Seeing the terrified Rebecca, the Viscount let out an even breath, as if his anger had subsided a little.

He opened his mouth as if he had more to say, but when he saw Rebecca's trembling shoulders, he shrugged and walked out.

Left alone, Empress Rebecca clenched her fists and trembled until her nails dig into her.

It was embarrassing and embarrassing.

And all the causes of this....

The arrow of resentment she lifted naturally headed towards her son, Prince Antonio.

'If Antonio hadn't lied in the first place....'

There would have been no need to become an education teacher for nothing, nor would there be any need to go to the Empress and criticize it as 'the work of the education teacher you put in place'.

Rather, if I had summoned a child named Raffine and questioned the truth....

'I would have been able to find out that the child was a spirit samurai first and maintain a close relationship to spread the word...!'

As if the empress was using the child now.

Rebecca suddenly changed her gaze and got up from her seat and opened the door.

The servants who were waiting followed her in amazement.

The place where Empress Rebecca was headed was the private palace where Antonio was staying.

Arriving at the detached palace, Rebecca said to the perplexed attendant of the detached palace.

"Call all the servants who insulted the education teacher in front of me last time and made fun of them. And bring Antonio too."

After a while, the servant chief of the detached palace took all the servants who made fun of the empress at that time and made them kneel.

Antonio stood next to the empress, terrified.

The Empress gave orders to the strong knights, holding a whip.

"You must pay the price for disgraceful of your master by making fun of your mouth."

"Sah, please save me! Her Majesty, please...!"

The servants trembled and begged for help, but the empress did not blink an eye.

The knights started beating the servants, and Rebecca made Antonio watch the scene.

When the beating was over, the other servants dragged them and took them to prison.

Rebecca asked, holding Antonio's shoulder, still looking very angry.

"Prince, answer wisely. Why didn't you tell the truth? It wasn't the teacher who bruised your arm, it was the boy."

"that...."

"Do you know how hard this mother suffered because of you? How dare you deceive me?"

"Uh, mother...."

"Why did you disgrace me, why?!"

When the Empress shouted loudly, Antonio shrugged his shoulders.

In general, Empress Rebecca was kind to her son, but often when she was angry, she couldn't contain her anger and let it all out.

"I am not hated by the Emperor because of you, because of you, because of you!"

Rebecca rolled her eyes and wrote evil. They pushed and broke the ornaments that were standing next to them, causing a riot.

But no one came forward to stop Empress Rebecca.

It was because everyone knew that it was best not to touch the empress in such an angry state.

Once the empress was angry, she never calmed down easily, but rather became more and more angry.

Antonio was also worried that sparks would set off on me.

Even after destroying everything around her, Empress Rebecca glared at Antonio with vigor, perhaps less relieved of her anger.

From the abuse she suffered from childhood by Viscount Tedler, to the neglect and criticism of other brothers, to being compared to the Empress in every case even though she became the Empress.

Everything bothered her.

But in this imperial castle, even my son, whom I trust and depend on, betrayed him.

When Rebecca grabs Antonio's wrist, Antonio takes a step back as if to kick off a match.

"Follow me."

"Uh, mother... Mother!"

The Empress harshly dragged Antonio into the room.

Antonio struggled not to follow, but he could not overcome Rebecca's power.

Whenever Rebecca was really angry, she would punish Antonio as if she had been beaten by Viscount Tedler as a child.

The servants and servants turned away from the crying Antonio and closed their eyes tightly. It was better not to look.

"...."

Among such users, a maid with freckles on her face secretly lit up.

* * *

Raphine looked at the emperor with a puzzled expression on her face.

Today was the day I came to Hwangseong to learn painting after a really long time.

I greeted the empress warmly, ate dessert, and was just about to learn painting from a court painter... Suddenly the king came.

"What are you going to draw today?"

Raphine was embarrassed by the emperor meddling in the painting, but she answered without expressing it.

"I'm going to draw a tree."

"Oh, spit it out."

The emperor gave a soulless reply and glanced at the empress. The Empress, too, pretended not to be interested, and secretly became conscious of the Emperor....

'No, what are these people doing now.'

Raphine looked at the court painters and maids with a confused expression.

As if everyone was thinking the same thing, they were staring into the air with cloudy eyes.

This must be....

'I feel like I'm pretending I didn't see a couple who are secretly dating while showing off a lot.'

I can't help it.

Raphine decided to go out on her own for the emperor and his wife.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, are you good at drawing too?"

"You mean me?"

It looked like he couldn't draw.

"Then ask the Empress Dowager to teach you how to draw!"

"What?"

"Your Majesty the Empress is really good at drawing, so I will let you know."

"Hmm... Well, that's not a bad idea."

The emperor looked at the empress shamelessly. Empress Agnes seemed perplexed, but then nodded her head.

And after a while.

'I was wrong....'

Raphine immediately regretted it.

The emperor is sitting in front of the easel and holding a brush, and the empress is holding the emperor's hand holding the brush and showing the painting...

I didn't want to pay attention, but I heard the small voices of the two of them arguing over and over again.

'Wow....'

It's distracting me from concentrating on the picture.

"Oh, hey, Empress."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Do you know what Raphine said the last time she came to me?"

"What did you say?"

"I asked if I wasn't afraid, and he replied: 'Handsome people aren't afraid.'"

"oh."

What made it so fun and funny, the emperor and his wife laughed hahaha.

Raphine tried to focus on the painting, pretending not to know, but the emperor interrupted her and asked a question.

"Raphine, then, answer this question as well. Am I more handsome than your father, the Duke of Eston?"

"Your Majesty is so...."

The empress scolded the emperor, but the emperor laughed haha, as if what was going on.

"...."

And Raphine tried to hide her astringent expression.

Are you more handsome than your dad? .... Does this touch your parents?

When Raphine hesitated, unable to answer, the emperor smiled wildly and said, "If you are in trouble, you don't have to answer."

Then he whispered to the Empress.

"The girls are so cute. Empress, we also have one more daughter...."

"your majesty!"

Look, they both seem to whisper very softly, but we can hear it all...?

The emperor and his wife looked happy, as if they were completely immersed in the world of just the two of them.

The maids and attendants all looked moved by this situation.

The emperor and his wife, who used to fight like enemies every day, get along like this.... The courtiers looked at Raffine almost like a benefactor.

It was a little uncomfortable, but seeing the two of them getting on well anyway, Raphine felt good too.

'Because all these are the ways for Zerkan to form the right personality.'

* * *

"Your Majesty also visited the Crystal Palace?"

"... Yes, my Majesty the Empress."

Empress Rebecca clenched her fists with her lips trembling.

After corporal punishment of Antonio last night, Rebecca woke up this morning and immediately went to visit Antonio and wept and apologized.

I was angry with myself for impulsively taking my anger out on the child.

'It can't be like this....'

Rebecca bit her lip, deep in thought.

Until then, he could not rely solely on the power of his father, Viscount Tedler.

So, two years ago, I was constantly looking for nobles to line up with, but avoiding my father's eyes and interacting with them was not easy.

However, a few days ago, news came that Count Fowlard, who had been in a relationship with Rebecca for a long time, had returned to Korea.

Shortly after Rebecca became Empress, he moved to a foreign country by himself saying that it might get in the way of Rebecca.

'If it's Count Fowlard, I can trust him and get the job done. At least it's better than my father.'

No matter how much he won the emperor's heart, the only thing that would benefit was his father.

Chi trembled when he remembered Viscount Tedler, who had made one mistake and immediately wielded violence against him.