.𖥔 ݁ ˖₊˚✩.𖥔 ݁ ˖๋ ࣭ᰔᩚ.ᰔᩚ ⭑. ݁ ˖₊˚✩.𖥔 ݁ ˖๋ ࣭ ⭑
Chapter 96
I will live with Cesare for a hundred years here.
I will eat well and live well with the man I love, the man who loves me!
“I’m not going back. this is where I’m going to put down my roots and live.”
“You won’t regret it?”
“Yes. I don’t regret it. Never.”
“I wanted to hear that answer.”
“Pardon?”
Lee Jong-woo smiled brightly at my question.
He pulled a small pocket from his arm and placed it on the table.
It looked like he was offering it to me, so I cautiously reached out and took it.
When I opened the pocket, I saw small white pills.
“What’s this?”
“It’s a drug called bariol. It’s a type of tranquilizer, but it’s been found to be addictive and is now banned.”
Why are you giving it to me?
I looked at him with eyes asking for an explanation.
“I got it from the Peliard mansion a few days ago. It used to be in the hands of the Peliard family, and they still have it, unable to get rid of it. If you reported it to the Imperial Palace, he would be in big trouble for having a banned substance.”
I pondered for a while.
I wondered if he was telling me to report Count Peliard’s misdeeds to the Emperor, score some points, and could get me out of this house.
However, Daphne’s home, Peliard, was not a very important member of the aristocracy.
It could be an act of getting rid of pests, but it wouldn’t be enough to get the Emperor to help me.
Or do you mean to threaten Count Peliard with this to help me get out of here?
Does Count Peliar have the power to defeat Gabriel?
As I pondered, Lee Jong-woo said something shocking.
“There are suspicions that the drug may have killed Daphne’s mother. That is, the original Daphne.”
I looked at him in surprise.
“Is it poison?”
“It is not the drug itself. After all, it was initially distributed for therapeutic purposes. But once you became addicted, it said you couldn’t live without this drug. And the heart function would be weakened and the mind exhausted.”
If so, it might be of some help.
We came up with a scenario that framed Peliard as a traitorous force trying to disrupt the country, and Gabriel as the hero who uncovered the whole conspiracy and saved the day.
Cesare and I had been working with I could then claim that I and Cesare had been working with Gabriel from the beginning and that our divorce was actually a play to deceive Peliard.
Then our divorce will be annulled, then Cesare and I can go back as a married couple.
But will the Emperor fall for this proposal?
The Emperor was the biggest variable, so I was a little worried, but I took the medicine.
“Are you sure about the novel?”
