. While it seemed empty sometimes, it seemed as if he was struggling to suppress his rampaging emotions.

“One, return to the palace with me.”

I couldn’t escape his deep gaze. The thought that it might be unavoidable imprinted in my mind.

“Two, let me kill all these people who have hidden the Empress of the Empire for treason… then, return to the palace with me.”

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After a long absence, the Emperor finally returned to the palace.

The Empress, likewise, was also scheduled to return after a very long time.

From afar, Raniero ordered the cleaning and refurbishment of the Empress’s palace. Those who didn’t know the story were surprised to hear the news that the Empress, who had run away, had returned unharmed and entered the Empress’s palace again.

It was because those who defy Raniero had always faced thorough retaliation.

Moreover, it was publicly known that the Empress was so afraid of Raniero that she had fled at her peril. However, the surprise was short-lived, and the people of Actilus had completed their own interpretations of the phenomenon.

‘Is the Emperor planning to publicly ridicule the Empress as a form of amusement?’

In Actilus, weakness was a sin.

It was natural for them to interpret the situation in that way. The fact that Cisen and Sylvia, who aided the Empress’s escape, were imprisoned in the underground dungeon of the palace added credibility to their interpretation.

Angelica Unro, once the object of admiration and praise in Actilus, quickly became the subject of ridicule among the high nobility.

Nevertheless, not all high-ranking nobles took delight in mocking Angelica.

The members of the imperial palace, including the Duchess of Nerma and the Countess of Fallon, refrained from commenting on any matter related to the Empress and kept their lips sealed. Having closely observed the relationship between Raniero and Angelica, they knew well how exceptional Angelica’s presence was to Raniero.

Among them, the gaze of Duchess Nerma was consistently sharp. Despite naturally becoming a central figure in the Empress’s palace due to the expulsion of Cisen and Sylvia, she didn’t revel in power.

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