How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 4

"That's why I was looking for you, and you ran away as soon as I sent someone, so I searched the North and the East for two months."

It was for that purpose.

It wasn't a particularly big deal.

It was a simple task to go to the capital and sign a consent form in front of judges and priests.

That's okay.

Theor will meet Astelle's maternal grandfather in the middle and returns home first, Astelle only needs to go there alone.

Astelle quickly cleared up her thoughts, pretending to be sorry, and bowed her head.

"I'm sorry, I was scared because I thought it was my father's order."

"Are you afraid of your father? Your father, now the only Duke of the Empire, said he didn't even know if his daughter was alive or dead," Kaizen shed cold ridicule.

Over the past six years, the great nobles lost their titles.

Now the only duke left in the empire was her father, Duke Reston.

Astelle thought her father must have worked hard to survive without losing his title to the end.

Duke Reston was originally a smart man. He was trusted by the previous emperor and enjoyed the greatest power among the great nobles.

"I haven't met my father in 6 years. I thought something happened to my family and I will be punished too."

Kaizen was not a compassionate emperor. Families stigmatized for treason were locked up in convents or made slaves.

Whenever she thought of some of the families that had been so ruined, Astelle got goosebumps.

If her father finds out about Theor's existence......if he raises Theor and causes a rebellion, not only Astelle but also Theor will die.

But Kaizen sighed briefly at Astelle's words.

"I'm not going to punish you. No matter what your father has done, you......" Kaizen blurred his words.

There seemed to be nothing to say in particular.

'What would you say? We're no longer a couple.'

After a while, Astelle broke the silence.

"I will follow Your Majesty's command."

It was something she couldn't refuse anyway.

The emperor came to find her himself.

"Instead, I have conditions too."

Kaizen had predicted that such words would come out of her mouth.

"What is that?"

"Please return the pension of my maternal grandfather."

Her maternal grandfather, Marquis Carlenberg, lost his estate after being enslaved during the former emperor, Kaizen's grandfather, and was deprived of his pension after Kaizen became emperor.

It was because he was a relative of the great lord of the North who caused the revolt.

Thanks to that, her maternal grandfather was living in poverty in retreat in an old mansion on the far eastern edge.

Astelle used the money she earned by embroidering or growing herbs to support her maternal grandfather.

"Okay. I'll take care of it right away."

"And please send me and my nephew back when the empress dowager's will is resolved."

"I can't do that, but I'll give you a place to live in the capital, and I'll give you an estate, so you can live in the capital with the income......"