I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 106
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 106
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Dahlia, who had been staring intently at the mirror, suddenly spoke up.
“Annie, should I put on makeup today?”
“….”
“Annie, should I put the hair pin here? Or over here?”
Dahlia, who had been looking in the mirror and placing the tree leaf-shaped emerald hair pin in various spots on her head, turned her gaze with a face that asked why there was no response.
Annie was looking at her with narrowed eyes.
This was a princess who always wore whatever Annie dressed her in. She had never shown any interest in adorning herself.
To begin with, for Dahlia who loved rolling around on the grass with her niece Rose more than anything, expensive dresses and fancy jewelry were nothing but hindrances.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
When Dahlia rolled her eyes around, Annie approached her with determination.
“Please be honest with me.”
“Huh?”
Seeing Dahlia blink her big eyes with an innocent expression, Annie felt something was definitely amiss.
She was naturally pure without even trying to act innocent, yet here she was deliberately acting innocent! The princess was trying to hide something very big!
Annie turned her gaze to Cole who was standing guard at the door.
“Cole!”
“Yes?”
“It’s time for girl talk. Could you step aside for a moment?”
“Then I’ll be outside the door.”
Cole smiled, bowed his head slightly, and left.
A strange silence settled in the room with just the two of them remaining.
Annie positioned herself across from Dahlia and stared at her intently.
“I’m ready to listen.”
Dahlia, who had been fidgeting with the emerald hair pin and taking her time, finally opened her mouth after a long while.
“Alright. I’ll tell you. …I think I like him.”
Dahlia whispered slowly, her face turning pink. Opening up her heart to another person for the first time required quite a bit of courage.
“I see. It’s Emperor Gray, isn’t it?”
Annie asked with a calm expression.
“How did you know?”
Dahlia’s purple eyes were filled with surprise as she quickly raised her head.
“You know who I like too, Princess. And you noticed my feelings before I did. It’s the same for me. I’m always watching over you, Princess.”
Annie smiled gently.
Dahlia smiled in response to Annie’s words. As Annie said, she had indeed noticed Annie’s feelings first.
Annie wasn’t particularly interested in other people, and therefore was always polite to others. But she kept grumbling only around Cole, which was curious, so by watching carefully, Dahlia was able to notice her feelings.
“When did you figure it out?”
“Um, when you talk about Emperor Gray. I could see you getting excited.”
Dahlia let out a deep sigh with a gloomy expression.
“Sigh… To think I’ve become someone whose words and actions don’t match. I said I’d absolutely never get married, then I got married, and I said I’d absolutely never like the Emperor, but I ended up liking him. I’m terrible, aren’t I?”
“It’s frustrating to have to agree with Princess Tiara, but as she said, people’s hearts can change even while sleeping.”
When Annie spoke with a face that showed she really didn’t like it, Dahlia burst into laughter.
“No matter how I think about it, those two really suit each other well.”
“Not at all.”
“Sigh. Still, it feels good to confide in you like this, Annie.”
“Won’t you tell Your Majesty?”
“No. Your Majesty dislikes it when women like him.”
“Come to think of it, you said you saw him loving someone in a dream.”
“Yes. I heard their conversation. And I also caught a glimpse of some woman.”
At that, Annie fell into deep thought before asking.
“Is that woman really the one Your Majesty loves?”
“Well. I can’t be certain about that, but I know one thing. Your Majesty regretted loving.”
Dahlia continued with a bitter expression.
“Of course it hurts that Your Majesty loves another woman instead of me, but hearing him say he shouldn’t have loved sounded so sad…”
The Emperor regrets love?
Annie swallowed the words that had risen to her throat: ‘I think the person the Emperor loves is you, Princess.’
These two righteous people, who even made a national agreement to prevent the world’s destruction, seem well-matched in status and personality – it seems like they just need to confess. I don’t understand why it’s so complicated.
She could only earnestly hope that the Princess wouldn’t get hurt.
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Dahlia was sitting in the Emperor’s Garden waiting for the Emperor. Annie and Cole, who couldn’t enter this place, were watching her from afar.
She was humming while eating the refreshments she had prepared in advance, when Lemon came flying over with a flutter and perched on the table.
“Lemon! It’s been so long!”
Dahlia’s eyes were full of joy.
But Lemon, who hadn’t been seen much lately, looked somewhat different.
“Did you grow a little?”
The size seemed the same, but had the body color become a bit deeper?
As Dahlia tilted her head and examined Lemon, Lemon snorted.
“What do you mean grow? I’ve always been big.”
Dahlia stared at Lemon with wide eyes. Lemon had spoken human words in a clear voice like a nightingale.
“Le, Lemon. Did you just speak?”
“Hmph. Human Language is basic for me.”
Lemon puffed out his bird chest proudly.
“Wow! I thought you could only speak when you were fully grown. I saw it in a dream.”
Dahlia looked at Lemon as if he were amazing. A transparent bird was already special, but a bird that could freely use Human Language.
“That’s not chirp-…”
“Huh?”
Lemon’s words suddenly switched to Bird Language in the middle.
“Chirp- I said no. No, can’t even say this? Huh? Let’s fight!”
Lemon threw wing punches at the sky with an angry face.
Dahlia patted Lemon to calm him down and poured water into the teacup.
“Lemon, want some water?”
“Oh dear… What should I do with this child?”
Lemon looked at Dahlia with pitying eyes.
“Child? Who?”
“You! You!”
“But I’m all grown up?”
When Dahlia tilted her head again in confusion, Lemon plopped down on the table and beat his chest.
“This is so frustrating! If you’re going to chirp-chirp-chirp and can’t even speak properly, they should have just kept Human Language sealed forever. Why let you speak again!”
Getting angry while speaking, Lemon jumped up and threw wing punches at the sky again.
“Who are you angry at right now?”
“That one up there chirp-”
“Ah, could it be that you chirp in the middle because you can’t say certain things?”
“That’s right.”
“I like Lemon’s bird sounds too. So don’t worry.”
At Dahlia’s warm comfort, Lemon let out another deep sigh.
“This overly kind child, really.”
“I said I’m not a child.”
“Hmph. You’re always a child to me!”
After speaking haughtily for a moment, Lemon suddenly looked around and flew up into the sky with a flutter.
“Why?”
“An annoying guy is coming.”
“Annoying guy?”
“Annoying guy… That’s correct.”
The Emperor’s voice suddenly interrupted.
Dahlia looked up at the Emperor in surprise.
The Emperor was looking down at her with a smile on his lips.
This was the first time meeting him after acknowledging her feelings. Dahlia lowered her trembling eyes and greeted him shyly.
“You came?”
“…”
The Emperor just gazed at her quietly without saying anything.
Dahlia’s face gradually turned red as his intense gaze made her breathless.
“Why, why?”
“Something seems different?”
“No! Nothing’s different!”
Dahlia shook her head in surprise.
“You’re wearing makeup.”
“Ah….”
She had applied it lightly, but it seemed he had noticed.
“Why are you suddenly doing something you never did before?”
At the Emperor’s meaningful question, Dahlia frantically racked her brain. At this rate, it seemed like he would discover her feelings right after she had started her one-sided love.
“Well, it’s for my next appointment.”
Dahlia made up a lie.
“Next appointment?”
The Emperor tilted his head to the side, his black eyes watching her intently.
“Yes.”
“Who are you meeting that requires you to put on pretty makeup?”
His voice dropped dangerously low.
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