18: Your excellency, come back!

There are so many books in the palace's library, which made the queen quite conflicted about where to start.

'This is indeed a royal library where most books were collected by the king himself. I wonder what the empire's library would look like, it must be twice or even thrice bigger and loaded. Maybe, some forbidden books were stored there,' says a tiny voice in her head, while her hands were busy browsing books on the shelves.

She wanted to go to the empire's library but was too afraid to face the emperor and empress. Viishaun was already terrifying to deal with sometimes, and meeting her husband's parents was even more terrifying.

'The emperor was his father, yet he always sent him to a fierce battle. Then, the empress was not his biological mother, and I heard they were not close with one another, thus he never stayed in the empire's main palace. I get that he grew to be cold and bloodlust since he spent all his life in battle without anyone to comfort him'— are the thoughts run