My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190
I knew he’d say that. Kanna Adis shrugged with indifference.
“Perhaps you’re right.”
“You’re truly a terrible woman.”
“I hear that often.”
So now, I didn’t even feel anger anymore.
Kanna Adis raised the champagne glass to her lips without enthusiasm.
But Orsini snatched the glass from her hand and drained it in one gulp.
“That was mine….”
With a sharp clink, he set the empty glass down on the railing.
Then he fixed her with a gaze so twisted, so utterly mangled with contempt, that it was almost grotesque.
“I can’t fathom what you’re doing.”
He let out a harsh, mocking laugh.
“Playing mistress to the Crown Prince, marrying his brother, and keeping a lover from the Eastern Continent on the side?”
Kanna Adis said nothing. She felt no need to defend herself.
“You can’t live without men, can you? And one man isn’t nearly enough for you?”
His eyes held the gaze one reserves for vermin, for filth, for something reeking of depravity. Every word dripped with nauseating contempt and revulsion.
“Filthy woman.”
Orsini spat the curse like a blade.
It was his true feeling. Kanna Adis felt it in full.
But what did it matter?
Even his revulsion felt tedious to me. I only regretted the champagne he’d drunk. I wanted another glass….
Then Orsini reached out, seizing her long hair and yanking it back. A sharp pain shot through her as her head was forced upward.
“Do your men know how promiscuously you behave?”
His face, now finally before hers, burned with vicious fury.
“Do they know and still obsess over you?”
Kanna Adis furrowed her brow and shoved his hand away.
Despite the violent gesture, there was barely any force behind it—his hand fell away like dust.
“Everything you said is true.”
Smoothing her disheveled hair, Kanna Adis replied calmly.
“I’m like that. Bad, promiscuous, filthy, unable to live without men. Of course one man isn’t enough for me. That’s the kind of woman your sister is.”
At the last sentence, Orsini’s lips twisted.
“Sister? You’re insane, this is ridiculous….”
But his curse dissolved into nothing.
Kanna Adis had reached out and seized his loosened cravat.
Her touch, her warmth, traced like a serpent along his jaw and the side of his neck.
Orsini’s jaw tightened rigidly. Yet he spoke with vicious harshness.
“Remove your filthy hands.”
“Filthy, you say.”
Kanna Adis gazed intently at his deep blue cravat, her fingers toying with it.
“Your language has been rather harsh since earlier.”
Then I looked up at him.
The moment my gentle gaze met his directly, Orsini’s fingertips trembled as if struck by lightning.
I smiled sweetly.
“You should use prettier words with your older sister.”
I deliberately chose words I knew he despised, speaking softly as I adjusted his cravat. “Who knows? If you behave cutely….”
In the next instant, I seized his cravat roughly and pulled.
He was dragged downward like a dog on a leash.
Obediently, he came.
“…perhaps things between us might improve a little.”
The cravat wrapped tightly around his firm neck. I slowly increased the pressure of my hands as they constricted his throat.
And I produced a tone more gentle than ever before.
“Maybe I could even come to like you, couldn’t I?”
Perhaps from the suffocation, heat flickered in his eyes.
“…Let go.”
With his throat constricted, he released a voice that seemed to break apart.
I tilted my head innocently.
“Why? I’m just trying to tie it neatly.”
It would be easy pain to escape from if he resisted, yet he never pushed back. He only glared with eyes growing crimson. I met that gaze piercingly and tightened my grip even more.
Harder, just a little harder…
And finally, his lips—stubbornly sealed until now—parted. A sigh-like moan escaped.
The reaction I had been waiting for.
I observed it with an impassive gaze. And I deliberated.
What should I do?
Should I kill this annoying pest right now? If I squeezed a bit more, I really could end him.
…But if I did that, it would become a problem.
I released the pressure in my grip. As the cravat loosened, rough breathing burst from Orsini’s mouth.
His agitation was pleasant to see, so I laughed aloud.
“Did you suffocate? Sorry. I’m clumsy.”
I tapped his jaw lightly with my fingertips, smiling with my eyes narrowed.
“Wear it well. It looks pretty on you.”
Then I walked toward the door, but stopped abruptly as if remembering something.
“Your right arm—it’s completely healed, I see?”
I sighed and opened the Balcony door.
How disappointing.
I had hoped that every time I saw his damaged right arm, he would recall that moment of humiliation, but it has healed.
“Truly a shame.”
* * *
After shaking off the troublesome Orsini, Alexei was waiting outside the door.
After shaking off the bothersome Orsini and coming out, Alexei was waiting in front of the door.
He snatched her hand before uttering a single word, pulling her along with him.
Fine—perhaps this was for the best. I followed willingly, my hand clasped in his.
As expected, he led me to the Royal Rest Area, and only then did he release my hand.
“Tatiana…”
Crack!
But I was faster. My palm connected with his cheek in a vicious slap. Alexei’s head snapped to the side.
It didn’t end there. I immediately struck his other cheek with an upward blow. Crack! The sharp sound echoed again.
“You’re the worst.”
He turned his head slowly, his expression dazed. I glared at him, my voice cutting.
“Selfish, thinking only of yourself. And foolish on top of it all.”
“…And you—”
He spoke quietly, rubbing his reddened cheek.
“You held Prince Lorenzo’s hand? Have you lost your mind?”
“What was I supposed to do? Push him away and run to you instead?”
“You should have.”
Alexei seized my shoulders roughly.
“Weren’t you afraid of drawing attention all this time? Trying to hide?”
“You understand that perfectly well. So why are you doing this?”
“It’s impossible to keep you as my lover hidden forever. So I thought it would be advantageous to reveal it now, in this moment.”
Up to this point, his reasoning aligned with the Queen’s.
If something cannot be concealed eternally, then it is better to reveal it boldly before all eyes. Make her family, place her under the protection of the Royal House’s aegis.
“That’s why you did this, Tatiana.”
But he diverged completely from the Queen’s approach. He had never asked for my consent, forcing his will upon me.
“Yet you held Prince Lorenzo’s hand?”
His lips twisted.
“What are you two? Did you meet in secret behind my back?”
This was the worst.
I thought nothing could be worse, but I was wrong.
It felt like being thrust into filthy mire.
“Don’t insult your brother that way. Prince Lorenzo made a sacrifice for me.”
“A sacrifice?”
“Yes. He took me as his princess to prevent me from becoming entangled with the Imperial Court.”
“How is that a sacrifice? He didn’t lift a finger and got exactly what he wanted. He must be overjoyed right now.”
His words no longer sounded human. A dog’s bark would be more pleasant to hear.
I could no longer bear to tolerate him.
“Stop this. And accept it. We’re finished.”
“I’m not ending this with you.”
“Are you insane? I’m your brother’s wife now!”
“So what? Infidelity is common in the Royal Court.”
Madman.
I found no further value in speaking. As I turned my body, he suddenly pulled me by the waist and drew me into his embrace.
“Let me go!”
“I must look insane. I know. Even to me, I’m not in my right mind.”
I stopped struggling.
I thought he didn’t know. But he does?
“I don’t understand why I’ve become like this.”
“….”
“You don’t have to forgive me, so please, just don’t say it’s over, Tatiana. No, Kanna. Please….”
That was when the door burst open and Prince Lorenzo entered.
“Brother, what are you doing right now?”
Alexei lifted his face. His bloodshot eyes blazed with hostility.
“Get out, Lorenzo.”
“Get yourself together, brother. Do you know who just arrived outside?”
Prince Lorenzo’s voice trembled, his anger reaching a boiling point.
“I’ve barely calmed the commotion down, and if people see you two like this, what will they think?”
In that instant, Alexei sprang up like a coiled spring and struck Prince Lorenzo’s cheek.
“Alexei!”
I gasped and grabbed his arm.
“Lorenzo, you worthless creature. I’ve been lenient with you all this time out of pity, and now you stab me in the back like this?”
“Alexei, please stop!”
Prince Lorenzo wiped the blood from his lips. His eyes gleamed with triumph as he glared at Alexei. Then he twisted his lips into a crooked smile.
“Move aside, Tatiana.”
“Prince Lorenzo, Your Highness, please calm yourself!”
“No. My brother started this. It seems he still thinks I’m a child….”
Then Alexei shook off her arm and lunged forward. Prince Lorenzo, who had been waiting, kicked him in the stomach.
A table toppled over, a vase shattered, and books tumbled to the floor in a cascade.
‘This is insane.’
My vision suddenly blurred. The world seemed to spin around me.
Where am I?
Who am I? What is happening?
How in the world could such madness occur?
Why must this happen to me of all people!
‘Should I just faint and be done with it?’
As I seriously considered this, a partially open door came into my view.
‘The door was open…?’
Then everyone outside must be hearing all of this chaos?
The moment I realized this, the door swung fully open.
The Queen, her face deathly pale, walked in. Behind her, a crowd had gathered to watch, and….
The Divine Spirit stood motionless.
Just before our eyes could meet, I quickly turned my head away.
“Lorenzo, Alexei.”
The Queen barely managed to lift the corners of her trembling mouth into a smile.
“What are you two doing before the coronation ceremony?”

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