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Beneath the Fallen Blossoms
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On the day of my coming-of-age ceremony, a group of bandits stormed into my home. They robbed us of everything we owned and burned our estate to the ground. Then they used my six-year-old sister as leverage, forcing me to show myself. More than a dozen bandits dragged me back to their hideout and tortured me for three days and three nights before selling me to a brothel. I had thought about dying, but even death was beyond my reach. When I was at my most desperate, Duke Landon Knight paid for my freedom and asked if I was willing to go home with him. After crawling through the darkness for so long, I suddenly saw a light that had never gone out. Three years into our marriage, I once asked him why, among all the flowers in the world, he had chosen this withered one—me. "When I caught my first glimpse of you as a child, I swore I'd never marry anyone but you." I thought he truly loved me. I thought that was why he was willing to marry a brothel girl whom everyone else called a woman who had been with countless men. I spent those three years healing from my wounds, hoping that one day I could give him a son or daughter of our own. Until I overheard a conversation between him and his closest friend in his study. "Lucia Bellamy is arriving in the capital tomorrow. Are you really planning to bring her into the estate? "Isabel has already suffered the loss of her family and been humiliated and sold to a brothel. Her life has been tragic enough. Can you really bear to bring Lucia into the estate and hurt her all over again?" Landon answered without hesitation, "What do the lives of a few dozen Conrads matter? If the Conrads hadn't reported the Bellamys back then, Lucia wouldn't have been exiled to Southvale, and we wouldn't have been prevented from marrying. "As for Isabel, I bribed the bandits to sell her to a brothel. I did it only to spare her life and leave her alive long enough for Lucia to come back and take her revenge herself." So that first glimpse he'd never forgotten had been of Lucia, and I was nothing more than a tool for him to use in taking revenge for the woman he loved. The next day, I used the Conrad family signet my grandfather, Leonard Conrad, had left me to secure two imperial decrees. The first was my own request for a divorce, so Lucia could enter the estate as his legal wife. The second ordered a full investigation into the truth behind the massacre of my family, so that their names could finally be cleared.
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"But I won't force you to stay in the palace now that you've finally regained your freedom. From now on, you'll live at the Conrad estate. If you ever run into trouble, come to me. I'll take care of it."I nodded and smiled sincerely.I said goodbye to the Queen and left the palace, returning to the Conrad estate.The Queen had even sent several servants to attend to me. They were busy cleaning the courtyard.I sat inside, looking around at the home that had once been destroyed by fire and had now been rebuilt. My heart was filled with emotion.A maid came rushing in, barely able to contain her excitement. "Miss, the entire Knight and Bellamy families have been sentenced to death. The executions are set for three days from now."I just heard that those two shameless villains were so terrified when they heard the royal decree that they wet themselves."Unlike the maid, who chattered on dramatically, I merely smiled at first.But the more I smiled, the harder I cried.I'd been f
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"I don't care. You did all of it yourself. It has nothing to do with me."Besides, I haven't even married you yet. I don't want to go to prison with you and get my head chopped off along with your entire family."Only then did Landon finally see everything clearly. He and Lucia had known each other since childhood. They had grown up together and understood each other better than anyone.For more than a decade, he had cherished her above everyone else, placing the woman he loved most at the very center of his life.But when Landon found himself in trouble, what did she do? All she cared about was distancing herself from him.Landon gave a bitter laugh, then turned his head and looked at me. "If it weren't for you, would I have killed Isabel and her entire family? Would I have ended up like this? And even now, you're still trying to escape responsibility..."He murmured to himself as tears slid down his face.He really had been wrong, and he regretted it deeply. The sins he'd comm
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He regretted it terribly now.Back then, he had been young, desperate to prove himself, and determined to marry Lucia. He had simply made the wrong choice.But he'd apparently forgotten one thing—how innocent I was.He had not only murdered my entire family, but also left me at the mercy of bandits, where I was violated and sold to a brothel. He was the one who deserved to die a thousand deaths."Isabel..." He clenched his jaw and murmured my name, staring blankly ahead.Then, suddenly, his heart gave a painful jolt. That finally began to clear his mind.Without realizing it, he spread out his trembling hands. He stared at them. It was as though he could see the blood of my innocent family members staining his palms and the tears I had long since cried dry."Isabel..."It was as if greed had blinded him, and anger had clouded his judgment. Only now did he remember that the reason he had treated me well these past three years was to make up for the guilt he carried inside.He r
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What I got in return was the truth about how he had killed my family members.Now, I was finally awake. I didn't love him anymore, and I was going to make sure he paid for what he'd done."Landon, even now, you're still trying to lie to me?" I smiled, the expression full of scorn and resolve.He hesitated for a moment, but then firmly shook his head.Men. What pathetic creatures.I raised a hand to smooth my disheveled hair, then looked toward Captain Wilkinson. "Please, take them away."The Duke's estate descended into chaos.Guests fled in every direction. Lucia screamed hysterically, and Landon's associate, Trevor Bennett, remained frozen on his knees.I alone watched them coldly, with nothing in my heart but satisfaction.But it wasn't time to celebrate yet. The Duke's household had not been convicted. What I wanted to see was the person who had murdered my family members stand before the law and confess to his crimes.Within moments, the Duke's estate was surrounded by r
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