His words were thorny.

The Empress’s expression, as she slowly raised her head to look, was not good.

‘Can I intervene?’

It seemed that with Nathaniel’s power, she wouldn’t have to deal with this annoying formal greeting.

However, the remaining Confucian thoughts whispered that she must respect the elders.

Then, her eyes met Anaïs’s.

She glanced at the Empress and cautiously lowered her head.

I decided to simply stay still, empowered by her support.

“I made it anew. Why? Are you dissatisfied?”

“It’s not that I’m dissatisfied, but I don’t understand why we have to greet once in the morning, lunch, evening, and before bed.”

“Don’t you feel like family when you see them often?”

The Empress was not easily swayed either.

I watched their argument with the excitement of watching an enthralling match.

“Then you can live with Jaina.”

“Pardon?”

“Yes?”

I cried out loudly without realizing how much I hated it.

At the Empress’s sharp gaze, I closed my mouth and turned my head.

“If you want to get closer by calling to the palace four times a day, why don’t you live together until you become close? Perhaps you will become such close friends that the lady no longer wants to come to the Crown Prince’s palace.”

What a scary story this is.

I brushed my bare arm, getting goosebumps at the mere thought. Princess Anaïs seemed to have the same thoughts as her expression darkened.

“What’s so hard about greeting? It’s just 5 minutes a day.”

“It’s not that I dislike it; I’m saying that it’s inefficient.”

Nathaniel really did not back down from the Empress, not one word.

How could he talk back so flatly with such a calm face?

And I also admired the Empress, who did not retreat an inch even when Nathaniel stared at her with such a terrifying face.

If their fight was not about my formal greeting, I would have watched it with a lighter heart.

“Then let’s ask the Crown Princess herself.”

“Please do.”

What?

What are they asking?

Their eyes suddenly turned towards me.

“Crown Princess, tell us. Is it so burdensome for me to ask you to greet?”

The Empress asked me with a voice full of emotion.

I rolled my eyes to the side.

Of course, it was burdensome!

I wanted to shout it out loud, but I held it back.

Then Nathaniel spoke.

“Honestly, isn’t it bothersome? Coming like this every time. It’s not like you coming will make Her Majesty healthier.”

You, shut up.

You don’t know when to stop, you tactless fool.

But it seemed that if I said I would give a formal greeting, she would be offended.

It was a dilemma.

“His Majesty, the Emperor.”

At that moment, the Emperor appeared like a savior.

A fatherinlaw’s love for his daughterinlaw, as they say!

I rose quickly from my seat, greeted the Emperor with a delighted heart.

“Welcome, Your Majesty, the Emperor.”

“No, what were you all doing without me here?”

He also seemed curious about this strange combination.

Looking at the Empress and Nathaniel, it seemed a rare sight.

“Come this way, Your Majesty. We were just discussing something very important.”

“Something important?”

“Yes.”

I instinctively realized that the important matter was merely about my formal greeting!

If the Emperor said it was good, I had to give a formal greeting four times a day without fail.

“Hahaha, what is this serious matter that the Empress considers?”

“It is nothing, Your Majesty, I just wish to become closer to the Crown Princess, so I asked her to greet more often.”

Sure enough, the Empress was not seated on her throne for nothing.

She had replaced the actual frequency with the word ‘often.’

The Emperor probably never thought that ‘often’ meant four times a day.

“Ho, is that so? The Empress has opened her heart. Naturally, greetings should be given often…”

Certainly! Here’s the translated passage, following your guidelines:

“When did it become a habit to give a greeting four times? I think it’s strange.”

But our Nathaniel was no easy person either.

At his kind point, the Emperor only grinned.

And he looked at Anaïs and me.

‘He must think we are pitiable.’

In this place, Anaïs and I were nothing but shrimp caught between whales.

Their fighting threw us back and forth like cocktail shrimp with broken backs…

As Empress Lenisha’s sharp voice and Nathaniel’s sarcasm grew longer, I gradually became tired.

Then the Emperor clapped as if he had come up with a good idea.

‘I’m uneasy.’

I remembered my father complaining that the Emperor always thought only of what was good for himself.

“Why not hold a hunting competition?”

“Eh?”

Nathaniel frowned as if it was absurd.

After all, a sudden hunting competition was too random.

“Nothing promotes friendship like sports. Exercise together will help a lot in understanding each other.”

It was such a beggarlike logic, but there was no one to refute it here.

It was all the more natural since Nathaniel had shut his mouth too.

To make such a nonsensical suggestion in this situation.