The midday sun fell right into the center of the Solar Palace’s ceiling.
A grand luncheon was prepared in the slight shade of its dazzling light. The emperor began to speak as he looked at Ileon.
“It’s like a miracle.”
Emperor Marksis Oder Constantius was of venerable age. Although he was upright, his vigor was not the same as before. An uncontrollable ecstasy overflowed from the eyes of the emperor, who was not as energetic as before.
“You should have entered the palace sooner.”
“I was warned that it could be dangerous to see the outside light with my recovered eyes, so I fasted.”
At Ileon’s words, the emperor seemed quite upset.
“Even so. Should I find out later than others that the only nephew’s eyes have recovered?”
“I apologize.”
“Speaking of which, where is Saviel?”
When the emperor asked, Queen Seraphina wiped her lips with a napkin.
“The Crown Prince said he was busy and could not attend.”
“Busy with.”
As the emperor murmured as if it was unbelievable, the queen’s face hardened.
“The empire’s watchman has returned. I’ve always been troubled because I couldn’t properly honor the merit of the sevenyear war.”
“It’s a thing of the past. Don’t worry about it. Your Majesty.”
The emperor gave Ileon a generous smile.
“Ask for anything. Merit is one thing, and the recovery from the illness of the Duke is worth celebrating separately.”
At his words, as if he had been waiting, Ileon opened his mouth.
“Please allow me to marry by imperial command.”
“What?”
At Ileon’s words, the eyes of the emperor and the queen widened simultaneously.
“The one who stayed in the duke’s house after returning from the battlefield. Do you have a woman to discuss marriage with?”
Queen Seraphina could not resist her curiosity and asked.
“Yes. That’s right.”
The emperor looked at Ileon with a face like he was taken aback and then laughed heartily.
“Ha ha. I will do so.”
“Please promise that you will not oppose and allow any woman I want.”
“I will do as much as you want.”
In front of the emperor, who was laughing as if a big event had happened, and the queen who was making a somewhat apprehensive face, Ileon sat as if nothing had happened.
Ravenblack hair with red pupils.
Those pupils have been recovered. Seraphina clenched the hem of her dress under the table.
It was a dangerous color threatening the position of my son, Saviel. She didn’t resent the world so much when Saviel was born with blue eyes. She thought it would be enough to give birth to an ‘Oder’ even if she had to have a second or third prince.
But a few years later, Princess Lev, the emperor’s sister, who had married into the Duke’s family, gave birth to Ileon. It was the first time a child with the characteristics of ‘Oder’ was born outside the direct line of the royal family. Since then, Seraphina’s hell had begun.
The misfortune that she had forgotten while living after Ileon lost his eyes seemed to burn and crawl up her body.
“Give it as a decree.”
In the meantime, Ileon was repeating what he had to say.
“Decree? A decree.”
“It means I want you to write down exactly what you said about my marriage and make it into a document.”
While the emperor laughed ha ha ha, seeing him nodding, Queen Seraphina was busy rolling her head.
‘Is it going to be a slave or a prisoner from another country?’
Otherwise, there was no need to demand that she be allowed to marry ‘any woman’ without opposition.
‘It’s okay if a lowclass family or an insignificant woman becomes the duchess.’
Saviel also has an important marriage ahead. She hadn’t even brought up the matter to the emperor yet, but since Ileon had stirred up the water, that was a good thing in its own way.
“Do as he wishes. Immediately.”
Queen Seraphina smiled.
“Hehehe. It seems that I have to issue a decree while having a meal.”
Eventually, after finishing the luncheon, Ileon, who had gone straight to the emperor’s office and got the decree he wanted in his hand, received the golden paper with golden silk thread attached and lightly threw and caught it.
“This should be enough.”
Finding Rona was second, but he didn’t know if it would be difficult to legally place her as the duchess.
Although he hadn’t properly confessed yet, Ileon intended to do everything he could prepare before finding her.
“The only opportunity to get this was now.”
The merit of the sevenyear war should be greatly rewarded. The territory he made into imperial land during the sevenyear war accounted for onethird of the entire empire now. Even before Ileon returned to the capital, there was a strong opinion that he should be given half of the territory obtained through the sevenyear war as his territory.
But everything got blurred as he lost his sight and couldn’t participate in the expansion event.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
