“The Empress gave vacation to Marchioness Ratse?”
When Jieselgrante asked, the young lady of Duke Howard also replied with confusion.
“Yes. It’s quite sudden, isn’t it? Giving vacation to her most trusted subordinate when Duke Antares has been captured… What could she be thinking?”
“Did they say where she was going on vacation?”
“Apparently she just gave brief greetings to the maids and left in a hurry, so they didn’t hear where she was going. That would have been important to know, wouldn’t it?”
The young lady of Duke Howard asked back with a slight frown on her delicate brow.
“We should try to find out.”
Jieselgrante quickly stood up from her seat.
Just then, the young lady of Earl Greykin walked into the reception room.
Upon seeing the face of the young lady of Earl Greykin, a question mark appeared on the face of the young lady of Duke Howard.
“…Huh?”
The young lady of Earl Greykin also looked at Jieselgrante with a confused expression, as if she hadn’t known there was already a guest.
Looking back and forth between the two, Jieselgrante put a hand to her forehead.
‘I thought I had given advance notice that I would be with the young lady of Duke Howard…’
It seemed someone in between had failed to properly relay the message.
It was an awkward situation, but Jieselgrante reached out toward the young lady of Earl Greykin and said,
“Though late, let me introduce you. This is…”
The young lady of Duke Howard suddenly jumped to her feet.
Then, pointing at the young lady of Earl Greykin, she exclaimed,
“The young lady of Earl Greykin, who was a maid of Her Highness Princess Trinity and was recently reported missing!”
The young lady of Earl Greykin said, trying to control the corner of her mouth that was twitching involuntarily,
“…That’s right. I am that person who was reported missing.”
“What happened?”
The young lady of Duke Howard turned her head sharply toward Jieselgrante and asked.
It was an urgent situation. To figure out the Empress’s intentions in suddenly trying to send Marchioness Ratse somewhere.
‘Where should I start explaining?’
As Jieselgrante slightly furrowed her brow, the young lady of Earl Greykin spoke first.
“You seemed to be in a hurry to go somewhere, so I’ll explain. My business isn’t particularly urgent.”
Saying that, the young lady of Earl Greykin gently pushed Jieselgrante’s back.
“I’ll leave it to you.”
After giving a brief eye greeting to the young lady of Earl Greykin, Jieselgrante immediately turned around.
“Wow… I was completely fooled again! Was this also all part of Duke Amaterasu’s scheme? I got goosebumps. Look here.”
“Um… so…”
Leaving behind the young lady of Earl Greykin who seemed to be trying to calm down the excited young lady of Duke Howard, Jieselgrante rushed out of the reception room and hurried to Cabelased’s office.
Knock knock.
After carefully knocking, Cabelased’s voice came from beyond the door.
“What is it?”
“It’s Jieselgrante. I have something I’d like to discuss. Do you have a moment?”
There was no reply from inside.
Instead, through the sound of footsteps quickly approaching, Cabelased’s urgent mood could be sensed.
The office door opened, and Cabelased appeared with a slightly surprised expression.
“I know you must be busy, but could we talk inside for a moment?”
“By all means.”
Only then did Cabelased step aside.
Perhaps due to Jieselgrante’s rather quick pace as she headed for the sofa.
As if he had already grasped her state of mind just from that, Cabelased murmured quietly.
“It seems you didn’t come just because you wanted to see me.”
Since disappointment seemed to be dripping from his voice, Jieselgrante deliberately joked,
“Let’s say it’s… killing two birds with one stone?”
“So you came to see me because you had business, but you’ll also see my face while you’re at it. Is that what you mean?”
Jieselgrante, who had been blinking rapidly, soon nodded her head vigorously.
Only then did Cabelased sit down across from her with a satisfied expression.
“The Empress has given vacation to Marchioness Ratse.”
“The timing is quite curious.”
“I think so too. It seems she’s leaving in a hurry, and I want to find out about the situation on that end. I was wondering if I could get help from you in terms of manpower, Duke.”
“You want to have Marchioness Ratse followed?”
When Jieselgrante nodded, a faint smile played on Cabelased’s lips.
“Whatever you wish.”
As his gaze became somewhat intense, Jieselgrante swallowed dryly.
Just then, footsteps that had been coming from the hallway drew closer and the office door suddenly burst open.
“Duke! I think you need to go to the Imperial Palace!”
[This is the timeline separator]The Emperor declared that he would entrust the salt business to another family.
It wasn’t mentioned at an official gathering of nobles or a palace meeting.
Nevertheless, the impact was tremendous.
It had been just over twenty years since the Antares family was entrusted with the salt business.
It was around the time they learned that Joshua was growing in the Empress’s womb.
Since then, the salt business had been monopolized by the Antares family.
“And now he says he’ll revoke the monopoly rights, is that what you’re saying? His Majesty the Emperor?”
The maid nodded at the Empress’s words.
“Yes. Although he didn’t announce a specific family to take over the salt business from the Antares family, when this news spreads…”
“…Yes. When the news spreads, the nobles in the empire will surely be in an uproar.”
“Your Majesty the Empress, what should we do now?”
The maid cautiously asked for the Empress’s opinion.
‘What should we do now, you ask?’
The Empress’s brow furrowed deeply.
Although it was undoubtedly a very familiar question, why did those words sound so irritating today?
The reason was probably because the person who had always been asking the same question had changed.
Whenever a problem arose, the Empress always asked how to handle this matter well.
Then the Antares family or the Ratse ducal family would come up with a solution.
In other words, her role was not to provide solutions to problems.
But now there was no one by her side.
Duke Antares was imprisoned somewhere by the Emperor, and Marchioness Ratse had been sent away just earlier.
The only one in front of her now was this maid. Utterly incompetent…
Realizing there was no one else to solve the problem, the Empress immediately stood up.
“Where are you going?”
“I need to see His Majesty the Emperor.”
The Empress immediately headed to the Emperor’s office. And she asked the knights in front of the office.
“I need to see His Majesty the Emperor. Where is he now?”
“His Majesty has gone into a meeting now.”
“…A meeting?”
“Yes.”
“Where is that?”
The Empress asked again, but the knight firmly closed his mouth. It was a silent expression that he had no intention of revealing the Emperor’s whereabouts.
The Empress glared at the knight and immediately turned around.
There weren’t many places where the Emperor held meetings.
‘If they won’t tell me, I’ll have to search one by one.’
She went to check a few places that immediately came to mind, but the Emperor was nowhere to be seen.
‘Then, there’s only one place left.’
The Empress headed to the last remaining meeting hall.
Fortunately, knights were standing guard in front of it. As the Empress tried to enter abruptly, the knights moved to stop her.
“His Majesty the Emperor is currently in a meeting.”
“Move aside.”
To the Empress who ordered with a murderous glare, the knight repeated like a parrot,
“His Majesty the Emperor is currently in a meeting. He ordered not to let anyone in.”
[This is the timeline separator]At the hastily convened meeting, the Emperor announced that the monopoly rights for the salt business had been nullified.
That wasn’t all.
The Emperor asked for the nobles’ opinions on the salt business going forward.
As a result, it was agreed that in the future, multiple families would share the salt sales rights through bidding.
This was proposed by Cabelased, with Earl Preston and Earl Frederick being the first to express their agreement.
Encouraged by this, young nobles each added their voices of agreement.
This was an event significant enough to potentially change the existing power structure.
The Emperor took this matter seriously, and not a few nobles understood it as a sign that he would no longer tolerate the tyranny of the Empress’s family.
“So what will happen to His Highness the Crown Prince now?”
“The situation isn’t good, but honestly, there’s no other suitable person to succeed the throne besides him, is there?”
“That’s true. And young lord Tarel is still too young…”
The nobles leaving the meeting hall were busy exchanging opinions in lowered voices.
At that moment, Cabelased walked towards the nobles engaged in conversation.
The gazes of the nobles, who had just been discussing the future of the empire with concern, all fell on Cabelased’s reliable back.
“Come to think of it, doesn’t Duke Kardia also have succession rights to the throne?”
No sooner had someone raised this question than the murmuring voices quickly died down.
It was because the Emperor’s close chamberlain was walking towards Cabelased.
The quick-witted nobles hastily changed the subject and began to converse.
“Duke Kardia.”
The chamberlain approached Cabelased and called him softly. As he turned around, the chamberlain added,
“His Majesty the Emperor has requested a private audience.”
“His Majesty?”
Cabelased asked back, raising one eyebrow, and the chamberlain continued,
“Yes. He said he has an urgent matter to discuss.”
Cabelased scanned a group of nobles walking towards him.
The nobles who had been repeatedly glancing at Cabelased flinched when their eyes met his, then quickly gave eye greetings.
After exchanging light eye greetings with them, Cabelased nodded.
“Let’s go.”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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