Chapter 360 (2/2)

“Always, forever.”

When I answered with a tearful voice, he gently pulled my hand and held me in my arms.

Held in his arms, serving as a strong fence for me, I smiled brightly at the man I loved.

Only the setting sun was shining on us brightly.

Supplementary: Did they live happily ever after?

Rublis was in a very bad mood now. It was almost three years after he exterminated the Monique family, one of the founding families of the empire, on charges of treason, and beheaded the concubine from that family. When the concubine was alive, he hated her so much that he didn’t even want to see her. But now that he keenly felt her absence, he missed her so much that he could not do anything, rather than hating her.

“Rube, what are you doing?”

Embarrassed to see the documents presented by the head of the palace affairs office, he frowned at her sudden call. Jiun, the woman sent by God, his one and only spouse and the child of God’s prophecy. She was now standing before him, who was the very woman who made him very uncomfortable right now.

“I have something to ask you, empress.”

“What is it?”

“I’ve just read a document submitted to me today. Is what they say about you here true?”

“Let me take a look.”

While looking at the contents of the document, she tilted her head. When she asked him to explain several expressions that she could not understand, he raised his eyebrows. Although he was annoyed all of a sudden, he took pains to explain the meaning of the phrases one by one, holding back the urge to scold her. He could understand and give it a pass if he could treat her like he used to, but today he was very annoyed to find that she could not even read and understand a document.

“Well, this is correct. What’s the issue here?”

“… How did you handle this like this?” he said, putting down the document roughly.

The document was about a petition submitted by the director of the palace affairs office, full of people’s complaints about the welfare policy she introduced recently.

Rublis hysterically knocked on the desk.The more he thought it the more he was dumbfounded.

Nowadays he felt the officials of the palace affairs office were full of discontent, and he now knew that she was the target of their complaint by taking such a ridiculous measure.

“Don’t you really know what’s the problem here?”

“What? Do you think it’s strange? I’ve taken the measure after several days of hard thinking.”

When she made an expression as if she didn’t understand at all, he felt he didn’t even feel the urge to get upset. He realized suddenly that no matter how well he explained and taught her, she would never be able to assimilate to the empire.

“That’s enough. I’m a bit busy, so please get out. ”

“Um, are you very busy? I don’t hardly see you these days. You don’t even come to my palace.”

“Let me stop by your palace today, so go and take a rest.”

“But…Okay. You should come and see me later, okay?”

As if she noticed he was annoyed at the moment, she stopped saying anymore. As soon as she got out of the office, he sprang to his feet and paced up and down, stroking his hair roughly.

‘Who the hell is that woman!’

Isn’t it time for her to adapt to her palace life? He brought the best teachers to teach her for a long time, but she was still struggling. Of course, he was aware that she was much better than when she got here first, and that she was trying hard on her own. Nevertheless, he was not satisfied with her at all. He was going crazy because he tended to find fault with her shortcomings. He even felt the strong urge to gouge out his eyes because he thought he was stupid enough not to notice her shortcomings from the beginning.

He kept sweeping back his hair roughly. When the concubine was alive, he didn’t have to worry about the matters of the palace affairs office because she handled any matter perfectly. Probably he didn’t realize Jiun didn’t fit the empress position because of that.