Duke Metis’ residence within the Empire wasn’t far-off. As he noticed Monica, who took his daughter from the morning, Sagan couldn’t conceal his suspicious face.

Stella’s look appeared horrible. The nail marks on her face, her chapped lips, and what number of occasions she cried till her throat was hoarse and her eyes had been swollen in order that she couldn’t open them.

“Ah……Father!” Stella cried so laborious, clinging on to her father as quickly as she noticed Sagan and the Empress who had an detached expression.

Sagan was in a position to guess what was occurring loosely and swallowed his sigh, “To start with, I’ll discuss to the Empress, so that you go and get some relaxation.”

“Father!”

“That’s okay. I’ve listened to you adequate, so go forward and ask your mom to maintain you.”

Solely then did Stella nodded her head with a face filled with tears. The spoiled perspective of his youngest daughter didn’t disappear even with age. Monica, who noticed her, simply kicked her tongue.

After the maid might someway persuade Stella to go away, Sagan bit his lip.

“What’s occurring?”

“Is there something you wish to say to your brother?”

“That’s what occurred. That’s all.” Monica replied in leisurely voice.

There was a combination of disappointment and anger in Sagan’s eyes. Though Fabian’s chilly perspective and rejection had been unavoidable, it felt like a betrayal to him if his sister, the Empress Dowager, pretended to not care as nicely.

“Do you suppose I despatched my Stella into the Palace to see this? I even begged you, sister! “

“What can I do? Your sister is an Empress.”

Monica didn’t even raise a watch at Sagan’s cry, and simply sat down with a protracted pipe in her mouth.

It was time for Sagan to just accept it, that his sister was a girl who lived as an Empress and stayed on the Southern Palace. Monica was now not his youthful sister. She was simply an Empress who gave delivery to the Emperor of this Empire.

“Are you saying that I used to be silly?” Sagan instantly uttered bitter respect. “You will need to have utterly forgotten that you just’re a Metis lady.”

“I wish to overlook, however I can’t. When will I’ve the chance to overlook it?” However Monica replied sharply.

It was her criticism to Sagan, who dragged her out of her peaceable life. From the start, Monica had by no means agreed with the Duke Metis since she thought that, she had already fulfilled her obligation for the household.

“However how are you going to…….”

“Hear, brother.” Monica stopped his speech. “I do know you’re blaming me now. Each Stella and you will need to hate me and suppose I’m cold-hearted.”

Sagan didn’t deny it.

“The Metis household doesn’t overlook the grudge. Everyone knows that money owed should be paid off.”

Monica recalled her father, who appeared like Sagan. Even earlier than she was coming of age, her father advised that she should turn into an Empress to guard Metis.

Nonetheless echoed in her thoughts the phrases of her mom, she would quite die if she couldn’t turn into an Empress and gave delivery to Imperial successor.

However, Monica couldn’t break her blood ties, regardless that she wished.

“And I’m Metis-woman and your sister. This …… That is the one approach to save our household, you, and Stella. Even should you hate me now, sometime, you’ll be grateful.”

“Is it you who determine it your self? Or is it His Majesty’s will?”

“It doesn’t matter who. Know that, that is one of the best for Metis and Stella.”

There was now not a youthful sister’s impression of her. When he noticed Monica’s chilly gaze, Sagan remembered Fabian’s hateful face.

“Don’t let Stella come to the Palace anymore. Quit the Empress’s throne and the successor as nicely.”

Sagan simply stared at her in silence.

“Metis blood already flows by His Majesty’s physique. Your house and your glory are adequate. Our household doesn’t lack in any respect.”

However when would human finish his greed? The Empress felt bitter, wanting on the ambition that also remained in Sagan’s eyes.

“It’s no one’s fault. If Stella is turning into Empress, with or with out Princess Evelyn, she will be able to’t reside the way in which she needs. She shall be mad at her household. I do know higher than anybody as a result of I used to be an Empress earlier than. I don’t know if it’s Irina, however Stella …… no, she will be able to’t. So quit.”

Monica shook her head. Regardless of how laborious Sagan tried, he couldn’t change Stella into a brand new particular person in a single day.

“You’re giving an ultimatum, not a persuasion.” Sagan summarized the state of affairs in a single phrase.

“Sure.” Monica didn’t keep away from and answered head-on. It was his first revolt in opposition to her household. Nonetheless, it’s difficult to suppose that what she did was for the sake of her household.

“Brother, you’re a wise particular person, so I’m positive you’ll perceive my coronary heart as quickly because the state of affairs clears up.”

“Have you ever turn into an Imperial lady with out my data?”

“I’ve been an Imperial lady ever since I entered the Palace. Isn’t that what Metis hoped for?”

Sagan’s lips twisted as Monica had drawn a transparent line.

She by no means wished to be an Empress. But destiny lastly decided her life. All due to her father’s hand, who had the identical want as Sagan now.

“I used to be fortunate. It’s simply that… … .”

Monica wanted a very long time to look again. His husband, the late Emperor, had an oppressive ambiance, that made folks suffocate simply by being in a single place with him. There was no dialog or exchanged thoughts, and it was a stroke of luck to have Fabian.

“Marry Stella to Duke Perth.”

“What?” Sagan’s face was crumpled. “Give my daughter to such an unprincipled particular person?”

“There’s no man higher than him. And I do know from what I’ve seen, they gained’t be a foul match.”

“Why him? I quite ship her to the monastery!”

“Then she will be able to’t get married. Are you superb with that? His Majesty had agreed. Should you try this, he gained’t make issues tough for Metis anymore.”

Huh, Sagan spat out laughter, “You imply I’ve to obey him?”

“Proper now…sure, there’s no different manner.”

Sagan shut his mouth. He knew that Monica was a sensible particular person. Nevertheless, purpose and emotion had been two various things. His sister’s revolt made him much more upset since he couldn’t do it immediately.

“Sincerely, it was a call I made for Metis.”

The eyes of the brother and sister met. It had been a very long time since they appeared straight at one another like this.

“I do know your pleasure could be very trampled now. However I’m additionally a Metis. Can’t you imagine that is one of the best I can do for my household?”

Monica reached out her hand first as a result of she didn’t need her household to have perished.

“Is that this honest from the underside of your coronary heart …..?”

“Sure, because the Empress and because the Metis’s daughter.”

Sagan briefly watched her, then quickly he nodded his head laborious, “Effectively, I’ve no alternative however to observe you, then.”

“Actually?”

Sagan nodded once more, wanting on the half-doubted Empress.

He moved his steps, stood earlier than her and hugged Monica’s shoulder warmly, like in her childhood recollections.

“Brother… … ?”

Monica turned awkward when she sensed her household’s heat, which she felt after a very long time. However Sagan held her tightly as if he was making an attempt to erase her awkwardness.

“Thanks, and I’m sorry.”

A faint smile appeared on Monica’s lips, “Don’t hold it in your coronary heart.”

Monica thought to herself that she was glad that she might shield her household on this manner. Later, Sagan and Stella would perceive and settle for her resolution as time went on, and issues turned clear.

“No, thanks. I respect it.” Sagan put Monica in his arms and stated, making eye contact. “And… I’m so sorry for you.”

Monica felt soothed. She heaved a brief breath then placed on a delicate face after seeing Sagan put down his ambition and took her hand, “Thanks on your understanding.”

At the least one hurdle had handed. Stella’s cry wouldn’t cease for some time, however she could be at peace for the remainder of her life as a Duchess.

Metis was nonetheless Fabian’s mom’s household, so there was loads of methods to keep up energy. If he might compromise this a lot, Sagan had simply needed to make one other cope with Fabian.

Monica spent a while on the Duke’s residence and returned to the Palace after she comforted Stella.

Nonetheless, Stella’s eyes which already reddened didn’t cease crying.

After Sagan despatched Monica away, he sat down subsequent to her still-crying-daughter.

“Father… …you’re not going to ship me to Girl Akshire’s ex-husband, are you?”

Duke Perth wasn’t solely a widower, however his standing as Girl Rebecca’s ex-husband irritated her and insanely scratched Stella’s pleasure.

“Father, I’d quite go to a monastery than… ” Stella clung to her dad, desperately.

“You don’t need to.” Sagan swept Stella’s cheek and stated firmly. “I gained’t ship you to the Duke Perth or the monastery.”

“However the Empress…….”

Sagan stared at Stella, along with his eyes crammed with varied ideas, begging his daughter to not converse extra. Stella was silent after her father and closed her mouth.

“The Empress will do her obligation for our Metis, as she all the time does.”

Whether or not or not Monica wished to, she needed to do it.

“I’m all the time sorry and grateful to her.”

Sagan had made up his thoughts.

“Stella, you mustn’t overlook to thank your aunt.”

Stella solely nodded her head at her father’s phrases, which she nonetheless didn’t perceive but.

Sagan patted his daughter on the again and recalled his sister’s face who had simply left.

The human coronary heart turned out to be very vicious. He was hesitant when he was requested to make use of his sister. However it felt so candy to make use of her when his sister betrayed him.

“Daughter born in Metis has to reside for Metis till she dies.”

That’s how Sagan’s father taught Monica. Nevertheless, Monica forgot his teachings, and he or she crossed the road that shouldn’t be crossed along with her Empress’ standing.

Sagan wasn’t merciless. It was Monica who first deserted Metis and sided with that resentful Imperial household.

“Metis blood flows in our veins for all times. Even when she’s an Empress, it would by no means erase the truth that she’s Metis’s daughter. “

Sagan didn’t know to whom was he chatting with?

To his sister, who had already turn into the Empress or his daughter, who he pushed to turn into the Empress?

“It doesn’t matter what occurs, we should not betray our household. We should reside for Metis to the top.”

The dangerous particular person was Monica, who deserted her obligation. So Sagan determined to imagine that.

“The Empress Dowager and the subsequent Empress should be from Metis.”

“Sure… Sure, Father……don’t ship me to Duke Perth…….” stated Stella, who knew nothing, in tears.

However Sagan didn’t hear her. Monica’s picture which turned his again from him started to blur. Maybe, he’d by no means see her once more.

“Sure.”

Even when their father had been alive, Sagan was positive that his father would make the identical alternative. There was no compassion for the kid who betrayed the household.

“Should you reside for Metis, you will need to die for Metis, that’s it.”

Sagan put an finish to her sister’s destiny in his coronary heart.

When he made a justification for his household’s sake, his guilt disappeared.

This wasn’t for him. Not for his daughter, however just for Metis’ glory.

“That’s destiny.”

So no one was a sinner.

Even the Empress Dowager, who would kill her grandson with out realizing it, wouldn’t be a sinner.