Chapter: 257

The nobles that were gathered next to the emperor stood aside in amazement.

Kaizen, who had been drinking, belatedly turned to Astelle.

“Your Majesty.”

“Astelle? What’s going on?”

She bowed deeply before Kaizen in front of everyone.

And she began to beg.

“I beg Your Majesty, the Lord of the Empire, to have mercy on me.”

Now everyone in the banquet hall was looking at this side.

There was a look of embarrassment on Kaizen’s handsome face.

It surprised him.

As soon as the dance was over, Astelle turned around coldly then suddenly came to him with a request.

“What’s going on?”

Originally, Astelle was going to ask at the end of the ball.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, Kaizen asked for a dance, and everyone’s attention was focused.

‘If I stay here any longer, something strange may happen.’

So Astelle just decided to get Kaizen’s permission and go back right away.

Astelle slowly knelt in front of Kaizen and brought out the words she had prepared.

“Your Majesty, my maternal grandfather, Marquis Carlenberg is exhausted from traveling long distances.”

All the eyes of the people around were focused on this side.

Astelle continued with tears in her eyes.

“He is very ill and is bedridden. It hurts my heart to think that it is all because of me.”

With a pathetic expression on her face, she lowered her gaze and wept.

A tear ran down her cheek.

The former empress, who was expelled, is crying in front of the emperor because her old maternal grandfather is not feeling well.

It was a scene that looked pitiful enough.