I’m In Trouble Because My Husband Is So Cute - Chapter 70
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Chapter 70
“Be mindful of your words, Lady!”
“Your Majesty is the one who has not been mindful of your words.”
Iellie responded without wiping the smile on her lips. She continued to speak her words in a playful tone.
“For me, only my husband, Young Duke Hessenweitz, Zachary always has priority.”
“Lady. Even if I care about Lady, I want you to keep in mind that there are limits.”
Iellie stared at the Emperor with a cold gaze. He couldn’t wield her as he pleased, so now he was threatening her?
“If you don’t understand this, our conversation will always run parallel.”
“Be courteous—!”
“Ah… If I sit here like this, I think I will really forget the courtesy to Your Majesty.”
She responded in a soft tone. Then, Iellie glanced at the Emperor’s face, which was burning bright red, pathetically.
“So, your Majesty. I’ll just go.”
“Who can go first?!”
The Emperor, who shouted loudly, grabbed her wrist. He clenched it so tightly that her wrists began to throb and hurt. As Iellie swallowed the moan with her teeth, she shook off her wrists and replied.
“Above all, Your Majesty…”
“What nonsense to say…!”
“Your Majesty doesn’t like me as a human being.”
For the first time, the Emperor stiffened at those words. It felt like he was being stabbed in the secret part of him that he hated the most.
“Because I am the wife of Young Duke Hessenweitz, is that why you want to take me away…?”
Iellie stared at his face. Her pale green eyes were so clear that they seemed uncomfortable.
“…Like loot?”
At that, the Emperor grabbed her shoulder. How strong was that grip, she let out a low moan.
“Ugh…!”
“Are you done?”
The gray eyes lit up. The gaze glimmered in a strange light as the Emperor chewed his words, “How can Lady give away my feelings like that?”
“…Let go of my arm, Your Majesty.”
“I can’t stand it any longer. Somehow, I’ll make you…”
His expression softened for a moment. The Emperor frowned and asked a question.
“But, you…”
Iellie really didn’t understand the Emperor’s expression. The Emperor, narrowing his eyes, murmured a little.
“…Why are you so impudent?”
“You’re talking as if you’re seeing hallucinations.”
Dumbfounded, she shot back. The Emperor’s mouth got twisted.
“You are a really interesting woman.”
“Your Majesty?”
“As expected…I want to make you my woman somehow.”
At that little mutter, Iellie wrinkled her face. Meanwhile, The Emperor was in deep thought.
‘She was someone where my power didn’t work at all… It’s the first time I’ve seen it.’
He was born with the ‘Asha’s Blessing.’ That power to draw favor from all. Its power applies to all, except for the blood of Hessenweitz that was outside of the imperial influence.
‘…Like last time, she wasn’t affected by ‘Asha’s Blessing’ again this time.’
A little girl resembling an Asha flower. The pale green eyes that harbored a sign of contempt were transparent.
“Though sooner or later, the effect will appear.”
“Effect…?”
“Even without ‘Asha’s Blessing’.”
Murmuring so, he then caressed Iellie’s cheek with a relaxed voice. It sounded like he was expecting something.
“You’re going to be affected by drugs?”
“That, what…?!”
The moment she cried like that, Iellie felt her eyes spinning as she opened her lips and asked.
‘Did he mix the drugs at the tea and refreshments?’
She did not know that the Emperor would act recklessly to this extent. Even though she was trying to shake off the Emperor somehow, she couldn’t control her body at will. The Emperor whispered at her, biting her teeth.
“Don’t worry too much. All I want is a rumor.”
‘Rumor?’
Even in her hazy mind, she felt something ominous. The Emperor spoke in a proud tone.
“I intend to create a rumor that there is a secret relationship between the Lady and me.”
“What…is…that?”
“Your honor is ephemeral and beautiful… just enough for rumors to damage it.”
…An honor that could only be damaged by rumors. At that moment, Iellie realized what the Emperor was about to do. The light green eyes opened wide.
He uttered, stroking her cheek gently.
“Still, I will try to treat Lady like a gentleman in my own way.”
“What…are you—”
“I don’t think I want to go to bed with Lady yet, so I’ll put it off.”
The way he talked was like giving her great generosity. The Emperor embraced her as if she were his pet.
“Honestly, most things happen just by rumors. So…”
In his arms, Iellie felt goosebumps rising.
His languid voice reached her ears.
“Soon, everyone will believe that Lady and I have feelings towards each other.”
“Let me go—!”
Iellie struggled with all her might. She, of course, was only thinking that she had struggled, though in fact, her body wasn’t even moving by a finger.
The Emperor laughed bitterly at her.
“You seem to be losing some energy. Your eyes are blurred.”
“Za, Zachary…!”
“Aha, the Young Duke.”
He shrugged his shoulders lightly at her. Iellie glared at the Emperor with all her might.
“However, the Young Duke is not here now.”
‘Damn it!’
Even though she wanted to shake him off somehow and run away, her body didn’t want to move. The Emperor rolled his eyes at her desperate attempt.
“Indeed, after today…”
His gray eyes scanned her slowly from her head to her toes, and the Emperor burst out laughing.
“…Will the Young Duke believe that nothing happened between me and you?”
Hearing the Emperor’s gentle question, Iellie was engulfed in the urge to scratch that face right away. A sinister look that permeated the gray eyes and that indecent affection. Those creepy eyes entangled her whole body that she couldn’t move.
Iellie opened her lips.
“Iellie.”
‘Don’t call my name!’
Iellie wanted to shout like that. Still, her body did not move according to her will. The Emperor, who gently grabbed her chin, gazed straight into her eyes. Gradually, his face drew closer to Iellie.
A cold sweat was running down her spine.
“A man is a possessive being, Lady.”
The Emperor whispered from a distance close enough to touch the tip of her nose. She could feel his hot breath. As if he was about to swallow her lips at any moment, a sluggish voice clung to her ears.
Iellie shuddered.
“…You’re right. Your Majesty.”
At that moment, a cold voice was heard.
For a moment, the Emperor turned to the side where the source of the voice came from, startled. Zachary was standing there. The bright blue eyes glared at the Emperor as if he was going to tear him to shred.
“A man is indeed a possessive being.”
‘…Zachary!’
Iellie only moved her lips.
Zachary came closer one step at a time. Every footprint he left was covered in ice and frost. The air got cold in an instant. The air was like a sharp spear piercing the lungs. Even on the falling Asha petals, a pure white frost was formed.
Iellie swallowed her breath.
‘What is Zachary going to do?’
At that time, she had just met Zachary. The memory of his rampage at the Asha Festival suddenly came to mind.
‘I think he lost his temper a bit now…’
Then or now, she wasn’t afraid of him either way. However, it was just like that back then. Zachary, who ran wild because he couldn’t control his feelings, was later hurt by what he had done.
‘…I have to stop him.’
With that thought, she swallowed her breath. Nonetheless, it was difficult for her whole body to lift even just a single finger due to the drug she was given.
“I can’t believe you are doing this knowing that I am possessive.”
He tilted his head at an angle and opened his mouth. The blue-edged eyes are slantingly curved.
“I don’t know what Your Majesty is thinking.”
“Well, Young Duke. Don’t get me wrong.”
Nevertheless, the Emperor was still smiling brightly. He continued his words in a soft voice.
“It wasn’t me who seduced her first, but Lady Hessenweitz.”
‘What…!?’
Iellie was furious with her.
‘Nonsense!’
This was pushing the blame to the victim! Despite that, even if she wanted to protest, her body just would not move. It was as if her mind was trapped inside a hardened body.
“…Iellie seducing Your Majesty?”
Eventually, Zachary softly opened his mouth. Iellie swallowed her breath. She could feel the cold grazing her fingertips.
‘No way, will he misunderstand me like that?’
…No. Even if no one else knew, Zachary wouldn’t misunderstand. He would believe her. Iellie believed so. Meanwhile, the Emperor didn’t seem to think so. He nodded his head vigorously.
“That’s right.”
“….”
“Because the Lady behaved like that… You don’t know how upset I was.”
Zachary was silent.
With him in front of the Emperor, he began to speak at will, “I think she drank a little too much. She was gibberish and fell asleep like that.”
‘That bastard—!’
Hearing those words, Iellie was so angry that she felt like she was about to run out of breath. But, compared to her fiery mind, her body couldn’t even lift a finger. Zachary stared at the Emperor with a blank expression.
“Now that this has come to pass, why don’t Young Duke end the marriage?”
“End the marriage…?”
“That’s right.”
The Emperor’s eyes glistened with greed. From the beginning, he was aiming for this, to somehow take Iellie for himself. Then, the vacant position of the next Duchess would be filled by Princess Annerose.
‘Annerose, that girl is a child who would die while I say it.’
He laughed bitterly. As long as Annerose could interfere with the Duke’s internal affairs, the annoying County Lorraine could be disposed of.
The Emperor had a laid-back face and looked at Zachary in his eyes.
“To be honest, Lady’s family is more lowly than Young Duke’s family…”
“….”
“…It’s because you don’t even have an heir between the two of you yet.”
Even that fact was satisfactory to the Emperor. The two got married at a very young age and had recently come of age. In addition, the strict Duke did not allow the two people who had not reached the age of maturity to make their relationship work.
So, he could ask Annerose to have a baby as soon as possible.
The Emperor muttered happily.
“It would be nice to have a marriage that you couldn’t do before.”
The marriage that was destroyed by the monster itself, saying it was impossible to send the woman of the Imperial Family…?
Zachary laughed coldly.
“Won’t a woman with the blood of the Imperial Family be suitable for the only Duchy in the Empire?”
Regardless, the Emperor had a knack for interpreting everything in a positive way for him. He, who interpreted even Zachary’s sneer as a favor, smiled. Because of that, Zachary’s eyes narrowed even more.
“I’m not saying it because it’s my sister, but because she looks just as good as the Lady.”
He was appreciating his sister like a merchant selling things.
The Emperor smiled brightly as he added, “She has a modest personality, so she will not disappoint the Young Duke in many ways. So…”
“Your Majesty.”
Finally, Zachary cut off his words. The Emperor’s face was bewildered at his cold attitude.
“You have a lot to say.”
“Young Duke Hessenweitz?”
“But, to hear everything Your Majesty has to say… I thought my ears would rot.”
Zachary laughed. The air cooled once more. It was difficult to believe that it was a bright spring day and a relatively warm southern part. White breath was flowing from their mouth even in the capital, Lippen, where snow rarely falls even in winter.
“…Young, Young Duke?”
It was then that the Emperor realized that he had misunderstood something… It was then that he realized the emotion that was seeping into Zachary’s eyes.
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