Chapter: 634

Astelle didn’t answer.

Kaizen let out a sigh and smirked.

“That’s exactly what your father would do.”

He must have been trying to make him think that Astelle desperately wanted a baby.

He seemed to guess that if he instilled such thoughts in him, the relationship between the two would improve again.

‘An ordinary aristocrat might find this interesting.’

Most nobles want to have many children even if they do not have a good relationship with their wives.

The family can prosper only if they have many children.

But he was no ordinary aristocrat, and this marriage was no ordinary marriage either.

There was no possibility that Astelle would want a child again now.

‘It will never happen.’

Until not long ago, there might have been a possibility. There was a ray of hope that their relationship would change in the future.

But now I know.

I don’t deserve that hope.

“My father did a useless thing and troubled Your Majesty. I apologize on his behalf.”

Astelle, who understood the situation, apologized with an embarrassed face.

“No worries. It’s not a day or two that your father does useless things.”

The garden was wet from the raindrops.

Kaizen sighed as he looked at the damp flower bed.

“People seem to misunderstand our relationship.”

“……I think so.”

He just avoided Astelle for a while so as not to bother her.

Within a few days, everyone misunderstands and makes up strange things.

Living as a married couple in the imperial palace was difficult.

“I will stay here tonight. I’ve come all the way here, but if I went back now, it would look even weirder.”