Chapter: 396

She bowed her head lightly with a smile on her face.

“I will take your orders, Your Majesty.”

***

Kaizen was watching Astelle as she left.

Astelle went upstairs with Fritz.

Guests stayed in the banquet hall until the ball started, or spent time in the parlor or balcony near the banquet hall.

There was still time until the ball started, so Kaizen wanted to spend some time in a quiet place for a while.

Now, at the ballroom, Astelle was only a subject of curiosity and was not welcomed.

The moment Kaizen met Astelle, complex emotions were mixed into one.

He hated Astelle and resented her.

‘She was raising a child by herself.’

On the day of the reunion after six years, it was ridiculous to think of Astelle, who introduced Theor as her nephew with such a shameless face.

Who is the child’s father?

According to what he found out when researching Astelle’s whereabouts, there was no man by Astelle’s side for the past six years.

Judging from that, it seems that she did not have a deep relationship with the child’s father.

Seeing that he left behind a woman who had given birth to his own child, he must not have been a proper human being.

And Astelle gave birth to such a man’s child.

The more he thought about it, the more he was furious.

On the other hand, he felt sorry for Astelle.

After being abandoned by her family, the duke’s daughter, the princess of the empire, gave birth to a child without a father.

Kaizen could not have imagined how difficult it must have been for her to give birth and raise a child because she was not well-off.

Astelle couldn’t even tell that he was her own child.

Conflicting emotions confused his mind.

However, in the midst of confusion, one thing was certain.

Kaizen didn’t want Astelle to suffer because of this.