Here’s the translation for the provided passage:

The rumor went something like this.

Late at night. I met someone in the garden, avoiding others’ eyes, and oddly enough, the man was hiding his face with a cardigan. I saw him from a distance, so I didn’t know who he was, but his briefly glimpsed white hair indicated that it wasn’t His Majesty.

That was the gist of the rumor. The rumor grew, some saying it was a favorite of the government, others that he was a man she had been seeing even before marriage.

The somewhat fortunate thing was that no one suspected the man was Levanfell.

“What will you do now?”

Jaerim asked, pounding his foot in anger. He looked like a teacher as he glared alternately at me and Levanfell.

“Why did you go out into the garden that night, and in such a way? Huh? I need to know the reason.”

I gauged Jaerim’s reaction, but Levanfell remained composed.

“You’ve already thought about what to do, haven’t you, Jaerim?”

“Do you think I’m a wise sage who has figured everything out?! I don’t know the solution to this problem either!”

“Sorry, Jaerim. It’s my fault.”

Before the two began to argue, I quietly confessed my guilt.

“I took His Majesty’s hand and led him away on a whim.”

“……Your Majesty?”

Even at my confession, Jaerim’s face was one of disbelief. He looked at Levanfell with his slender eyes.

Jaerim doesn’t know that I have divine power. So he might be even angrier that I dragged Levanfell away so recklessly.

“……Your Majesty. You didn’t blame the Empress just to avoid being scolded, did you?”

“I see what you think of me, Jaerim.”

“Well…… not His Majesty, but the Empress! I never even thought that you would do that!”

“You were just assuming it was all my fault and interrogating me.”

“Of course! If the Empress did it! ……Well, there must have been a good reason. Whatever.”

Jaerim, who I thought would be furious, cooled down more quickly than I expected.

“If the Empress did it, well, then let’s move on to the next report.”

“Can we really do that?”

“Yes. I was planning to scold His Majesty to the point of making him cry, but if the Empress did it, there’s no need, is there?”

Jaerim looked at me as if to ask why I was questioning something so obvious and then really moved on to the next report. Turning my head, I saw that Levanfell was also listening to Jaerim’s other report as if he had expected this.

I’m the only one panicking here!

“So, seeing that only the carriage remains, the investigation will focus on the crash, but the groom is missing, so that’s difficult……”

“Wait, wait!”

At my cry, Jaerim stopped his report, and Levanfell turned his head.

“We’re just going to let that rumor go?”

“Yes. There’s no one to scold, so what else is needed?”

“But the rumor has spread that I have a favorite?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. The previous empresses all had two to four favorites as a standard.”

“……Really?”

I blinked in astonishment.

“Yes. Of course, it’s the first time an empress has taken a favorite just a few months after marriage, and without an heir…… but having a favorite is not something to be surprised about.”

“Then why were you so angry earlier?”

“That’s because the white hair was revealed…… and I thought His Majesty had acted thoughtlessly, putting emotion before reason, and I was going to scold him.”

Really? Just bury it like that?

I stared incredulously at the nonchalant Jaerim and the stillcomposed Levanfell.

Then, for the first time, Levanfell, who had been listening leisurely to the whole conversation, brightened his eyes. His eyes, filled with coldness, contained displeasure.

‘Yes! Of course, it couldn’t be okay!’

Yes. Scold me! If you do something wrong, you should be scolded.

“Teriella.”

“Yes!”

I answered heartily.

“If you’re going to call me Your Majesty, then call Jaerim ‘Ascal, the Earl’ from now on.”

“……What?”

“Call Elihu ‘Chancellor,’ and call Raven ‘Liranep Youngsik.'”

What is this nonsense? I couldn’t help but distort my face.

“If you want to call Jaerim ‘Jaerim,’ Elihu ‘Elihu,’ and Liranep Youngsik ‘Raven,’ then.”

“……”

“Call me by my name too.”

Levanfell emphatically emphasized his request. Jaerim, who was listening on the side, lightly clapped his hands and praised Levanfell, saying, ‘Wow. Did you know how to express your requests like this? You’ve grown!’

It seems like not thinking deeply is the answer.

Note: I have preserved the names and genders as per the provided information and followed the specified guidelines for the translation.

Certainly! Here’s the translated passage:

“Have you taken in a consort?”

“…… It has spread that far?”

Elihu, who had come to the palace, brought up the subject of my consort as soon as he sipped his tea.

‘Could it be……’

I glared at the hamster Mu, who was incongruously enjoying the finest lamb on the table.

“Since the last incident, the number of people coming to the sanctuary to pray has increased significantly. We have reached a point where we need to recruit more clergy. Sometimes the nobles come as well…… I heard it then.”