I Won’t Accept Your Regrets - Chapter 16

Early in the morning, the palace was busy moving.

It was because I was leaving the palace today.

I got Raymond’s permission, and I went to the last place I had to go yesterday.

So now I had no reason to remain in the palace.

I knew it would be odd to leave so soon, My ladies-in-waiting were embarrassed, but I thought it was right to leave the palace quickly

For the sake of someone who will leave and come into this palace in my stead.

Already, the palace has begun to be delirious about who would be the next empress.

The main character is, of course, Lizzena.

Now that I’ve divorced him, the Empress’s Seat was now vacant. However, there is no reason for Edmund to enter the palace as a prince, Otherwise he would be choosing the crown before his mother, Lizzena.

After a month or so after I’m gone, the nobles will ask the Emperor to bring in the new Empress to stabilize the empire.

At that moment, when I remembered Lize entering the palace, my fingertips hesitated while I was organizing my luggage.

‘…It has nothing to do with me now.’

No matter how long she lives in this palace as the empress, it has nothing to do with me.

I calmed down my restless mind and packed my little luggage.

And when I had just packed up all my luggage, Helan came into the room.

“Your Majesty, the Duke’s carriage has arrived in front of the palace.”

“Yes, I’m done too, so I think We’ll have to leave now.”

“Is that all?”

Helan’s eyes stopped at small bag.

For the empress who was leaving the palace, it was quite a small one, almost without any luggage. Everything in her bag all came from the Duke’s when she first entered the Imperial Palace.

“This is all.”

“Okay, Let me take it.”

“Okay.”

I handed the bag over to Helan and picked up a wide yellow hat. It was a hat that I used to wear often before I got married.

I put on my hat and looked at myself in the mirror.

She was seen wearing an ordinary noblewoman’s dress, not a dress with silver embroidery symbolizing the empress.

I felt a little strange at the moment, but I soon felt relieved.

I’m going to do many things that I’ve never done before because I’ve only seen Raymond back in my childhood.

I looked around the room I had been in for years and left the door without hesitation.

When I left the room, I could see that all the servants of the empress’ palace were out. They lined both sides of the stairs to the lobby and see off my last.

When I saw them off, I felt relieved that I was not a bad empress to the courtesans.

Slowly, I went down the stairs looking at every face of the courtesans and looking at me.

In the lobby I turned around and said a polite farewell o them.

“You’ve all worked so hard. I’ll tell your Majesty so that my people can get along in the palace. Take care of all those new helpers.”

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

I left the palace with a smile on my face after receiving the last greetings of the courtiers.

When Helan, who was leaving with me, saw the Duke trying to open the carriage door for her, I called her.

“Helan. You don’t have to open the door.”

“What?”

Helan looked around at me when I told him not to open the carriage door.

“The weather is nice, so I’d like to walk until I get out of the main palace.”

As I looked up at the cloudless blue sky, I smiled because I was happy with the shining sunlight.

The way out of the Moon Palace and the main palace of the Imperial Palace, was not too long, so it would not be a bad idea to walk in bright sunlight.

Helan closed the half-open carriage door and came up beside me. I stepped forward, telling the horseman to follow me.

It would not be difficult to leave the moon palace, Afterall, The Imperial (sun) palace was right beside it.

It was because the Imperial palace was blocking the way to the Moon palace, To keep it protected from the outside (behind the gates).

I could have met Raymond if I walked along the street, but I already knew exactly what Raymond was doing.

Now Raymond will be in a meeting with the Chancellor.

Raymond, who considers morning meeting time the most important thing, doesn’t care about anything else until the meeting is over.

So he won’t show up on the road or stare out of the window.

How long have I been walking, watching the sun break down on the road like that?

Before I knew it, the palace of the moon, the palace I stayed at, was getting smaller and smaller.

I stopped walking for a while, looking at the sun palace, which became closer.

“Raymond…”

In a low voice, She called out his name, making sure now one else could hear her,

I didn’t know it would end up like this.

She had already spent more than half of her life with him.

So how is it that most of our time together been so lonely?

There were certainly happy moments during our time together.

But our ending together had ended in vain.

I felt sorrow within my heart.

It was a pity for my past, where everything had been piled up so far, rather than for the lingering affection of loving him.

Because I couldn’t tell my past without him.

“Your Majesty, will you ride the carriage?”

Helan came up to my side and asked me nicely.

Helan’s gaze glanced at the sun palace and then toward me and seemed to read the bitter feelings on my face.

“……no, that’s fine.”

It was only when I walked on my feet that I had to leave the palace where he stayed and that I would be able to abandon the past and live a new life.

I took a step back from a distance looking near the Sun Palace’s house where Raymond was staying

“We heard that the crops grew more than the previous year due to a good harvest in the southern region of Purkan. From Yeongju to the Imperial Palace, Your Majesty?”

In the office of the Palace of the Sun, Marquis Bellux, who was re-elected to the honor Chancellor, stopped talking to Raymond because he was unable to concentrate on the meeting.

It’s been years since I’ve been working with Raymond, the emperor, but I’ve never seen him with an somber look before.

Is it because of the Empress?

The Marquis thought inwardly when he saw an emperor who could not even hear his own call.

The news of the emperor’s divorce had already spread throughout the empire, with no aristocrats unaware of it.

So of course, he knew.

I didn’t know that your Majesty was caring about the Empress like this.

In fact, I was a little surprised to see Raymond unable to concentrate.

Though Outwardly the relationship between the Emperor and the Empress seemed good, those who knew the inside story already knew.

That the Emperor doesn’t love the Empress.

The fact that the love between the Emperor and Lizzena, the Young-ae, was also a big factor between the relationship.

When the story of divorce came out, it was the reaction of the aristocrats that Lizzena, Young-ae, eventually returned and said that the king had chosen his first love.

So of course, I thought the divorce was what you wanted.

But the Emperor is now…..

The black eyes of Raymond met with the pupil of Marquis Bellux, who was still staring at Raymond’s side face in contemplation.

He looked at the emperor first with a small flutter of surprise.

“Where were we?”

“Oh, that’s what I was saying: The lord of the Purkan Territory was putting up tribute to the imperial family with a good harvest.”

“When did you tell me that there was a good harvest in Purkan?”

Raymond’s eyes on the Marquis grew sharp.

The Marquis flinched at the glare of his eyes, moving his lips slowly.

“……just now, I did. Your Majesty.”

“You did?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Raymond looked back at the scene of the Marquis slightly lowering his head. The Marquis looked at Raymond and nodded slightly.

The Marquis told me, but I didn’t hear it.

Raymond breathed a tired sigh.

I wanted to think that your concentration was off due to a few days of irregular sleep, but I knew it wasn’t.

It’s Ellie. Did she leave the palace already?

He said she would leave the palace today.

He said so.

There was no reason to care about it, so I let it go, but all my nerves were still directed at the empress.

Raymond spoke to the Marquis, who had a troubled look on his face.

“Let’s call it a day, This meeting is over, So let’s leave.”

“……Yes, Your Majesty.”

It was the first time since I sat on the throne that I broke the meeting halfway.

The Marquis, with a startling glance, left Raymond’s office with courtesy.

After reading Raymond’s discomfort, the Marquis kept it to himself..

Raymond breathed long, burying himself on the sofa.

“Did the Empress leave the palace?”

“I heard she left the palace at the beginning of the meeting.”

“By the time the meeting begins,······”

Raymond, who was burying himself on the sofa, quickly got up and walked to the window.

And he could see the small but clear back of Ellie outside the window.

He was not wearing the empress’s dress, but an ordinary noblewoman’s dress, but he could tell at once that she was Ellie.

She was that familiar.

“Really…You’re leaving.”

Is it loneliness or desperation?

A low voice mingled with indescribable emotions flowed from him.

“Your Majesty, are you really gonna be fine?”

The Chancellor asked him carefully.

“Are you all right, Ra···········.”

“…Yes I’m fine.”

Raymond could not take his eyes off Ellie’s back, which was now becoming as far away as a small dot, and answered the chancellor.

It was the answer to theChancellor, but he also said it to himself because he felt an unknown instability within himself.

Yeah, I’ll be fine.

Because I don’t love you?

But Raymond was able to draw attention from the window long after Ellie’s figure had disappeared.