The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 87

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Episode 87

 

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One week before nine bell tolls rang throughout the entire Empire.

 

Nicole finally made her decision.

 

‘It’s impossible for me to steal the evidence alone. …Let’s use a drug.’

 

What she decided to make was a puppet brainwashing drug.

 

“I need these materials here. They’re ingredients for medicine needed by His Highness the First Prince who has lost much blood.”

 

With those words, the materials were obtained within a day. No one thought she would make something like a brainwashing drug.

 

Thanks to that, Nicole was able to complete the brainwashing drug without anyone’s interference, and successfully put it in the Empress’s tea.

 

“I know you have evidence that the rebellion 20 years ago was fabricated. Bring me that evidence without anyone knowing.”

 

The Empress personally brought Nicole to her bedroom and with her own hands opened the music box and handed Nicole the evidence inside.

 

The advantage of the puppet brainwashing drug that could only be used once was that one would naturally forget the memory of being brainwashed.

 

Thus, in the Empress’s mind, bringing Nicole to her bedroom was replaced with having a more secret conversation related to the First Prince.

 

The problem was that the Empress had been preparing to use that letter to accuse the Emperor of framing her and her husband with rebellion charges to steal the Duchess’s alchemy notes.

 

“Wh-where did this go? Who is it! Who stole it!”

 

The Empress, who had personally handed the evidence to Nicole with her own hands, forgot that memory and couldn’t even suspect Nicole due to the potion’s effect.

 

Naturally, the Empress’s suspicion turned toward the maids who had free access to the bedroom.

 

However, even after interrogating the maids for several days, there was no way to know who had stolen the evidence.

 

So the Empress came to this conclusion.

 

“…The Emperor took it!”

 

That letter was her only, final trump card that she had saved until the very last moment.

 

The moment she realized that her last desperate attempt to put Cayen on the throne had been thwarted before it even began, the Empress lost her grip on reason.

 

She immediately ran to the Emperor’s study and grabbed him by the collar.

 

“You shameless bastard! How dare you call yourself a husband!”

 

“Em-Empress! Please calm down!”

 

“Let go, I’m going to kill this man and then die myself!”

 

The maids and knights were flustered by the Empress who suddenly came and caused a disturbance, but the most surprised person was the Emperor.

 

“Empress, what are you doing!”

 

“What am I doing? You don’t know so you’re asking!”

 

The Emperor barely managed to push the Empress’s shoulders and separate her, but the Empress raised her nails and rushed at the Emperor again.

 

However, even if the Empress lost her reason and went wild, the Emperor was also someone who had trained quite a bit in his younger days. Though the Empress rushed at him several times, her hands never touched the Emperor’s body.

 

Eventually, the exhausted Empress sat down on the floor breathing heavily, and the Emperor watched her before giving orders to the others.

 

“Everyone go outside.”

 

“Yes? But….”

 

“Quickly!”

 

She was still the Empress, after all. He couldn’t let others see her disgraceful behavior.

 

So the Imperial Knights and maids went outside, and the Emperor sat down in a chair feeling somewhat tired.

 

“Empress. Have you really lost your mind? Was Lionel sitting in the Crown Prince’s seat so infuriating?”

 

“…I asked you.”

 

“What?”

 

“I asked if playing with people is so fun!”

 

The Empress’s eyes, glaring at the Emperor while grinding her teeth, were bloodshot red, making it look as if she was shedding tears of blood.

 

“What do you mean by playing with people? Don’t tell me you’re talking about how I said Cayen could sit in the Crown Prince’s seat if he developed his abilities?”

 

“Are you still pretending? I’ve already figured it all out, so stop it!”

 

“What have you figured out?”

 

“That you took that letter!”

 

“…Letter?”

 

At that truly puzzled expression, the Empress’s mind suddenly cleared.

 

It felt as if the dark clouds that had been heavily gathered before her eyes had suddenly retreated.

 

As her mind became clear, she realized what she had done. At the same time, she met eyes with the Emperor who had a strange expression.

 

“Letter…. A letter, a letter.”

 

“D-dear.”

 

“Dear? Seeing a word I’ve never heard in my life come from your mouth, that letter must be quite an important item. That precious letter you were keeping suddenly disappeared, and you mistakenly thought I took it?”

 

“That is, I mean….”

 

“Ah, yes. I remember now.”

 

The Emperor’s lips slowly curved.

 

Though the corners of his mouth clearly went up, it was a strange expression that didn’t feel like smiling at all.

 

“A few letters I exchanged with that person had disappeared. I was in the middle of burning them, so I thought I had mistakenly thrown them into the fireplace….”

 

Suddenly, the Emperor’s expression hardened fiercely.

 

He had remembered. What was written in the letters he had burned, or thought he had burned, at that time.

 

“…Ha, haha! Now I understand! You were planning to present that letter as evidence and spread rumors that I fabricated the rebellion. You were going to bring me down and seize real power!”

 

“I, I…. That’s not it!”

 

“If not that? Were you planning to push me off the throne entirely and put Cayen in this position?”

 

A sneer appeared at the Emperor’s lips.

 

“Until you die, never again will I let you dream such foolish dreams.”

 

The Emperor, grinding his teeth while looking at the Empress, turned his back on her.

 

“Someone!”

 

The Emperor raised his voice toward the outside to call for people.

 

That moment felt incredibly slow to the Empress’s eyes, as if a slow magic spell had been cast.

 

‘He’ll make sure I can’t dream foolish dreams? What is he planning to do to Cayen?’

 

Just 1 second, at most 2 seconds. In that brief moment, dozens of thoughts rose and fell in the Empress’s mind, and in that process, a large vase caught her eye.

 

It just caught her eye. She didn’t even think about what she should do with it.

 

But the moment she blinked once, a cold and hard sensation filled her hands.

 

-Crash!

 

The large vase hit the back of the Emperor’s head, making a loud shattering sound as it broke into pieces, and the Emperor’s body swayed greatly.

 

“You…!”

 

“Die, just die!”

 

The Empress threw the vase fragment remaining in her hand at the Emperor’s face. Then the Emperor, trying to avoid the fragment with his swaying body, ended up falling.

 

At this moment, the Emperor’s misfortune shone.

 

The back of his neck was pierced by a sharp ceramic fragment that had fallen on the floor.

 

“…!”

 

Instead of sound, blood gushed from the Emperor’s mouth.

 

With trembling eyes, with an expression that showed he couldn’t believe this was his end, he reached his hand toward the Empress, but….

 

Soon that hand fell powerlessly to the floor with a thud.

 

And silence.

 

In the silence where not even a breath could be heard, the Empress couldn’t understand what had happened for a moment, then belatedly collapsed in that spot.

 

At the same time, the door burst open.

 

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Empress…. Gasp!”

 

Everyone held their breath seeing the bright red rose petals scattered on the floor and the carpet thickly stained the same color as those petals.

 

“Empress, Your Majesty the Empress…. What on earth is this….”

 

Everyone’s gaze turned toward the Empress.

 

The Empress, who had been sitting on the floor trembling, hastily opened her lips under the gazes that pierced her skin as sharp as arrows.

 

“I-I accidentally dropped the vase, and His Majesty fell onto the broken pieces….”

 

“….”

 

“Court physician! Call the court physician!”

 

With the single thought that she had to get through this situation somehow, the Empress desperately shouted.

 

Perhaps there might still be hope, she thought, embracing the Emperor’s body that still had warmth.

 

But everyone knew. The Empress’s hands and clothes stained red, and the fishy smell of blood that stung their noses were telling them.

 

Even if the Pope came instead of the court physician, it was already too late.

 

At the same time, what came to their minds was the oracle the Emperor had received.

 

[You shall meet a wretched death unworthy of your position]

 

To die falling over a broken vase. What a wretched death this was indeed.

 

Thus, in the chaotic situation of belatedly running down the long corridor to summon the court physician and laying the Emperor’s body on the bed, no one suspected that the cause of that death was the Empress.

 

At least not in that moment.

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