“Your Majesty, are you trying to make me disloyal and ignorant of a son’s duty?”
The numerous crimes the Empress had committed while inflating her wealth using Graham were too many to list.
She didn’t think she could oust her with just a few pieces of paper containing Graham’s statements. However, there was a lot she could do with it.
“I have merely come to make a late-night request, Your Majesty.”
While she couldn’t deliver a fatal blow, she could create plenty of cracks.
There had been nobles whose businesses were ruined without their knowledge due to the Empress, and there was evidence that she had kidnapped commoner children and sold them as slaves abroad.
The biggest crack would be the complete incineration of a poor village to build a casino. An object with a crack breaks easily upon minor impact.
Every fallen royal family in history could not fill those small gaps. The Empress knew this best.
“Speak, let’s hear it.”
So today was her turn to listen to his request.
“Give me Lusonia.”
In the end, the Empress laughed loudly. But the words to grant his request did not readily come out. Lusonia was a territory bordered by the sea. It was militarily, economically, and even politically significant land.
“What are you hesitating for? Is it not just a capricious desire for a wider land from your unworthy son?”
Even those with boundless power couldn’t disregard the gaze of the nobles and the public.
Sometimes the Empress so hated that fact it made her teeth chatter; she wanted to burn and destroy everything. On days when people gathered in the square, her mouth would turn sour, unable to taste anything she ate.
Compared to what the Prince has done for the royal family, Randhill was insignificant.
“Thank you for saying so.”
Despite the late hour, Carson hastened his steps to meet the Emperor. If the Empress found out that Carson was aiming for the exclusive rights for railway construction and its management, she would nullify the unification with Lusonia.
Thus, until Noah came back with a definite answer about the end of the world, Carson had to obtain the Emperor’s seal on matters concerning Lusonia.
Carson looked at the Imperial Palace with fresh eyes.
Not once during his time as a Prince had he privately asked to see his father.
Even when the Emperor summoned him to the office to give directives, the Empress’s attendants were always present.
But his mother had passed away, and Louis was in his hands. He no longer had to be cautious.
Unlike the Empress, the Emperor invited him into his own bedroom. Dressed in his nightgown, the Emperor might have postponed acknowledging his son till the next day. However, he granted Carson’s request at once.
“It’s been a long time, Carson.”
The Emperor embraced him. His son had grown so much he could barely fit into his arms. Detaching himself from Carson, the Emperor looked at his least loved child with eyes full of affection. A sentiment he had never shown before.
It had only been possible after letting go of everyone’s expectations.
“Have you been well, Your Majesty?”
“Yes, yes.”
Waving his hand, he guided Carson to a table prepared inside the bedroom.
“How’s life outside the palace?”
Even if he had lost real power to the Empress, the Emperor was still the Emperor. He wasn’t completely ignorant of the affairs Carson had undertaken in his own territory.
“Yes, it’s fine.”
“And your sibling, ah yes, Louise, she’s doing well too?”
The Emperor always referred to Louis not as his daughter but as Carson’s sister.
“We are all well, sir. I am grateful that you allowed the trial against the one who plotted to assassinate the royal family to be carried out within our territory.”
“It’s only natural since the parties involved are there.”
He nodded his head and promptly changed the subject.
“Your Majesty, the reason I came to see you today is that I have several requests.”
The Emperor poured alcohol into Carson’s cup himself and filled his own cup as well. He knew that his son had no affection for him. It was a bitter truth that he, rendered powerless, had initiated.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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