Chapter 346 (1/2)

The moment he saw the empress, his love flame, his heart ached again, but he took pains to ignore it and showed due manners politely, “I, Alendis de Verita, am honored to see the empress, the Moon of the empire. What business has brought you here?”

“I’m sorry to have come here suddenly, Allendis. I heard Dia’s here. Her nanny told me no matter how hard she tried to have her go home, she would not listen.”

Explaining to him with an apologetic expression, she looked at him anxiously.

“Alendis, you look pale. Did Dia cause you a lot of trouble? Then I’m really sorry. I’m going to give her a piece of my mind, so please understand me. I would like to apologize on her behalf. ”

“Apologize to me? Oh, you don’t have to. I think I should be grateful to you because you have not blamed me for not serving her properly.”

“Thank you for saying so, Allendis. You know that I always appreciate you, right? ”

He was reflected in her warm golden eyes. He sighed a bit furtively, watching him call a royal knight after smiling at him.

When the knight came and carefully lifted the princess, she said, giving back his jacket to him, “Then let me leave now. I don’t want to disturb you anymore. See you next time, Allendis.”

“Sure, Your Highness. Goodbye.”

“Can you stop by the empress’s palace one of these days? I would like to serve you tea. Bye!”

After saying goodbye gently, she turned, then stopped for a moment. She seemed to cast a glance somewhere, but she walked away, looking straight. There was the sound of her skirt rustling over the carpet.

Feeling her warmth left in the jacket, he was soaked in the gentle fragrance that she left behind. After she disappeared, he recalled a question he had forgotten for a moment.

‘Why did you stop for a moment?’

Recalling where she stood a moment ago, he looked at the spots one by one she might have cast a glance.

Thick books and file folders in the bookshelf, various ornaments on the shelf, and all sorts of miscellaneous items on the desk.

While quickly scrutinizing here and there, he stopped his gaze at one spot, where there was a small item hidden in an inconspicuous corner of the shelf with lots of ornaments.

‘Was that it?’

He slowly approached the shelf and took out the object in question.

It was a platinum bishop of the chess set that he had made to give her as a gift.

He threw away other chess pieces, except for the queen he sent her as a gift on her wedding day.

He let out a deep sigh, looking at the bishop. Tears formed in his eyes when he looked at the bishop made of emerald.

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<I can say clearly that my father, the emperor, was not the romanticist of the century, but a fool blind to my mother, the empress’s love. Otherwise, he could not have used such expressions to her.

Yes, I recognize that my mother, the empress, was a wise and competent woman. Granted that, it is just ridiculous or far from the fact that he described her as cute and fatally attractive.

From the excerpt of Adrian’s diary>

“Now it’s time to go to sleep, Your Highness.”

“Really? Okay.”

A couple of wine glasses on a table with a lightly lit candle, and his favorite Belott red wine produced in 900 by the imperial calendar.

When I saw the two pillows placed side by side on the bed, I blushed all of a sudden. When I turned around, covering my blushed face with hands, Lina, who took off the towel wrapped around my hair, examined my look and said with a satisfied smile, “This is enough. As the emperor likes a gentle fragrance, you don’t have to perfume your hair with fragrant oils.”

“Okay, okay, I don’t need fragrant oils…”

Smiling at me when I shook my hands, she said, “Please sit down. I will dry your hair. ”