The Emperor’s moment of realization.
“Your Majesty, the Emperor. It’s been a long time.”
The Emperor, who had been lethargic, jerked his head up at the sound of the familiar voice. Hertian was walking into the room he had turned his eyes towards.
“Have you been well?”
His voice echoed in the vast space. The Emperor, who had been laughing at the pleasant sound, quickly erased his expression.
“Drop the courtesy.”
With these words, he greeted his son with a cold tone, contrasting his previous demeanor.
Unfazed by the Emperor’s unchanged attitude, Hertian retorted sharply.
“Then I’ll drop it.”
It had been two years. Both from the Emperor and the capital.
No matter how many times he visited, the Imperial Palace remained unfamiliar. Feeling stifled, Hertian, who had tightened the button around his neck, loosened it and approached the throne.
“Did your attitude become more arrogant after winning the war?”
“That’s enough.”
“Right. Arrogance towards your father is enough…..”
“I said that’s enough with wandering on the battlefield to avoid being ostracized.”
Hertian cut off the Emperor’s words and got straight to the point. He wasn’t the type to exchange long pleasantries.
“What?”
Taken aback by his son’s sudden defiance, the Emperor adjusted his slanted posture and sat upright.
“It’s disgusting. It’s terrible that the place where I ran to risk my life was a battlefield where people die.”
It had been four years. His friends were running around in the academy, but he inherited the duke’s position prematurely and spent time wandering on the battlefield. He thought he was getting used to suppressing his desires and living, but he didn’t want to give up everything to live.
Especially when Anette wanted him. War in such a situation? Even if the empire was destroyed, he wouldn’t go.
“It’s still premature. Wait. Until your forces are established.”
But the Emperor wasn’t one to accept it easily. He didn’t want to lose his loved one, and he didn’t want his son taken away either. If the Emperor directly protected Hertian, there would be a rebellion. Knowing this, the Emperor was still timing it.
“I refuse.”
Hertian answered decisively.
“Are you saying you will defy my will?”
“You promised before the war. That once this war is over, you’ll let me return to my fief.”
“But you ended the war earlier than the time I promised.”
He was supposed to prolong it for at least another year. But more important to Hertian than that was Anette’s letter. In a situation where Anette could marry another man, he couldn’t afford to leisurely waste time on the battlefield. It was better to confront it now.
“If you can end it and don’t, that’s incompetence.”
“Dare you defy the Emperor’s words?”
“No. I’m informing you. That I will no longer go to the battlefield to risk my life.”
Hertian left a statement close to a notification and turned around coldly.
He had anticipated the Emperor’s anger anyway.
It was just when he was about to hastily leave the moment of realization.
Hahaha.
The Emperor burst out laughing. Hertian stopped in his tracks.
“The time has finally come.”
At his heavy voice, Hertian’s head jerked around nervously. The Emperor’s face showed a satisfaction he had never seen in his life. He seemed to like his son’s first act of rebellion very much.
“You should have done this earlier. Seeing you now defy the Emperor, I guess you can protect your life, your subjects.”
Hertian’s eyebrows twitched.
“……Have you been testing me all this time?”
For four years?
“Originally, the true king of the jungle, the lion, throws his offspring off a cliff. Consider it as helping you grow, not a test.”
“Those are word games you’re playing.”
“Think what you like.”
The Emperor didn’t care.
With that kind of guts, he wouldn’t be fooled like a fool wherever he went.
“So, what are you going to do when you go back to your territory? A guy who only knew war until now.”
Of course, the real beginning is now. It would be even harder to go back to that cold and barren land and live.
‘Do you have something planned to be so confident?’
The Emperor was a little curious.
But the words that came out of Hertian’s mouth deviated from all expectations.
“I’m going to get married.”
It was a statement Serdis, no, Hertian wouldn’t have imagined hearing from his own mouth.
“You’re, you’re getting married?”
“Do not plan on interfering.”
That guy…he wasn’t joking, he was serious.
He was really thinking about getting married.
“Ever since you’ve been under Calix, your head has grown…without even a partner…”
The Emperor still doubted. Seeing his tyrant younger brother, Calix, die without getting married or even dating, he wondered if he would be the same.
“There is. A person to marry.”
“There is? You who only knew about war? Did you fall for a princess from a neighboring country on the battlefield?”
“Even if I told you, Your Majesty wouldn’t know.”
“That guy…!”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
