“Let’s talk.”
As soon as the audience ended and they were heading for the waiting room, Latil naturally grabbed the arm of the emissary who had followed her.
“You are quite forceful.”
Hyacinth, his face hidden, pretended to be surprised and not himself, but Latil did not let it slide.
“Just follow me obediently, emissary from Karisen.”
“Why number eight?”
“You were standing at the very back, weren’t you?”
As Latil pointed to an empty place with her chin, Hyacinth obediently followed. After all, he was the emperor who had come all this way, sneaking into the envoy party.
Those Karisen envoys. Did they have a hard time on the way here? With the emperor among the small party, they probably couldn’t have been very relaxed.
The youngest envoy standing at the very back row was able to follow as soon as the audience ended because the Karisen envoys knew the identity of this hatwearing emissary.
“Your Majesty.”
Stopping Sonnaught from following her, Latil took him to an empty corridor and removed his hat.
“Just as I thought, it was you.”
As soon as she removed his hat, his brown hair flowed down like autumn wheat. Along with his mysterious gray eyes, a smile appeared at the corner of his eyes.
“Hyacinth.”
Latil stopped breathing and stared at Hyacinth, biting her lips. It was incredibly infuriating. How could she miss him in this situation?
When she lived without seeing him, she thought she had forgotten everything. Maybe if a few more years had passed like this, she might have really forgotten.
As soon as she saw Hyacinth’s eyes, Latil knew. The effort she had made to forget him over the years had been in vain.
No, rather, it seemed like time had diluted the bad times and only left the good ones in her head. Latil clenched her fist tightly and pressed her palm with her fingernails to regain her heavy breathing.
“Why are you here?”
Fortunately, the voice that came out of her mouth sounded relatively calm. But it stirred up a storm in her heart. Hyacinth calmly responded.
“I missed you.”
Latil couldn’t even determine whether to take his trembling voice as pleasurable or distasteful.
Her exlover who dumped her and married another woman, no matter if he was living well, forgetting about the past with his wife, or if he was unable to forget the past and was regretting, either way, she couldn’t help but be angry.
“You’re really shameless. Where’s your conscience? Did you ever have one, or did you sell it?”
Suppressing her rage, Latil grabbed Hyacinth’s collar and whispered.
“Take care of your bride if you’re married. I’ll take care of my consorts.”
Having said her piece, Latil pushed Hyacinth away and turned around sharply.
But she couldn’t just storm off like she did in Karisen. The fact that Hyacinth had come here himself meant that something else must be going on.
“Set aside the nonsense about missing me. What’s the real reason you’re here? Because of that letter you sent?”
Before Hyacinth could answer, the sound of someone approaching got closer. Latil stepped two steps away from Hyacinth.
The ones who revealed themselves were the emissaries of Willang.
“Your Majesty.”
Seeing Latil, they quickly paid their respects, seemingly surprised to find the emperor here.
‘Ah. Hyacinth.’
Hyacinth still hadn’t put on his hat.
Latil belatedly realized and looked to the side, but Hyacinth had already covered his face well.
She was relieved but also annoyed. Silently grumbling, Latil gestured to the emissaries of Willang that they didn’t need to pay their respects anymore.
“You’ve come this far, so I hope you have a comfortable stay. You may leave now.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Unlike in the audience room, everyone obediently replied.
Except for one. That one emissary who had been particularly provocative towards Latil in the audience room.
Furthermore, even while following the others back, he kept looking back at Latil.
“He seems to have taken a liking to you?”
Even Hyacinth noticed and teased her about it.
Are you in the mood for making jokes with me now? Latil glared at him in disbelief, but Hyacinth simply smiled naturally and made a request.
“Relax your face, Latil. The Willang emissary is watching. We have to pretend we’re getting along, right?”
“I dislike that about you.”
“And I love you.”
“!”
“Isn’t that so?”
Once the Willang embassy was completely out of sight, Latil grabbed Hyacinth by the collar, her eyes wide.
“I ‘loved’ you. Don’t speak in the present tense.”
Pushing Hyacinth away, Latil looked at him with disdain, turned her body abruptly, and left.
Otherwise, this heart, still confused, might show it. It seemed like the observant Hyacinth might notice the slightest gap.
[This is the time separator]“Your Majesty.”
It was almost 15 minutes after Latil left that Hyacinth’s captain of the guard appeared.
“If the enemy had come in those 15 minutes without you, I would have died.”
When Hyacinth mildly rebuked him, the captain of the guard looked gloomy and defended himself.
“I was carrying a load for the steward of Tarium.”
“Ah. The steward of Tarium.”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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