He was bust locking himself in his office and refused to see the queen after recollecting fragments of memories when he was Shaun a while ago. "Out of pity, huh? She's pretty blubber-mouthed when she's mad," he murmured to himself as he recalled her saying she wouldn't have married him if he had kept his jerk personality because she didn't ask him to treat her dearly; made Aileen consider marrying him out of pity. It was the last thing he heard before 'Shaun' took over again, and before he knew it, he was already devoted to the queen again."Spell... Schreziel kept telling me I was under 'love-bound' spell but insisting she had nothing to do with the spell," he uttered, talking to himself.The King's head started to ache again, so he stood up. He left his office in the middle of the night to look for the queen at her chamber. While heading to Aileen's chamber, he thought of combining their chamber by converting the empty room; beside his chamber into an extension of their chamber.
"You... Let's have a serious talk, but let's treat that cut on your finger first." The queen silently followed the King's footsteps until they arrived at his chamber. "Sit down," says Viishaun.The queen remotely followed his words and silently waited for what he would do next. He came back with a box of medical kits and sat beside her, on the edge of the bed."I won't kill you, so you don't have to worry about your life," says Viishaun."Pardon?" The queen blinked twice and thought her ears played with her."I said I won't kill you. Do you think I'm crazy enough to kill the queen? Also, I have my word when I exchange vows with the woman I married at the sacred church. Lastly, I pledge I would never kill a woman I shared a night with," he replied while treating Aileen's finger, wrapping it with a bandage.The queen felt her cheeks were burning with the mention of marital duty. She looked at the King and replied, "But... it was Shaun who promised all of those things you mentioned."
"What kind of sh*t is this thing?" says Viishaun while holding a cup of sweetened coffee with melted ice cream. Aileen got mad because he compare her favorite drink to a sh*t. She slapped the surface of the paper and raised her voice, and she said, "S-Sh*t?! Did you just label my favorite drink with that barbaric name?" "Did you just raise your voice at me? Were you disrespecting me perhaps?" The king replied, wearing an annoyed face. Instead of retracting by words, she simply looked away and sipped her drink, but he made another provocative question. "Who would like this disgusting and inelegant drink?" The king lifted his left upper lip in disgust while slightly stirring the cup. "You uncultured swine, this is a Coffee float!" The queen screamed and scooped an ample amount from her cup to force Viishaun to have a taste of it. The king glared at the Queen and wiped his mouth, but he somehow had tasted it. "You're acting cocky, have you forgotten who's seated next to you? You sh
"Have you opened the royal envelope, ma'am?""You mean the tea party invitation of Lady Vermillion?" The queen replied, looking at her reflection in the mirror."Yes, madam. Will you finally go out to the palace to attend to the aristocrats?""... I wanted to ask you, how long have the king and Princess Vermillion known each other?""Madam, are you jealous of their closeness?""J-just curious, Athena.""Uhm... well... the royal family and the Kingdom of Vermillion were business partners before, and as a result, the king and princess were betrothed at a very young age. But when King Viishaun broke off the engagement, the Vermillions moved back to their kingdom.""I-I see... so if I didn't appear out of nowhere, your madam would have been that beauty?""Madam, you sounded like you're blaming yourself for their broken engagement. I heard those two weren't romantically attached at all."Even though the maid cut off her imagination, she can't help but feel guilty for ruining someone else'
There are so many books in the palace's library, which made the queen quite conflicted about where to start. 'This is indeed a royal library where most books were collected by the king himself. I wonder what the empire's library would look like, it must be twice or even thrice bigger and loaded. Maybe, some forbidden books were stored there,' says a tiny voice in her head, while her hands were busy browsing books on the shelves.She wanted to go to the empire's library but was too afraid to face the emperor and empress. Viishaun was already terrifying to deal with sometimes, and meeting her husband's parents was even more terrifying. 'The emperor was his father, yet he always sent him to a fierce battle. Then, the empress was not his biological mother, and I heard they were not close with one another, thus he never stayed in the empire's main palace. I get that he grew to be cold and bloodlust since he spent all his life in battle without anyone to comfort him'— are the thoughts run
"Is it just me, or does our queen look somehow stupid. How come she walked around the palace and even planned to go outside wearing indecent clothes?" says Ana, one of the chambermaids."We shouldn't talk bad about the queen because we are uttering blasphemy in the royal family. However, I also notice how ignorant she is of our empire's rules. She lacks elegance and dignity. I wonder what our king saw in her," seconded by the other maid– Rosa."She's beautiful and has the body of a goddess. Maybe it's all a physical attribute?" says Rosa."Princess Elvira is a complete package, but he married an estranged woman," says Ana."Maybe she's keeping our king warm in bed. Who knows if her body was the reason why the King kept her? Since she has low dignity, luring men should be easy for her."Athena was displeased with the gossip by her two fellow maids. She yelled, "His excellency is coming!" after losing her patience hearing all those blubber mouths. The two ladies flew in fear of King Vi
“Sh*t! Why does it have to be him?! What is he doing here?! I thought he went to the capital?’’ Aileen murmured, hiding, mixing among the crowd. Then, she peeked a little, and her heart almost dropped to the ground when piercing eyes surprised her. "Oh my gosh! Our eyes met!!" "Lady, what are you doing?" the lady mercenary asked Aileen. The queen placed her finger on her lips and made an 'Shhhh~' sound. Aileen thought, at this rate, that his excellency would notice where she was hiding. So, she crawled and tried to mix in the crowd again. "I need to find Athena and go home. I can't be seen by his excellency, wearing these shabby clothes again." The queen bumped her head into a hard object, and when she looked at the ground, it wasn't a store or a post she bumped into, but someone else's knees. There's a pair of expensive shoes standing in front of her, and she has an idea who wore them. She lifted her gaze and found the man, with arms crossed together and wearing an irritated l
'That woman again! Doesn't she have decency? How dare that princess clings her filthy hands into someone else's arms and flirt with a married man?!'Aileen thought she shouldn't get mad because the King does not belong to her, nor does she love him, but still, the queen couldn't help but be furious. 'This is definitely jealousy, but should I be jealous? I do like his excellency a bit, but it was his 'Shaun' personality that I had fallen for,' says her inner voice."Such a generous king. Do you really have to interact with your peasant?" says Princess Elvira."That's a duty a king should do.""You're so humble. I would have been the luckiest queen if our engagement had pushed through.""In my world, she's a slut that anyone would hate. A typical actress who'll change partners as if she's changing clothes," Aileen murmured to herself. The King didn't say anything but glance at his wife. The princess noticed that Viishaun wasn't paying attention to her, thus she tried to throw another