The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 161

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Episode 161

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The Emperor died, the Former Empress died too, and the trial was also concluded at a rapid pace.

All of this happened within a week from the day Lionel occupied the Imperial Palace.

‘It’s fortunate that it was handled quickly.’

To put it privately, Lionel’s birth mother and older brother had died. Both were tragic deaths.

However, Lionel felt no emotion whatsoever. He simply found meaning in the fact that the only two people who could block his path forward had disappeared from the world.

From his perspective, that really was all there was to it, but…

“Lionel, are you okay?”

When he returned home after finishing the trial of the Former Emperor and Former Empress, Cecilia, who had come out to the front door, ran to greet him with a face full of worry.

Lionel silently spread both arms out to his sides. Then Cecilia embraced him tightly as if she had been waiting for this.

“You must feel very strange. I understand.”

Nothing felt strange at all.

If he had to pick one thing, it would be his heart that stirred surprisingly when he embraced her, even though he had expected Cecilia to worry about him like this.

Even though Cecilia had been by his side for so long, he still wasn’t accustomed to her presence.

Like when he lost Liri as a child, like when Cecilia was dragged to the Imperial Palace the moment he briefly left her side, anxiety lurked throughout his body that he could lose her at any time, anywhere.

But now it would be okay to let go of this anxiety.

“I’m fine.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Because now there was no one who could take Cecilia away from him.

“Then… alright. If Lionel is okay, then I’m okay too.”

Cecilia said this while embracing Lionel again. As Lionel hugged her back, he thought to himself:

‘Even if you knew that I was the one who locked my own brother in a high tower from which he could jump if he chose to, and personally handed poison to my own mother…’

Would Liri still say she was really okay with it?

“Lionel?”

“…Liri.”

“Yes. Tell me. Whatever it is, it’s okay, so pour it all out to me.”

Cecilia looked at him with steady eyes as she spoke.

His face was reflected in her pupils. Even though Cecilia’s eyes were a clear sky blue, he couldn’t clearly see what expression he was making in that reflection.

Suddenly he became afraid. Lionel buried his face in Cecilia’s shoulder as if hiding, tightening his embrace around her.

“I… now the only family I have left is Liri.”

While he couldn’t bring himself to voice his plea for her not to leave him.

Cecilia spoke first in a gentle voice.

“Why do you only have me? We have our child too.”

Our child. A life that bound him and Cecilia together through its very existence.

Suddenly breathing became easier. Lionel spoke in a more comfortable voice than before.

“The child isn’t in Liri’s belly yet, is it?”

“It’s still in a one-plus-one state for now! But we only have to wait ten months. No, nine months!”

“Nine months… That’s too long.”

“Hey, it’ll pass in the blink of an eye, won’t it?”

Cecilia laughed while gently stroking Lionel’s head as he leaned against her shoulder.

“It’s okay. I’ll always be by Lionel’s side until our child is born.”

“Chirp, chirp!”

As if telling him to trust only her, Ruda tapped Lionel’s chest from inside his breast pocket.

Thanks to this, a smile finally appeared on Lionel’s lips.

“Liri. I’ll work hard. To become a good husband, to become a good father.”

“Good! Let’s work hard together.”

In the distant past that he could barely remember, he had once tried to become a good son, a good younger brother, a good friend.

But the results weren’t good, and he thought he would never again be able to try to become something good. Because he had never succeeded even once.

Nevertheless, at this very moment, Lionel could be certain.

As long as Cecilia was by his side, as long as that small warmth protected his left chest.

He would surely be able to become a good husband, a good father, a good friend.

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