My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 122

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Chapter 122
“…Pardon?”
“I asked if you would return.”
“Return where?”
“To where you belong.”
The moment those words reached my ears, my lips parted in shock.
Where I belong? Where on earth could that be?
My mind spiraled into chaos. I couldn’t comprehend what he was saying. What could he possibly mean…?
“You are still Kanna Adis.”
In that instant, my expression froze. Surely not.
“Will you return to Valentino?”
“…”
Clarity struck me like a blow.
The bewilderment, the astonishment that had clouded my mind—all of it crystallized into cold understanding.
He came here to mock me.
“Why would I return to Valentino?”
“Josephine Elester no longer exists.”
“And?”
“It means no one can torment you any longer.”
Such a simple answer. He spoke with the confidence of stating basic arithmetic, an obvious truth—and I couldn’t suppress my laughter.
“So you’re saying Josephine Elester is gone?”
“That is correct.”
“And no one can hurt me anymore?”
“Yes.”
“And what does that change?”
I stepped closer to him.
“Did you truly believe I sought this divorce because of Josephine Elester?”
Certainly, that was part of it. I had never wished to lay eyes upon such a vicious mother-in-law for the rest of my life.
But that was not the greatest reason.
“It’s you.”
I smiled faintly.
“You’re at the Valentino Mansion, Silvien.”
“…”
Silvien Valentino gazed down at me with an expressionless face.
Silvien Valentino.
My calling of his name once more. Perhaps it was merely a means to emphasize sincerity. Yet the feeling it stirred in me remained unchanged from before.
How absurd.
And yet no laughter comes.
“So you refuse to return?”
“That’s right. If you would leave the mansion, Silvien, then I might consider it.”
“That’s impossible.”
He answered dismissively. I still wasn’t accustomed to that tone from him.
“If that estate displeases you, I shall have a new one built.”
“….”
I doubted my own ears. Those were words I never expected to hear from him.
Yet Silvien Valentino’s expression remained composed—nay, brazenly composed as he awaited my response.
“Did you not tell me you suffered in that estate?”
“….”
“Then begin anew in a new place.”
A new place. A fresh beginning.
It was precisely what I had yearned for. But not like this.
“No. I don’t understand why you’re doing this, but I won’t return to Valentino.”
Tomorrow is the annulment ceremony.
Once that ritual is complete, we become complete strangers in the eyes of the law.
Yet now he speaks of my return? Of building a new house? I simply could not fathom his intent.
“Why are you suddenly saying this?”
“….”
Silvien Valentino did not answer immediately. It seemed he could not answer.
He appeared like a different person from the one who always responded to any question with infuriating smoothness.
“Suddenly….”
Then he answers quietly. He gazed at me as though observing something utterly strange.
“I simply wished to.”
I furrowed my brow sharply. What kind of perfunctory answer was that?!
“Why?”
“I wonder. Why indeed.”
Silvien Valentino studied me as though searching for the answer.
Irritably furrowed brows, dark eyes brimming with displeasure, a stubborn nose, crimson lips….
I had long known that once seen, it was difficult to look away. I had already been caught by that gaze countless times.
“Why am I like this.”
Not a question. A murmur tinged with a hint of defeat.
His gaze traced the strands of my disheveled hair, then rose to meet my eyes. A flicker of something.
“Why am I doing this, Kanna Adis.”
A voice pitched low. A strange heat scraped the inside of my throat.
“…I don’t know.”
I seemed to have lost my composure for a moment. The words were that shocking.
“How would I know.”
Irritation surged within me.
“And I don’t want to know.”
Tomorrow is the annulment, and now of all times….
“So if you don’t know either, then just leave it be.”
Whether it was spite, lingering attachment, regret, or guilt.
None of it mattered anymore.
Yet Silvien Valentino laughed with ease.
“What would you do if I wished to know?”
“…What?”
“If even one person refuses to annul the engagement, the divorce falls through entirely.”
Those words struck Kanna Adis like a slap across the face.
“You’re thinking of breaking our contract?”
“Perhaps. It’s quite possible.”
In that instant, fury so intense it made my head spin surged through me.
“How shameless—to speak so casually of breaking a contract. And you call yourself a nobleman who understands honor?”
As Kanna Adis glared at him as though she could kill him with her eyes, Silvien Valentino smiled wickedly.
“I told you. I’m far more of a scoundrel than you imagine.”
At those words, Kanna Adis’s eyes finally blazed with fury.
Crack!
Kanna Adis’s palm connected with his cheek. Though she struck with all her strength, his face barely moved. He looked down at her with an expressionless gaze, as though untouched by pain. His eyes held contempt.
“You’re a despicable fraud.”
“Yes. Perhaps I am.”
“I cured you of your addiction to me. And now you change your tune?”
“Isn’t that the very nature of a despicable fraud?”
“Exactly. That’s precisely what you are.”
Kanna Adis burst into laughter. The rage was so overwhelming that I could not bear it without laughing.
Silvien Valentino, always wearing the mask of a courteous nobleman, to think he was such a scoundrel!
“Silvien Valentino, I don’t hate you yet.”
Though he was despicable because of Ju-hwa, his coldness was not something I had directly endured.
That was the difference between him and the members of House of Adis.
“And I have never forgiven anyone I truly hate.”
Kalen, Orsini, Isabel, Chloe, and my father. I still hated them with the fury of an unquenchable flame.
“I know nothing of forgiveness.”
With that, I seized his cravat. I gripped it like a noose and pulled roughly. He bent at the waist obediently, drawn toward me. He faced Kanna Adis.
“If you break your promise, I will—”
I bit my lips hard, then spoke.
“Hate you to death.”
I stared at those blue eyes as though I could bore through them.
“No—I will hate you even in death.”
In that moment, Silvien Valentino’s breath caught.
He didn’t even realize it had stopped. His gaze was simply, helplessly stolen away. As it had been so many times before.
Such terrible fury, the heat she emanated—his skin felt as though it were burning away. It stung. It burned.
And her eyes, this gaze, those black irises like a storm of flame—he was helplessly swept away by them. Scorching heat pierced his retinas.
Silvien Valentino wished he could simply close his eyes.
Otherwise, I feared my eyes would go blind.
* * *
That dawn, I spent the night with my eyes barely closing.
‘That madman.’
Sleep simply would not come.
‘Silvien Valentino, that absolute madman.’
He’s lost his mind. There’s no other explanation for such words.
‘Why is he acting like this? Why, for heaven’s sake!’
I punched my pillow in frustration, unable to contain myself any longer.
What if—just what if.
If I didn’t agree to annul the engagement tomorrow, as he’d threatened….
‘I can’t.’
The mere thought made my stomach churn. If that happened, all my efforts would crumble to dust.
Divorce. How desperately I had longed for it.
The moment I returned to my own body, divorce became my singular goal!
‘I can’t. Absolutely not.’
I couldn’t predict what Silvien Valentino would do next. He’d said nothing more after that.
‘That despicable wretch.’
A contemptible villain. I’d believed him to be someone who honored contracts, yet he struck me from behind like this!
‘If he breaks his promise, I won’t let it slide.’
I would mobilize every resource, every method, every ability and connection I possessed to exact my revenge.
‘I won’t forgive you, Silvien Valentino.’
* * *
The next day, the annulment ceremony took place in the Chapel. Before the rite began, I waited in my room.
I stared blankly at my reflection in the mirror.
Buried in a pristine white wedding dress. The Apprentice Priest who’d helped with my preparations had praised me several times, though I barely heard him.
I was simply numb. In the end, I hadn’t slept a wink.
“Everything is ready.”
At the Apprentice Priest’s announcement, I rose. I gripped the bouquet like a weapon and walked forward.
As I finally reached the Chapel, the Apprentice Priest opened the doors. I stepped onto the velvet carpet that stretched before me.
At the end of the aisle, on the right, stood Orsini, my witness. And surprisingly, Silvien’s witness was Raphael—wait, Raphael?
Had he lost his mind? How could a defrocked priest—!
But the thought didn’t continue. Our eyes had met, Silvien’s and mine.
He waited for me at the end of this aisle.
With his hair swept back neatly, he was beautiful as a temple sculpture. All the sunlight streaming into the Chapel seemed to dissolve into him.
As I reached him, Silvien extended his hand. I gently placed my fingertips upon the back of his hand. He immediately grasped it. His grip was resolute.
An ominous premonition surged through me—that he would never let go.
“Duke Silvien Valentino. Duchess Kanna Adis Valentino.”
The Priest presiding over the annulment ceremony spoke quietly.
“You two stand here today to renounce the sacred union you swore before God.”
Yes, I desperately wanted this. My lips had gone dry. Strangely, I felt anxious.
“Before breaking the vow, I shall grant us a moment of silence to reconsider once more.”
I suppressed the urge to cry out that such formalities were unnecessary—just proceed! But I held my tongue.
“Then, I shall ask one final time.”
After a brief moment of silence, the Priest spoke again.
“Kanna Adis, Duchess of Valentino. Do you wish to dissolve your marriage vow with Duke Silvien Valentino, whom you have received as your lifelong husband?”
“Yes.”
I answered immediately. I caught Orsini standing beside me wearing a sneer.
It mattered not. Let him mock me as he wished.
Only the final step remained.
“Duke Silvien Valentino.”
If only he would answer.
“Do you wish to dissolve your marriage vow with Kanna Adis, Duchess of Valentino, whom you have received as your lifelong wife?”
If only he would answer, and then everything would be over.
“….”
But unlike my response, silence stretched on.
No answer came.
As the silence deepened, my heart plummeted. Surely this man wasn’t actually going to refuse the divorce!
As the silence grew longer, the Priest glanced at Silvien with a puzzled expression.
“Duke Valentino?”
He called upon him once more.
“I ask again. Do you wish to dissolve the marriage vow?”
In the next moment.
At last, Silvien’s tightly sealed lips parted.
“Yes.”
His voice was as plain and unadorned as the silence that preceded it.
“I shall dissolve it.”

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