“Rather……”

His lips were slightly trembling. He swallowed the rest of the words, but the emotions he couldn’t digest rose in his violet eyes.

His chest felt stuffy. No, he wanted to tear it apart.

If he tore apart the flesh and pulled out the throbbing heart, could he feel no emotion?

He pondered, but couldn’t find an answer.

‘Look at me.’

Don’t take other people into your eyes.

With the same expression as then, with the same gaze as then, look at me…

“Your Majesty, you should have a meal.”

It was then.

The chief of the guards approached him.

As if being one with the throne, Enrique didn’t move a muscle.

Even though he heard the chief of the guards calling him Moore.

“You haven’t been eating regularly these days.”

“It’s okay.”

“You’ve shown your face enough at the banquet. Considering your condition… How about going in now?”

The chief of the guards was full of concern.

In fact, the chief of the guards, Boris, was as close to the emperor as the Grand Chamberlain.

What the emperor ate, what he wore, what he touched. The one who watched everything, including the person who talked to the emperor and those who approached him, was Boris.

Therefore, Boris, like the Grand Chamberlain, felt that the emperor had become strange these days.

Since when was it?

It was probably after the empress went on the cruise.

Since then, the emperor demanded alcohol, which he hadn’t sought in his lifetime.

He often couldn’t sleep at night, or even if he forced himself to sleep leaning on the influence of alcohol, he frequently woke up screaming.

Despite hiding his fatigue and taking care of state affairs, Boris sometimes felt unfiltered eeriness from the emperor.

It was definitely something he had never felt in the past.

And at the center of all this was the empress.

The empress who had changed like lightning one day.

‘How will the world turn out like this?’

Boris sighed heavily as he stared at the empress surrounded by men.

‘Empress seems to be indifferent to the emperor’s health or if he’s sick, and she seems to have no interest. How can she be like that.’

In his view, she was truly lacking in virtue.

Of course, it was wrong for the husband to devote himself to politics, but as a wife, shouldn’t there be a dignified taste?

But the empress not only replied cheekily in front of the emperor but also didn’t even use the title ‘Your Majesty’ anymore.

What he couldn’t understand was that the emperor allowed such rude behavior.

“Tsk!”
“Boris gulped down water as if it were alcohol, sticking out his tongue widely.

The current situation did not appeal to Yeong’s heart.

Even if something went wrong, he was convinced that it would go very wrong.

A few hours later, as promised, Merem appeared at the entrance of the banquet hall.

Not only was he someone who attracted people’s attention, but the place Merem stood was so dry that even the moisture dried up. I could feel Merem’s presence without looking, thanks to that dryness.

“It’s stuffy inside.”

“Should I bring you something to drink?”

I nodded in response to Shailo’s words. In the meantime, Merem came to my side, and we exchanged glances.

“Your Highness, I brought the drinks first!”

On the other side, Sukrel, who seemed to have noticed us, quickly ran over and shook Ayang.

It was impressive that he brought peach-flavored alcohol that perfectly matched my taste in such a short time.

But as soon as I took a sip, the impressiveness disappeared.

‘Look at this?'”