Chapter 304 (2/2)

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Well, I don’t see Lady Jena.”

“Oh, I heard about her last night.”

“Woooo~”

His voice was buried by the shouting of the excited crowds. The capital defense guards were desperately trying to maintain the ranks, and the royal knights surrounding the platform were on alert.

While the big fuss over the criminals was going on, they barely got through the shouting crowds and moved on to the execution stand. Dozens of stones thrown by the crowds barely missed the criminals.

Their disturbing noise was silenced when they heard someone blowing a horn. They turned their eyes at the execution stand all at once.

A protocol officer, who had been waiting for a long time, straightened up and stepped forward.

After opening a long scroll, the officer in a long robe began to read it in a solemn voice.

“Glory to the great empire! As the empire is under the splendor of the Sun…”

While the officer was reading, the emperor was holding my hand tightly.

Was it because of that? Or was it because I didn’t have to see Jiun dying in front of my eyes?

I felt much more comfortable than before.

With a calm expression, I looked down at the criminals.

Some were bowing their heads, some were endlessly murmuring something, and others were looking at the head table with hatred.

After he met the purple eyes of Duke Jena burning with hatred, the emperor strained his grip on my hand before releasing it, then stood up.

“Glory to the empire! My beloved people of the empire, I cannot help but express sadness today. It was only six months after Emperor Mirkan lu Shana Castina died in Vita’s arms. Even now, we all can feel the brilliance of the late emperor’s presence, but this wicked gang of traitors committed the crime of rebelling against the empire and the imperial family even before the warmth of his body faded. Besides, they tried to harm my fiance, the child of God’s prophecy that God has predetermined for me, as well as the First Lady of the empire, several times. Accordingly, I want to show them the strictness and fairness of the imperial law.”

“Death to the criminals!”

“Curse to the traitors!”

The ground reverberated with the sound of the crowds stomping their feet all at once.

After looking around with a solemn face, the emperor raised his right hand. The red flag announcing the start of the execution fluttered up and down. Executioners who checked the blades of the axes against the sunlight stood behind them.

The moment the sunlight reflecting the blades of the swords was scattered when they raised the axes high in the air, Duke Jena’s angry purple eyes turned towards him and me.

Full of hatred, he shouted coldly, “You wretched slut and bastard! Even in the hell I won’t…!”

At that moment, blood gushed from his head. I felt goosebumps, but instead of turning my head, I fixed my gaze on the execution stand where he was bleeding. Then, I breathed out, looking down at him falling on the stand.

Now it’s really over. That tough bondage of mine with the Jena family was finally at an end.

Although I could understand why the Jena family was so hostile to my family for such a long time, he went too far. Not content with trying to kill the emperor, he tried to end the family lineage of the Monique family by poisoning me, a cousin who shared ancestral blood with him.

Besides, he not only approached the emperor for his greed for the throne, but also used Jiun twice. He succeeded in poisoning the emperor and removing me in the past.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons why God sent me back to save the lives of many innocent people who were sacrificed because of Duke Jena’s greed. Of course, I had no way of knowing the true intention of God who was watching the different situation twice.

After looking at the bodies of the criminals that were being carried away like baggage, I grabbed his hand, who asked me to go back. I climbed the wagon, hearing the crowds repeatedly shouting for the safety of the imperial family and the empire.

As all my past was cleared away, it is time for me to prepare for the future.

After that day, my daily routine was packed with a tight schedule.

It was the same with many ladies who helped me in leading the palace affairs.

Day after day I had to take a nap from the fatigue for a couple of hours then resume work.

I didn’t know how fast time passed everyday because I was so busy with preparing for the wedding. I ended this kind of exhaustive work only one day before the wedding ceremony. Although everybody was still busy, I was having free time as a bride before her wedding. I was refreshed and vibrant after sleeping well.