While harboring two different powerful energies, Rosie was worried about how the two would get along, but also very much anticipated.

Standing with the maids and courtesans, watching the emperor and empress eating together, Rosie couldn’t take her eyes off them.

The different energies of the two mingled to create new energy, and the opposite two energies seeped into each other as if colliding and circled around the two.

Rosie’s desire to become a maid was not just because of curiosity about the Empress’s burn scars.

Despite the disdain of Raphion’s arrogant regents and grumpy nobles, the Empress was proud during the national soul sacrifice.

Rosie felt a strange exhilaration at that sight.

Despite being surrounded by unfriendly people of the Raphion Empire, the Empress did not lose her grace.

Zelda’s bright pink eyes looked warm yet resilient.

Rosie wanted to get close to Empress Zelda as a human.

However, it seemed that she had already failed in her first impression as a maid.

She didn’t catch the eye of Empress Zelda even at teatime.

‘If I take time and build trust, she might open her heart to me.’

Rosie comforted herself in that way.

However, she heard absurd news from her father, Count Adelrid, out of the blue.

‘Rosie, you’re going to be the Emperor’s harem now. Such an honor has come to our family! Hahaha, it’s embarrassing to have complained about my useless daughter.’

The Emperor’s harem?

Rosie was devastated.

She thought that her chances of becoming friends with the Empress were completely gone.

Even the most generous Empress wouldn’t open her heart to a harem brought by the Emperor, all over the continent.

She also couldn’t refuse the order of her father, Count Adelrid.

He threatened to burn all the books her witch mother had left her as an inheritance.

There were many magic books she hadn’t even taken out yet.

And there was also the treasure that her mother had asked her to protect before she died in the dark room.

These were the most important things to care for in her life, more than jewels.

Rosie accepted the reality and decided to seek ways to approach the Empress.

It would be easier to approach the Empress if she became a harem.

Whether she would like her is unknown.

So Rosie was thinking differently even in the situation where Catherine and Melanie were checking each other and raising their voices.

‘I wonder what the Empress is doing now? Is she feeling bad?’

Rosie took out the gorgeous pin that her maid had just pinned as a head ornament.

“I don’t want to look pretty.”

The ceremony held in the chapel was grand but the procedure was simple.

At the bride’s entrance, all four harems entered together.

Emperor Rinel, who was waiting in front of the regent to greet the harems, greeted them by kissing each of their hands in turn.

Rinel and all four harems kneeled in front of the regent, raised their hands to the temple, recited the words of God’s blessing, and stood up.

The grand organ sound echoed again inside the chapel.

The main regents attending the ceremony and the participants from various noble families applauded.

Rinel found the ceremony with the harems much more uncomfortable than the national wedding with the Empress, whose face he did not even know.

Both weddings were strategic relationships, but the national wedding with Shatoneil Kingdom fully reflected Rinel’s will, so he did not feel this uncomfortable.

As he exchanged cheek kisses with each of the four harems, he thought of only one person.

‘Zelda, what is she doing now?’

The tedious ceremonial procedures were all over.

Rinel took a brief rest in the chapel’s waiting room before returning to the main palace.

As soon as he entered the waiting room, he threw off his ceremonial jacket.

He undid the buttons on his ceremonial shirt and lay on the sofa.

He then put one arm on his forehead and closed his eyes.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Zelda’s face naturally appeared.

She, who tasted the pie he handed over ten days ago, opened her rabbit eyes and raised her thumb.

She was cute. No, she was lovely.

The expression I unconsciously furrowed relaxed, and the corners of my lips rose.

“You seem to be in a good mood? I finally feel relaxed now that the ceremony is over.”

At the familiar yet uncomfortable voice, Rinel opened his eyes.

Catherine was standing at the door of the waiting room, beaming with a smile.

“What’s going on?”

Rinel frowned again, sounding quite annoyed.

His voice was extremely curt, considering he was addressing his own consort who had just had their wedding ceremony.

“Just checking if you know that according to the harem ranking, you should come to my bedroom first tonight.”

Catherine was hurt by the emperor’s attitude of not greeting her, but she didn’t show it.

“Raphael told me before the ceremony.”

“So, you know. Hmm, you might not remember, but the first place we met when we were ten was a bedroom.”

“Was it?”

“Yes, at that time, you came to the hunting ground near our dukedom with the late emperor and stayed the night at the duke’s castle.”

“Ah, I think I remember.”

Rinel replied casually.

“When you came to my room to play, you were a young boy, but tonight in the bedroom, you will be….”

His grownup eyes looked dangerous, like a hungry beast, and sexy.

Catherine blatantly stared at his welltoned upper body muscles between his unbuttoned shirt, letting out a seductive smile.

Rinel glanced down at his body that Catherine was staring at and then looked at her again.

His gaze was as if saying, ‘what the hell are you staring at right now’.

Catherine shyly turned her gaze aside.

“If you’ve finished your sightseeing, leave.”

“You’ve changed a lot. Even when we were betrothed, your body wasn’t beastly like this….”

“The problem is that I’m losing patience like a beast.”

He growled, advancing towards Catherine.

Seeing him approaching, Catherine started to slowly slide down the shoulder line of her wedding dress.

She felt as if she would melt right away as Rinel came closer to her.

Even though they were in the waiting room, she felt like she couldn’t refuse him even if he wanted her right now.

“Show me here. The beastlike…. Impatient…. Form.”

“I left my sword.”

Rinel snorted, picked up his ceremonial jacket that he had thrown on the floor, and said.

“…What? No, that’s not what I meant….”

“Get out. You’re boring.”

He pulled up the dropped shoulder of Catherine’s wedding dress and turned her back.

“By now, you must have gone to the consort’s quarters?”

I checked the time and went out to the terrace to take in the cool night air.

Fortunately, there was no order for the empress to attend the ceremony today.

I don’t know how I spent the afternoon.

I barely filled my hunger by eating dinner haphazardly, and came early to the bedroom, moving to the bathroom to pass the time with water.

But time passed slowly.

Even though I walked back and forth between the terrace and the bedroom, it wasn’t time to sleep yet.

Then Sharon’s voice seeped in from outside the bedroom door.

“Now? Ah, yes. It’s not time to sleep yet. Please wait a moment. I will inform Her Majesty the Empress.”

Who would visit at this hour?

Maybe….

A strange expectation rose.

The voice stopped, and immediately after, I heard a knock.

When I ordered to enter, Sharon opened the bedroom door.

“Um, Your Majesty the Empress….”

“Who… is it?”