My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47
Kanna Adis froze completely. Surely Silvien Valentino wasn’t here!
Silvien Valentino stood in nothing but a black robe, smiling with perfect composure—though exhaustion haunted the edges of that smile.
“Dressed like that, in someone else’s bedroom.”
His ice-blue eyes moved with deliberate slowness, trailing across her form.
A chemise of gossamer fabric. Bathed in moonlight, the curves of her body revealed were more scandalous than complete nakedness.
“…!”
The moment his gaze passed over her, Kanna Adis quickly wrapped her arms around herself.
She glared at him with accusatory eyes—What are you looking at?—but Silvien Valentino merely lifted his gaze again with shameless leisure.
At last, their eyes met in the space between them.
Tension coiled taut as a bowstring across that narrow distance.
Kanna Adis swallowed hard, her throat dry, and spoke with feigned composure.
“I didn’t know you were in your room.”
One of Silvien Valentino’s eyebrows rose slightly, as if he’d heard a clumsy jest.
“Didn’t know?”
“Yes. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have come in.”
But you don’t believe that for a moment, do you?
Just as expected, Silvien Valentino’s lips curved upward with mockery, his head tilting slightly.
“Then why did you come in?”
The instant his words ended, a memory flashed through her mind.
A situation much like this one—Ju-hwa’s shameful history of stripping bare and throwing herself at him!
‘Damn it.’
Heat flooded Kanna Adis’s face. The memory was so vivid it felt as though she herself had committed the act.
Not a thread of fabric on her, completely exposed. And clinging to him pathetically, curse it all!
But Kanna Adis steadied herself. She suppressed the burning sensation creeping into her eyes and forced out a calm voice.
“You’re misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“Yes. I was merely….”
I was merely here to steal your cloak!
‘…I can’t possibly say that!’
When Kanna Adis said nothing, Silvien Valentino simply smiled smoothly.
It was a smile that seemed bored, as if everything were unfolding exactly as predicted, without the slightest deviation.
“I hear you’ve endured considerable hardship, yet you seem to be faring better than expected.”
Kanna Adis was left speechless.
Rather than concern, he spoke as if watching a fire across a distant river.
‘What did I expect from him anyway?’
Silvien Valentino spoke languidly.
“I’m aware that Kanna Adis has been making efforts in various ways of late.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Precisely what I said. Are you aware that all your efforts are proving harmful to Valentino?”
His voice was as clear and pristine as a still lake, making it impossible to believe this was censure at all.
Yet it was. It was reproach and rebuke.
My insides began to roil with increasing fury. There were limits to my patience.
‘How infuriating.’
This man was still deluded, as always.
He actually believed I was struggling for his attention!
Just as I moved my lips to speak—
“Very well. Let us reach a compromise, Miss Kanna Adis.”
Silvien Valentino made his proposal in a measured tone.
“To the chamber.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Go to the chamber.”
What? My lips parted at his unexpected words.
Then Silvien Valentino straightened from where he had been leaning against the wall.
That simple motion alone made his frame seem impossibly vast.
His shoulders, exposed through the open folds of his robe, caught the moonlight. His physique possessed the taut, sculpted quality of marble carved by a master’s hand.
And then—a single step forward.
In just that one stride, he closed the distance between us. A strange, suffocating pressure washed over me, and I nearly stumbled backward.
“Do you perhaps dislike the chamber?”
His low voice rippled through the air like gentle waves. His cool, crisp scent flooded the space around us.
“Or is there somewhere else you would prefer?”
The meaning behind his words was unmistakable.
Compromise. Chamber. Compromise. Chamber…
Shame and fury rose within me slowly, deliberately, and with crystalline clarity.
“Did you say compromise, Your Grace?”
“I did.”
“Then you’re saying you want something from me.”
“Conduct yourself as you did before. Quietly.”
As I did before.
Like those seven years past.
Hiding my face behind my bangs, hunching my shoulders, remaining invisible to all eyes, lurking in the shadows.
“And in exchange, you’ll pay attention to me?”
“I will fulfill a husband’s duties to some degree.”
Silvien Valentino’s gaze was glacial.
He had never bothered to conceal his contempt.
Those slender, curved blue eyes—the way they looked at me held the expression of someone regarding an old, tiresome problem.
“Isn’t this what you desired, Miss Kanna Adis?”
In that instant, my fingertips trembled.
I wanted nothing more than to strike him across the face—
‘No. No, I must endure.’
I clenched my fists with all my might.
If I didn’t, I feared I might actually claw at her face. If I did, there would be no turning back.
“No. That’s not what I want.”
But it was probably what Ju-hwa wanted.
What she had yearned for and demanded these past seven years.
“Why don’t you be honest with me, like you used to be?”
As expected, Silvien Valentino didn’t believe me.
He treated my refusal as a ploy to capture his attention, finding it tedious and bothersome. A faint irritation even lingered in his gaze.
Seven years had been more than enough to make him this way.
No matter what I said, he wouldn’t believe me.
Realizing this, my resolve crumbled like sand.
‘There’s no point in talking to him.’
Fine then. I’d leave. I’d go.
But I wouldn’t leave empty-handed.
After such humiliation, I absolutely had to take that cloak with me.
‘I didn’t want to use this method.’
I lowered my head, then lifted it sharply. When I did, my face wore a smile.
“Fine. Let me tell you what I want.”
With those words, I slowly lifted the hem of my nightgown.
The sleeveless one-piece that fell to my calves was drawn upward inch by inch.
“The reason I came here was—”
My knees gradually revealed, then my smooth thighs.
As my pale skin caught the moonlight and gleamed, Silvien Valentino’s lips curved upward—that knowing smile of someone who had expected exactly this.
He folded his arms and tilted his head, watching me like I was performing a trick.
“The reason is, well…”
I slowly lifted my skirt higher as I approached him. My husband was making an unmistakably seductive advance.
…Until I pulled out the strange object I had tied behind my thigh.
“That’s none of your concern!”
Whoooosh!
Sleeping powder sprayed directly into Silvien Valentino’s face!
“What I want!”
Whoosh, whoosh!
“Don’t even think about it!”
Whoooosh!
“Don’t concern yourself with it at all!”
Whoosh!
“Do you understand?”
Whoooooosh!
I sprayed and sprayed with relentless fury until the sleeping powder formed a thick haze that completely enveloped his face.
Even the Knight Guards standing at the door collapsed from a single dose. So…
“…?”
So Silvien Valentino should naturally collapse as well.
He had to collapse….
“…What?”
When the pristine sleep-inducing fragrance dispersed, his eyes that emerged were crystal clear and perfectly lucid.
He did not collapse.
He did not even stumble.
Rather, his eyes now held a peculiar fascination that had been absent mere moments before.
It was the gaze of someone witnessing something utterly remarkable.
“What exactly did you just do, Miss Kanna Adis?”
His voice carried genuine curiosity.
‘Why isn’t he collapsing?’
Pshhh!
Flustered, Kanna Adis sprayed the sleep-inducing fragrance once more.
Silvien Valentino’s brow furrowed briefly, but nothing more. There was no sign of him falling.
He remained silent for a few seconds before his lips curved upward.
It was a smile both dangerous and utterly captivating.
“Could it be that you’re attacking me?”

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