The Abandoned Empress Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Chapter 201

I felt heartbroken, but I said firmly, “… Throw it away, too. ”

“But my lady, this is the late emperor’s gift. If you abandoned it recklessly…”

I closed my eyes tightly. Though I wanted to throw them away, she had a point.

I replied with a deep sigh after pondering for a mont.

“… Keep it deep inside, so nobody can see it.”

“Yes, my lady. That’s all for now. Are you really going to throw all of them away?”

“No.”

“Oh, that’s what I guessed. They are too precious to throw away. Can I put them back?”

“Burn them all instead of throwing them away.”

“Pardon? Burn them all?”

“Yes, burn them all.”

Originally the clothes of soone who died should be burned. I’m here as Aristia la Monique, the successor of the Monique family, not as the woman nad Aristia who already died.

“Oh, my lady… ”

“Don’t you hear ?”

“Oh, okay, my lady.”

After Lina went out with a bunch of dresses after so hesitancy, I slowly rose from the sofa and looked around at the empty dressing room.

Dresses in black, gray, navy blue.

I giggled at the mix of dresses in dark color.

When I was about to walk away from the dressing room after tidying up the disordered dresses, Lina suddenly reappeared and said, “My lady, Sir Carsein is here. What shall I do? ”

“…Tell him to go back. I can’t et anybody today because I’m in bad shape. ”

“But…”

“Lina, when did you start talking back to ?”

I knew at so point that she followed Carsein like her master, but I felt she went too far.

Staring at her who flinched, I said coldly, “Because I regarded you as my friend, you seem to talk back to too much. Your comnt is okay, but if you ddle, I can’t accept it.”

“… Yes, my lady. I will be careful. ”

At that mont, the door was flung open. I stared at the young red-haired man who stepped in. How rude of him!

“What the heck are you doing? I didn’t even allow you to co in.”

“I couldn’t just go because you are out of sorts.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You were crying. I see your red face, ” said Carsein, approaching my desk and looking at with a worried expression. As I was facing his blue eyes, I felt more and more jamd up on the inside.

He said, breathing roughly, “I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings. But I was really worried about you. ”

“… ”

I suddenly felt sorry for him. Given my first eting with him or rumors about him in social circles, Carsein was not the type of man who was careful and considerate. He was far from it. He wasn’t so ticulous. Rather than being attentive, he was indifferent. In other words, he only focused on what he was interested in.

While he was trying his best to do sothing good for , I could do nothing for him. Rather I was taking out my anger on him without any reason.

“Oh, I’m sorry for being angry.”

While I was apologizing to him out of guilt, I saw Duke Lars overlapping him. Despite his strong bondge with my family, he dumped after thorough political calculations.

“Look at , Tia.”

“… ”

“Ugh? Please raise your head. ”

I looked up at his low but appealing voice. I said with a sulken voice, “… What do you want to say to ?”

“I heard what happened at the Imperial Palace. Well… was my father also involved? ”

“… ”

“Oh, he was…” Carsein sighed again, said in a calm voice, “Let apologize on behalf of my father. So, please let off your steam.”

“… It’s already late,” I said, turning away from his eyes.

I unwittingly spat out so barbed words at him, though I tried not to.

“You said you heard what I told them at the palace. Don’t you really know what that ans?”

When I saw him stiffening, I chuckled.

Yes, you know it. You know what kind of decision I’ve made and what I’m thinking now.

“I said I would no longer interfere with the matters of the pro-emperor faction. So, I told them they should not expect any cooperation from my family. Don’t you know what this ans? It ans I’m willing to turn my back against them, especially your family, the chief of the faction, in particular.”

“That’s why you tried not to make eye contact with ? You’re not going to see because you have turned your back against our family?”

“… ”

“Whew…” He sighed long, looking at as I remained silent.

“Why are you always trying to think in extres?”

“What?”

“Please don’t do that. Isn’t it too hard if you live like that? Let help you. So, I hope you won’t be too hard on yourself.”

I was silent. What can I do for Carsen, the second son of the Duke Lars family at the mont when I could pursue a different path from theirs? Even if this had not happened, how could he help in a situation like this when he spent ti only practicing fencing without any interest in politics?

As if he read my mind, he let out a deep sigh after looking at blankly for so ti.

“You don’t believe at all?”

“… ”

“Well, would you believe if I say I would move out of my parents’ house?”

“…Moving out?”

I opened my eyes wide. Of course, as he wasn’t the successor of his father’s title and as he ca of age, he was supposed to move out soday. But he was too young to move out. Besides, given that it was customary for the rest of the brothers including him to move out when the eldest son inherited the title, his remarks were extrely unusual.

When I looked at him in surprise, he nodded, looking at with serious eyes.

“Yes, I’m moving out.”

“Why?”

“Well, I’m supposed to move out anyway. If I move out, I don’t have to follow the political line of my family.”

“… Well, don’t do it. I don’t want to get you involved in my matters.”

Basically, it was my own matter. I didn’t want to get him involved in sothing that I didn’t like. Although I was grateful for his efforts to help even by moving out, I didn’t feel he would be a great help to because he was not politically trained at all. Of course, he would be helpful when it ca to fencing.

When I shook my head with a determined expression, he remained silent for a long ti, then said in a calm voice, “Okay. Let’s talk about it next ti. ”

“…Sein.”

“You look tired. Have so rest.”

Having said that, he turned. His red shadow flickered and disappeared out of the door.

Looking at him disappearing, I sighed deeply.

Sohow I felt frustrated and gloomy.

Three days later I received a letter with the results of the eting. The luxurious white paper detailed the coronation schedule and procedures, but there was nothing about the emperor’s wedding that was the center of the controversy.

According to the long letter, the emperor agreed to break off his engagent with , but refused to hold a wedding ceremony with soone imdiately.

Was it because of that? Other letters enclosed in it included several precautions. For example, as he can’t officially reveal his breakoff in the presence of foreign delegations, I have to continue to act as his fiancée until a few months later when it is officially recorded. And I should not make any mistake as he will announce to the outside world that he and I have agreed to hold a wedding ceremony after I co of age and fully recover from poisoning.

Touching the two letters to the candlelight, I tilted my head.

Why did they make this conclusion? This was not what the pro-emperor faction or the noble faction wanted.

When I saw the ashes of the letters, I suddenly rembered what happened three days ago.

The emperor ca to see urgently and asked to think twice about my decision, but I refused his request coldly. I felt heartbroken when he turned, saying he would do as I wished.

When I was working with a heavy heart, the butler ca in carefully and gave good news. He said the delegation of the Lua kingdom just arrived in the capital, and that my father would return ho by evening.

It was already in the evening after I gave house employees various instructions for my father who ca all the way back from the Lua kingdom.