#Chapter 71
What caused such a tragedy to unfold?
Diana believed that it was her own birth to blame.
Empress Teresia abhorred her old husband.
The only reason she would sleep with her husband was to protect her status and power.
As compensation for enduring those dreadful nights, Teresia filled her void with sex with young gigolos.
Her seemingly endless affairs came to a halting stop upon the conception of Diana.
She was utterly terrified.
Teresia could not escape the sense of doom caused by a single thought; that Diana might not be the Emperor’s bloodline.
The suspicion that the child in her might be the child of one of her gigolos ate her up like a flesh-eating virus.
Though his actions no longer hold true to his reputation, Emperor Lepius back then was a hot-headed, blood-thirsty tyrant that ruled his empire with fear.
