The Wicked Wife's Dark History Keeps Coming Back To Haunt Her - Chapter 176

After returning from the hunting festival, she had completely forgotten about it.

Her husband, who had drunkenly hit on women.

And across from him stood a dazzling man who had adorned his wife with red diamonds worth thousands of gold on her ears and neck.

How could she have been in her right mind?

Rebecca had been unable to recover her mood that day, so starkly contrasted with Duchess Bayern.

She had returned home and beaten her servant child until the poor thing’s back was torn, yet her anger hadn’t subsided, and she had fumed incessantly.

“No matter what, if you were going to attend a banquet today, you should’ve at least asked me again after I said I was hosting a tea party!”

“I thought you already knew.”

When the Duke shrugged with an unbothered expression, Rebecca’s face turned bright red with anger.

“Have you ever thought about what people would say if you show up to something like that alone?”

“I’ll just say you couldn’t come because you were feeling unwell.”

“As if that would— …Never mind. Just go already.”

She waved her hands dismissively and drove the Duke out.

Her husband’s thoughtless behavior was nothing new.

Failing to coordinate the schedule of social events would cause others to question her refinement as a noblewoman, but with guests soon to arrive, she had no choice.

‘He’s not going off to meet some woman… is he?’

When she recalled the sight of her husband drunkenly pawing at women in the Imperial Palace, a faint suspicion began to rise.

Perhaps he hadn’t reminded her of the banquet’s schedule because he planned to sneak off and meet a woman…

‘No, what am I even thinking…’

Rebecca suddenly realized she was behaving like Nina and shook her head.

“Duchess Nord, if we’re talking about desperation, you’re not exactly any better off, are you?”

That remark, as if mocking her for failing to hold on to her husband’s heart.

And more than that, the seed of doubt that wretched woman had planted in her long before.

Why would her husband cheat on her?

Though his womanizing before marriage was well known, he had behaved decently since they wed. That incident at the palace was just a drunken mistake.

A man whose only asset was his title would never stray from a woman of her caliber.

If she were to suspect her husband, people would view her as paranoid… just like Nina Bayern.

Her pride couldn’t allow that.

Rebecca furrowed her brow and dismissed the faint doubts about her husband.

‘…Truly, I just can’t stand that wench.’

Rebecca couldn’t stand to see Nina succeed.

They say even if your cousin buys land, it makes your stomach churn, and Nina Bayern…

The woman who was always her point of comparison, who always made her feel just a step behind, she almost wished would vanish from the world entirely.

She could overlook good fortune happening to those beneath her with broad generosity.

But Nina.

Nina was a woman she hated with a bizarre and visceral intensity.

There had even been rumors of a pregnancy this time, but from what her grandfather had said, it didn’t seem true.

‘Wait, Duke Bayern definitely said back then…’

“My wife’s health is already delicate. I worry she might collapse.”

Thinking back now, he never outright said she was pregnant, but his behavior had suggested it.

Embracing her gently from behind, his hand softly caressing her belly in particular.

‘Don’t tell me… she faked being pregnant?’

If she truly were pregnant, there’s no way she could have shown up at the banquet hall perfectly fine after taking ‘Angel’.

‘Was that how she managed to repair the relationship?’

“There’s no way their relationship would improve unless she was carrying his child. For a man, nothing is more precious than his own offspring. Haha.”

Wasn’t that what Marquis Dunklin had said?

That to a man, his heir was beyond precious.

There’s no way a man’s heart would change so suddenly otherwise.

‘That conniving wench…’

What if she’d known all that and used it to her advantage?

Just as the suspicion in Rebecca’s emerald eyes was deepening.

“Madam, I believe the guests have arrived.”

“Is that so? Go to the garden and check that the table setting has been properly arranged. I’ll go greet the guests.”

At the maid’s announcement, Rebecca eased her lips into a smile and headed toward the front entrance.

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