I'll Be The Matriarch In This Life

01

Skreeekkk.

With an unpleasant sound, the iron gates of the great mansion were closed by the imperial knights.

It was the end of the Lombardis, which had reigned as the greatest family on the continent for 250 years, on par with the imperial family of Lamburgh.

Like an ever-expanding world, the family’s symbol, the clan, which had always been strong, ended in vain with the capture of Vieze Lombardi, the patriarch of the household, as well as other figures under the name of tax evasion and treason.

Hundreds of citizens of Lombardi, a city named after the family, had gathered in front of the mansion.

There were those who constantly shed tears into their handkerchiefs, and those who turned away without even looking once.

And in the front row stood me, Florentia.

“Morons.”

I said sharply while gritting my teeth, but it didn’t matter now.

I glared at the heavily guarded front door of the family and uttered a few more words.

“Freaks, dimwits, lazy people who will remain stubborn even when stuck in a fire.”

I could feel the people standing around me looking back at me in surpise, but what do you think?

The Lombardi family is already ruined.

However, no matter how much I cursed, the rage inside my heart did not subside.

“I had already told you that it’s not going to be the First Prince. I told you several times that he is just a spoiled brat and he’s never going to be the Crown Prince!”

But despite my advice, the Lombardi idiots supported the First Prince.

The First Prince, Astana Nerempe Durelli.

They said it was because he was related to the empress, but as far as I could tell, they only picked the same kind of person as themselves.

He belonged to a ‘royal bloodline’ but had a fat body, while drowning in luxuries and pleasure and laziness that filled up his stomach.

It was no exaggeration to say that Lombardi’s brilliant history was the history of the Lamburgh empire.

It was the Lombardi family that made Durelli the first Emperor of the kingdom and brought the empire where it is today.

Is that all?

Reaching the top, the family accumulated enormous wealth, participated in every war, achieved bloodless victories with excellent diplomacy, and supported great artists from all over the empire. There was no place in the world where Lombardi’s name could not be reached.

And it was Lulak Lombardi, the Overlord of the previous generation, who is said to have raised the Lombardi family to a high level.

When the young Lulak had just taken over as an overlord, the imperial family issued a royal edict to keep him in check.