The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 186

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Part 2, Chapter 33

No matter what dress she wore, no matter how thickly she applied powder, she couldn’t completely hide the deep sword scar left by the rebels.

“Virna….”

As if he himself had been struck by a blade, Raju gritted his teeth.

His trembling fingers approached the back of the crying Virna.

“R-Raju Uncle….”

Virna, overcome with emotion, raised her head.

While even her family paid her no attention, she reached out toward Raju, who was the only one to appear.

And she burst into tears.

“Wh-what do I do now? *sob* E-everyone knows. That I have this terrible scar….”

Raju couldn’t even savor the moment when his daughter, who had always avoided and distanced herself from him, entered his embrace for the first time.

“They’ll m-mock me and ridicule me for life, *sniff*… How can I live now, how… *sob*.”

It was painful to just watch his daughter gasping as if she couldn’t breathe.

His heart felt like it would tear apart. This was his precious blood, so dear that he could never approach closely and could only watch from afar.

Even now, when he closed his eyes, it was vivid. The image of the girl who had been adorably sullen toward him, innocent like a child.

He couldn’t even remember when he had last seen Virna smile so brightly.

After the failed coup, Virna had changed into someone gloomy who would fly into rage at the slightest provocation.

‘That Virna, my precious daughter became like this all because of Medeia, that bitch.’

Raju ground his teeth.

But in truth, he unconsciously knew.

If he were to trace the real culprit, the one who left Virna with an indelible scar wasn’t Medeia but Jason.

If only he hadn’t abandoned Virna among the rebels, she wouldn’t have been hurt.

But if he directed that blame toward Jason, Raju himself wouldn’t be free from that guilt either.

Back then, the work he had carried out as Jason’s subordinate had led to the result of Virna being left alone among the rebels.

Moreover, he was still serving Jason even now.

So Raju escaped from his guilt by directing his anger toward Medeia.

And he nurtured his rage and hatred toward Medeia.

Only that way could he rationalize that he wasn’t the culprit who had left his daughter with this deep scar.

“Don’t worry, Virna….”

Raju’s eyes were bloodshot as he patted the back of his sobbing daughter.

“Those who made you like this will surely pay the price. They’ll live a life where death won’t feel like death, and life won’t feel like life. I promise, this uncle will surely make it so.”

An ominous voice spread like a curse.

Raju made a vow while looking at Virna’s face, soaked with tears.

“*sob*, *sniff*….”

“This uncle will solve everything. Virna, just trust this uncle….”

He would surely repay that insolent wench who had brought such pain to his precious daughter, who wouldn’t hurt even if placed in his eye.

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While Virna ran out and Catherine mingled with the Valdina nobles, Samon received glares from the surrounding nobles all at once.

“How can an entire family be so shameless?”

“Samon Claudio is the same kind. He barely saved his life thanks to the 4th Princess, yet when she left the Kazen Imperial Capital, he pretended not to know.”

“Even beasts would know the grace of being saved, but he clung like a leech and was ungrateful. Well, the 4th Princess must have been so sick of it that she left alone without looking back, right?”

Samon stood his ground while listening to the criticism from those who didn’t seem to have any intention of lowering their voices.

His face, with chin raised high, showed no wavering as if he couldn’t hear the criticism directed at him. His smiling face even showed defiance.

However, beneath his sleeves where it couldn’t be seen, he was clenching his fists so tightly that nail marks would be left deep.

‘I’m shameless? Would they still say that if they knew what kind of monster that woman is?’

Samon recalled his nightmarish married life with the 4th Princess.

On the way back to the Empire, according to their plan, the Princess ‘lost the child.’

Since the pregnancy itself had been a lie fabricated by Raju and Samon from the beginning, the miscarriage was just an act that needed to end before arriving at the Empire.

However, what Samon had overlooked was that 4th Princess Angelique wasn’t an easy opponent who could be used and discarded at will in their play.

“Do you even know what I lost because of this useless dead brat? Aaaah!”

She was someone who had been forced to marry Samon due to the pregnancy.

Having lost both her position to discuss succession and the Late Emperor’s trust, the 4th Princess’s anger was justified.

But Samon knew that even if she had really been pregnant, she would have still whipped him.

Anyway, it was an endless series of cruel violence every single day.

It was maddening.

She cleverly never touched above his face, so except for his family, no one knew he was a husband who got beaten like a dog every day.

The 4th Princess would wield her whip whenever she felt like it, and when even that was bothersome, she would have knights beat Samon.

She treated him as if he were her lifelong enemy.

“You can never embrace another woman besides me for the rest of your life. But I will never lift a finger for you again.”

“I’ll make sure you end your life like a living dead tree, not even treated as a man.”

More than the pain of being beaten daily, what made Samon feel humiliated was when his wife rolled around with men who sold their laughter right in front of him.

She even drew his subordinate, who had been loyal as life itself, into her debauchery.

Angelique carried out an even more vicious revenge against Samon, who had brought her down with pregnancy.

“You grew up as milk brothers since he’s the wet nurse’s son? Perfect. Then this time you can raise this bastard’s seed together.”

“My lord. How could I have known such a day would come? You always despised me as lowborn blood, but now you’ll raise that lowborn bastard’s seed as your own flesh and blood.”

They say position makes the person.

With a powerless master and repeated favor from the 4th Princess, the subordinate quickly forgot his place and provoked Samon.

“My son will bear your noble surname, and I will live as Her Highness the Princess’s husband in your place. Please take good care of me for the rest of my life.”

For someone so proud and arrogant, what could be more humiliating than having to raise another man’s child—especially a lowborn subordinate’s child—as his own?

Samon could no longer endure it.

‘Whether that bitch dies or I die, coexistence under the same sky is impossible.’

A few days later, it was a day like any other.

It was also the day Samon’s subordinate served the Princess at night.

“Kyaaaah! Get that thing away!”

However, the next morning, the subordinate was found dead on the 4th Princess’s bed with his eyes wide open.

“Your Highness. It seems you used too much aphrodisiac… Didn’t I tell you that the toxicity was too strong and he could die overnight?”

“Damn it, I drank too much and can’t remember…”

The Princess’s physician didn’t know.

That Samon had secretly tampered with his wife’s aphrodisiac and alcohol.

He smoothly escaped suspicion.

And contrary to his wife, who tried to cover up the subordinate’s death, he secretly spread rumors.

“The debauched 4th Princess has now killed someone!”

While it was known that the 4th Princess played with male lovers, their death was another matter, so the rumors quickly grew out of control.

‘Angelique! Are you testing how far I can tolerate you?!’

At Perdickas II’s scolding, the 4th Princess sprang up like a spring.

Already out of favor with the Late Emperor and ignored, plus tired of the changed treatment from her siblings and nobles.

She had nothing left to fear. Even if it was her own father.

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