Chapter 252 (1/2)

Chapter 252: Chapter 252

He smiled at me when I hurriedly covered my mouth and raised his hand. Then the royal knights stepped back silently. Was it because of that? Lovers walking around the lake were surprised to see him and me dressed up, but fortunately they didn’t seem to have noticed who we were.

I smelled the scent of silver flowers blown by the breeze. The petals of the flowers dancing in the wind fluttered down on his hair. When I reached out to take them out of his hair, he slowly looked back at me and asked, “How about this place? Do you like it? ”

“Yes, Your Majesty… Well, the scenery is beautiful. ”

“Right. I’m glad to hear that. I think my argument with Sir Penril all day long paid off.”

I looked at him who was turning up his mouth a bit. The more I thought about it, the more strange I felt. I was curious about why he slipped out of the palace to come here at this late hour, why he let the royal knights move back. Normally, he would not have acted like this. As for the scenic place, there were a lot of places like it inside the palace. Then, why did he act like this?

As if he noticed that I was curious about his motivations, he titled his head and looked at me.

“Are you wondering why I came here when I could go to beautiful places in the palace?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Well, Wherever you come to the palace, it makes you think of me as only the emperor. So, I wanted to get out of that restriction. I wanted you to look at me as I am without it.”

“… Your Majesty.” I looked up at him with my trembling eyes. His navy blue eyes looking at me were also trembling.

The moment I thought I felt something shimmering like the sea in his eyes, it disappeared.

Even before I felt sorry about it, something soft touched my lips.

What is it? What did he do…?

When I blinked blankly without even responding, I belatedly realized that he stole a kiss from me.

When I was about to pull myself from him in surprise, our eyes met.

I stiffened. I couldn’t take my eyes off his eyes, which turned dark blue. I felt like I was bewitched by something or sucked into something.

Suddenly, the scenery around me caught my eye. Shining sunlight and blue lake, and the scenery with a strange but free atmosphere.

I wanted to be freed from the bondage of my past and the restrictions set by the pro-emperor faction.

‘It’s all because of that scenery over there. It’s because I got carried away with the beautiful moonlight.’

So I wrapped my arms around his neck, telling myself I should be honest with my feelings.

I closed my eyes.

“Then I’ll come in now.”

I let out a sigh of relief naturally. I felt good when I was in the open space, but I felt so embarrassed and awkward when I was left alone with him in a closed space. Perhaps it was because he did not let go of my hand while in the wagon.

I was about to raise my body after carefully pulling the hand he was holding away, but he said, stopping me gently, “You.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Are you feeling better now?”

My heart gradually warmed when I saw him looking at me with a worried expression. When I nodded by smiling gently, a smile came to his lips.

“I’m glad you got better.”