I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 107
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 107
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On his way to the Emperor’s Garden to meet Dahlia, the pink flower garden caught his eye.
Those flowers are a bit lighter than her hair color. Would the ones over there be more similar?
Then Gray stopped abruptly in his tracks.
What am I doing right now? His own thoughts seemed absurd to him.
However, his gaze remained fixed on the pink flower garden that reminded him of her.
‘It would be better not to look at all.’
Gray covered his eyes with one hand and tried desperately to shake off thoughts of her.
But when things didn’t go as his heart wished, he asked Ethan with a sigh-like tone.
“Ethan. How did you know that you loved that young lady?”
At the unexpected question, Ethan’s breathing, who had been standing quietly behind him, became slightly disturbed.
“…I just knew. My heart, which had never raced except when holding a sword, raced when I saw her.”
True to his nature as a Captain of the Guard obsessed with swords, he compared even love to swordsmanship.
“You just knew?”
“Yes. When I can’t see her, I want to see her, and even when I’m looking at her, I want to see her, and I want to see her even now.”
Ethan’s calm confession was even shocking. To think such words would come from someone as rigid as a wooden block.
Gray removed his hand from his eyes and hung a hollow smile on his lips.
There was someone he too wanted to see when he couldn’t see them, wanted to see even when looking at them, and wanted to see even now.
Could that be called love?
“Haah…”
A sigh-like lament escaped from his lips.
No. It can’t be love. It shouldn’t be.
He steeled his heart and began walking again. As he approached closer to the garden, her clear voice reached him on the wind.
Beside the lush trees, he could see her people, Annie and Cole.
When the two people who spotted him tried to greet him, Gray raised his hand to stop their greeting. Meanwhile, Ethan went to stand beside them.
Gray approached while muffling his footsteps so she wouldn’t notice.
As he drew closer to her, his heart began to beat rapidly.
The gently blowing wind tousled her soft hair. He could see her pushing back her pink hair with her small, white hands.
Her mysterious violet eyes gazing into the air held a tender light.
“I like Lemon’s chirping too. So don’t worry.”
Lemon… She must be talking about that transparent bird?
Her warm tone, as if comforting the bird, was lovely.
“I told you I’m not a child.”
Even her grumbling voice while looking at empty air was lovely.
Even though she was right before his eyes, he wanted to see her desperately. He wanted to stand within every gaze she cast.
His black eyes, gazing intently at her, darkened. He etched her into his eyes and reached out his hand into the empty air to grasp her. His fierce possessiveness toward her made his hands tremble.
I desperately tried to avoid acknowledging my feelings. I tried to turn away and pretend I knew nothing. But in the end, I had no choice but to admit it.
Dahlia. I love her.
The moment I acknowledged my feelings, my heart beat so painfully it felt like it would shatter at any moment.
Her sparkling figure was so dazzling I thought I might go blind, so he slowly closed his eyelids.
But even with his eyes closed, her image remained etched on his retina and wouldn’t disappear. His love for her rose and rose until it felt like it would steal his breath away.
“Hah.”
As soon as he opened his eyes again and took her in, his breathing returned to normal.
Just as his steps were about to quicken with the desire to pour out his heart to her right away, a momentary pain he’d never experienced in his life spread across his back.
Gray’s vision spun and he unconsciously gasped for air.
“Ugh.”
This was the first time the Black Mark had caused him pain.
The pain seemed to mock him for floundering in love just moments before, snapping him back to his senses.
Don’t forget that you’re terminally ill.
The Black Mark seemed to warn him like that.
Love for someone who’s terminally ill?
Would he beg her to stay by his side when he dies?
Would he ask the woman he loves to live her life missing him forever?
To endure watching her cry because of him?
No. He absolutely couldn’t do that. He never wanted to see her hurt and cry because of him, even if it killed him.
His chest, which had been burning with passion for her, turned cold. His feelings for her had to be buried deep in his heart and forgotten.
“Unlucky bastard?”
“Unlucky bastard… That’s correct.”
He was unlucky enough to have to forget love the moment he realized it, so her words were right.
Gray looked at her and smiled palely.
Why is she so pretty today of all days?
He coveted her purple eyes looking up at him and her pink lips.
He had just decided to bury his feelings, yet he was going crazy with desire for her again.
Who exactly was she trying to look pretty for with that makeup?
She trembled and avoided his gaze.
“Why are you avoiding my gaze? As if you’re doing something you shouldn’t?”
Could she be going to meet Captain Roand of the Holy Knights? Aren’t they close enough to call each other by name?
Instead of keeping him under surveillance, he should have banished him from the Empire long ago.
Or maybe he should find out about that ideal type she mentioned and remove everyone like that from around her.
“Come to think of it, I still haven’t heard about that ideal type.”
“What? My ideal type?”
Dahlia widened her eyes and looked up at him with a face that said ‘what are you talking about all of a sudden?’
“Your ideal type that you said definitely wasn’t me. What kind of person is your ideal type?”
Dahlia looked at him with bewildered eyes and then rolled them.
Is it right to talk about my ideal type in front of the man I like? No wait, this is an opportunity. A chance to keep him from discovering my feelings!
Dahlia tried to describe the ideal type she’d always thought about to make good use of this opportunity, but only the Emperor filled her mind.
Dazzling beauty. The broad chest that had steadily protected her. Large, warm hands. The deep voice that tickled her ears.
“Why can’t you speak?”
The Emperor asked with displeasure.
Dahlia hurriedly erased the Emperor from her mind and thought of someone close to her who was also male.
“Well, first of all, big. Strong, runs well, and has a loud voice-”
“Wait, are you really talking about your ideal type right now?”
The Emperor interrupted her words and looked at her suspiciously.
“Yes! Gentlemarafinecharisma! That’s my ideal type.”
“Gentlemarafinecharisma? I think I’ve heard that before? Wasn’t that a horse?”
Tch. What good memory he has.
Dahlia clicked her tongue inwardly and subtly avoided his sharp gaze.
“I really love horses, you see.”
“So your ideal type is someone like a horse?”
“…Yes.”
Dahlia slowly nodded her head.
“It would be difficult to get rid of them all.”
At his muttering, Dahlia looked up with a puzzled expression.
“Pardon?”
“So who are you meeting today?”
When the Emperor changed the subject, Dahlia racked her brain again.
Who am I meeting today! Dahlia turned her gaze toward Annie with hopeful eyes, but she was too far away.
Ah, I don’t know.
“Princess Tiara. I haven’t seen her at all lately.”
“You’re putting on makeup just to meet her?”
Suspicion leaked from his voice.
“Princess is so beautiful. I want to look pretty too-”
“You’re the most beautiful.”
Dahlia was just saying whatever came to mind when the Emperor’s words left her speechless, and she stared at him.
Under his gaze that looked at her as if she were the only person in the world, Dahlia felt she had to say something and opened her mouth.
“…Thank you for the compliment?”
After saying it, even she found it ridiculous, so Dahlia quickly covered her mouth.
At that sight, the Emperor burst into loud laughter.
Seeing him laugh genuinely instead of his usual fake smile was so pleasant, and her heart filled with warm happiness, so she laughed along with him.
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