Novel & Cerita The Abandoned Empress Chapter 1

"You fight systems to rise. I built them to rule. Why resist?" Sake burned silk fire down my throat, loosening the knot his proximity always tied. "Because your empire's built on engineered ruins—scandals, leaks, blood like Rourke's neck. I'm no pawn for your Tokyo games." He leaned closer, scarred jaw inches from mine, heat radiating no touch—torture exquisite. "Pawn? No. Queen." Obsidian eyes bored soul-deep, half-smirk curving lethal. "I fell first, Nia. Two years past—your TED talk. 'Crisis as Catalyst.' Dissected corporate lies like a surgeon and hacked your life that night. Runs mapped, strategies stolen, Darius's files unearthed. Obsessed. Dangerous minds recognize their match."

Just the quiet understanding that some things didn’t need to be spoken. I sat back in the chair, hands still, and let the silence do the talking for once. The empire was mine. The cost was mine. And somewhere in the space between them, a new thread had begun to spin—thin, dangerous, and already tangled up with the man who’d once burned the world for me and never got the chance. The new queen had taken the throne. And the city was still breathing. THE END. Original story.

It wasn't until much later that I found out most of that money had gone straight to Derek and Chloe. I looked down at her hand on my arm. "Let go." She wouldn't. Tears kept falling. "Ryan, you can't do this. You're my flesh and blood—" I laughed. Flesh and blood? Then why had that flesh and blood spent its childhood sleeping in a space under the stairs, eating other people's leftovers, and nearly dying of a fever alone in an empty house? "Mom. You keep saying I'm your flesh and blood. Then tell me — how many ribs does a person have?"

But instead, my fingers close instinctively around his hand. I say nothing. Neither does he. But the pact is sealed there, in the silence. The next day, he gives me no time to shut myself away in my thoughts. The car takes us to the heart of the city, before a tower of glass and steel that dominates the entire district. The name VEYRHAL rises above us, in massive letters. I feel the vertigo immediately: it is his empire, and tonight, he leads me into it as one introduces a queen into her palace.

As much as I had wanted to rescue her from Father’s wrath, I knew this would have caused more harm than good. Inside the hall, only ruins remained. Stones lay cracked on the ground, signaling the crashing of the battle that had occurred a few hours before. Yet Father’s throne remained intact. A shiny object caught my eye in one of the corners. Looking down at my arm, I realized it was a stone that had come loose from my wristband. It must have fallen out when Adam and I were battling. I walked toward it. Suddenly, a heavy breathing sound caught my ear. It was coming from a nearby hidden chamber. It sounded like two people panting as if they were—

The tiredness of the day seeps into my skin, all the uneasy and anxious emotions swirling in the pit of my stomach, making me lose appetite once more. “It was alright.” I say, and have to exert more effort than usual to smile “Ms. Milford is stern, but a good teacher. The underground library is just like the library at SeraphFall manor, except all the bones and weapons. The Empress Regent asked for a key to be made for my personal use. I also found an interesting book about travels to other worlds, so I brought it along to read.” My lively, chipper voice is without a hint of distress, and to drive the acting home, I take a biscuit and eat it in two bites, before I reach for another as well.

Alastair had felt pity for any prisoner who had to endure his awful screeches and so he ordered such. The Emperor had then quickly retired to bed, with Agathus encouraging him like a mother hen and Alexis staring at him in guilt. She wasn’t over what Adam had said. It was completely true. She was useless. Unworthy. She could heal, and did herself but it did nothing to help Alastair who had mana exhaustion. She had originally detested Emilia’s arrival but now she wished it were sooner. When she arrived in her room to see an unexpected guest she wasn’t amused, especially when he was in her bathtub enjoying her small luxuries extensively. He didn’t cover himself with the curtain and just smile

said the Empress waving Chelsea's apologies off " I found it quite stuffy as well , I told that old man to stop putting more roses in but he just won't listen to me ! " The Empress glared at her tea cup losing her graceful and elegant air all of a sudden making Chelsea gape at her in shock . " Don't look at me like that " said the Empress watching Chelsea's experssion with a rather pleasant smile " before I came here , I was just a small baron's daughter , who rarely stepped out of her home, sometimes my father used to worry about my marriage but see what happened" added the Empress a little spitefully .

Sarah closed her eyes before put her right hand to the box and draw a small white folded paper. "Let's see… This came from 'The most beautiful Empress.' She said, [After a hundred chapters, why I didn't make any debut appearance? I am, indeed, the most powerful woman in this world, yet, why did I have no chapter that dedicated to myself? Wintersnow! I need a hundred chapters for myself! Otherwise, I will ha--," "Wait! I think we should move to another letters." Hugo said with nervous smile before start whispering to her, "If Wintersnow-nim know, she will create another story based from her and start to abandoning us!"

"He trained you to be a warrior, didn't he?" With tears in her eyes, she nods. "But I'm not half of what he wanted me to be." The two plunge into an uncomfortable silence once again, both lost in their own thoughts... And losses. "Well..." He speaks again. "Ynora Deanna was a High Empress who dominated almost every kingdom in the world. She created demon colonies and also territories in several countries, establishing her dominance once and for all and ruling all her subjects with an iron fist." "Demonic colonies?"