Long Live the Emperor, Minus Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 148

Melchizedek gazed silently at Blanche, who met his eyes without flinching.

Her lips parted as if to speak, then closed again.

She wouldn’t give him an answer, it seemed. Melchizedek swallowed a soundless sigh.

“Baekryeon.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“I thought you enjoyed your time at the Academy.”

As Baekryeon herself had said, she excelled at war.

She couldn’t possibly have succeeded as Yan Luocci’s successor without that skill.

But what one excels at, what one must do, and what one enjoys are not always the same.

Cheongryeong had been like that—he did what he excelled at, but didn’t enjoy it. And Melchizedek believed Baekryeon belonged to that same category.

Though he hadn’t attended the Academy with her, Blanche had visited him every holiday, and he’d gathered information about the Academy through her.

She’d seemed satisfied with her studies—her choice of servitor arts as a major had felt perfectly suited to her.

Yet now she was back in her homeland, waging war.

She scattered blood instead of seeds across the fields, covered the earth with flesh instead of fertilizer. Was there truly a reason she had to do this? Melchizedek couldn’t fathom it.

If she wore such an expression, she’d have been better off never making this choice at all.

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