How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 2

6 years ago, when Astelle found out she was pregnant, her first feeling was tremendous fear.

"Am I pregnant?"

She couldn't believe it at first.

How? She's sure Kaizen took birth control pills.

"There is a chance that such a drug will fail."

The pharmacist explained that it was possible.

Even if they both take medicine, she still could become pregnant.

Astelle listened to the explanation in fascination.

It was about two months after her divorce.

She set up a new home in a quiet place and lived alone, but she still couldn't block news from the rest of the world.

Astelle learned that with the death of the emperor, the peace of the empire had disappeared.

The previous gloomy and good emperor did not try to suppress the power of the great nobility.

In fact, he had no ambition or ability to do so.

But Kaizen was different.

It was only after he became the emperor that everyone learned this young emperor was different from the previous emperor.

A month after he became emperor, Kaizen discovered the corruption of Duke Milstad, the weakest of the strongest nobles, and destroyed his family.

After that, he continued to purge the powerful nobles one after another.

Kaizen wanted to get rid of all the great nobles who threatened the emperor to gain power.

He also proved that he was capable.

The high lord of the north caused a revolt but was then suppressed by the emperor's army, and his entire family was then annihilated.

All those who watched while holding their breaths would know.

The days of the former emperor and some powerful houses being balanced in power were over without any major problems.

From that time on, imperial politics were divided into two factions. The emperor's group, made up of new bureaucrats who supported the emperor, and the aristocratic group of great nobility. The two fractions fought fiercely.

Astelle's father, Duke Reston, naturally became the head of the great nobles.

'If I tell you that I'm pregnant...'

What will happen to this child?

She was no longer the empress.

However, the child was the emperor's child and was the only heir to the present day.

Astelle quickly determined the situation.

Knowing that she had a child, her father would make this child emperor and become a regent.

And if Kaizen finds out that the child in her stomach is a threat to him, Kaizen will try to get rid of this child.

She couldn't expect either side to care or protect the child.

Astelle couldn't let her child be used in political battles.

She did not desire to leave her child's life to men crazy about power, and only watch in fear.

She was abandoned by both the emperor and her father.

The child was all she had left.

'It's not the emperor's child, it's my child. I will protect this child and raise it with my own hands.'