I Don't Want Your Majesty

III

Asil was pissed as he make a mess in the Empress' garden.

I'm not a gardener! He screamed inside his head as he treated the plants like the enemies he encountered in the battlefield.

He doesn't know how to trim because what he think is, trimming is equivalent to cutting. So this whole thing is messed up for him.

He looked at the rose in his hand, it was poorly cut and it has a lot of thorns. If Livia was to hold it, surely her delicate soft fingers would bleed. But Asil didn't think of it because he has a rough hand and tough skin.

"What do you think you're doing!?"

A scream from his back was heard. He knew whose voice it belongs to and he just rolled his eyes.

"Well hello there Empress." He greeted and gave her a wicked smile. He didn't even bother to bow or kiss the back of her hand as a greeting.

The Empress looks around and she almost fainted. The garden that she loved very dearly was destroyed by the Crown Prince.

"What do you think you are doing right now Crown Prince! How dare you come here without my permission!? Not only that, you also made a mess in my garden!"

The Empress was livid and her face was red from anger, it's as if at any moment, the veins that can be seen on her forehead would pop out. With that thought, Asil was amused.

He likes getting in the Empress' nerves.

"Well I just wanted to pick up some flowers, however, since my palace was left unattended for who know for how long, I think that the Empress would be generous enough to give me some of her lovely flowers."

He was saying that the Empress neglected her duty to take care of his palace in his stead while he's in the battlefield risking his life for the whole Empire, she's sheltered in her palace doing nothing but to plot against him.

It was obvious that taking care of the Imperial's internal affair was the Empress' duty. Managing the Palaces was one of them. But because the Empress hated the Crown Prince, why would she take care of his palace? She was even the one who suggested that the Emperor should send Asil to the battlefield and hope that he'd die there.

"I don't remember being this close to a bastard like you to just casually go in my palace!" She screamed again.

"Don't be like that mother, it won't be long till you'll get ahold of this place anyway."

Asil gave the Empress a knowing look, but the Empress was confused. After picking up a bunch of flowers while the Empress is lost in her thought, he quickly ran away as soon as his job is done, and that is to pissed off the Empress and to get the flowers.

It was only then that the Empress knew what Asil was talking about.

Her eyes widened and her body trembled.

Don't be like that mother, it won't be long till you'll get ahold of this place anyway.

The Crown prince was saying that once he married his spouse, he will kick her out of this place because she would no longer be the Empress...

That darn thing... How dare he do this to me...

The Empress was fuming with anger when she returned to her throne room. What Asil said was impossible, as long as the the current Emperor, her husband is still alive, he won't easily get the throne. The only way to dispose of her is to either kill her, or to kill the Emperor...

He'll have to kill a lot of people before he could successfully take that damned throne. And I am not going to let him have what my son deserves the most...