"It isn't a good story to hear . Do you still want to hear it ?" Harren said as he squeezed Seilin's hand a little . " Yes I want to know about it even if it's a bad story , because it involves you in it too ." "Hahaha I really love you Sei ." "Okay say it now ." "Alright alright. Well the relationship between our families were built from the very beginning of the empire . But it wasn't really a horrible start .....''The first duke of house Zaronark was a close friend with the first duke of Batternberg . They were childhood friend who grew up together . They pledged their loyalty to the throne together too . They were the first duke appointed by the king himself when he founded the Virident Empire.  The two Duke worked together to protect the empire from the outside kingdom . The relationship between the two families started to get bitter after many years of the empire establishing peace

The name Ray was stuck in Seilin's mind the rest of the day . She inquired that the patrolling knights will came back at day break . So there's nothing she can do right now . She told Harren too about her suspicion about Ray being the boy from the orphanage that she was looking for that time . He also accompanied her for quite some time but eventually he let her sleep and left for the night and told her to wait for the next day to come . But just before day break she woke due to her anxiety to know his identity . She came out in her balcony to get some fresh air . She stood there remembering all the memories of her childhood . As a child most of her memories were from the orphanage . The time spent in the orphanage was like hell until Ray came there when they both were four years old . At first he was the boy who gets into fight but eventually everyone started to hate him . Even the teachers lost any hope for disciplining him . But one day seilin suddenly 

Even with weeks of searching Harren still couldn't find anything on the so called Ray from seilin's past . There were record of him getting into the orphanage ,but there wasn't any record before or after the orphanage . So he probably a ghost by now . When Harren finished his inquiry in the imperial office a royal guard suddenly came up to him . "The empress is waiting for you Duke Battenburg . " "Alright ." It's not the first time the empress have summoned him like this without any prior notice . But this time it's somehow different . Even the guard's attitude is rude towards the young Duke . It's not the first time the empress asked for him like this without any official notice . But this time he has a bad feeling about it . "I greet the empress of the empire ." The empress was waiting for him at her garden . "Oh it's nice to see you Duke . " "It's my pleas

On the wedding day the maids woke her up early in the morning to get her ready for the ceremony in the afternoon. She was almost sleeping when the maids were bathing her . After that they took care of skin with so many oil and scents that she doesn't even know the name of . The maids were chatting so loudly that she thought that the ceremony will happen right now as if they were going to the wedding right this instance . After the skin routine they started to took care of her face with many kinds of herbs and other maids took care of her hair . She herself didn't know when and where fall asleep in between the maids were taking care of her skin and hair once again .  "Did I slept long Emily ?" "No my lady you only slept for two hours ." "And you are saying you guys are doing this for this long?" "We still have a little left to take care of my lady." The guests started coming

She shut herself in the office for as long as she can . The man left in terror after he recovered his voice after an hour or so . He probably gonna spread rumours about the incident too . she finally came out of the office at the time of dinner and then Benjamin asked if she was all right but she didn't seem to want to talk with him at that moment . She just went to her room and shut the door for the rest of the night . Emily was getting very worried for her but she could do nothing as she cannot enter in the room except she gets permission . The servants of the house didn't sleep that night properly in worry after their madam . Next day she came out of a room like it was normal any other day and got back to her office to do her work . Benjamin tried to talk to her but she didn't answered him anything more than she was alright . In the afternoon the news arrived .   "The Duke's back madam . In just two months he has returned to the duchy ." The