Chapter 307 (2/2)

When I trembled at that moment, he hurriedly released me and said, adjusting my coat tightly, “It’s cold. Let’s go back.”

“But…”

“You’ll be in trouble if you catch a cold. Let’s go back and come back tomorrow. Got it, Tia? ”

I smiled when he spoke to me with a worried look. Of course, I didn’t tremble because I was cold, but I agreed to listen to him.

As I nodded gently, he breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to me. I grabbed his warm hand and walked back to the entrance.

I saw the lonely trail of my footprints I left behind on the snow.

I thought for a moment that the trail was similar to that of my life until now.

I was always alone in the past, and even after returning, I’ve been always agonizing over the problems alone. As the ruler, he has always been clumsy in expressing his feelings. So, we were always lonely.

‘Yes, we are…”

Suddenly, a smile came to my lips. Now, he and I are not alone, and can be bound together as ‘we.’

The more I reflected on this word ‘we,’ I felt my heart was full. My heart began to pound with a pleasant echo.

I glanced back slightly and found one lonely footprint of mine and a couple of small and large footprints of his, side by side.

Every step we moved, new footprints were left side by side on the white snow field as he and I were not alone anymore.

Suddenly, I got choked up. I stopped and looked at the two footprints. He stopped in front of me, looking back curiously.

“What’s the matter with you?”

“…Oh, it’s nothing. Ah, it’s cold. Let’s go back now.”

As long as there is no future that I remember, I can’t know what the future holds for him and me. But I believe that he and I will live together, with him being by my side all the time. We will always be together.

Looking back at the footprints once again, I left my footprints right next to his, just like our future when we will walk together.

**

“My lady…Oh no, Your Highness.”

I turned my head to Lina’s pleasant voice. When I smiled at her, who was standing cautiously, she pouted with a sullen face. She knew that she had to have the grace and decency as she was now the direct maid of the empress, I felt her behavior awkward a bit because I was accustomed to her making a fuss all the time.

“Don’t laugh at me, Your Highness. I feel embarrassed.”

“Okay. What is that? ”

“Oh, this one? I hear it’s a gift sent from somebody.”

She smiled in no time as if she wasn’t sullen at all, then showed me a small box.

I tilted my head at the familiar surface of the box. It had a silver box with a green ribbon. Obviously, I saw it before… Uh, no way!

“Who sent this?”

“I don’t know who the sender is. But the shape of the package is also familiar to me, so I brought it to you. What should I do? Can I open it?”

“Sure, open it.”

She unpacked the ribbon and examined what’s inside the box, then confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it.

At that moment, I was filled with some feelings beyond description, along with joy. It was a queen made of platinum, lying on a soft green velvet fabric.

A silver queen with an emerald jewel tiara.

It’s you, Allen, who sent this gift to me! The man I used to play chess with, and the man who used to send me a gift tied with a green ribbon was also you.