Chapter: 44

Astelle attended a number of hunting competitions every year until she reached adulthood.

She remembered she had been out when she was almost seven or eight.

When she was eight years old she was sitting in a guest chair in a fancy dress wearing a corset, and she was so choked and frustrated that she cried and prayed for the show to end soon.

And she was later beaten by the Duke because she whined in a public place.

Astelle doesn’t have very good memories there, but that girl, Marianne seems only to have pleasant memories.

‘People’s tastes are really different.’

Astelle was curious and stared at Marianne for a moment.

At that time, Kaizen, sitting at the top of the seat, said indifferently, “When we were 17 years old, the hunting competitions were more magnificent.”

In an instant, everyone stopped moving.

As she paused without much thought, she looked at the emperor.

Kaizen asked Astelle calmly, facing her, “Don’t you remember?”

“I do not know.”

Of course, she remembered it.

That year’s hunting competition was really magnificent.

Kaizen showed off his excellent hunting skills as a great crown prince.

Astelle sat in the guest’s seat and waited for Kaizen all day long.

Until he returns and crowns Astelle with the flower crown symbolizing the Queen of Autumn.

At that time Astelle was no longer an 8-year-old child.

She was able to hold it all with a graceful smile even though her body aches because of the corset.

She chatted with the nobles who greet her in the form of a happy fiancee.

Kaizen didn’t come back until sunset.

But Kaizen had to decide the owner of the flower crown because he was going back to the imperial palace right away.

He picked up the flower crown and handed it to Astelle, who sat right next to him.

Then he went down the platform saying he was tired and went back to the imperial palace.

Astelle thought it was because he was tired of hunting.