Chapter Four - The Emperor's Story, Part II

THIS IS BAD!

I haven't developed my telekinesis yet, because my body is still too young, so I can't communicate with him.

So he'll tell them that I'm his child, and all the kids will hate me.

Davey and the other five kids are already one year old.

And, I don't look like Eirwen at all.

The last thing I want right now is the male lead's hatred directed at me.

"Why are you looking at me as if you were annoyed by my suggestion?"

Because I am!

"Don't you like the option of being my illegitimate daughter?"

I denied it hard and he laughed.

"Then we have to think about something else."

I smile at him, trying to thank him for understanding me or at least trying to and he smiles back.

"By the look at your face, I can see that you like this better. Then, what if I just adopt you and grant you the princess' title?"

I see you can use your head properly.

Now we're talking, I nodded.

"Yes, this looks better. At least, like this, Davey, my older son, and heir can be considered a worthy love interest to you."

What the hell is he's saying?

I can't be with the freaking male lead!

I'm supposed to change the story but not to this degree, so, unfortunately, I'm out of his league.

"Do you want me to let the people know about you?"

Why would I want that?

It would be better if I can act in the shadows, it would give me a lot of freedom.

Something I wouldn't have otherwise.

I denied it.

"No? Then you want me to only let the people in the castle know about you?"

I nodded, this way I'll still be deprived of doing several things, as I'll be considered a princess, and once the people in the castle will know about it, they'll have to respect me and treat me like my position demand.

But at least I'll be able to do a lot of things that as an official and known princess I wouldn't be able to. And if I befriend the servants, I'll be able to do way more.

"You like your freedom, right?"

Of course, I do.

Who doesn't?

I nodded.

"I understand. Being an official royal is bothersome, once we can't do much, being the target of everybody's judgment, without saying about the deep pressure in our shoulders to always act like an example and never fail."

Little he knows that his son will suffer a lot with this.

But not so much if it depends on me.

Someone knocked on the door and when he allowed the old maid to enter, she was bringing our dinner.

There was a plate with hot soup, a cup with water, and a baby bottle containing what looks like warm milk.

A baby like me should drink her mom's milk, but if I drink this it won't be bad, once I'm an immortal, it won't make me sick or anything.

"My name is, Konan, I'm the inn owner. We saw that you had a baby with you, then we took the initiative to bring warm milk to her, the baby bottle it's clean so you don't have to worry."

She's kind and has good energy emanating from her.

"Thank you, very much, can you..."

"Of course, I can give it to her."

She looked at me with a lovely smile and I felt my heart warm, I smile at her and she held me.

"What's her name?"

"It's Evie."

"Evie... what a beautiful name, just like her. She must look like her mother, I supposed."

Haha- not at all.

I'm just like my father's copy, that beautiful and arrogant evermore.

At least this is way better than if I looked like my mother, with her golden hair and her emerald eyes.

"Yes, she's identical to her mother."

What a joke.

"How old is she?"

"Eight months."

He talked with such a conviction that if I didn't know better, I would believe that we're father and daughter.

"Then she was born in the early winter, it suits her hair which is white like the snow."

Oh, thank you.

It's strange to see people talking about me, in front of me, when I can't talk at all.

"And her eyes are stunning as a pair of rubies."

I loved this complement the most.

Because I am indeed stunningly beautiful.

Well, I was gorgeous as a grown-up woman, so I must be beautiful as a baby too.

"She will make a lot of boys fall for her in the future."

For my father's sake, I hope you're right.

"I think you're right, she will give me a lot of trouble when she becomes a woman."

Trouble?

I'll be a saint for as long as I live with you.

Now, your son yes, he will win the heart of all the girls around him, but he'll only want one of them.

That is, Lexie White.

"Thank you for the milk, Mrs. Konan."

"Don't worry, I'll make another bottle so she can drink if she wakes up in the middle of the night, and another one for breakfast."

She's such an angel.

And yes, I loved the warm milk.

"Thank you again, Mrs. Konan, I'll pay you for this tomorrow morning."

He said with a kind and beautiful smile.

If she was a younger woman, she would have fallen for this idiot.

"No need, I just love kids. I'll take your plate to the kitchen."

She took his empty plate, the spoon, and my baby bottle.

She carefully kissed my forehead, then I gave her my big and cute smile.

Then she left the room.

"Your smile won her heart."

I know, I know.

He laughed and I rolled my eyes, feeling my fluffy cheeks warm.

"It's funny because I know that your soul and mind are already twenty years old in a baby's body."

When I've read the book, never did I thought that the emperor would be such a childish guy.

It's a welcome surprise.

"I'm already anxious to see you when you start to talk."

We're two then.

But don't you worry, I'll be able to speak telepathically to you in no time.