I haven’t been sleeping well for a few days.

The kid that Lize went out and brought, Edmund, and Ellie.

That day, her bewildered face at the party venue and her calm look at the empress’ palace kept ringing in front of me.

Her gaze that she made, especially at the empress’ palace, was all the more heartening as if she had given up something.

Whenever I saw her, her glistening eyes fell down like a man who given up on everything.

“Sigh.”

Raymond sighed deeply as he looked across the empty seat.

Was she mad at me?

Come to think of it, I had never seen Ellie angry at me.

She was always smiling where her eyes were drawn.


For the long time I had known her, I had never even had a small argument.

So he wasn’t sure how to deal with this uncomfortable situation now.

Besides, there was nothing he could do if he went to Ellie.1

Edmund has already been identified as a royal family member in the temple, and people have no doubt that Edmund is his child.

It didn’t matter what he thought. What was important now was what to do with Edmund, who was now a royal family member.

Raymond knew better than any child who had not been acknowledged by the emperor, and how miserable a child’s life would be if he even attached the label of a illegitimate child.

<‘Your Majesty, you are a child with many wounds.  Please don’t give me the hurt that’s been thrown away by my father.’>

He knelt and begged for the little boy. Lize, who was by his side, and Edmund, asked me not to forget about him.

I couldn’t refuse the Marquis’s request coldly.

As the Marquis said, I had received a lot of help from him when I was an abandoned prince.

But It was me who established his prestige in the abandoned aristocratic society.

At that time, Lize was the flower of society and the person she chose was no one but me.

Her fame changed the eyes of the nobles who turned to her and she had defended me whenever the Crown Prince insulted me at any party.

So everyone knew that Lize was out of the eyes of the Crown Prince.

Whether it was a choice for her family or not, it was not possible to say that the Crown Prince, who hated him terribly, had no influence on him.

But Lize risked her life there and gave birth to his child.

If he doesn’t admit to Edmund, Edmund will be illegitimate and Lize, will have had the dishonor of having a fatherless child.

That’s why you identified the child as mine in such a public setting.

They are in such a desperate situation.

I understood everything in my head, and I couldn’t deny that I was responsible for Lize and the child.

On the way back, the conclusion had already been reached, but he could not immediately tell Marquis that Edmund would be crowned.

The moment when the story of Edmund appeared, I remembered the day Ellie lost her child.

<“Oh, no, no! It can’t be. Ray, something’s wrong. The Imperial Household must have misdiagnosed!”>

Grabbing her slender belly, Ellie screamed like a crazy person.

<“Why, why is my baby dying…  It was fine until yesterday!….Tell me no, please…  .”>

Please….

Ellie grabbed him by the hem of his robe and hung desperately.

‘….Ellie,’

Her face, which saw him unable to say no, finally turned into despair and gave up in a tearful cry.

<“no no no no! Why no!”>

It was the first and the last time she poured emotions in front of me.

Ellie constantly shed tears, and for the first time I feared her crying would stop forever.

Her cry, which was so pitiful that became a cry of grief

I couldn’t speak because her cry was still clearly remembered.

So he sent Hugh back by telling him to wait, and he couldn’t tell Ellie about Edmund.

He knew himself. He was just making excuses to buy time.

After two days of such incomprehensible behavior, Today, The temple finally gave him a definite answer that the child was his own child.

So now I couldn’t waste any more time or turn away the child.

But then Ellie.

Ellie had never always refused if it was what he wanted. Maybe this time, she will accept Edmond if he asks.
(Your delusional…)

Yes, as always.

Turning away from the uncomfortable topic, Raymond picked up the bell on the table and shook it lightly.

When the bell rang, the door was opened and the bell chief (?) entered.

“You have called, Your Majesty.”

“I have no appetite. Clear the table. I need to walk a bit.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Raymond stood up from his seat staring at the empty where Ellie would usually sit with confused eyes.

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“Your Majesty, did you call?”

Helan’s voices came from outside the door. I just woke up and raised my body.

“Come in.”

Helan opened the door and approached to the bed.

“Your Majesty’s complexion is not very good. Are you okay?”

Even though I slept early yesterday, my body was too heavy.

As Helan said, my condition was not good at the moment.But I pretended to be okay and went down to bed.

“It’s all right. I think it’s quite late today. What time is it now? “

“It’s noon.”

“Yesterday, did you get a special message?”

“.. Yes, Your Majesty.”

I see.

I had never been absent from dinner, so I wondered if he wouldn’t worry about me, but the reality was the same as usual as if he would wake up as if it’s like any other day.

I looked at the sunny blue sky outside the window and told Helan,

“Well, the answer from the temple has already turned to the Imperial Palace?”

“…. yes, majesty.”

“Then I can’t avoid this problem anymore.”

Raymond also told me to talk to me again when the result came out, so now we had to talk about what we would do with the child.

Raymond will never throw the child away.

Instead he would ask me to adopt the child.

I wanted to fall asleep again because my head was pounding, but I had to know.

Raymond’s decision.

That’s how I could set the course of this relationship.

I stared at the imperial palace not far from me and turned to Helan.

“I have to go see His Majesty.”

The Empress’ Palace-the Moon’s Palace, and the Emperor’s Palace-the Sun Palace, were twin-like structures connected by long paths.
(Empress {Moon} and Emperor {Sun} )

I could have ridden a carriage, but I wanted to walk so I could get a little out of my mind.

Today I had to make a decision that would change my life.

The green forest road was calm and the sun was good.

Raymond and I sometimes walked this road together.

Before my child’s miscarriage, we used to walk on this road together after dinner and for digestion.

As I walked along the street at night, I was often struck by a uneven stone that I had never seen, and whenever that happened, Raymond always held me back.

<“You always fall in the same place.”>

He spoke in an indifferent voice, but when I looked at him, who remembered the same spot that I didn’t even know, I was stunned.

Each of his little interests made me cry and laugh.

Why did suddenly things come to mind.

Strangely, every step toward where she was, the memories of her past with him came up one by one.

But now the memories did not arouse a smile.

It’s like I’m heading towards the end.

I stopped walking for a while. And asked myself.

I’m going to end things with Raymond now.

I was already guessing what Raymond’s answer would be.

Nevertheless, I want to hear it with his lips and his voice.

After that I probably…

I clenched my fists at the emotions that were going through my heart. Then came the worried voice of the head maid,

“Your Majesty, how are you? Do your feet hurt?”

She seemed to be worried about what caused me to stop walking suddenly.

I took a deep breath.

“No, it’s just… it feels unusually long.”

“Yeah?”

As I was looking at the face of the head maid, who was doubtful, I gave her a weak smile.

“…No matter how long it is, there must be an end.”

Nevertheless, I didn’t want this road towards him to really end.

I dreamed there would be a ray of hope left between us.

I took a step back to the Sun Palace where Raymond was.

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In front of the office of the Sun Palace.

“His Majesty isn’t here. What do you mean? “

“That is….”

I asked the servant again in front of the Sun Palace. It was time for Raymond to be busy with business. But he’s not in the Sun Palace.

I hope you didn’t leave the palace.

Raymond was never out of office when he was in business or doing public affairs.

I looked at the servant with a cold stare who answered vaguely.

“Where is His Majesty now?”

The servant was restless, unable to hide his bewildered expression at my question.

What is there that he cannot easily answer, when I am the empress who serves the emperor?

As soon as I felt something was wrong, I suddenly remembered.

Lize and her child.

That was the only thing the sun’s palace servants could look out for. Until now, Raymond and I have always been a good couple.

The servants always told me all about Raymond’s whereabouts without hesitation.

“Is His Majesty with Lize?”

The servant’s eyes widened when he was startled by my question.

Even if I didn’t hear the answer, I had already knew it. But I still needed him to answer the question asked by ‘The Empress’.


“Where is His Majesty now, this will be the last question I ask you.”

“….He is in the greenhouse garden of the Sun Palace. Your Majesty.”

The servant replied in a trembling voice as if he understood my warning.

“Huh.”

A greenhouse garden in the Sun Palace.

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It was a place that only the royal family could enter. And all in the sun palace, the greenhouse was where I was in charge.

But he’s there with Lize and her child.

Holding my hand tightly with the tension that came up from my fingertips, I soon turned to the greenhouse.

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End of Chapter 007

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