The face remained calm, without a hint of disturbance, and I thought I had misheard.
“I haven’t known Shailo for long, but he seems to understand and comfort my heart well. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes, Empress.”
If Merem held a knife to me, Shailo was like my bow. He took my hand, and as I looked kindly at Shailo, I turned my eyes towards Enrique with a stern expression.
“…Is it a deep relationship?”
Enrique paused for a moment and then asked.
Not being jealous, I wondered why he was acting this way and just nodded my head.
“If so?”
“I won’t be greatly bothered by whoever and however you comfort. But the successor should be someone of my bloodline.”
That child, that child!
At Enrique’s statement, I bit the soft flesh inside my cheek.
“Once, I longed to have your child so much.”
I wanted to bring a lovely life, half you and half me, into this world.
Certainly, destiny might have prepared such a path for us.
He trampled on that and created this situation himself.
“True… You’re selfish.”
Feeling my taste drop, I put down the glass. After that, in a voice so low that only Shailo could hear, with almost no movement of my lips, I whispered.
“His Majesty has not properly apologized to me yet.”
“…….”
“If you think that the long years of suffering will be erased with a few words now, that’s also arrogance.”
How selfish does one have to be to make such demands without thinking?
I couldn’t fathom how selfish he had to be.
“If I sincerely apologize, do you have any intention of forgiving me?”
After remaining silent, Enrique asked straightforwardly.
I raised my eyebrows.
“That’s something to decide after receiving a sincere apology.”
Absurd. Who was the victim here? Why was he acting like he was the one who had suffered?
Enrique had a talent for making everything insane.
“I see. I thought you wouldn’t have any intention of turning your heart around even if I apologized.”
“Well. So, you won’t apologize either?”
“I have no intention of doing useless things.”
Ah… I want to strangle myself.
If I ever kill Enrique, won’t hatred be poured into these hands when I strangle him?
“I’ll just wait for you to accept me, Empress. I’m just waiting because it seems you need some time to recover.”
“I might have to wait forever.”
“I’ve heard you’ve regained your health, but childbirth is a risky business. I’ll be satisfied with two children, a son, and a daughter, as it won’t be too troublesome.”
… Should I just start a civil war?
Rather than listening to that nonsense, it might be better to become a tyrant and overthrow the peaceful path to becoming an emperor.
The last calculated win rate by Phaibel was exactly half.
Enrique and Crusade. The private army held by the Imperial faction and the imperial family’s military forces. The Temple faction was the enemy.
Our army consists of the Astaroth Knights, the private army of the Ahilo family, and the private army of the noble faction… added to that, Merem, making us more superior when the Northern forces are included.
“After dealing with the monsters in the Tahran Swamp, it seems we might overthrow the entire country.”
Helene and Bellifor were significant variables.
Carrying such variables, we cannot proceed with rebellion, so it’s a priority to cut the throats of my brothers, whom I met with joy.
“It seems like you want to be hated, but even my hatred is too precious for you.”
With cold eyes, I scanned Enrique, turned my head without a reply.
Normally, I would have maintained a smiling face within the banquet hall regardless of what I heard, but fortunately, today was not such a day.
As I shivered, I fully expressed my discomfort.
So that all the nobles looking at us could understand.
“Oh, Empress, you seem unusually uncomfortable today.”
“After going through the trouble of arranging a seat for the Saint, you opened the banquet like this? It’s only natural.”
“How boring… I wonder if there’s anything interesting.”
The sounds of people grumbling can be heard from here.
Despite being the host of the banquet, there was no one around Helene.
Truly pathetic and pitiful.
Without Enrique’s help, there was no one to support Helene. No one to rescue her in such a shameful situation.
“I thought you’d bring Bellifor as an escort.”
Too bad.
It would have been a scene worth seeing, my pitiful brother appearing before Enrique.
“You’re throwing around your dignity even though your saint is lying there ignored. If I were you, I wouldn’t treat my saint like that.”
Teasing Enrique, I flicked my fingers, calling over the Gabriel who had been helplessly standing nearby.
Terion, being a noble, was probably engaged in a conversation somewhere. Sukrel was surrounded by relatively young noble youths.
But Gabriel remained unable to do this or that, sticking to the wall the whole time.
I grabbed Gabriel’s chin, deliberately making Enrique see.
“You should handle what you like more carefully.”
“That seems to have a low value to enter the Empress’s jewel box.”
“Oh my. It seems you’re not speaking as the Emperor.”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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