The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 96

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Episode 96

“When I saw my wife with her cousin brother and misunderstood… I realized my feelings while being pathetically jealous.”

“It’s really embarrassing to say this with my own mouth. When I heard her say let’s break up, I realized that it had to be this woman.”

“Or Your Highness, try imagining this once. Having children with that person and growing old together. …If you’re done, now try putting another man who isn’t Your Highness into all those scenes you pictured. How is it? Didn’t you get your answer?”

Click, with a sound that seemed to announce the end, countless voices brushed past his ears.

Finally, thud, the firmly closed door opened. Countless emotions that had been suppressed and held back tangled like a storm and swallowed him in an instant.

At the same time, in Lionel’s mind, his grandmother’s last words left just before her death came to mind.

“Obey on the surface. Bend like a reed. So they cannot break you for not bending.”

“I will leave everything I have to you. It will be a great strength to you. But hide the fact that I left these things to you like an iron wall… When necessary. When you can no longer bend. When you feel like you’ll break if things continue this way.”

“Use it as a dagger to cut off your opponent’s breath in one stroke. And thus protect yourself.”

He often thought about it when he was young. Standing before the tombstone where his grandmother was buried, he would ask questions that would never be answered.

Grandmother. When exactly is that time?

He finally got the answer to that question he could never get an answer to. This moment couldn’t be anything but that time.

Not to protect himself, but to cut off the breath of those bastards trying to steal everything from him.

“Your Highness, if you continue standing here… Your Highness?”

Leaving the Imperial Knights behind, Lionel turned his horse’s head.

Cecilia’s figure grew distant from his sight, but her image was still vivid before his eyes.

Her laughter rang in his ears like a hallucination. The expressions and way of speaking she showed only to him too.

“Try copying me. That’s mine.”

“No, you have to keep insisting! Once you give it, it’s over! That’s mine! Give it back!”

“Will you say this again if something similar happens in the future?”

Yes, it was all his.

It would be his alone forever.

‘…Liri. Cecilia.’

The wick caught fire.

All the emotions suppressed for a lifetime began to burn toward just one person.

It was a vicious fire that even he could no longer extinguish, that would never go out until his beliefs, soul, self, instincts, everything turned to ash.

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“It’s been a while, Albert! But the lady next to you…”

“Who are you? You’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

“Huh, no, it’s me, me. We studied together at the Academy…!”

The young man who had spoken to Brother desperately tried to prove his identity, but Brother didn’t listen and took my hand to move elsewhere.

But it was the same at the place we moved to. Men who appeared to be Brother’s age kept talking to Brother, and Brother ignored them all while moving me to different spots.

Eventually, we ended up fleeing to a corner where the chandelier’s light didn’t reach.

“I expected it, but those bastards are really shameless…”

“Why? What did you expect? Why are we running away like this?”

‘I want to talk to Lionel quickly…’

I peeked around while hiding behind a pillar.

But the person I was looking for wasn’t visible, and only the men who had spoken to Brother earlier were loitering around and glancing this way.

‘Why are those people acting like that?’

“Why else. We’re running because they’re all targeting you.”

“Huh? Me? Why me?”

Come to think of it, all the people who claimed to be Brother’s friends and spoke to him seemed interested in me.

“Cecil. Don’t be surprised and listen. While you were getting ready, I heard various things from Rose.”

“Wait. Don’t tell me yet. I’m not ready to hear it.”

Usually people who talk like that say things that would make you faint from shock!

“Just listen. An imperial decree was issued for the Second Prince to enter the temple.”

Kyaaah! I knew this would happen!

“How does that make sense? The emperor’s enthronement hasn’t happened yet. Who issued the imperial decree?”

“It seems the Empress issued it. She has the authority to act as the emperor’s proxy.”

There was only one way to cancel an already issued imperial decree.

For the ministers to unite and urge that this was an unjust order and should be withdrawn.

However, considering the attitude the nobles showed at today’s funeral, it was safe to say no one would step forward for Lionel.

“In short, the Second Prince entering the temple is already decided. But you know that clergy can’t marry, right?”

I know. I also know that despite all my struggles to change the flow of the novel, things are proceeding according to the novel’s plot.

“So, if the Second Prince enters the temple, our engagement is automatically canceled?”

“That’s how it would be.”

“How can that be!”

He was someone who had lived his entire life to become crown prince, to become emperor.

It wasn’t even what he wanted. Those around him forced him, saying the First Prince couldn’t sit on the throne due to poor health, so he had to take that position.

Nevertheless, he silently accepted the responsibilities and duties given to him, worked diligently, and even risked his life.

How could they coldly cast aside such a person like a stone stuck in the road?

“So, what do you want to tell me?”

Just try saying something like the Second Prince will be banished to the temple, so let’s find a new husband here.

If you do that, I’m ready to stomp on your foot with my heel, and Brother seemed to notice my thoughts.

“The fact that engagement is automatically canceled when the Second Prince enters the temple… conversely means we can prevent His Highness’s entry using the engagement as an excuse.”

Huh?

“But the Empress won’t easily give up on the Second Prince’s entry to the temple. She’ll naturally pressure you to break the engagement.”

Brother asked me with a serious face.

“It might be better to break the engagement now. What do you think? You…”

“Of course I don’t want to!”

It was no longer a matter of whether he would turn dark or not, whether he would rebel or not.

Lionel didn’t shed tears even before his biological father’s death. He was someone who had lived without knowing familial affection to that extent.

Such a person told me he could become real family to me. He even promised to visit his deceased grandmother, who was the only family he had.

How could I abandon such a person!

‘I hereby withdraw my support for Lionel.’

From now on, Lionel and I will be unified as one body, and attacks on Lionel will be considered attacks on me!

“Brother, you’re unconditionally on my side, right?”

“Of course.”

“Then from now on, you must unconditionally be on Lionel’s side too. The only person who will be your brother-in-law is Lionel.”

I grabbed Brother’s shoulders with both hands and asked.

“You understand what I mean, right?”

“…Will you hit me if I say I don’t understand?”

“What are you talking about. Why wouldn’t someone as smart as Brother understand what I’m saying.”

When I glared at him asking if this was time for jokes and why he wasn’t reading the situation, Brother burst into brief laughter.

“Yes, I understand. Not just me, but all our other family members are on your side. Of course, they’re on His Highness’s side too.”

“That’s my brother!”

I was hugging Brother’s back tightly, saying he answered well, when I saw a familiar face over Brother’s shoulder.

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