I Was Told 'No One Would Miss You,' So I Became the Empress of Another Country - Episode 37

Leon and Flora were transferred to the heavily guarded imperial prison.

Crimes involving poison and explosives were considered serious offenses under imperial law, especially since this case had escalated into an attempted assassination of the emperor.

Neither royalty nor a mistress could escape punishment.

The empire treated this as a major international issue and announced that a trial would be held soon.

As someone directly involved in the incident, I was called to testify.

I spoke honestly about everything—how Flora was captured and how Leon had continuously hurt me ever since he broke off our engagement.

Feeling tense, I stepped into the courtroom.

Logan and the empire’s high officials sat in solemn silence, their expressions stern.

On the other side, Leon and Flora sat in the defendants’ seats, bound in chains.

Leon, still clinging to his status as royalty, tried to act arrogant, but no one paid attention to him.

Flora, with her hair disheveled and her face pale with exhaustion, was sobbing and desperately denying her guilt.

“Your Honor, I was just being used! Prince Leon gave all the orders—”

“Shut up! You were trying to trap me from the start!”

Their argument was disgusting.

They hadn’t changed at all since their days in the kingdom.

Now, they were simply trying to push the blame onto each other to escape punishment.

However, the empire had gathered overwhelming evidence against them.

There were records of Flora using poison in the royal palace, proof that she negotiated with black-market dealers to escape, and even documents confirming that Leon had assembled gunpowder and assassins.

Every claim was backed by solid testimonies and physical evidence.

“This is clearly an act of treason and attempted assassination,” the judge declared in a low voice. “The defendants, Flora and Leon, have given statements that are not credible.”

Flora collapsed in tears, while Leon’s body stiffened with panic.

“W-Wait! I’m royalty! I was the Crown Prince! You can’t possibly put me on trial—”

Before Leon could finish, Logan shot him a cold glare.

“Crown Prince? You were stripped of that title long ago. And this is the Igleia Empire.

Even royalty cannot break imperial law and endanger its people without consequence.”

Leon clenched his teeth furiously.

Flora, still crying, darted her eyes around as if searching for someone to save her.

But no one would.

“You abused your royal status and committed serious crimes in our empire. There is no room for excuses.”

The judge’s voice remained calm as he delivered the final verdict.

Leon, who had been shouting so confidently, now turned pale as if he had finally realized his fate.

Flora simply trembled in silence, unable to speak.

I watched from the audience.

I had never imagined that my former fiancé would end up in such a pathetic state.

But this was the path he had chosen.

Flora was no different.

Their accumulated crimes could never be erased.

“In the end, you will receive the punishment you deserve,” Logan declared coldly. “No amount of screaming or crying will lessen your sins.”

As I listened to his words, I felt a sense of closure deep within me.

“…It almost feels like a lie that I was ever engaged to him,” I murmured.

Beside me, Lydia gently placed a hand on my shoulder.

Leon had once shined as a brilliant Crown Prince, but now, he was nothing more than a disgraced man clinging to his lost title.

Flora, driven by greed, had continued down a path of crime, leading to her own downfall.

Seeing them like this, I felt a slight pain in my heart.

Not out of lingering affection, but because it was tragic to see someone fall so far.

With a quiet sigh, I let go of that faint sorrow.

Finally, the trial concluded, and Leon and Flora’s ultimate sentences were declared.

As emperor, Logan made it clear—”Their crimes are grave, and there will be no mercy.”

At last, the ghosts of my past, the ones that had tormented me for so long, were doomed to disappear forever.