How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 73

What kind of life has Astelle been living for the past six years?

After getting a divorce, being expelled from the imperial palace, abandoned by her family, and wandering alone, how did she end up having a child?

Questions poured in endlessly, but regret and sadness preceded the questions.

A princess, a former empress, abandoned by her family, gave birth to and raised a child alone in poverty.

Kaizen couldn't even imagine how Astelle had to endure the whole process.

It was too much of an ordeal for a woman who grew up to be a princess all her life.

No, it would be difficult for any woman to bear it.

And it was Kaizen himself who started and provided the cause of it all.

The undeniable truth tormented him terribly and made him endlessly angry.

"Your Majesty, I'm going in."

The door opened with a careful knock.

It was Vellian.

Vellian entered the office and shook his head as if tired of looking at the pile of papers on the desk.

"Have you not slept all night?"

"I just finished it all."

Kaizen answered without looking back.

He couldn't sleep all night as he was finishing up the paperwork.

It was because of a lot of work being delayed.

But while he was holding on to work, his heart was still full of pain.

"What happened?"

"As you said, I sent someone to find out."

Vellian continued, "He came to a while ago......and he said he found a midwife."

"Then?"

A moment of silence passed.

Vellian said in a voice as cautious as possible, "As expected. The person who gave birth to the Young Master Theor is Lady Astelle."

The subordinate hurried to the old midwife to investigate Theor's birth.

The midwife who received the baby was an old woman who looked to be in her seventies.

The old midwife remembered exactly that five years ago, she was called to the mansion of the marquis in the eastern countryside and assisted with delivery.

Even though she had a little trouble remembering the mansion's structure and the baby's gender and appearance, she said she heard a mother who was suffering from birth clearly calling the marquis her grandfather.

She added that the mother looked like a very noble lady.

After the work was done, the old marquis even gave her a lot of money to keep that work a secret.

"......"

Vellian was really afraid that Kaizen would be very angry.

The emperor had been crazy about Astelle for some time.

He was so crazy that he covered secretly the work of the Duke of Reston, who had plotted the assassination.

But, Astelle have a child with another man.

'Theor, who was introduced as her nephew, is actually her son.'

Vellian himself was shocked when he found out about that fact. He couldn't even imagine how angry the emperor was.