“Your Majesty, this phenomenon usually occurs with children. Those children fall asleep thinking they’ll never wake up from their deep slumber. So they begin to fear the night and fear the thing so natural to us. I’m not sure why Her Majesty’s experiencing a similar case when she’s a grown adult now,” the court doctor said with tightened brows, “but in any case, I had tried to ease the symptoms of prescribing medical herbs that would ease her nerves, but to completely eradicate her insomnia, I will have to place the responsibility of finding the cause root of her problem to you, Your Majesty.”Ivan nodded.He knew already the true cause of her suffering. She said that her troubles began after the death of her mother, but in truth, it had to do with the life experiences of her past and the memories she retaiTed.The answer was obvious to see.For a fragile person like her who came back from the dead, how can she not be afraid of the dark?His eyes were full of complex emotions looking
“It matters not. Her Majesty has no power nor does she currently wield one. That she is the Queen Mother’s goddaughter means nothing!” a voice said snarkily.“You’re right,” one noble nodded and pondered over the matter, “Even after the wedding ceremony, Her Majesty attended the night party for a brief moment before returning back to the Queen’s Palace. Moreover, I heard our king was furious after learning that she’d gone to meet the Queen Mother without his knowledge not too long ago.”Another sighed musingly and looked down at the wine glass in hand. “It looks like their bitter relationship between His Majesty and the Queen Mother still remains. I wonder when they’ll make up again…”As the talks moved in full swing, the melodic musing stopped abruptly alongside the chattering lips gossiping here and there.The main attendant yelled at the top of his lungs and announced the majestic entrance of the king and queen.“His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen now enters!”The nobil
Before making their public appearance, Ivan had attempted to pacify his beloved wife sensing that she was wrought with anxiety and nervousness.Heaving a sigh replete with anxiety, she readily agreed to Ivan’s suggestions. At her consent, he immediately grabbed hold of her hand and did not let go. Unknown to her, his heart gushed with mellow happiness.What he told her afterward shocked her more than his suggestion. He said that so long as she held his hand tight, the eyes of the nobility will remain fixated on their hands that none would care to look at her.It seemed to prove successful too. When they sat down on the throne, Ivan did not let go of her hand. She had tried to sneakily pull her hand away, but Ivan would not budge.It was a fortunate case that all eyes were glued to their locked hands despite pretending not to. From the moment they made their appearance in public with hands locked together, the nobility immediately lost interest in the queen and vied to know their relat
Alicia threw away the memories of her past and stood up from her seat. She had many times to think over the past month. The one enlightenment she came to was the people who wreaked havoc in her life were no longer, and the Ivan of this present life was a different man.She believed in this truth well.The king and queen walked down hand in hand. Meanwhile, the nobles hurriedly moved aside to create an empty space in the middle.After bowing to one another, they stretched one side of their hand outwards and spun in a circle in the spot. Their eyes did not move a single inch away from each other. While they spun the other direction, their gazes did not falter.Ivan pulled Alicia’s hips closer to him and moved a step forward.He looked at her.She looked at him.Her lips were filled with genuine smiles.He smiled broadly as they danced.No matter who saw them, they saw nothing but a king and queen stripped off their status and was simply a man and woman deeply in love.“…It looks like Hi
However, the moment Mrs. Cessley left the area, another group keeping a close watch on the queen all throughout slowly made their way to her.Alicia looked at them. She recognized the young woman leading the group and immediately, her countenance hardeTed.‘Seraphina.’Seraphina Rissel.In the past, she was one of the leading nobles who mocked and showed her derisive comment behind her back and in secret. She was married then, but for odd reasons, she remained unmarried and without a noble partner in this present life.“Greetings, Your Majesty. I am the eldest daughter of Duke Rissel, Seraphina Rissel from the House of Rissel.”The air changed subtly at that moment.The nobles who could not get enough of the queen and talked in fervent shut their mouth tightly as if there was a lingering unspoken promise.Their eyes drifted towards Alicia and Seraphina back and forth, attempting to read the mood.They lay in wait seeing what would happen next.Alicia’s intuition beckoTed her that some
“I’m actually quite unaware of the situation abroad, thus I needed to bring myself to ask you that question, My Queen. If perhaps you found my comment distasteful and off-putting, forgive me.”Seraphina created an excuse of ignorance as means to escape in the case that she had been in the wrong should Alicia correct her, and should Alicia take offense to her words, Seraphina would merely say she had no intention of offending the queen while making a desperate plea as she cried crocodile tears to further enhance her innocence.Alicia studied Seraphina Rissel carefully and her people. They were daughters of nobles at a ripe age for marriage. Their emotional eyes contaiTed rage and jealousy targeted towards her, not like the noblewomen surrounding her.But why were they angered and jealous?The answer soon fell.It was anger and jealousy that they’d lost their chance of becoming queen.Ivan was a talented young man popular in terms of marriage candidacy among the unmarried women, so much
Gone was the dreadful air. The atmosphere turned cheerful and joyous and the talk of the king’s deep care for the queen as well as regards of consolation for Alicia’s deceased mother.Seraphina, whose sole intent had been to insult the queen had resulted in the nobility sympathizing with her due to her tragically sad past. Her face hardeTed the more the nobility comforted and extended their hearts out to their queen. She bit her lips in anger when a thought formed in her pretty, little head and she immediately smiled smugly.“Your Majesty, is it not a fact that both your parents are buried in that place?” Seraphina asked.Alicia nodded. “Yes. After my father passed away, both laid to rest in that same place. I gave them my heartfelt greetings and plan to do so each visit.”Seraphina’s lips raised slightly. “Then why do you speak of your mother and not your father? Ah, I think I know why. After Her Majesty’s mother passed away, you had chased your father out of his own home. Am I corre
“Hm? A mistake, you say? It did not seem to me that your daughter spoke such things on a slip of the tongue, Duke Rissel,” Alicia said with a slight smile, pointing out that his daughter, Seraphina, had yet to apologize to the queen properly.“Apologize sincerely to Her Majesty now!” Duke Rissel swiftly turned to Seraphina and scolded her strictly.Hearing her father’s orders, Seraphina shut her two eyes tightly and clenched her fist. She knew the only way out of the hole she buried herself in was to offer her sincerest form of apology to the queen, and should the queen accept her apology and forgive her of her unbecoming behavior, the queen, in consideration of her dignity, will not speak to the king of her problematic way.Seraphina kneeled on one knee.Meanwhile, the nobility near her and those watching her from afar with piercing eyes kept quiet and fanTed themselves.Seraphina the noblewoman had been the one to control the rumor mills and social circles to her will and decree, bu