CHAPTER 78 (1) - Your Husband’s Wife

Patrizia decided asking Lucio directly was for the best, rather than having to listen to it from Rosemond's mouth.

"Ask me. Whatever you want."

"Do you have any flowers that you do not like?"

"…" Lucio's face stiffened for a moment at the question, then seemed to guess what this was about, and recited accordingly. "You heard this from the Marchioness. Right?"

"… Yes."

"A flower that I hate, one exists. Almost to the point of despising it."

Patrizia roughly caught on to what it was, but kept her mouth shut for the time being. He continued in a bitter voice, "It is the salvia flower, better known as sage. It is the flower that the dethroned Empress liked."

"…"

"In a garden full of those salvia flowers, she secretly abused me. So when I just look at those flowers, it is enough for me to fall into a fit of convulsions."