How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 37

It was Kaizen who invited Astelle first.

Astelle silently looked up at Kaizen who was bewildered.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. If you invited me just out of courtesy, I won't attend the ball if that's what you want."

"I didn't mean that."

At that moment, the confusion disappears from his sculptural face.

Instead, familiar irritation and anger were revealed.

"Do you think I'm going to do such a pretense to you? If you don't want to come, tell me not to come. Why did you......"

The angry voice gradually lost its strength and was cut off.

A feeling of embarrassment fluttered like waves in his red eyes like fresh blood.

Astelle said nothing.

For more than a decade of being engaged, Astelle has attended every ball, dinner, and soiree as Kaizen's partner.

She stood by his side countless times in countless banquet halls and ballrooms.

Kaizen has always followed social customs.

On the day of the prom, he reached out his hand and asked Astelle to be his partner.

Astelle, drunk with a friendly smile and courteous request, held his hand with a happy heart every time.

Was there sincerity even just once?

Astelle knew without even asking.

All that affection was just smoke that will soon go away.

Every time he smiled and held out his hand, he probably hid his displeasure, hoping Astelle would reject his hand.

Kaizen seemed to recall the memories of that time now.

Bitter remorse was revealed on his handsome face.

The lips that looked like they were drawn with a brush, opened several times as if to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.

A heavy silence fell in the hallway.

The memories of the old days that came like an uninvited guest separated the two of them in silence.

It was Astelle who broke the silence first.

"I'll go to the ball if it's okay with you."

Kaizen's startled eyes turned to Astelle.

She had no desire to participate in an event like a ball.

But she realized that an opportunity she hadn't thought of had arrived.

'The ball can be a great opportunity.'

If it is a ball, there will be a lot of people around.

Lots of people mean lots of eyes.

Astelle, as the world sees her, was the poor former empress, whom the emperor threw away in one day.

'It's because I want to send Grandpa and Theor back home first.'

So she picked a ballroom with as many people as possible to make sure she got permission from the emperor.

Kaizen, unaware of her intentions, seemed to be surprised again by her promise to attend.

He looked straight at Astelle for a moment, then averted his eyes.

"......yes, thank you for attending."

"......"

It was a greeting from the landlord after seeing the guests at the ball.