The Villain's Sickly Wife Dislikes Being Overprotected - Chapter 2.19
Is it that one spouse is physically ill and the other has gone mad?
It’s not impossible. Just as Ekette developed a disease that didn’t exist after I possessed her, Kyron might have suddenly gone mad.
Or who knows, Kyron might be a possessed person or a returnee.
My deductions continued to chain together.
Could it be that after experiencing all sorts of hardships and returning, he decided to treat Ekette differently?
It turns out that Ekette took revenge on her husband in the distant future. While venting the frustrations that had built up towards her indifferent husband. The returned Kyron, knowing that Ekette would stab him in the back, decided to treat her well.
I wrote a novel in my head.
“Are you perhaps… living a second life or something…?”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“I’m asking if you died and came back.”
His eyes narrowed, his expression betraying disbelief at what he’d just heard.
A moment later, he swallowed hard, his demeanor reminiscent of someone confronting an unsettling situation.
“Are you feeling very unwell, dear?”
His questioning voice was quite cautious. He seems to think I’m talking nonsense because I’m ill.
“Ahaha, no. I’m not sick, I just had a momentary thought. I’m sorry.”
A situation where a married couple suspects each other of being crazy. It was funny.
I realized that my novel was an excessive imagination.
Right, given Ekette’s personality, she wouldn’t have taken revenge on Kyron, and Kyron wouldn’t have returned. It was a poor deduction.
“Your Grace.”
Just then, Kyron’s subordinate returned to report.
“How’s it going? Surely you haven’t failed to find them yet.”
“We’ve found the servant for now. There’s also testimony that Lady Stober was seen leaving the banquet hall as if fleeing, and after searching the entire hall without finding her, we’re now searching outside.”
There was no way she would have remained in the banquet hall. Given what she had done, and she might have even seen me coughing up blood, she was probably running away.
Kyron gritted his teeth in frustration.
“She seems to think she can escape.”
***
The sight of the Duchess coughing up blood was a great shock to the banquet attendees.
The incident spread so quickly that even those who didn’t witness it firsthand knew exactly how the Duchess collapsed and how much blood she spilled.
Of course, the story was exaggerated as it passed from speaker to listener multiple times.
Saying she looked as pale as someone on the verge of death, or that she even had a nosebleed, was just the tip of the iceberg.
All sorts of theories were flying around – she was almost poisoned, she’s already in critical condition, no, she’s already dead, and so on.
Of course, there was talk about the Duke as well. Most reactions were that the Duke’s behavior was unfamiliar.
The Duke, who was famous for being indifferent to his wife, took care of her today. When word spread that he even personally applied a compress to the Duchess’s ankle after the dance, new stories about the couple began to circulate.
Some young ladies envied the Duchess, and those who had secretly looked down on the Duchess as ‘a woman of lower birth than them and abandoned by her husband’ were inwardly fuming.
However, among the many who passed on these words, no one knew exactly why the Duchess had ended up in such a state. Everyone was just speculating.
In the midst of this, someone appeared in the banquet hall full of various rumors, bringing new information.
“I-it’s Lady Stober!”
A nobleman who had quickly obtained information spread the word about the culprit of this incident.
“It was Lady Stober’s doing!”
“What? Do you mean Lucy Stober?”
“Yes! His Grace the Duke is searching for that lady as if hunting for a mouse!”
The story about Lady Stober spread much faster than the exaggerated tales about the ducal couple.
That rumor was like a horse running at full speed, out of control. Far from stopping, it was accelerating.
In an instant, everyone in the banquet hall was mentioning Lady Stober’s name.
“See, I knew that lady would do something like this someday. She had a vicious look in her eyes from the start.”
“She was like that since childhood. I tell you, she was unusually persistent and arrogant.”
“My, my. I wonder how the Viscount raised his child.”
Everyone seemed to have forgotten how much they had disrespected the Duchess and were busy spitting out gossip about Lady Stober.
“To do such a wicked thing. I knew she had admired His Grace the Duke for a long time, but it seems she couldn’t control her jealousy.”
“She must have thought she was something special. How foolish.”
“She tried to poison the Duchess, so she’ll be severely punished, right?”
No one knew exactly what Lucy Stober had attempted, but everyone believed that she had tried to poison the Duchess.
Someone who had been a noble lady of a viscount family just a few hours ago had now become a serious criminal not to be mentioned.
Once a person is stigmatized in high society, it’s difficult to escape that label for life. Because the past follows you wherever you go.
Now Lucy Stober had acquired an indelible modifier.
‘The woman who tried to kill the Duchess out of jealousy.’
***
Kyron’s subordinates were competent.
Just a few minutes after bringing in the servant, they had captured Lady Stober.
“We found her in the forest next to the banquet hall.”
“So that’s what she called an escape, I see.”
Kyron’s tone was laced with sarcasm.
“Bring them both in.”
“Yes, sir.”
The evidence was clear, and she had dared to drug the Duchess, so she wouldn’t get off lightly.
The two were brought in bound and made to kneel before me and Kyron.
The servant had a pleading look in his eyes as if begging to be let off. On the other hand, Lady Stober, far from regretting or repenting her wrongdoing, had a fierce expression like a rebellious teenager. As if she didn’t know what she had done wrong.
“I’m sure you both know why you’ve been brought here.”
“I don’t know, Your Grace.”
The owner of this brazen response was, of course, Lady Stober.
“Seeing that you’ve brought me here, it seems the Duchess is trying to frame me after staging her act. I didn’t do anything, after all.”
Did nothing? Seeing her speak so brazenly after drugging me, it seems this lady is far from coming to her senses.
“A staged act?”
“Yes. It must have been something the Duchess, who hates me, had meticulously planned in advance. Your Grace, you mustn’t be deceived by the Duchess’s words.”
Her words continued.
The main content was ‘I am innocent and everything is the Duchess’s scheme’.
“During the banquet, I briefly went out to the terrace to get some fresh air. When I returned from the terrace, I saw the Duchess coughing up blood. That’s all I know.”
It doesn’t seem like something someone who fled to the forest out of guilt would say.
“Your Grace, the Duchess has disliked me for a long time.”
I don’t understand why the words I should be saying are coming out of her mouth.
“Is that so?”
“Perhaps because I was once mentioned as a potential marriage partner for Your Grace, the Duchess has noticeably disliked me from before. I could only guess that she might have considered me a rival. Even so, I tried to be grateful, thinking that the Duchess considering me in such a way was a kind of acknowledgment.”
Wow, she’s quite eloquent.
I stuck out my tongue.
“My wife did that?”
Kyron asked.
Is he seriously listening to that woman’s words?
As he listened to Lady Stober’s story with his usual expressionless face, it was difficult to gauge his thoughts.
Well, I should quickly give up any expectation that my husband will take my side.
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I am a little surprised she doesn’t think her husband will take her side. I could understand if she didn’t have proof, but she does. Lady Stober was also hiding in the forest, definitely guilty looking. Thank you for the translation.