In the past, the Emperor had many concubines besides the Empress and three queens. Moreover, it was customary for the Empress to have three or more lovers; in addition to the present-day Empress Palace, five palaces belonged to her.
“The 16th Empress Anastasia committed her many corruptions and was dethroned, therefore the power that had originally belonged to the Empress transferred to the Emperor.”
After the Empress was abolished, the Emperor could only have three queens. However, since it was a country where the Empress’s position had once been abolished, the succeeding Empress’s and queens’ authority was not great. This had been passed down to Lyle’s father’s generation, but when Lyle rembered his mother’s pain, he changed her from having three queens to having only one Empress.
Still, the power of the current Empress paled in comparison to Empresses of the past. Nonetheless, because dea was the only partner to the Emperor, she had more influence than when there were also three queens. Since dea had lost her mories and beco reclusive, it hadn’t mattered much.
When Lyle finished eating, the bowls were removed, and dessert ca in. He smiled as she watched dea savoring the dessert happily.
‘Am I seriously obsessed—because you keep getting unbearably cuter everyday.’
After eating and resting for a while, he would go back to the bedroom.
It was his first ti doing anal, so he had been worried about what to do if it ripped or bled, but fortunately, that didn’t happen. dea seed shy, but she seed to enjoy it.
‘Would it be too unreasonable to do it again tonight?’
Not knowing what Lyle was thinking inside, dea was concentrating on the cake. He found her naivety attractive. But looking back, he thought it was good when dea seduced him too and took the initiative.
‘Maybe it’s just all good… … .’
He was watching dea eating her ice cream after her cake. Lyle reached out and tucked so stray hair behind her ear. No matter how much she liked ice cream, he thought that dea should not eat two bowls of it because she might get a stomach ache.
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‘Will the Empress be alright?’
Seira was worried because the Emperor departed to dine with the Empress in a bad mood. She worried that the Empress would be in trouble for covering for her.
However, the work of the Empress’s guardian knights worked in two shifts. Seira had a day shift, not a night shift. Usually, when Lyle left the office, he when to the Empress’s Palace.
It was dea’s order.
dea knew that the two strongest characters in the novel were Seira and Lyle. So when Lyle was by her side, there was no reason to have Seira there too. If their ti overlapped, she feared being without one or another for any given amount of ti.
So, she had arranged for her to work during a day shift, but when Seira heard this, she misunderstood, thinking dea had adjusted the shift in consideration of her.
Of course, if she hadn’t found the crumbs of the conspiracy that would be targeting her, dea would have taken care of Seira, but now was not the ti. Now dea was prioritizing the child in her womb.
As Seira left the Empress’s Palace and walked towards the entrance, she saw a familiar carriage. Because the Duke of Card was hosting her, a carriage was supposed to take her to and from work.
Seira would have instead borrowed a horse from the duke, but Luke was adamant.
‘It is dangerous to ride a horse to and from work alone during a ti where the miss’s uncle is still at large.’
‘Wouldn’t it be nice if I could capture my uncle while commuting to and from work alone?’
Her uncle had to show up in the capital while she was working as a knight in the Empress’s Palace. Seira headed to the carriage, thinking of her uncle, who had not yet been caught.
“Baron.”
The carriage door opened, and Luke ca down. Lost in her imaginings, Seira was caught unawares and shocked to see Luke’s appearance.
“W-why are you here?”
“I had business at the palace … … . So I waited. I have sothing to say to you,”
Luke explained, conscious of the gaze of the attendant and the coachman who stood on standby next to his carriage.
Luke seed to want to hold Seira’s hand, but he couldn’t. She glanced at his face and climbed into the carriage first. His face was hot.
‘It’s a good thing the lights of the Imperial Palace’s lanterns don’t reach here.’
The Imperial Palace lit up magical lights at night, including where the wagons were parked.
As Seira climbed up, Luke quickly followed her into the wagon. The servant closed the door without following the master into the carriage. He seed to be sitting next to the driver.
As the carriage departed, Luke covered and locked the small window that led to the driver’s seat. He was afraid that their conversation might leak out.
“… … How was your work?”
“I am working comfortably because the Empress is considerate of . Others are friendly too.”
“That’s a relief,”
he replied after a long mont while carefully examining Seira’s expression because he was suspicious of her covering up if she was being bullied. With the position of the Empress, dea could have pretended to welco her outwardly but harassed her behind the scenes. He was worried.
Fortunately, his older sister seed to really like Seira.
“But… … I’m afraid his Majesty seems to be jealous of .”
“His Majesty?”
Luke was montarily stunned. Jealous. Lyle?– He was jealous? It seed like an incompatible word for the present Emperor.
“Even though he gave permission and appointed as a knighted escort… … His Majesty didn’t seem to like my presence by the Empress’s side.”
“What did his Majesty say?”
“Nothing was said out loud. Her Majesty’s took him away before the atmosphere turned ugly.”
Judging from Seira’s reaction, it seed to be true. Luke recalled witnessing Lyle’s love for dea firsthand and murmured about its strangeness.
“I have heard that his Majesty cares for the Empress a lot, but… … .”
“She said that if she wants sothing from him, he listens right away.”
She wasn’t sure if that was actually the case. She could only confirm the Emperor’s appearance that imdiately reacted to what dea said and when they touched. While they were together, his reaction was imdiate, as if all his nerves were focused on one person, dea.
‘ too… … I want to talk a little more with the Empress!’
It was Lyle, not dea that Seira envied. It was an odd thought, but she even thought she would rather be a man.
When she was talking to dea, she couldn’t help but be in awe of her beauty. She was so pretty Seira felt strange; she could feel her heart pounding involuntarily.
‘… … Maybe even a woman would be nice.’
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