Hyacinth had no one but Latrasil, right? At the maid’s exclamation, Aini put her wet towel aside and tilted her head.
“That’s impossible.”
Hyacinth was a purehearted man. The problem was that he did not give his purity to her. Such a man brought a strange woman? And secretly?
“Either she’s a merchant or a foreign envoy, or a new official.”
“No, Your Highness. The Emperor himself wrapped the woman in his cloak and took her to a room. And then they were in there for quite some time. He wouldn’t take a foreign envoy or an official to a secluded room and stay there for a long time, would he?”
The maid’s voice was higher than usual with anger and excitement, and Aini, already suffering from a throbbing headache, now felt sick at her stomach and grimaced.
“His Majesty put a statue in his office, and that statue was supposedly sculpted to resemble that strange woman.”
“What do you mean?”
Swallowing her words, Aini got up from the bed and crossed the reception room to go out into the hallway.
The maid’s words couldn’t all be trusted, but seeing her cause such a fuss, there must be something out of the ordinary. She needed to verify what it was.
Moreover, she had been lying down all the time, her back was stiff and her back was sore, so she wanted to go out and get some fresh air.
It was just before she went to see Emperor Hyacinth, she went to the white terrace on the third floor overlooking the garden.
Leaning against the railing from where a faint rose fragrance was coming, Aini saw the ‘strange woman’ the maid had mentioned while looking at the yellow rose garden below.
A strange woman with stiff, roughlooking gray hair tied messily in one and wearing a plain lavender dress was walking down the rose path shoulder to shoulder with the Emperor.
“Look at that.”
The maid who had come with her whispered in the lowest voice possible.
“He didn’t bring her secretly. He’s taking her around quite openly.”
“……”
Recently, the reason why Aini’s bedridden time had increased was not because she was shocked by the death of a lover, the death of a close friend, and the revival of a lover she thought was dead.
Of course, those three were tough, but the decisive factor was the sight of Hem, who she met again after the death of her maid and friend, Redler.
When she had met him in the piano room before, Hem, who did not even want to show her face, quickly avoided the situation, but this time, he showed his full form in her window.
It was far from his healthy appearance before the rebellion, but his facial features and limbs were all fine and his complexion was just a little bad.
I wanted to see you.
Hem approached with a gentle smile, but since that day, Aini had to suffer from unpleasant suspicion. Why did Hem’s condition improve so quickly after her friend died?
Aini, who began to investigate the resurrection of the dead and black magic like crazy, eventually obtained horrible information that her suspicion might not be suspicion.
Was Hem’s recovery to his old self due to killing Redler? Eating the body or drinking the blood or something?
The reason was obvious. The only peculiar behavior Redler tried just before he died. Amulet.
“Huh……”
But in this situation, the guy who is the husband brings a woman. Aini felt a hot and quiet anger. It felt like a charred charcoal was placed somewhere in her heart.
“Your Majesty the Empress, what should we do about His Majesty the Emperor?”
“What should we do?”
“It’s obvious that he’s doing that because he doesn’t think Your Majesty the Empress will easily divorce him. You should put pressure on him, even if you have to use the Duke.”
Aini, tapping the stone railing with the tip of her fingernail so that the sound was heard, turned around with a frown.
“Leave it to his devices. He seems to be trying to hurt me in that way, but I’ll never back down anyway.”
When Aini left the terrace, the maid who had brought the news looked back at the maid standing behind her. The maid’s expression was almost identical to the one who had delivered the news.
“Her Majesty the Empress is all well and good, but she’s too defensive. Why doesn’t she know that sometimes the best defense is an attack?”
“We must get rid of that woman, even from our side. Especially now when the body is not feeling well, if we allow such a woman to spread her wings…”
[This is the time separator]“Hmm?”
As Latil paused in midsentence and looked up at the terrace, Hyacinth stopped picking a rose and asked, “Why?”
“No, it feels like someone is looking down on us.”
“There are plenty who would look down.”
“You don’t seem to care?”
“It’s okay. Everyone in the country knows I don’t get along with the empress.”
“……”
“It’s not your problem to worry about, Latil.”
“It doesn’t feel like it’s not my problem, you know… She seemed like a decent person when I met her briefly before.”
“The issue with that woman and me is not whether she’s a good person.”
“Then?”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
