SPMB - Chapter 182

SPMB - Chapter 182

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Kanna had no intention of fighting Joo-hwa. Rather, she wanted to get along well. If they become friends, they could become soulmates.

There was no need for them to say anything. There was no need for time to get to know each other. Just the eyes and facial expressions are enough.

Joo-hwa and Kanna knew each other very well. There was nothing they didn't know about each other's bodies, minds, and lives they had lived.

'So I know that Joo-hwa will never be my friend.'

Joo-hwa probably also knows about her. 

Kanna Addis will not forgive anyone who tried to harm her and will always seek revenge.

'And yet you tried to kill me.'

Kanna closed her eyes.

Joo-hwa is planning to fight with her. Perhaps, risking her life.

The attempt to kill Yeon-woo this time was probably just a taste. Even Joo-hwa is not alone. She's with the black apostles.

That idiot is overusing alchemy while creating cracks in the world.

Kanna let out a sigh-like laugh.

'The peaceful time is over.'

As soon as they find out that "Tatyana' is Kanna, they will continue to pull tricks like the Yeon-woo doll.

'People around me could get hurt.'

There were many precious people around Tatyana Eugenia.

Respected Queen Catherine, Princess Joanna who is like a friend, Prince Lorenzo who is like a younger brother, and Alexei.

"I don't want to break up."

Kanna muttered gloomily.

For now, let's tell Alexei about this. He has the right to have her story heard. Because they truly like each other.

If he says he wants to be with her even if it means taking risks....

At that time, Kanna will take a risk and think about her future with him.

***

Claude came early the next morning.

"Miss, please talk to me."

"Who are you?"

"Now stop pretending it's not true. They told me to go away."

Claude frowned, but Kanna calmly tilted her head.

"You have mistaken me for someone you know. There are at least three people in this world who look alike."

"Oh, my God. You're going to do that until the end?"

"My name is Tatiana Eugenia. Please take care of me."

"You should have told me that before telling me to fuck off."

"I can't understand at all what you're saying."

When Kanna shamelessly played it off, Claude finally sighed.

"Very well, Tatyana Eugenia. Anyway, I'm glad to see you alive. And let me tell you, it was a fantastic escape. Everyone was fooled.

She can't act shameless this time. Kanna felt a little sorry for him and pursed her lips.

"This is the first greeting, and then I'll get to the point."

"Please speak."

"This morning, Lord Orsini and the knights of Addis went up to the royal palace."

"..."

"And I intend to stay and assist Lord Kalen. Of course, he can't quite accept that he is Lord Kalen..."

Kanna ignored Claude's words with one ear.

Orsini ascended to the royal family?

'Leave me alone?'

The guy who threatened to harass Alexei and Lorenzo if Kanna left her side just left?

'What are you planning?'

Suddenly, Orsini from yesterday came to mind.

He came to her with a thick scent of blood, pulled her in at will, pushed her away at will, and left as if running away.

Now that she thinks about it, yesterday was particularly strange. 

'What happened to my doll?'

Even if that wasn't the case, Kanna was planning to ask. She was about to ask him what he had done with his doll, but she never thought he would leave first.

"Then, if I run away from here again, will I be able to hide?"

Shall we abandon Tatyana Eugenia's name and run away? 

This time she's using her alchemy just once for her own convenience.

If I hide in a place unknown from Orsini, Claude, Wren, and the Black Apostles and start over...

...Then, if she gets caught, she runs away again, starts again, and if she gets caught, she runs away again.

Three years ago, Kanna chose to escape. That's how much her mind was in a corner.

But not now.

At least the place where she stood now was not the edge of a cliff. And there were people she wanted to protect.

"Wren will go up to the royal family with me. Did Wren agree to accompany Sir Claude?"

"He told me to get permission from Doctor Tatyana. The client's opinion is important."

Claude grinned.

"But since I have to follow Lord Kalen secretly, I would be grateful if you could just take pity on me and allow me."

Kanna pretended to think for a moment and then accepted.

"Great."

Since her identity was discovered by Claude anyway, there was no reason to refuse.

"Thank you, doctor Tatyana."

***

So Kanna went up to the capital again.

When it took several days to arrive at the royal palace, Kanna was quite surprised by the unexpected crowd.

People from all over the world flocked to the event as if it were an event being held at the royal palace.

"What's going on?"

If an international event of this magnitude is held, it must be heard in her own ears, right?

"Surely you didn't know? There is an engagement ceremony for His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexei, right?"

"..."

Kanna slowly turned her head.

What did she just hear?

She seemed completely unaware, and Claude seemed surprised. He quickly changed his words.

"I think I heard that, but actually, I'm not sure."

"Say it."

"No, I don't know either."

Wren, who was looking at Kannq with a disapproving expression, intervened.

"Look, client. I heard you are Crown Prince Alexei's mistress and member of the royal family. Why don't you know what I, a mercenary know?"

"..."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Yalden is engaged to His Royal Highness Princess Amelia of the Aslan Empire."

For a moment, it felt like a hammer had hit her head.

Kanna was astonished and opened her lips. But she couldn't say anything and she asked everything.

'Engagement? With Amelia? Alexei?'

This is ridiculous. That can't be possible. There's no way something like that could suddenly happen like this, right?

At that moment, she suddenly remembered the words of Sergei, the younger brother of Lord Britsk, who had recently died.

"I heard Your Highness is getting engaged soon."

Kanna swallowed. She was so surprised that her fingertips became old.

Kanna walked on without saying anything in response to them.

After asking a servant to give Wren and Claude the room next to her, she went into the bedroom alone. She sat down on the bed.

'I see.'

Kanna quietly stared at the wall. Very slowly, her dizzy head began to straighten out.

'The black fog is not the only reason Orsini came here.'

He attended the engagement ceremony of Princess Amelia on behalf of the Addis family. 

'Everyone worked together to deceive me.'

Queen Catherine, Alexei, and Joanna. Everyone around her, the royal family, and the people of the Britsk estate completely hid this matter.

It was obvious whose intention it was.

It must be Alexei.

It was then. The window opened and a man jumped into the room.

"Tatyana, why did you come so quickly?"

Alexei's hair was matted. As soon as he heard of her arrival he seemed to have come running.

Kanna looked up at him and raised the corners of her mouth.

"Congratulations on your engagement, Your Royal Highness."

"Tatyana!"

Alexei called her name loudly as if rejecting the congratulations. He came over and grabbed her hand.

His hands were shaking.

"Tatiana, you are the only one I love. So don't misunderstand."

"Your Highness, I don't misunderstand anything."

Alexei's face brightened at those words.

"So, is our relationship the same?"

"No."

"What?"

"You're getting engaged soon, so of course, you should end things with me."

Alexei's lips trembled. His grip on Kanna's hand tightened.

"Let's finish it?"

"Yes."

"Are you serious? How can you say something so harsh?"

"Am I saying something harsh?"

"Royal marriages are not the result of love. A transaction for the national interest, that's all. This marriage means nothing to me."

Alexei pleaded earnestly with a serious face.

"I promise. Tatiana, I will take you as my concubine and see to you and your descendants."

A concubine?

'Are you saying that you will now take me as your second wife?'

"I will make the descendant born between you and me the next great King. I will not have anything to do with Princess Amelia. I swear on my name."

Suddenly, the Emperor of the Empire Aslan came to mind. The man who only loved Theresa his entire life. The Emperor's love affair was a very famous anecdote.

'But even that Emperor had Theresa as his concubine. The Empress was married to a powerful family member.'

Alexeo was right.

Royal marriages were business and transactions. There was absolutely no room for love to intervene.

"Tatiana, please."

Alexei's face twisted in fear. Sweat gathered in his hands as he held on to Kanna.

"Please, please understand my position just this once. Just lose this once. Then I will live the rest of my life losing to you."

"I don't like it."

"Tatyana!"

"It would have been nice if you had told me about the engagement in advance. I'm sorry you found out like this."

"If only I had told you!"

Alexei shouted.

"If you had told me, you would have abandoned me! Like now!"

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