The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

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I stayed up all night watching the moonlight come through the window. It seems that my heart has been burned to ashes overnight. can’t breathe

After he left, he was told that the emperor had given the golden child the title of duke right away.

Yesterday afternoon, a lady from the empire who had served as a court lady by the empress’ side for a while came to visit after a long time and she was talking like that while shedding tears.

Her words went in one ear and out the other.

Mama, how could His Majesty do this? It’s too much for the empress.

The woman twisted and cried. The tears in those eyes must have been the truth. But it wasn’t for the empress. These were tears for the girl herself.

The empress knew that the girl crying in front of her had been summoned to the emperor’s bedroom several years ago.

I also know that the emperor coldly made her the wife of another man after spending several nights together, and that it was because he mocked the emperor by lying that the woman was pregnant.

The tears she saw were not for the sake of the empress, but to comfort herself after being kicked out without seeing any benefit.

I made her back and sent a lady-in-waiting to find out what was going on. It was only then that he learned that the prince had been kicked out of the palace before the banquet was over.

It seems that the Emperor is taking her last breath by cutting off all her limbs.

It may be that they try to drive them little by little, lock them in cages, and then slowly dry them to death.

The empress gasped, clutching the corset that was pressing her chest in frustration. I can not breathe.

‘It would be nice if this kind of country was ruined.’

If the emperor ruins the country he loves, even those cold eyes will shed tears.

As you lay dying in your bedroom and see the fires of war burning outside your window, you will only regret it.

By that time, my husband will know. He said that the only person in this world who truly cared for and loved him was his wife.

All the ladies-in-waiting are sent out, and there is no one inside.

The empress fell on the floor and sobbed with her forehead on the ground.

I want to kill you with this hand. I couldn’t bear it because I hated my husband whom I loved so much.

The dark moonlight recedes and the day dawns.

I could hear muffled footsteps and chattering words outside.

“No. Your Highness. If you come so suddenly without requesting a visit!”

“The empress isn’t even ready yet. Her Highness, please.”

“Get out of the way! Who dare you stand in the way? Didn’t you say it was an emergency!”

There was a moment of chatter, and then the door burst open. The second prince entered the room with rough footsteps.

“mother!”

The 2nd prince shouted as if he was furious from the top of his head.

“Did you know! Yesterday, right after my mother left, the little guy’s title ceremony was held.”

The empress was still on the floor, but the second prince didn’t even pay attention.

continue to speak out.

The first son is hesitant and weak, and the second son is violent and has a bad brain. The third was smart but had a personality problem.

And there are so few of them that they almost have no magic power.

Why is everyone saying this? At least, if he had at least one decent child, he wouldn’t have looked like this.

A sigh flowed involuntarily, but the second prince violently hit the chair with his fist. It seems that he can’t control himself. The son continued talking.

“My older brother said he left the palace too. It’s clear that my father is crazy. We can’t leave it like this!”

Then, a low voice was heard.

“Then what are you going to do?”

It’s my husband.

When the empress raised her head, the emperor was standing at the entrance.

As always, the chief chamberlain stood behind the emperor like a shadow.

The empress’s ladies-in-waiting stood behind them, their faces turning blue.

The second prince was startled and quickly stepped back.

“father!”

The second prince tripped over the chair and fell over with a loud noise.

The emperor glanced at the second prince and smiled.

“I asked what to do.”

“I-I am.”

When the second prince stuttered, the emperor waved his hand as if to drive away flies and pretended to leave.

I hate my husband’s behavior and my son’s stupid behavior.

Her children were all afraid of their father the Emperor. Ever since I was little, I’ve always been afraid.

Why are all the sons between her husband and herself like this? pathetic. When I thought of Enrico, sadness mingled with anger came over me again.

The 2nd prince hurriedly left the room, moving his feet as if he were about to tip over. There was a crackling noise. It seems that he fell down in the hallway.

The emperor gazed intently at the empress without even looking back.

Her husband’s stinging gaze made the empress feel uncomfortable. Unlike usual, I opened my eyes and glared at the emperor.

The emperor met his eyes and spoke backwards.

“Ray, you should go out too. Close the door. Don’t let anyone get close. I have something to say to you alone with the empress.”

The chamberlain, who worshiped the emperor like a god, drove everyone out.

The ladies-in-waiting were restless, but they couldn’t object to the emperor’s words.

All the ladies-in-waiting left and the door closed quietly.

The empress bit her lip tightly.

As he clenched his fists, his nails dug into his palms.

What kind of shame did her husband have to put his face here?

After breaking his wife’s arms and legs one by one and kicking out his heir son, do you want to laugh at that scene?

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Did you come to laugh at the past when you were fawning over your old body, thinking that your husband really wanted it?

The reason she didn’t shout unsightly was because she had been wearing a mask as an empress for a long time.

If it wasn’t for that, she might have been crying and blowing at the emperor by now, scratching her face with her fingernails.

As the empress glared at her, the emperor took a piece of paper from his bosom and threw it in front of her.

Letters with broken wax seals scattered on the floor.

It was a letter he had sent to his brother in his home country.

“!”

got caught

That’s it.

The Emperor will not forgive her for trying to betray the Empire.

Maybe he had been watching her for a long time.

The empress grabbed the letter and raised her head. My heart sank at the thought of being driven into a dead end. If it’s over anyway, there’s no need to hold back what you want to say.

The emperor asked with a cold face.

“Empress, are you betraying her!”

“Are you the one who betrayed me in the first place? Are you happy that you cut off my limbs one by one and took off my children! How funny it must have been to see the old concubine opening herself up and being ecstatic without even knowing what you were thinking.”

Grabbing the paper, I got up and ran to the emperor. She beats her husband’s chest hard with both hands and shouts.

“I hate you! If I could kill with my own hands, I’d lay my wrists right now. Can you blame me? You’re the one who made me send this letter!”

As she cried, she patted her husband’s chest, and the emperor grabbed her wrist with great force.

“Yes! You did so. I cut off all of your limbs. The ambassador you depended on was sent back to your home country and collapsed, and all the nobles of the empire you were close to returned to your territory. Those who resisted to the end were retired, and a new successor took over. Now There is no one by your side.”

“Yes! Now that you have isolated and immobilized me, will you stand by Nadiagra, whom you love so much! So you paired her with Lilitha! Are you going to take the last seat left of me?”

As the empress cried out, the emperor grabbed her hair and twisted it up.

Although her body is old and sick, her husband’s body, which has been trained all his life, is strong.

The empress, unable to move, pushed her head upward as her husband did.

“Why don’t you know that it was for you and your children! Why don’t you know the heart that wants to save you?”

The emperor’s eyebrows quivered.

“Why pay so much attention to Nadiagra! She’s just a concubine. She’s just a passing woman, and her wife is you. Who but you can stand next to me?”

The empress raised her hand and tried to scratch the emperor’s face with her fingernails.

But her husband brought her arms together with one hand and squeezed them tightly. can’t move

“Lies! Do you know that I don’t know that you live with another woman in your heart while saying that? A concubine is a woman before she is an empress. A liar! You promise to always come back to me, but you love another woman. Liar.”

The empress scratched the emperor’s clothes with her hand, not caring about breaking her nails.

She put her hand through the emperor’s clothes and pulled out the pendant her husband always carried. She shouted as she pointed the pendant at her husband.

“Do you know that I don’t know that I love this woman! I know that you love me all night and then turn around and look at her face! I know very well that you love her even in this dying moment! I hope for her. Are you looking at me with those same eyes and telling lies?”

The emperor held her head still and opened the pendant’s cap with one hand.

“Look.”

“no!”

I close my eyes not to see the pendant my husband is holding out. I pushed her away with both hands, but the Emperor wouldn’t let her go.

“Open your eyes! Look at this. Look at this woman!”

“No. Please stop! Don’t let me see the woman you love. You’re too cruel. You’re too cruel…”

The last words were sobbing, but suddenly the face lifted up.

Before I could figure out what was going on, my mouth was blocked with such force that my teeth clashed.

A slippery snake-like tongue squeezes through the lips and wanders around.

At first, the stiff body gradually lost strength.

One by one, the joys engraved in his aged body spring up, as if whispering in his head that this is the sensation he has been craving for a long time.

After a kiss so long that you don’t even know how much time has passed, your husband whispered in your ear.

“Rebecca!”

it’s her name After they got married, he never called her by her first name. Always called empress or you.

“Rebecca!”

Her husband called her by name again.

It seemed as if they had returned to their childhood before meeting the Princess of Correa, when only the two of them were in love with each other.

“Look who this woman is.”

My husband’s words resonated cruelly in my ears.

“…No. Please don’t be cruel to me. Old and ugly, I’m still just a woman seeking your love.”

Tears overflow.

Her husband held the pendant right in front of her eyes.

I had no choice but to blink, and a small portrait came into my blurry eyes.

Inside the pendant was a dark woman with blonde, almost brown hair.

With a cold impression, he proudly holds his nose up.

was his own appearance.

It seemed that the empress was a little under 40.

“…?”

The empress blinked, and the emperor spoke.

“This woman is the one who lives in my heart. You must have seen this inside when you were young.”

I couldn’t speak and only blinked my eyes, but the emperor whispered in my ear in a soft voice.

“The woman I’ve always seen is the person inside this. It’s you, the woman’s wife. The contents of this inside have already changed a long time ago. Didn’t you know that?”

“…”

The emperor’s hand, which had been holding her tightly, was gently stroking her hair.

“Rebecca, my life is short. Stay away from me when I need you most. I need you desperately now.”

“…your majesty.”

The time of the day passed gently.

In an empty room, just the two of them sat down to eat a simple meal, and then got together in bed.

It wasn’t intense love, but it was gentle and warm.

The voice of the man he loved called his name several times.

Rebecca.

Rebecca.

woman’s wife.

I fell in love again with the man I had loved for a long time.

***

“Thank you for your effort.”

At Reynold’s words, the emperor lowered his shoulders and said.

“It was hard.”

Under the emperor’s eyes were dark sunken. He looked tired.

“Your Majesty, I don’t think there was a need to harmonize with your body like that.”

“Ray, even though I’m old and sick, there’s such a thing as a man’s pride.”

“Your Majesty, if you happen to fall down.”

“Don’t you know that a man is a corpse if he doesn’t brag about it?

As they trudged along, the emperor said curtly.

Reynolds sighed.

“It went well, though. It was fortunate that I had a picture to put in the pendant.”

“It worked because the empress loved me unselfishly. It wouldn’t have worked if I had been a woman with even the slightest calculation.”

The emperor laughed bitterly.

Pendant worked all night replacing paintings.

In the process, Princess Correa’s painting was slightly damaged.

The emperor regretted it, but left it behind and had it burned in the end, as if the empress thought it would be dangerous if found.

After that, the Emperor continues to feel bad.

“Sometimes I feel sorry for the woman who loves His Majesty. How come there aren’t many women who are happy?”

Reynolds muttered bitterly, remembering the face of the empress who was deceived and then deceived again.

The emperor didn’t say anything for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth.

“I want to believe it because I love it. Even if I suspect it’s a lie, I can’t help but lean toward believing it. It seems like I’m doing something I wouldn’t do to the empress.”

After that, nothing was said between the two until they arrived at the office.

The morning sun had risen when she entered the empress’s room, but it got dark before she knew it.

Today, the emperor did not drink even a glass of wine, be it medicine.

There was no false smile to hide the pain.

How long had it been since I’d seen an emperor who would bludgeon when he was in a bad mood?

‘It’s such a good day.’

A small smile appeared on Reynold’s lips.

＜Even if love deceives you＞

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author’s words

congratulations on the cover, thank you

As I was submitting the cover proposal, I completely forgot about the black horse.

I only found out after reading the comments.

I can’t change the picture, so I’ll change it later in the text……

＜ Whoops. Isn’t our princess cute? ＞