"I greet the sun and the moon of the empire" Duke Rian bow down to the emperor and empress as the moment they entered the room
"No need for that Rian!! How many times did I tell you to stop that I'm starting to get creep out" the Emperor said as he hugged himself and showed his disgust face to the duke
"Come on dear hahahahaha you are putting the Duke in a tight situation right now" the empress pat the emperor's back
The Duke just sigh as they settle down to their seats
"By the way, so how are the citizen reacting to the rumors?" the emperor asks as he adds sugar to his tea
"Rumors?" the duke look at him
"About Anasthashia being dead" the empress almost choked when she heard the name
"Well, some believe it and a lot of them don't" the duke put down his tea cup
"We can't blame them she is the most powerful mage around and also we can't present a body to the public since we know that she isn't dead" the emperor didn't pay attention to the empress to the point he didn't notice that the empress is tightly gripping his sleeves
"Dylan I know you are worried about the empress and for the soon to be born prince" the duke directly looks into his eyes
"But I don't think Ana will do something like revenge" the emperor twitch
"Even though you lied to her, broke her heart and didn't comply with your own promises to her, she will not go around and kill you since her family have sinned" the duke continues drinking his tea
"So you are saying that we are tie?" the emperor looks at his reflection in his tea
"Yes" the empress bit her lips and started trembling
"But... how can you be sure?" the empress asks the duke
"Hahaha that's a funny question your majesty" the empress look at him
"I grow up with her and I'm always by her side, it will be weird if I don't know" he smile sadly then the empress look at her husband who is also smiling sadly as if they are viewing the same memory of that person
"Well that's true... Ana didn't become greedy, she was an elegant lady and very beautiful hahahaha I must have been very lucky back then" the empress was hurt by the emperor's remarks
'How dare you think of another woman' she thought to herself but in the end she is well aware that she is the reason why the emperor didn't take anastashia as his wife
After the Emperor cleared his task he was ready to take it all and marry Anasthashia, one night when the emperor was drugged and couldn't move a single muscle, a woman came and took advantage of his state
"Rian" the emperor looks at his friend
"Let's be content with what we have now" the emperor smiles and holds the empress hand
"How about we take a date tomorrow Olivia?" Dylan smiles sweetly at her wife
"A date? Where?" Rian just observes the couple who are having their lovely dovely conversation
'Dylan, I gave up Ana because she loves you but maybe that was not the right choice... Did you really loved Ana?' He looks at the window and watches the trees dance with the wind
Rian became a dog not because of his friendship and loyalty to Dylan it was just because he wanted to show off to Ana, be by her side everyday and hear praises from her
"If Anasthasia is dead then there is nothing to fear now!!" a man who is full of gold accessories stand up and slam the table
"The only problem is the Duke, we all know that the duke is a madman I remember him going crazy and smiling while killing someone during the war" another man said who is wearing a black cape
"Well we can just set an agenda for the duke and attack when he is gone" a woman said as she poured herself a glass of red wine
"Did the magic tower agrees to help us?" a child enter the room while carrying his teddy bear
"Yes, they accepted it really quickly" the man who is wearing a black cape answered back
"Well they must have been angry ey" the man who is full of good accessories said and smiled
"The magic tower didn't join the war because Anasthasia was the leader, she ordered them to be loyal to the emperor and since they really respect her and her love to the emperor they obeyed her" the child walked towards a chair
"I pity her" the woman said and sigh
"She dearly loves him but because of her family, things f*cked up for her but even so didn't that man said he loved her back... so why didn't he took her and fight those dirty people who will go against them??" She drinks the wine and continues sighing
"Well it doesn't matter" the man who is wearing full gold accessories said
"What is important now that the empire is at its weakest point, it can be easily taken down" he added, the man who is wearing a black cape picked up his harp
"Hmp!! They thought they tamed us but the truth only her did" the child throw his teddy bear to the wall
"I want to crush them to the ground right now" his golden eyes shines in the dark