Chapter: 788

Her head was throbbing, but she turned down Hannah’s offer to bring her some tea, and she was left alone in the tea room.

She wanted to rest for a while alone.

But there was no time to rest quietly.

After a while, Naen rushed to her.

“Your…… Majesty.”

“Naen? What’s going on?”

“I have something to tell you,” she said.

Panicked, Naen reported to Astelle about Vellian who had come to visit her a while ago, and questioned her about the last poisoning incident.

Astelle listened carefully to Naen’s long explanation.

“He must have come to see you when I was away on purpose.”

Maybe Florin told Vellian something?

‘How shameless.’

Although it was not meant to harm the prince, bringing poison into the Imperial Palace is a grave sin.

She was not severely punished considering the Croychen family had contributed a lot to the Empire. If she had been an ordinary maid, she would have been executed simply for bringing poison in secretly.

“So, if you have something to say, he asked you to tell him?”

“Yes, he certainly said so.”

There was no way Vellian had come to Naen just to reveal Florin’s injustice. He must be suspicious of Astelle and want to investigate her. Or he’s trying to find something that could be her weakness.

‘Because he doubted me from the beginning.’

There was also a time when he tried to find out Astelle’s secret during the journey to the capital.

She knew he was doing it for Kaizen, but he was a needlessly annoying person.

‘What should I do?’

The two ministers had been expelled due to issues related to Astelle herself.

However, if Astelle traps the emperor’s aide and drives him out, the opposition among the nobles will intensify.

But I can’t just let it go.

“Thanks for letting me know, Miss Naen.”