My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50
Oh no! In my shock, I’d let the words slip right out of my mouth.
I belatedly tried to gauge Princess Lilienne’s reaction, but she had already heard me clearly.
“What did you just say?”
“Well, that is…”
“Why was Kanna in Silvien’s bedroom? Don’t tell me the two of you were… sharing a bed?”
“No, Your Highness! Kanna must have snuck into Silvien’s room! It’s happened before. As you know, Silvien has a weak heart… he struggles to refuse people.”
Everyone knew it was a flimsy excuse. Silvien was one of the coldest people anyone could meet.
As expected, Princess Lilienne’s expression turned glacial.
‘This won’t do.’
Josephine bit her lip. She had to calm Princess Lilienne’s fury at any cost!
“Bring Kanna to me at once! How dare she sully the lord’s bed—she deserves punishment!”
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The maid who had fled calling Josephine’s name returned ten minutes later, dragging Knight Guards with her.
“The lady calls for you.”
“Yes, let’s go.”
Kanna rose obediently. She could have escaped while the maid was away, but she didn’t.
Rather than flee, I sat quietly and waited. All while preparing to make a fool of Josephine.
‘It’ll be nice to see Josephine’s face.’
Even as I was dragged along, my mood was quite good.
After all, I’d ended up testing the new medicine on none other than Josephine herself.
‘Even if side effects appear, it should be fine.’
Naturally, I’d take a few slaps to the face as standard. It was violence I could easily predict. Hadn’t I already been struck across the face when I first returned here?
Yet surprisingly, Josephine didn’t move to hit me.
“Kanna Valentino, you.”
I’d expected her to come at me like a monster and strike, but she didn’t. She was maintaining her dignity because of Princess Lilienne’s presence.
“Kneel.”
Thud. The Knight Guards pressed down hard on my shoulders. My knees dirtied against the soil of the Glass Greenhouse.
“What exactly have you been doing wandering about?”
My slip dress and knees were now caked with dirt. I looked like a beggar from the slums.
Princess Lilienne, who had been quietly observing my state, let out a soft laugh.
“Count Elester, isn’t this a bit too harsh?”
But thanks to seeing me in such a state, her anger seemed to have cooled somewhat. Josephine felt inwardly relieved.
“Not at all, Your Highness. Kanna has committed a crime, and this is hardly severe! It seems your heart is far too gentle, I’m afraid.”
She had to please Princess Lilienne by any means necessary.
Josephine strode forward and lifted my chin with her fan.
“Speak. Why were you in Silvien’s bedroom?”
“Because I slept there.”
In that instant, Josephine’s face went deathly pale. The smile vanished from Princess Lilienne’s face as well.
Savoring their reactions, I spoke each word with deliberate clarity.
“The Duke himself laid me in bed. And he even tucked the blanket over me.”
Well, it wasn’t a lie, was it?
She omitted the part about how he’d forcibly put her to sleep and stolen the sleeping draught—because she wanted them to misunderstand.
‘The more they hit me, the better.’
For that to happen, Princess Lilienne needed to be angry first. Only then would Josephine raise her hand—she felt certain of it in some peculiar way.
Had the provocation worked? Princess Lilienne’s lips trembled with barely contained rage.
“You speak nonsense. The Duke is more cautious than anyone regarding the matter of succession. He would never share a bedchamber with a woman unless she were to bear his heir.”
Princess Lilienne was desperate. She had to be.
If Silvien fathered a child, his value would plummet. Where else could she find a suitor of such caliber?
But Kanna Adis answered with shameless audacity.
“No, that’s not true. The Duke himself suggested we go to bed together. I hadn’t planned to sleep here, but he was so insistent.”
“How dare you lie!”
Josephine cried out in panic.
If Princess Lilienne abandoned Silvien, her grand plan of welcoming the Imperial Family as her daughter-in-law would crumble!
She had to silence that wretched mouth immediately!
With a sharp crack, Josephine raised her hand and struck Kanna Adis across the cheek.
It was the violence Kanna Adis had been hoping for, waiting for.
“How dare you lie before the Princess! You are insulting the Imperial Family! Don’t you know that insulting the Imperial Family is a capital offense!”
Another sharp crack! Josephine struck her cheek again.
“Admit it’s a lie! Tell the truth!”
This should be enough, shouldn’t it?
In the next moment, Kanna Adis bowed her head low and wrapped both arms around herself protectively. It was a defense so fragile and pitiful it looked utterly broken.
Just before Josephine could bring her hand down on her head—
“Stop.”
Josephine’s hand froze mid-air.
“What… what are you doing…?”
A cool voice scattered across the heated air.
Princess Lilienne, Josephine, and even Kanna Adis turned in shock.
Standing tall before the Greenhouse was a man.
“I asked what you are doing.”
It was Kalen Adis.
“Sir Kalen Adis? Why are you here?”
Josephine quickly stepped forward to shield Kanna Adis’s body, asking urgently.
But it was too late.
Kalen Adis had already seen everything.
He had just arrived at the entrance of the Valentino Estate. Following a servant’s guidance across the garden, he detected a strange sound coming from far away.
It was faint and small, but his keen hearing caught it precisely.
The sound of Kanna Adis’s cry.
So he brushed past the servant’s objections and walked toward the source of the sound.
There stood a transparent Glass Greenhouse.
As the Glass Greenhouse drew nearer, its interior becoming increasingly visible, my heart hammered against my ribs with violent urgency.
Someone was being brutally assaulted.
And that someone had black hair….
“What in the world….”
I couldn’t even finish the sentence.
I had already witnessed everything. Everything.
“What exactly.”
Kanna Adis forced to her knees on the dirt floor like a worthless slave, her face struck repeatedly.
Struck again and again until her lips split and blood spilled forth.
And so, my fragile sister ended up pathetically shielding her head with her arms.
Kalen’s gaze trembled. His eyes fixed upon Kanna Adis’s pale legs beyond Josephine’s voluminous dress hem.
Legs soiled with dirt. Worse still—Kanna Adis had been stripped of her outer garments.
Robbed of her clothing, clad only in a nightgown barely distinguishable from undergarments, she was being beaten in the Greenhouse….
“I asked what you were doing.”
Before I could fully comprehend, my fingertips began to tremble.
My eyes burned with fierce bloodshot rage. Heat seared through me with such intensity my hair stood on end.
“This is….”
Josephine’s voice lost all composure.
She hadn’t anticipated this. Why was Kalen Adis here?
Why on earth?
‘No, that’s right. This is my house!’
This is my house, and Kanna Adis is my daughter-in-law!
And Kalen Adis wouldn’t make a fuss about this either. The entire House of Adis doesn’t care whether Kanna Adis lives or dies anyway.
‘Yes, they probably hope she dies!’
Josephine hadn’t always treated Kanna Adis like livestock.
Rather, she had been cautious at first. Even if the woman was treated as filth, she was still the eldest daughter of House of Adis.
But no matter how harshly Josephine behaved, Kanna Adis never resisted, and House of Adis turned a blind eye. Gradually, the intensity escalated.
Nagging became verbal abuse. Verbal abuse became physical violence.
Suddenly, the memory of the day she first struck Kanna Adis surfaced.
Was it the second year after Kanna Adis married into Valentino? She had sneaked into Silvien’s Conference Room during a meeting and was discovered by another nobleman.
The humiliation she suffered that day.
“You have no sense whatsoever. How could you think to hide in the Duke’s Study during a conference!”
“But… if I don’t do this, the Duke won’t meet with me….”
“How dare you talk back!”
The anger was unbearable.
Without thinking, Josephine slapped Kanna Adis across the cheek. Then she was shocked.
She had struck her. With her own hand!
Josephine’s heart raced with anxiety. No matter how foolish the woman was, she was still nobility. Having been struck, she surely wouldn’t let it pass.
Yet Kanna Adis simply drooped her shoulders without resisting.
But relief came too soon. If this incident reached Kanna Adis’s family at House of Adis, it could escalate into a dispute between houses.
For several days, I couldn’t sleep properly and could only groan in frustration.
‘Why isn’t anything happening?’
Remarkably, nothing occurred at all.
I had slapped Kanna Adis across the face, yet no one protested.
‘Did they not inform House of Adis? Or did they inform them, only for House of Adis to ignore it?’
After that, such incidents repeated several times, and each time, no one intervened.
Kanna Adis’s attitude—never flinching no matter how much I trampled upon her.
And House of Adis’s indifference—showing no concern regardless of what befell her.
‘Kanna Adis is someone I can treat however I wish!’
This was the truth that had become abundantly clear to me.

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