The emperor's garden was said to be impossible even for the imperial family to enter without permission from the emperor. There, after the emperor passed away, no one could entered without the Empress Dowager's permission. But here I was sitting across with the Empress Dowager having a tea time. "Crown Princess, it wasn't that long after you got up after fainted so it must be hard for you," the Empress Dowager looked at me with her worried eyes. "Yes Your Majesty." "But even if you suffered such a pain, I think it's unnecessary for you to be angry with Lobelia. Isn't she your younger sister?" "The 2nd Princess has been acting to challenge my authority over the years. So it is normal for to me say that I gave her a little punishment as an example of respect. This is not what I'd love to do, but even there is a law to respect the one in the higher position in our empire." With my fast and steady remarks, the Empress Dowager went silent. I wasn't wrong, because that law existed and she was the one who made that law. "... Then I heard that you're holding the 2nd Princess' coming age ceremony and her marriage ceremony at the same time. What is going on exactly?" So this was the topic about, I remembered I already warned them not to let this issue leak. I wondered who dared to leak this story, I guessed I still couldn't trust anyone near me. "Recently, I heard that a quick marriage has become a fashion among the imperial people and the 2nd Princess said she wanted to find a good husband early on," I responded. "Lobelia is?" The Empress Dowager looked confused and shocked. "Yes. So please forgive my rudeness of my self righteousness," I bowed my head. "No. No. If so then you don't have to ask for forgiveness," the Empress Dowager said. "I also preparing for my own wedding ceremony so please do not worry," I intentionally mentioned about my proposal. "You?" The Empress Dowager now looked more interested and curious. "Yes. The day before the opening ceremony of my coronation, the Duke of Oncidium proposed me," I told her and behaved like a shy girl so I touched my cheeks as if they were flush red. The Empress Dowager was surprised once again by the unexpected person. "You mean the Duke of Lawrence de Oncidium? The Oncidium we know?" "Yes," I nodded with a shy smile. "Oh my God! This is truly a pleasant surprise!" When I mentioned about Lawrence as my suitor, the Empress Dowager couldn't stop giving me compliment and congratulation. "You have a good pair of eyes to know a good man. I hope Princess Lobelia will also find a good man too. I'm very excited!" "Please trust me. I will not disappoint Your Majesty."
So after the tea time with the Empress Dowager was over, I returned to my new Imperial Palace. This place was somehow looked several times wider than the main hall and it was said it's belong to the previous Empress. Poinsettia's real mother. The place decorated with gorgeous ruby as the main accessories and more luxurious than the other royal palace, but the most minded was that the room with a 'mobile portal' that only successive emperors and empresses could use. In this highly scientifically advance world, surprisingly that the emperors and empresses, kings and queens from the alliances could enjoy this privilege. The mobile portal where even nobles had never seen, was the crystal cutting edge science and technology, which was able to travel to the another kingdom in just 5 minutes. With this, the kings of the alliances used to move to the empire at important events and conferences. Of course, you must obtained permission first from the mobile portal before moving, or you'd disintegrate into the air or stuck in the portal forever. "Are you looking the mobile portal again today?" "Yeah. It's the coolest technology I've ever seen. Are all those who invented this gathered in the Tower of Scientists?" "Yes, it's a very closed place." "I want to go there one day." "If you are the Empress, you will have the chance to visit." "Well~ By the way, Sir Noah, I have to postpone my sword fight with you today," I looked at Noah. "It's okay. Do you have work to do?" Noah asked. "Ah, no. Lawrence is going to visit," I answered. In no time, Noah's expression became darkened, cold then fixed his expression again. Noah who was refused to see Lawrence excused himself first to the training ground. I knew that Noah was avoiding Lawrence. Noah who went back tremendously to propose me again was said to have flagged when he saw me returned to my room the next day barely exhaling, infused with blood pack. The whole three days he cried out, begging me to wake up. The first thing Noah heard from me who barely got up was, "Sir Noah, I can't marry you." Noah said that it's enough if I lived and he would stayed by my side and never ever left my side again. "I will never leave. I will be with Your Majesty until the day I die." "Haha, you're saying nonsense. But I like that way about you, but why do you think I'll throw you away? Don't worry. You are mine forever." At that remark, Noah sobbed on his knees for a long time, saying that he was relieved. After that, Noah really didn't leave my side for a moment and paid all his attention to me so as not to cause even the smallest problems. The only time that Noah left me was when the Duke of Lawrence Oncidium came to visit.
"Greeting to the little sun of the Empire," Lawrence bowed in respect. "Now that I'm Crown Princess, you finally have some respect to me. What happened to you today?" I looked at him. "I heard that you punished the 2nd Princess." "Is that rumor spread that far?" I faked my gasp. "The cry of the 2nd Princess has crossed the walls of the Imperial Palace and has already spread throughout the village. Please if you are so greedy to rise to the throne, why don't you do some kind of public sentiment management?" Lawrence couldn't held himself from frowning as he spoke. "If it's public sentiment about punishing the wrong character, then I don't want to get that kind of feeling," I said. "Excessive action will eventually lead to resistance," he replied. At that, I laughed and turned my head out the window. He came every day after I died and survived the coronation ceremony, as if he had already became my husband while trying to correct my behavior. "What gives you the right to tell me this or that?" I asked him. "There is no one will, so I who will be your husband have to step forward for Your Majesty's future," Lawrence answered. I twitched at his words, approaching Lawrence who was standing arrogantly on the marble floor with unpleasant face all the time. "Aren't you misunderstand some things?" I lifted his chin lightly with my finger. "There are three misunderstanding in total in that huge illusion of your head." I put my body closer to him as I spoke. He pretended to be cool but I bet he never met a woman who actively put herself above him. "First, you have mistaken that I like you." I trailed my finger on his chin and gently patted his moist lips. "Second, you must be mistaken as if you have claimed what's mine and trying to hold me tight." Lawrence turned to avoid my touch, but I grabbed his hair and made him to look straight at me. The man with the shameful face didn't know how lunatic I was going to treat him. "Third, I know something you didn't know that I know." At the last words of mine, his face harden quickly and he slapped my hand away. I was annoyed, I grabbed and dragged him to my room before I threw him off to the bed and kindly put a sharp knife right in front of his throat. "Is she your lover?" I asked him. "Don't you dare mention her with your dirty mouth," Lawrence threatened me. "I guess you really wish for a quick death, seeing how rude you treated me since the first day we met. Don't you forget that there are a lot of other man in the world," I told him. Lawrence proposed me because everyone knew that we kissed and spent night together, thinking that he had to take responsibility. If you spent a night with me, and eventually got married, you would be honored as a high rank nobleman. That's why Lawrence had no choice but to lose to me in the end. "I can spread the fact that you had a lover from the beginning that you hid," I threatened him. "..." He didn't say a word, but his eyes were glaring in anger and sadness. "Then answer me. You hate me that much until you chose to leave your lover and agreed to marry me?" "The way you're chasing me and embarrassing me was no different from a 5 years old kid who was trying to grab my attention. I didn't know how much embarrassment I would get if I endured more than this so I've became your man as you wish," he answered. "Why did you think like that?" I asked as I couldn't believe my ears. "Because you were in love with me, you were hurting me and eventually kissed me and brought me to your room when I was drunk," he said. "I don't care about you. It's my personal hobby to see someone suffer because of me." It seemed my remark had woke him up from his delusion so he asked. "..Why did you kiss me.." "You are handsome," I answered easily. "Did you do this to anyone?" He asked again. "Only you. But if I find another more handsome face, I'd probably will."
Then he shouted that he couldn't do this marriage ignoring the knife that was placed near his throat. "I will not forgive you if you try to ruin Sharon's life. I even kissed you, the enemy of the empire, and I thought that I had to take responsibility. But what you just said has blown me away. I cannot do this marriage! There is no reason to go further! Good then!" He simple turned my wrist, threw the knife and stood up from the bed. "You won't ever see me again. Please live with atonement." "So this is how you finally speak to Crown Princess. I will tell the Empress Dowager." He stopped to my words. "...What are you talking about?" "The end of your proposal and our marriage." His strong expression had collapsed as he turned to face me. "How the hell am I supposed to live peacefully?" "Just breath. I'm going to keep you by my side until the day the peacock loses breath." I smiled. Black hair and red eyes, a cold face that resembled mine. The rumored cold as ice peacock made a face that seemed to cry like a child. I loved it that I was going crazy, to destroy this man with my hand was as far as being self study. "I will do as you say so I can live." I liked how he suddenly changed his mind but I didn't believe Lawrence who just swore his allegiance to me in a crying tone. A man of integrity and innocence came to me, leaving his beloved lover purely on my side? Did he think fool of me? How could I got him tight in my hands, that's what I needed to find out.