Chapter 32

This question alone could not be answered no matter how much she searched the records.

Ayesha flipped through the records haphazardly with a frustrated heart.

……Executed on the charge of holding secret meetings with a monk.

As she did so, there were a few particularly striking passages.

At the time, to avoid dangerous wars, or to pray for the safety of beloved family members, no small number of noble ladies would stay at monasteries.

And some among them were discovered holding secret meetings with monks.

“Monk is the word, but these people were also from good families, so they must have known one another and been able to converse.”

Being a monk was a profession preferred by noble youths who did not have a high share of inheritance as first or second sons, or by illegitimate children whose origins were not respectable.

“Evrena lived at the monastery for a long…