I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 100

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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor

Chapter 100

“He’s the one who proposed to Lady Laura Under.”

“What?!”

Startled, Dahlia stared wide-eyed at the old man’s gaunt figure walking away with his walking stick.

Wasn’t it resolved when she rejected the marriage proposal letter?

“Let’s hurry inside.”

Dahlia looked back at Annie with an anxious expression.

“Yes.”

Annie seemed to share the same feelings as her pace quickened. Cole, who had been quietly guarding from behind, quickly followed.

Laura happened to be waiting at the palace front to greet Dahlia.

“Princess Dahlia, welcome.”

“Lady Under!”

As soon as Dahlia saw Laura, she grabbed her hands first.

Laura’s brown eyes widened in surprise.

“Is something wrong?”

“It’s not that something’s wrong with me, but with you.”

At Dahlia’s worried voice, Laura’s expression instantly darkened.

“Did you… see him?”

Dahlia nodded silently.

Laura lowered her head with a troubled expression.

“I’m sorry. You had to see something unpleasant…”

“No. Before we meet Bibi, could we talk for a moment?”

“…Yes. This way.”

Laura led Dahlia to a secluded place.

Annie and Cole stood a little distance away out of consideration for Laura.

“Since when has he been coming to see you?”

“My parents told me he’s been visiting home occasionally since I rejected the marriage proposal letter. And since he found out I’m staying at the Imperial Palace, he’s been coming every day.”

Laura explained what had been happening with a face that showed she didn’t know what to do.

“Bibi doesn’t know yet, right?”

“…I didn’t want to burden Princess with unnecessary worry, so I haven’t told her. I already rejected the marriage proposal letter, but I really don’t understand why he keeps coming…”

Laura lowered her head with a distressed expression.

Dahlia looked at Laura with sympathetic eyes, then made eye contact with Annie who was standing at a distance.

Even without hearing the conversation, Annie had already grasped the situation and looked angry. Dahlia exchanged glances with Annie.

He’s deliberately trying to spread rumors in noble society, isn’t he?

It’s a scheme to block Lady Under’s future.

Dahlia was genuinely angry. He seemed so frail that a light push would knock him over, making her want to respect her elders, but his greed had gone too far.

Dahlia firmly grasped Laura’s hands and met her eyes.

“Lady Under. Listen to me carefully. Steel your heart. Rumors must be fought with rumors.”

“Rumors? What rumors?”

Laura asked back with a puzzled expression.

“That Viscount is trying to block your future by coming to see you every day like this. He’s signaling to other noble men. This woman is mine, so don’t touch her. The noble men will feel uncomfortable competing with the Old Man and won’t be able to show interest in you. And he’s damaging your reputation by providing entertaining gossip to the noble women.”

Laura’s dark brown eyes trembled with shock.

With an expression of disbelief, she moved her lips for a while before opening her mouth with a confused voice.

“How could he think such things…”

Laura dropped her head weakly.

“His greed was excessive, so he even had evil thoughts.”

“I would rather live alone than marry that man.”

Dahlia shook her head and shook Laura’s hand to make her look at her.

“Lady Under, didn’t I say earlier? Rumors must be stopped with rumors.”

“How?”

“By creating an even more sensational rumor than the Viscount’s.”

When Laura looked at her with puzzled eyes, Dahlia grinned.

* * *

“Greetings, Your Majesty the Emperor!”

As the office door opened, Dahlia confidently greeted him and entered.

Since this was their first meeting after the first day of the founding festival, she greeted him even more energetically. She would clearly show that she wasn’t conscious of him!

“Still full of vigor.”

The Emperor, who had been looking at documents, raised his gaze and chuckled.

“I’m quite vigorous!”

“Still confident too.”

“Yes!”

Dahlia deliberately answered even more spiritedly.

The Emperor, who had been watching her, spoke first.

“What brings you here today?”

“Today I have business with someone other than Your Majesty.”

The Emperor put down his documents on the desk and stared at her.

Dahlia ignored the Emperor’s narrowed gaze and turned her attention to Ethan standing behind him.

“Captain Ethan. If you have time, would you like to have tea with me?”

“How familiar. I feel like something exactly like this happened before?”

The Emperor stared intently at Dahlia while lowering his voice.

“I don’t have time-”

“He won’t have any.”

“You do, right?”

Before Ethan could finish speaking, the Emperor’s and Dahlia’s words burst out simultaneously.

The Emperor’s and Dahlia’s gazes clashed intensely in the air, then turned to Ethan at the same time.

Ethan was about to open his mouth again with a stoic expression when Oreon, who had been feeling left out on one side, raised his hand high.

“Princess, I have plenty of time!”

“I’m sorry. Today I only need Captain Ethan.”

Dahlia sent him an apologetic look.

“Sob sob.”

Oreon shrugged his shoulders and made crying sounds, but no one in the office paid him any attention.

“Why on earth do you want to have tea with Ethan?”

“It’s a secret.”

“Since you say it’s a secret, I can’t let Ethan go even more.”

“Wow- that’s petty.”

“What excellent words to say to your prospective husband.”

When the Emperor looked at her and smiled with his eyes curving, Dahlia flinched and trembled her shoulders. There were sharp thorns in his figuratively pinching words.

“Fine. Lord Oreon, could you please cover your ears for a moment?”

Oreon, who was still pretending to cry in the corner, looked up with a pitiful face.

“Just me?”

“…I’m sorry.”

“Sob sob.”

Oreon, who was pretending to cry with his mouth, covered his ears very slightly.

“Captain Ethan, you remember Lady Laura Under, right? That lady is currently in a difficult-”

“I’m available.”

Before she could finish speaking, Ethan hurriedly spoke and then looked at the Emperor.

The Emperor looked at Ethan with surprised eyes and then nodded.

“You did say you have time right now, correct?”

When Dahlia asked with sparkling eyes and delight, Ethan nodded.

“Good. Then let’s go right away.”

“I’m going too.”

“Why would Your Majesty?”

“Isn’t it natural for me to go where my guard knight goes?”

“That’s… no, it’s the opposite. Where does a lord follow his guard knight?”

At first she meekly agreed, but then Dahlia realized it didn’t make sense and opened her eyes into triangles.

“You’re not falling for it.”

“Your Majesty sometimes seems to see me as a child.”

“That can’t be.”

His heated gaze, now devoid of playfulness, reached her.

Dahlia unconsciously took a step back. It was troublesome when the Emperor looked at her like that because her face would turn red.

“Then let’s all go together.”

“Me too?”

Oreon raised high the hand that had been covering his ear.

“I’m sorry.”

Dahlia sent another apologetic look and left the office first.

The Emperor and Ethan followed behind her.

“Your Majesty, couldn’t you take me along as well?”

“I’m barely managing to go myself.”

As the Emperor slipped away, Oreon began to cry pitifully again with his mouth.

“Sob sob.”

* * *

As Dahlia walked and explained Lady Under’s situation, strength entered the knuckles of Ethan’s hand gripping his sword.

Gray watched this closely. It was the first time he had seen Ethan look so angry.

Could it be, the secret he mentioned before?

“Ethan. If you just throw your glove at Viscount Horeman, he’ll die.”

“….”

As if he had really been thinking of challenging him to a duel, Ethan silently relaxed his grip with a stoic expression.

Seeing this, Gray let out an incredulous laugh.

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