“Your Majesty, shall I tell His Majesty?”

The servant asked me carefully, stiff as a sheet of ice.

He came to his senses and I was taken aback.

I wasn’t confident of facing him now.

“No, no. Don’t let your Majesty know that I’m here.”

“… Yes, Your Majesty.”

I turned away from his office.

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“Everyone, back off.”

Upon returning to the empress’ palace, Helan yelled at all the maids.


The chambermaids, who were constantly checking my bedroom, left the room and I sat on a chair.

“Your Majesty… Are you okay?”

Helan approached me and asked carefully.

Just as I heard my name, Helan probably already heard about Lize’s arrival.

No, all of the maids and servants there probably heard.  Maybe tomorrow, rumors will dig into the Imperial Palace.

The news that Raymond’s first love, Lize, is back.

Raymond and Liz.

The two were quite popular in the social world.

“Helan, did you hear that? I couldn’t have misheard?”

When asked, “I heard it clearly, but I didn’t want to believe it,” Helan’s face was troubled.

“Your Majesty. I’m sorry.”

Helan bowed her head as if I couldn’t say it was my fault.

“No, it’s not your fault. Helan, I just want to be alone for a while.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Helan quietly closed the door and left.

Only my deep sigh rang in the room where silence fell.

“Lize, Go Away. Why are you coming back all of a sudden…?”

Lize left the empire seven years ago to become a concubine of the West Kingdom.

As long as she entered as a concubine, and not the queen, she could not leave the royal palace of the West Kingdom until the king died.

But why and how did she return to the Empire?

I once wished she would come back and make Raymond happy, but not anymore.

Especially not now. Ugh, I didn’t even want Raymond to hear from her.

Raymond was now my husband.

I knew better than anyone how much Raymond loved her.

Just imagining it made my heart throb.

‘The day after tomorrow, Lize and I will return from the West to the Empire.’

What kind of expression did he have on his eyes when he said that?

Lize left and Raymond married me, but he never told me he loved me.

Of course that didn’t mean he was the worst husband to me. In any case, he was faithful to what he had promised on his wedding day.

The promise that there would be no other woman in his life than me.

After ascending to the throne, he changed the Empire’s marriage law to monogamy, leaving behind a lot of opposition. Naturally, there was no government.
*(Monogamy Meaning that you must only have 1 lover, the opposite of polygamy)*

He kept the promise he had made me until now.

Love, except for that emotion.

I never felt sad that he didn’t love me.

At first, he said that he could not give me love, and it was me who took the opportunity and married him.

I thought if he didn’t love me, I would love him even more to make up for it.

Sometimes my heart ached with loneliness, but I could bear it just by his presence beside me.
*(Honey, that’s not a health relationship )*1

As he is doing his best, I have no doubt that our spirit of determination will be happy if we do not wish for affection.

But it was only when Lize wasn’t here.

If Raymond still loves Lize, we will never be happy with each other

He’ll eventually shake.

How heartwarmingly would it be to see a lover who broke up unwantedly again?

The mere imagination of the two facing each other made me gasp.

I feel like I’m back in the past when I could only look at perfect lovers with a dejected heart.

“Ugh.”

Is it too stressful?  At the moment, I felt a pain in my belly.

I was quick to put my hand on my stomach.

‘Because you are already a miscarried, you have to be very careful.  Be careful not to get stressed and you can’t move too much.’

The note that the doctor said came to mind.

I’m not alone right now.

When I came to my senses, I breathed slowly.

“I’m sorry, sweetheart. My mom didn’t think of you for a while. I won’t do that anymore.”

I didn’t feel anything yet, but apparently, there was a small life growing on this flat stomach.

I’m not alone anymore.

Apart from loving Raymond, I have a precious being to protect. So I couldn’t just be nervous about Lize coming back.

When I was calming my anxious mind, I heard the voice of Helan with a knock on the door.

“Your Majesty, your dinner  is almost ready.”

“Oh. Already… I see.”

When I looked out the window, I could see dark days coming soon.

I didn’t even realize the time was passing because I was thinking about it.

I got out of my chair so as not to be late for dinner.

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I walked in a hurry, but Raymond had already arrived first at the dining hall.

Although we were married, we were always together in the evening because we couldn’t meet face to face in busy mornings.

I always waited for dinner time with him, but he didn’t seem that much.

As time went by, I felt obliged to be together.

Today, I felt especially bad, even though I had seen him thinking about something else before.

Maybe he’s thinking Lize right now.

Have you ever thought of me so deeply?

When the servants noticed, I opened my mouth first.

“Your Majesty, I am sorry for being late.”

Only then did Raymond’s black eyes turn towards me as if he had just noticed me.  It was a sharp glance as if facing a predator on a black night.

“It’s okay, I came early.”

He glanced as if not to care, and to sit down.

As I sat down, the servants quickly served food on the table.

Raymond, who saw the tables full of food, told the servants, as always.

“Everyone walk away.”

All the servers went back and the door was closed tightly.

Raymond breathed a slow breath, slightly narrowing his beautiful forehead. However, he untied the top button of his shirt with a rough touch.

He swept the tip of his chin with a tiring touch, looking at me and holding up a glass of wine in front of him.

The red liquid inside the wine glass created a whirlpool in his graceful gesture.

“I went to the Duke today.”

He told me, as usual, with a dry voice.

I looked at him with a low voice, distracted by his gestures for a moment.

I answered him comfortably because I decided not to be formal when it was just the two of us.

“Yeah.”

When I smiled awkwardly at him, Raymond looked at me at the table with dry eyes.

“okay.”

Formally asking for my regards, this was all of our conversation these days.

It wasn’t that much in our early years of marriage.

After miscarrying our child, he and I had a lot of distance between each other.

I was sad, but I didn’t resent it. I thought it was a way to endure the sadness of losing a child.

But today, strangely, his coldness has doubled.

I went outside the palace without a maid, and I wondered what was going on.

Even the guards were missing and the reason I went out of the palace today was because I had to be treated secretly.

With one miscarriage, the Imperial Palace was already noisy, and the Imperial Palace doctor diagnosed me as having difficulty getting pregnant.

So I didn’t want to make a fuss by calling imperial court on things that are unlikely.

The superficial reason was my visit to my parents, but today my father was not in the mansion.

My father left to Yeongji a few days ago for a business trip.

And…..Raymond knew it.

If He had paid a little attention to me, He would have asked why I went to the duke’s sometimes too.

But he didn’t wonder more than that either.

He might have been different if it were Lize though.

I know it’s a bad idea, but I think it’s because I heard her name that I forgot, so I followed my heart today.

I looked into Raymond, breathing in and sighing silently.

He had a baby…. I had to tell him.

When I came back to the Imperial Palace, I just wanted to tell him the news, but now.  It was not easy to say.

Because even when I entered the dining hall, and even now, with me in front of him, I was not in his gaze at all.

Clear black eyes and a narrowed forehead.

I’ve seen him for a long time, so I could tell from his face.

Now he was in a state of great sensitivity.

He seemed to be immersed in something deeply troubled, and could not hide his sharpened nerves.

‘Lize….’

There was no problem he could be so sensitive about…. besides her.


Why is she coming back to the Empire? Will she return to the West after a short visit, or will she stay in the Empire forever?

It was something I didn’t want to hear, but it was something I should definitely know.

I bite my lips in bitterness, and finally called his name in love.

“Ray.”

His black focus only turned to me.

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“What?”

I looked at his cold eyes and said the name I didn’t want to take out.

“…I’ve heard that Lize is returning to the Empire. Is that true?”

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End of Chapter 002

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