When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 78
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 78
[T/W: Suicide]
Anais is dead.
He looked at his wife’s bloodless face as she sagged in his arms. He pressed his ear to her chest in disbelief.
She was covered in blood because the bullet had pierced her chest. The place where her heart was had turned red, and her pure white suit that matched her no longer looked white.
Shwaaa—
Rain was falling. Kylian’s body was trembling. He seemed not to be able to hear any sounds around him.
Marquis Balder said, trying to calm his confusion.
“Get Duke Percival.”
“Yes.”
“Your Highness.”
Kylian didn’t even hear him calling, and he looked blankly at Anais’ body.
“Wife.”
He called but there was no answer. The rain had washed away the blood that had gently flowed from her parted lips, so it looked clear again.
Her parted lips were still beautiful. Even her pale face sparkled with such grace that it would make his heart stop.
“Wife. Anais.”
He called her again in disbelief. But she didn’t move an inch.
“Anais.”
His voice was trembling, and no one around him could say anything more. He felt like his heart was lost as the cold rain hit and trickled down his cheek.
The driving force that kept him alive disappeared. He felt as if his heart had become empty.
“Open your eyes, Wife.”
He tried to talk to her so he wouldn’t lose his composure.
“Wife. Please.”
But his words didn’t reach her.
“Anais!”
Shaaaa!
The rain that fell became heavy. He yelled while holding Anais, who was limp in his arms, tightly. It was as painful as if molten iron was poured into his empty chest.
“Don’t die, Wife! Please… Ugh…”
He couldn’t believe it and tried to shake her awake. But there was only the shaking caused when he shook her.
“Please…”
As if his pleas were not heard, she died. It happened so quickly that he couldn’t even do anything.
“You have to take care of national affairs.”
Marquis Balder became a duke. He was the one who made Kylian suspect that Duke Percival would manipulate himself into becoming regent. However, when Kylian became Emperor, it was Balder who took the position of head that had been held by Duke Percival and came to the fore. The beneficiaries are all too clear.
What a stupid thing to say.
“Why should I do that?”
“Your Majesty has not shown your face to the people of the Empire since you ascended to the throne, and the people are anxious.”
“I see no reason to placate them.”
He looked at his wife’s body, cleaned and lying in his bedroom. Because she was under a spell, time stood still for her, on the day she died.
“But you still have to show up at least once.”
“It’s not worth it to me.”
Duke Balder, who became the prime minister, sighed and left the room.
It was not long after he left.
Tang!
A gunshot rang out in Kylian’s bedroom.
He couldn’t die. When he shot himself, all the priests in the capital were summoned and poured out their divine power to save him.
“Your Majesty.”
“Lilith.”
Among them was Lilith.
“Where were you when Anais died?”
“I have a favor from Lady Anais…”
“If only you were there, my wife would have survived.”
“…….”
Kylian’s throat hurt so much that he could barely speak. Even though it was fired at his neck, the bullet did not take his life.
“Your Majesty.”
“Get out of my room.”
Lilith sighed at Kylian’s words and had to leave the room. He saw the face of his wife lying next to him, frozen in time. Seeing that her cheek was stained with his own blood, he pulled the sheet from the bed and wiped Anais’ cheek.
“Wife.”
He still felt like this was all a nightmare.
“My wife. My Anais.”
But an answer never came back to him.
It was a good thing Anais cut off his relatives and sent them to the outskirts. As soon as Kylian became emperor, they came to the capital and staged a sit-in protest demanding high positions.
In addition, he learned about the circumstances under which Anais threatened them. Just hearing about it, Kylian became enervated.
The truth about Anais burying the deaths of the imperial palace servants was revealed.
She pretended that the deaths of the palace workers who died because of the previous emperor had never happened, but he found out that she actually compensated the bereaved families and personally visited them and apologized.
Rather, it was the bereaved families who did not want to announce their deaths. Because they did not know the punishment the Emperor would inflict when the deaths became public knowledge.
The work Anais handled was nominally to take care of the emperor’s affairs, but in reality, she was helping people who had been wronged by the previous emperor.
Anais’ sacrifice was at the base of all the things he had misunderstood because he had only seen one side of it.
“If you take this medicine, you will feel better.”
Kylian’s suicide attempt did not end at just one. He failed every time, but each time it rained, he tried to die as if he couldn’t live.
But it was of no use. When Kylian came to his senses, the priests had left, and there was no trace of his attempt to take his own life.
“What is this?”
Lilith also changed. She regained her previous kind self, but she had become a different person. Also, there was no change in her facial expression at all, like a person without emotions.
Kylian thought that since Lilith had gotten along with Anais like her own sister, so he thought she had changed that way after Anais’ death.
“Please take it.”
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