The Impact Of The Villainess' Fake Marriage On The Ending

Chapter 9

"How did his illness suddenly get worse like that? You were also very surprised, weren't you, Young Lady?"

"Ah... Yeah. I was very surprised."

Amy spoke as if she was trying to cheer Adeline up. She thought Adeline was disturbed by the Emperor's sudden death.

However, the reason Adeline fell into thought was Kael, not the Emperor.

The funeral lasted for a week, and Adeline thought of Kael the whole time until the memorial service at the temple, which was the final of the ceremony, ended this morning.

[If there is not the slightest lie in what you said, I will make you my wife, by all means.]

[...]

[It is my most desired wish, my eternal wish. Ending this tough life.]

The words Kael said to Adeline just before she left the mansion kept hovering in her mind.

The lie, which she thought would be the last shot to push Kael away, rather became a shot that made his will even firmer.

She could hardly erase what happened that day from her mind because she couldn't believe it.

'Did the Grand Duke have a dark past in the original work? It's not in my memory at all.'

No matter how much she tried to remember, there was no special past or circumstances about Kael in the book.

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It was a short book full of romance.

Kael and Vanessa fell in love at first sight and loved each other; the jealous Adeline tried to hurt Vanessa, was discovered, and killed by Kael.

There was no deep story about Kael anywhere.

Adeline sighed, and after Kael, the Crown Prince came to her mind.

[Did you hear anything from Grand Duke Inver, Lady Adeline? About what I said to him before the Lady came to the mansion?]

[... I have not heard anything at all, Your Highness.]

[Is that so? That's funny. Well, it doesn't matter. Soon, you and I will have something to talk about separately.]

Her mind was already complicated, but what the Crown Prince told Adeline in the temple a while ago was very meaningful.

'What will we have to talk about in separate... I'm already so annoyed I could die.'

Adeline put her arm on the armrest of the chair and tightly pressed against her temples.

'It's not about Brother Leo, is it? By this time, Brother must have also heard the news about His Majesty's death...'

While dwelling on the Crown Prince's words, Leo came to her mind. It had already been a fortnight since Leo left at the Crown Prince's command.

Adeline sighed and looked at the bookshelf in front of her.

"Huh?"

"What's wrong, Young Lady?"

"Amy. That book. Since when has the book "Beyond Orange" been in my room?"

"Probably for a long time? It must have been a while, since I saw this book every time I cleaned the bookshelf... You read it often since it came out, so you must like it!"

"... I read it often and liked it?"

Adeline, who had been browsing through the titles of the neatly organized books for a while so that she could escape this disturbance, stood up in surprise.