The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 150

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Episode 150

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Turning back time a little.

At the moment when the elite members of the underworld, following Lionel’s orders, attempted to occupy the Imperial Palace, the Former Empress was receiving the following information from her maid.

“What? Kai is personally moving to the Empress’s Palace?”

“Yes. It seems he intends to take the antidote.”

“Yes, that’s right! My son has finally made a big decision!”

Only Nicole could make the antidote that could save Cayen. So when she made the antidote, an alchemist was supposed to supervise from the side.

But since Cayen refused the detoxification, saying he couldn’t trust even that much, the Former Empress’s worry was beyond measure.

If Cayen continued to refuse the antidote like this, she had even considered knocking him unconscious and secretly pouring it into his mouth…

“I should go to the Empress’s Palace. I need to see with my own eyes whether Kai’s condition improves.”

“Yes, Your Majesty the Former Empress.”

However, while moving to the Empress’s Palace, the Former Empress sensed a restless atmosphere.

No, it wasn’t just restless—it was getting increasingly chaotic, and she could feel someone making loud noises, whether screams or shouts.

The Former Empress, whose entire attention was focused on Cayen, felt no particular sense of seriousness and became irritated.

“What is all this commotion! Who dares to cause a disturbance in the Imperial Palace!”

-Clang clang clang clang clang clang!

At that moment, loud bell sounds rang out from a distance.

There was only one case when the bells rang so urgently.

An attack.

“An, an attack! Someone seems to have attacked the Imperial Palace!”

“What? An attack? Who on earth would dare attack this Imperial Palace!”

When the Former Empress shouted angrily, everyone present thought of the same person.

Lionel.

‘No, but that can’t be…’

Everyone there knew his upright character. So they firmly believed that while others might, he would never cause something like a rebellion.

Even though Lionel was the only person who had reason to attack the Imperial Palace and would gain the most from attacking it, everyone thought that way.

“I don’t know whose doing this is, but you should evacuate for now.”

“That’s right. For now, with the Imperial Knights…”

“No, that won’t do. I can’t go right now!”

The Empress’s Palace was right in front of them. The Former Empress brushed off the restraints of her guards and maids and entered the Empress’s Palace.

“Emperor! Where is the Emperor!”

The Former Empress headed straight to the separate room where Nicole was confined.

Fortunately, Cayen, whom she had been desperately looking for, was there. Nicole, who was making the antidote, and the alchemist watching her were also there.

“Kai! Kai, are you alright?”

“What’s wrong, Mother?”

“Someone is attacking the Imperial Palace right now! We need to evacuate immediately!”

“An attack? Who on earth… Ah.”

Cayen looked at an empty spot beside him as if he had realized something and chuckled.

“It must be that bastard Lionel. It seems he’s come to get Cecilia back… How dare he stage an armed demonstration in this Imperial Palace, how insolent.”

A grinding sound came from between Cayen’s teeth. The Former Empress looked at him in surprise.

“What are you talking about? Cecilia? Why is the Grand Duchess’s name… Don’t tell me that child is in the Imperial Palace?”

Then Cayen frowned and pointed to his side.

“Why are you asking such a question? Isn’t she right here?”

Naturally, there was no one where he pointed. The Former Empress was so startled she almost screamed.

“There’s no one there!”

“No one? But she’s smiling so beautifully at me like this.”

Cayen’s grinning face was definitely not that of someone joking. The Empress suppressed her urge to scream and turned to the alchemist.

“What on earth is going on!”

Then the alchemist, who had a surprised expression like the Empress, clicked his tongue as if in dismay.

“The hallucination symptoms have worsened. If this continues, he’ll be completely lost in hallucinations and unable to distinguish them from reality.”

Then the alchemist looked at the maids and guard knights who served the Emperor.

“Surely His Majesty hasn’t seen hallucinations just once or twice. I warned you that each time, you must definitely tell him those are hallucinations…”

A reproachful gaze that asked what they had been doing all this time painfully pierced the maids and guard knights.

Having nothing to say even with ten mouths, they hung their heads low, and the Former Empress raged at them.

“You wretched things! I will punish you severely!”

“Your Majesty the Former Empress, Your Majesty the Emperor. It would be best to evacuate for now. We don’t know how far the rioters have pushed in.”

That was certainly right. The Former Empress barely calmed her anger and nodded.

“Yes, let’s go for now. Let’s hide until the Imperial Knights calm the disturbance outside.”

“Hide? Why should I avoid Lionel… Ugh!”

Cayen, who had been speaking in an unpleasant voice, grabbed his head and collapsed on the spot.

“Kai!”

Greatly alarmed, she ran to Cayen’s side, grabbed his shoulder to support him, and looked around.

“The Emperor has collapsed and what are you all doing! Nicole! What happened to the antidote?”

“…I just finished making it.”

Whether the Former Empress came in making a commotion or not, whether the Emperor collapsed or not, Nicole, who had been quietly making the antidote alone, came over with the completed medicine.

The Former Empress reflexively took the medicine and was about to give it to Cayen when she suddenly stopped and looked at the alchemist.

“You watched Nicole making the antidote carefully, right? There’s nothing wrong with this antidote?”

The alchemist nodded.

“Yes. You don’t need to worry.”

Only after hearing that unhesitating answer did the Former Empress pour the medicine into the Emperor’s mouth.

“Kai, tilt your head for a moment… Yes, that’s right. Well done.”

“Urgh… Cough, cough!”

After swallowing the antidote, violent coughing mixed with dark red blood immediately burst from Cayen’s mouth.

It was such violent coughing that blood splattered all over the Former Empress’s face and clothes. The Former Empress’s face turned pale for a moment, but the alchemist added reassuringly.

“Since it’s medicine to remove the toxins remaining in the body, it’s natural to spit out the poison.”

“…If things go wrong, know that both of you will find it difficult to keep your lives!”

The Former Empress, who took out a handkerchief and first wiped Cayen’s mouth, called an Imperial Knight to carry the unconscious Cayen.

“No matter what happens, you must protect the Emperor. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Your Majesty the Former Empress.”

“Come this way. We’ll escape using the secret passage.”

Throughout the Imperial Palace, secret passages and hideouts existed secretly, intertwined like a spider web.

In the Emperor’s office, there was a map showing all the secret passages and hideouts of the Imperial Palace, but the Empress and imperial family members could only know the secret passages of the palace where they resided.

Thanks to this, the Former Empress knew all the secret passages of the Empress’s Palace. It was extremely fortunate that they were currently in the Empress’s Palace.

‘I’m the only one who knows the location of the hideout at the end of this secret passage. We just need to wait there for the Imperial Knights to drive out the rioters.’

The Former Empress never imagined.

That someone else would be blocking the path to the hideout that she thought only she knew about.

“Li… Lionel?”

“It’s been a while, Your Majesty the Former Empress.”

Moreover, Lionel wasn’t alone.

He was with elite knights armed in black armor from head to toe, radiating an extraordinary aura that anyone could see.

“How, how are you here? This isn’t a place you should know about…!”

“Grandmother told me.”

“What? How could she…”

Thinking of the Former Empress before her, that is, the Dowager Empress, she closed her eyes tightly in dizziness.

The Dowager Empress had also once been an Empress. So it wasn’t strange that she knew the secret passages and hideouts of the Empress’s Palace.

But why did she tell Lionel their location?

Could it be…

“I may be old and sick, so it would be fine if I died. But how could you do that even to that young child, how could you as a mother!”

“If you don’t know how precious children are, you should at least know how frightening they can be. Remember this. When that child someday stabs you in the back, it was you who put the knife in that child’s hand.”

Did she perhaps whisper in young Lionel’s ear when he knew nothing as a child? Telling him to avenge this grandmother when he grew up?

“You… insolent thing! Before you stands the Emperor of this Empire and the Former Empress! How dare you block our path, block it!”

To the Former Empress’s aged voice, Lionel replied calmly.

“From tomorrow, that won’t be the case anymore.”

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