Resetting Lady

Chapter 267

Chapter 267

“You’re spouting all kinds of crazy nonsense.”

“I hear that a lot.”

Gueuze waved his hand dismissively, as if to tell her to stop trying to fool him.

“Are you claiming to be some sort of saintess? An immaculate conception? Absurd.”

But it’s true.

Why not go to the temple and have a bloodline test?

Carynne grumbled internally, thinking about the unique traits passed down through her maternal lineage, traits that weren’t widely known. If women had carried on the family legacy instead of men, perhaps the truth would have been uncovered much sooner.

Gueuze seemed slightly unsettled, perhaps recalling conversations with Catherine, as if he wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with the concept.

“Ridiculous.”

“......”

Though he wasn’t completely convinced, Carynne decided not to push further and simply smiled enigmatically. Gueuze didn’t seem to like the expression, but he wasn’t in the mood to behead her just yet either.

“Amusing, but too far-fetched to hold my interest. Your husband, you say? Ha, ha... truly laughable. I’ve never seen you before in my life.”

“You may be seeing me for the first time in this life, but we’ve definitely met before in a previous one. I live a life of reincarnation. Didn’t my mother ever tell you? Did she really seem her age to you?”@@@@

“I don’t believe in such ridiculous nonsense.”

“I know.”

But piquing Gueuze’s curiosity was enough. Carynne continued to talk.

“I also know that Prince Lewis isn’t your son.”

“That’s right. I lack that ability. Did Catherine tell you?”

“No, my mother never said anything like that.”

Catherine had left Carynne with nothing—no guidance, no wisdom, not even memories. Catherine may have learned life’s lessons from her own mother or ancestors, but Carynne had to fend for herself.

But there was one thing she had learned over the years—the art of lying.

Her belly wasn’t even showing yet. There was still plenty of time before the child would be born. They say pregnancy takes ten months, don’t they? Even a handful of months would buy her enough time.

And Gueuze was clearly considering it.

“...Hah.”

Gueuze couldn’t stop the laughter from bubbling up. If anyone else had spouted such insane nonsense, he would have immediately had their limbs torn off and thrown to the dogs for mocking him.

But it was Catherine’s daughter saying these absurd things, and her appearance fit his tastes so perfectly that he found it difficult to let go.

“Your Highness, once the child is born, you’ll know. The moment you see the baby, you’ll realize the truth. Last time, it was such a difficult success... Meeting you again like this—it must be fate.”

Gueuze stood up.

Listening to such long-winded nonsense, spewed out in desperation to survive, was starting to make his own head spin.

He turned his back to her. He wanted to think. At the same time, he wanted to silence her immediately. Yet part of him still wanted to keep listening.

Even though he dismissed it as nonsense, her words were disturbingly close to the things he’d longed for, forcing him to continue paying attention.

The queen he had married was now a faint, distant memory. At first, he had despised her, labeling her barren and using that as an excuse to seek a divorce.

But after being with countless women, none of whom had conceived, he realized the problem lay with him—he was impotent. It was the most humiliating realization he had ever faced.

Whenever news came of a pregnancy, it was always because the woman had conceived with another man. Of course, Gueuze never let those women live, but even so, the sting of humiliation never left.

And when his younger brother, born from the king’s mistress, was presented as his own child, his feelings of humiliation turned to rage.

Lewis, his younger brother, the ‘king’s grandson’, would one day take his place.

The thought was unbearable. But it was a future that would only come after Gueuze’s death, so he tolerated it—for the sake of a stable succession.

‘...But why?’

His father still hadn’t abdicated.

Gueuze grew increasingly anxious. His father, despite being frail and sickly, refused to hand over the throne. Gueuze had tried to fill key government positions with his loyalists, but that was proving more difficult than expected. As long as the current king remained on the throne, there was no reason for those officials to step down.

He finally realized that the king was making moves to pass the throne directly to Lewis, bypassing him entirely. His younger brother had always been proof that there was something wrong with him, and now Lewis was about to take his place.

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