“Putting that aside, I liked that aspect of you. I needed someone to look after my son and keep their mouth shut until he was publicly announced as the Crown Prince, and I thought it would be fun if you were by my side. You’re the first to send the Dove Assassin Squad to the Emperor.”
“It’s not the Dove Assassin Squad……”
I stuttered and hung my head.
So, all my concerns were unnecessary? Or did the Emperor feel comfortable talking to me because I went through that process? Whatever it was, it was a positive situation for me.
“Whatever. That’s not important right now. What matters to us now is what you proposed to me. Alright. I’ll do as you wish.”
“As I wish……?”
“Become the mother of my son. I’ll also grant you the Empress’s seat. It will take some time due to legal issues.”
I opened my mouth hastily, looking at the Emperor’s expression that said, “I have bestowed a favor upon you.”
“Thank you.”
“Nothing to thank for.”
“Let’s put off the Empress talk for now and take me to the Imperial Palace.”
“Ho. Quite aggressive.”
He wiped the myriad of expressions he had been feigning until just now, and smiled with the kindest face in the world to give me a positive impression.
In fact, Your Majesty, the Emperor, if I don’t do this, I’ll be sold off. Because my socalled parents would sell me off to some old man if I don’t listen to them.
So please, let me take advantage of you. I swallowed the words I couldn’t dare say, managing to spit them out one by one.
“Well, there are many circumstances.”
“So it will be. Not right now, though.”
“Yes. Please hurry. And now that it’s come to this, may I ask one more favor?”
“A favor? You ask for a lot.”
“Well, I think it’s good for both of us…….”
I smiled at him with a friendly smile.
“Why are you smiling so uneasily?”
“It’s nothing. I just want to take my sister with me when I go in there.”
“Sister?”
“Yes. Shanencia. She’s my youngest sister.”
His complexion darkened at the words “youngest sister.”
For him, a sister, especially the youngest, wouldn’t have been a good memory. The younger sister he had lost. The youngest Princess he adored so much.
So the Emperor tirelessly sought that sister. But the child could not be found anywhere, and no trace was found. So…….
‘I thought the Emperor sent his own child to the orphanage director, who was the last to face his sister, to find even a speck of evidence of his sister. Because adults usually find children’s minds easy.’
In the novel, Reneb had lost her memory and had entered the orphanage, or so it appeared. I had thought that perhaps it was not for show, but by the secret command of the Emperor.
The evidence of this was that the Crown Prince actually comes out with the Princess’s necklace. That was the last piece of evidence of my younger sister that the Emperor had discovered.
For that reason, I had misunderstood, but it seemed that it was not the Emperor, but the mother who had sent Reneb to the orphanage. The Emperor lived with regret and guilt towards the Princess until the end.
So I knew all too well that he reacts sensitively whenever I mention Shasha.
“Why are you trying to take my youngest sister?”
“If you’ve done even a little bit of background research on me, you would know. You’ve probably investigated not only my background but also my sister and my family.”
There was no reason to hide this. Rather, offering various other reasons might seem like an excuse.
As expected, he nodded his head to my expectation.
“I did do background research. Especially that child called the youngest sister was quite interesting. A child coveted in both the tower and the temple. So she’s torn between both sides.”
“Greedy family members are trying to use that child. That’s why I want to protect her.”
“Hooh. You, whom I know to be no different from your family, suddenly want to protect your sister alone?”
“Because I’ve come to my senses.”
My chest stung. Because the Emperor’s words were true.
“I see. Well, it doesn’t matter. I don’t need to interfere with your family matters. Just make sure it’s not noisy.”
“You’re surprisingly….”
“Surprisingly?”
“Easygoing about it. I thought you’d probe more.”
“What I need is not your family but you.”
I was a little touched. Since he was such a lowexpectation person, he seemed like a good person just by talking to that extent.
“Then let’s finish everything since we’re here.”
“What?”
“Don’t we have to talk to your parents? Your daughter suddenly seems to become the Empress; they have to know, don’t they?”
“Oh! That’s great.”
At the most welcome words, I smiled sincerely. Following me, he chuckled and slowly rose from his seat. If the Emperor speaks directly, he won’t be able to sell me to old nobility.
“Guide me.”
Lest his mind change, I turned like a rabbit and jumped into the count’s house. As we entered, the servants looked at us with blank faces.
This way, the news would naturally reach the ears of the count and his wife.
Still, just in case, I told the chief servant waiting as if he knew we were coming to go to the reception room, then I guided the Emperor with utmost courtesy.
“But.”
“Yes?”
“What’s your taste in people?”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
