What Your Majesty Desires - Chapter 00

On the wedding day, the bride died as she pleased.

Are you kidding me?

Hernis, having tea in the reception room, gave Rodri a cold stare upon hearing the tragic news.

“I’m so, so sorry to deliver such news as soon as you arrived.”

Rodri, the emperor of the Dextin Empire, which was on the brink of ruin, anxiously watched Hernis’s reaction, at a loss for what to do.

It hadn’t even been an hour since the princess took her own life, but more urgent than mourning his daughter’s death was appeasing Hernis, the prince of the neighboring empire.

“I don’t know how to console you. This is really.”

“……”

“This is a gift I was going to give you if we had the wedding tomorrow. It’s from the place where the highest grade of gold is mined in Dextin.”

“……”

From gold mine concessions to a blank contract promising to cede as much Dextin territory as he wanted. Each parchment on the table was filled with compensation to soothe Hernis’s disappointment.

But even with Emperor Rodri’s earnest explanation, Hernis didn’t even blink an eye.

“To dare to try to arrange a marriage between the Gler Empire and a dead woman.”

“N-no, absolutely not that.”

The order was wrong.

Until a month ago, when Dextin and Gler agreed to the marriage, the princess was perfectly alive.

Rodri hadn’t expected his daughter to suddenly die without any warning.

“Hernis, don’t misunderstand. The princess wanted to marry you, but she suddenly became ill recently…”

“Enough.”

Hernis cut off Rodri’s words mercilessly.

Rodri nervously stroked his white beard as Hernis’s crimson eyes grew increasingly murderous.

From the start, it was an unwanted marriage.

The other party was Hernis, the second prince of the Gler Empire, which had subdued the surrounding area with force.

The imperial family of the Gler Empire was notorious for their love of war, but Hernis’s name was especially infamous, with rumors that he drank blood instead of water.

There were even gruesome rumors that he had killed hundreds of women in bed for fun, and at one time, the emperors of neighboring countries hastily burned their daughters’ portraits to avoid catching his eye.

Rodri was no different.

No father in the world would offer his precious daughter as tribute to a madman like Hernis.

But Dextin was the unfortunate country ultimately chosen, and Rodri had no choice but to accept the marriage proposal to avoid war.

What was even more frustrating was that this whole mess had been started by an unknown old woman.

Recently, some crazy old woman appeared at the Gler Empire’s victory celebration banquet and declared that ‘Gler’s national fortune is running out, and if they don’t marry Dextin as soon as possible, they will be destroyed by the Dextin Empire instead,’ before disappearing.

Come on, there’s got to be a limit to how absurd it can be.

How could Dextin, which had been quietly wishing for peace and tranquility, not having fought a war for 200 or 300 years, suddenly dare to covet the Gler Empire unless they had gone crazy?

Especially the Gler Empire, which was obsessed with blood and war, constantly going on expeditions and celebrating victories.

But unfortunately, the ministers of the Gler Empire didn’t dismiss the crazy old woman’s words as nonsense, but rather accepted them as a prophecy, and immediately sent a marriage proposal to the Dextin Empire.

It was a bolt from the blue.

If the marriage didn’t happen, the Gler Empire would try to erase the Dextin Empire from the map altogether so that the prophecy itself couldn’t be fulfilled, so Rodri had no choice.

So he reluctantly accepted the marriage proposal.

He tried so hard to please the Gler Empire with the ceremony and dowry, fearing that Princess Talia would be despised if she went to Gler.

“I’m calling off the engagement.”

In the end, it was an annulment.

“At least a marriage should be with a living woman, don’t you think?”

The reason for the annulment was valid.

Naturally, all responsibility for the annulment lay with the Dextin Empire.

“Jerome.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

At Hernis’s call, the captain of his guard, who had been standing behind him, quickly walked to his side.

Rodri looked up at Jerome, who was wearing a red cloak, with an uneasy expression.

The fact that he was calling for the guard at this point meant.

“How do you calculate alimony for a fraudulent marriage?”

There was a clear intention.

Support What Your Majesty Desires