The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 147

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Episode 147

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“Your Majesty. The Duchess requests an audience.”

Really now, what’s with this ‘requesting’?

Anyone listening would think I walked here on my own two feet.

“Let her enter!”

The Emperor’s voice came from inside the closed door, and an Imperial Guard waiting outside personally opened the door for me.

I wondered if it was appropriate to enter the Emperor’s bedchamber instead of a reception room or audience hall, but seeing the Emperor barely managing to sit up from his bed with a maid’s support left me speechless.

‘He looks like he’s practically on death’s door?’

His pale face was one thing, but his lips were purplish. His gaunt face was almost skeletal, which emphasized his bulging eyes, and honestly, it was a bit frightening.

‘Though he used to have that sickly beautiful boy vibe back in the day…’

The man before me was so lifeless and sickly that it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed and died right now. With a bit of exaggeration, he looked like a walking corpse.

I was so reluctant to even make eye contact that I hesitantly stepped back, when a maid blocking my retreat spoke to me in a small voice.

“Your Highness the Duchess. Please show proper respect to His Majesty the Emperor.”

Is etiquette really the issue right now!

…is what I wanted to say, but there were too many watching eyes – maids, court physicians, and Imperial Guards.

I had no choice but to push aside my uncomfortable feelings and show proper respect before the Emperor.

“The Frost Duchess greets Your Majesty.”

I deliberately used the word ‘Duchess’ to emphasize the fact that I was a married woman.

“Yes, Cecilia. It’s been a long time.”

My intention didn’t seem to get through. This man called me by a name I hadn’t permitted, just as he had done several years ago.

‘Ugh, does being Emperor give you the right? Does it give you the right?’

Did he hear my inner grumbling? One of the Imperial Guards carefully approached the Emperor and whispered in his ear.

“Your Majesty, for a moment…”

I couldn’t hear what he was whispering. But seeing him glance at me while speaking, it seemed like he was talking about me.

“What? Pregnant?”

The Emperor’s already pale face turned even whiter. The fact that he could lose even more color from there was simply fascinating.

“Pregnant, pregnant… you say? Cecilia. Is that true?”

“Yes, it’s true.”

I proudly placed my hand on my lower abdomen.

“Inside here is my husband’s child.”

“That’s… that’s impossible.”

The Emperor seemed greatly shocked, swaying before collapsing right there.

“Your Majesty!”

The maid and Imperial Guard rushed to support the Emperor in alarm. I watched the scene with the feeling of being an audience member watching a play.

Honestly, I felt a bit annoyed.

‘I’m the one who’s pregnant, so why is he the one in shock?’

Anyone would think he was my ex-boyfriend or something.

I watched Cayen being moved to the bed with others’ support, feeling incredulous.

He had been swaying slightly dazed, pushed along by others’ hands, when suddenly finding strength from somewhere, he bolted upright and glared at me with fire in his eyes.

“It must be an unwanted pregnancy! I’ll give you medicine, so abort it immediately!”

What nonsense is this crazy bastard spouting!

“Of course both my husband and I wanted this pregnancy! What kind of ridiculous things are you saying about someone else’s precious child?”

I turned around, covering my lower abdomen with both hands, telling myself not to listen to such nonsense.

Then I heard a voice filled with resentment from behind me.

“You said… you said you wanted to become Empress!”

“What did you say?”

“Then why did you hide the oracle? If you hadn’t hidden the oracle, you could have married me and smoothly become Empress! Why did you betray me and go to Lionel? Why! Why on earth!”

“Who exactly betrayed whom? Lionel was my fiancé from the beginning!”

“No! You were my fiancée. You should have married me, become my Empress, and borne my child!”

“What nonsense have you been spouting!”

I looked around because I couldn’t understand why this man was acting like this.

Then, as if saying ‘we know he’s crazy too,’ the maids and knights avoided my gaze and looked elsewhere.

Suddenly, I looked at the Imperial Guard who had brought me here and realized something.

‘Right, the oracle.’

With the late Emperor’s will missing, the Emperor had ascended to the throne solely thanks to the ‘Empress’ oracle.

So naturally, to protect his throne, he would need to place me, who possessed the oracle, in the Empress position.

‘So that’s why he’s saying I should become his Empress and bear his child.’

What a remarkable man. If he wanted to protect his throne that badly, he should have improved his own abilities instead of ordering the kidnapping of a pregnant married woman.

“Unfortunately, you’re too late. I’m going to bear Lionel’s child. Naturally, the future sage king from the oracle will also be…”

“I’ll just declare it’s my child.”

“…What?”

What did this man just say?

“I’m the current Emperor anyway. Besides… whoever the child’s father is, since God prophesied it would be a sage king, that child will naturally receive an oracle. Isn’t that right?”

The Emperor smiled while looking at my belly. It was a strange smile that didn’t feel like smiling even though he was clearly smiling.

“When the child is born, if I’m the Emperor and you’re the Empress… that child will naturally become my child. It will become our child!”

“No! Even if I died and came back to life, I will never become Your Majesty’s wife, nor will this child ever become Your Majesty’s child! I am Lionel’s wife and this child is also Lionel’s…!”

“Enough!”

The Emperor suddenly screamed irritably and glared at me with a resentful face.

His eyes were filled with a mixture of negative emotions like resentment and betrayal.

“Lionel, Lionel, Lionel at the end of every sentence…! Come to think of it, it was like that from our first meeting. You looked at me with completely different eyes than when you looked at Lionel.”

Of course, because Lionel was already my fiancé then and you were the guy causing trouble at my brother-in-law meeting!

“You, you are… Ugh!”

Suddenly experiencing pain, the Emperor grabbed his head with both hands. Seeing this, a maid cried out in alarm.

“Your Majesty!”

“Don’t touch me!”

The Emperor pushed away the maid’s supporting hands and barely regained his balance by gripping the nightstand.

Eventually, he took deep breaths that made his chest heave, then turned his head somewhere. There was nothing where his gaze reached.

“Yes, you should look at me and smile like that…”

After smiling at the empty air, he immediately became serious and whipped around to look at me.

The Emperor pointed at the place he had been looking and raised his voice at me.

“You should smile like that! Look at me with such a sweet smile and call my name!”

“No…”

“Smile, I said smile! Call me Cayen. Hurry!”

I wondered if it was okay to say this to the Emperor, but he really seemed like a crazy bastard. No, he didn’t just seem crazy – he really was crazy.

‘They say the answer to dealing with crazy people is to avoid them.’

Somehow I felt like staying here would lead to no good.

Thinking I should leave first, I glanced behind me, but then my eyes met directly with the Emperor’s.

“How dare you try to run away!”

“No…”

“Come here!”

The Emperor strode toward me and grabbed my wrist. I reflexively tried to use defensive magic but hesitated.

‘If I use defensive magic on this man right now, he might die.’

I didn’t want to become a murderer while pregnant.

While I hesitated, the Emperor dragged me to one wall of the bedchamber and manipulated a lamp hanging on the wall.

Then cracks began to appear in the wall, and with a loud rumbling vibration, a secret door opened.

“Stay here quietly.”

“Kyaa!”

The Emperor pushed my back into it, and I was so focused on protecting the child by covering my belly with both hands that I was pushed into the secret door.

By the time I found my balance by pressing my hands against the wall, the door behind me was already closing.

Through the gap of the creaking door as it closed, I made eye contact with one of the Emperor’s eyes. His smirking expression was so infuriating that I kicked the closing door with my foot.

“What are you smiling about, you criminal who confines women? Ridiculous!”

Since I had only kicked the wall, my kick couldn’t have had any effect on the Emperor, but I was able to witness him coughing up blood at perfectly timed moment.

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