I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 79

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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor

Chapter 79

However, there were too many watching eyes here.

Anastasia closed her eyes and calmed her mind with deep breaths, then put on a kind smile.

“Princess, how does the tea taste?”

Dahlia took a sip of tea and nodded her head.

“It’s delicious.”

“Give me cocoa.”

Princess Tiara pushed the teacup on the table aside and arrogantly commanded.

Lady Yofron glared at Princess Tiara with cold eyes, then signaled to a maid.

Then, one young lady stood up from her seat and approached Annie, who was standing behind.

“My lady, it must be tiring to stand. Would you like to join us at the table?”

“I’m fine.”

She needed to stay behind the Princess to better watch over her.

“Oh my, the Princess doesn’t even care for her maid. I guess the rumors are true after all.”

When Annie’s expression hardened slightly, the young lady covered her mouth as if she had made a mistake, though she didn’t look sorry at all.

“I don’t know what rumors you’re referring to, but the Princess isn’t that kind of person.”

“Well, I suppose you have to say that because you were told to.”

At the young lady’s words, Annie maintained a calm expression. There was no need to respond to every young lady who was swayed by false rumors.

“If you’ve experienced anything unpleasant, you can confide in me alone. I’m very good at keeping secrets.”

She didn’t look that way at all.

Annie made a thoughtful expression, then slowly opened her mouth.

“The Princess does make things difficult for me sometimes.”

“Oh my, how so?”

“You know about the crystals from our kingdom, right?”

“Of course. Crystals are very precious even in the Empire.”

“The Princess owns a crystal mine, and she keeps giving me jewelry made from crystals as gifts, so my room is overflowing with them. It’s truly troublesome beyond words.”

“I, I see.”

The young lady looked Annie up and down with envious eyes. Come to think of it, the earrings she was wearing were the latest fashionable crystal jewelry that couldn’t be obtained even with money.

Then, feeling Lady Yofron’s urging gaze, the young lady spoke again.

“Have you ever seen the Princess treat her subordinates rudely—”

“Our Princess’s hobby is sleeping, so she chooses sleep over the time it would take to bother subordinates.”

Annie cut off the young lady’s words mid-sentence.

“It was a pleasant conversation.”

The young lady, having lost her motivation, turned around sharply and returned to her seat.

Annie watched her with cool eyes, then turned her gaze back to the Princess.

Dahlia sipped her tea while pondering what timing would be best to leave.

She had already shown off the necklace enough and hinted at marrying the Emperor.

She had finished everything she needed to do, but would Lady Yofron really let her go quietly?

“Princess Dahlia.”

Just then, Lady Yofron called out to her.

“Yes?”

“I have a very beautiful painting in my room. Would you like to take a look at it?”

“Ah… sure.”

Dahlia slowly rose from her seat.

At this sight, Princess Tiara curled up the corners of her mouth.

“Dahlia, have a good look and come back.”

At this, Lady Yofron looked at Princess Tiara as if surprised.

“I thought Your Highness would come along too?”

“I’m not interested in paintings.”

Lady Yofron smiled brightly as if pleased.

When Dahlia and Lady Yofron moved from their seats, Ethan and Cole followed.

Anastasia lowered her eyes and glared at them with annoyed eyes.

Soon, she stopped in front of her room door and looked back at the two men.

“No men have ever entered my room before.”

Dahlia spoke to Ethan and Cole as if understanding.

“Please wait in front of the door.”

The two men bowed slightly as if they understood and stood on either side of the door.

Dahlia entered the room following Lady Yofron’s guidance.

Perhaps because she liked red, the entire room was decorated with roses.

“It’s quite fragrant.”

“I love roses. This is the painting I mentioned.”

Lady Yofron pointed to a painting hanging on the wall.

Dahlia, who loved paintings, looked at it carefully.

Behind a woman sitting in a chair, another woman with a fierce expression was holding a vase high up.

It was so vivid, as if she would drop the vase on the woman’s head at any moment.

“The painting is a bit scary.”

“The title is ‘Revenge.'”

From behind Dahlia, Lady Yofron explained in a gentle voice.

“What did the sitting woman do wrong?”

Dahlia asked while still examining the painting.

“Of course she did. I can’t just leave alone someone who steals what’s mine.”

“That woman stole something from the woman standing behind her? How interesting that there’s a story behind it.”

Dahlia slowly turned around and opened her eyes wide in surprise.

Lady Yofron was holding scissors and cutting off a handful of her red hair.

For noble ladies, hair was a symbol of beauty and a very precious asset. There were even noble ladies who never cut their hair in their entire lives.

“Lady Yofron, what are you doing right now? Why are you cutting your hair?”

“I’m not cutting this myself—it’s you attacking me, Princess.”

Lady Yofron whispered with a satisfied smile.

“Me?”

Dahlia stared at her with bewildered eyes.

Lady Yofron’s lips curled up more and more as she deliberately cut her hair more crookedly with the scissors.

“Yes. Because you’re jealous of me, Princess. I’m the only person in this Empire who’s suitable for the position of Empress.”

“Haah…”

Dahlia let out a deep sigh.

She had hoped this wouldn’t happen, but it finally did.

“I’m going to run outside in a moment and show the young ladies outside my messed-up hair. The young ladies will go home and tell their fathers and brothers that ‘we must not accept such a dangerous princess as Empress,’ right? No matter how much His Majesty the Emperor likes you, he won’t be able to go against the ministers’ opposition.”

Lady Yofron’s eyes gleamed with confidence.

Dahlia looked at Lady Yofron with a troubled expression, recalling what had happened in the carriage before coming here.

Princess Tiara had sent away her own carriage and climbed into Dahlia’s carriage.

“Here.”

She held out a gem smaller than a fingernail.

“What is this?”

“Vision Orb.”

“Vision Orb? Vision Orbs can be this small?”

“What do you take our Krzea Empire for? We can make things like this with our eyes closed.”

“But why are you giving this to me?”

“It’s good to leave evidence of everything. When such false rumors are spreading.”

Having said that, Princess Tiara attached the Vision Orb to Dahlia’s necklace.

Since the Vision Orb was transparent, it didn’t look out of place attached to the necklace.

“That strange rumor you mentioned earlier? What kind of rumor is it?”

Princess Tiara looked straight into Dahlia’s eyes and told her the rumor she had heard.

“That Dahlia hit Lady Yofron. The rumor was spreading so secretly that I came here as soon as I heard it. But today Dahlia received an invitation from Lady Yofron? If this isn’t a trap, what else could it be? So make sure to keep this Vision Orb on you.”

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Princess Tiara took a sip of the cocoa the maid had brought out, then frowned and roughly set down the cup.

“It’s not sweet at all. Make it again.”

“I’m sorry.”

The dejected maid quickly picked up the cocoa cup and turned around.

The tea party atmosphere became subdued due to Princess Tiara’s prickly attitude.

“Hmm, I wonder if it’s started by now?”

Princess Tiara, who had muttered to herself, got up from her seat and looked around at the young ladies sitting quietly.

“Are you ladies bored?”

“Pardon? No.”

“We’re fine.”

Afraid of what that unruly princess might do if they said they were bored, the young ladies competed to deny it.

Princess Tiara chuckled and snapped her fingers, making a snapping sound as a black cloud appeared in the air.

The young ladies gasped in admiration at the sight. It was indeed skill befitting a princess of the magic kingdom.

“I’ll show you something interesting.”

She snapped her fingers again, and an image appeared above the black cloud.

The young ladies were shocked and widened their eyes at the words spoken by the woman in the image.

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