Chapter: 410

Kaizen answered without hesitation at all,

“I’m proposing to you.”

There was silence in the banquet hall.

Normally, there would be murmurs or even exclamations.

It was such a shocking thing that the Emperor proposed to the former empress he divorced six years ago.

Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t even breathe.

Astelle was also shocked and looked at Kaizen.

A ten-year-old Kaizen appeared in her dusty memories.

The young crown prince handed over a necklace with blue jewels and proposed to her.

‘Astelle, marry me.’

She still vividly remembers the young prince who smiled with his youthful face.

Although it was an engagement made by the grown-ups’ calculations, Astelle felt blissful at that moment.

Ten years have passed now, and Kaizen was saying the same thing as back then.

“Marry me, Astelle.”

Why are you saying this?

Astelle felt doubts in the midst of the confusion.

Kaizen was noticing that Theor was Astelle’s son.

Nevertheless, he proposed to her. She didn’t understand.

‘Why are you doing this?’

Astelle was too confused to answer.

The first to respond to Kaizen’s words was the Marchioness of Croychen.

The Marchioness, who had been standing in the corner, suddenly ran forward.

“Your Majesty!”

The eyes in the banquet hall were focused on the shout.

“Your Majesty! Princess Astelle is raising an illegitimate child that she disguised as her nephew!”