Remarried Empress

amily of another country? Not even a fool would do it.

“It’s crazy.”

Sovieshu’s anger continued to grow.

Now, all he could do was to choose between losing the port and losing honor.

Of course, if it turned out that Duke Elgy tried to seduce the Empress to take advantage of her, then his reputation would suffer.
However, his reputation had always been bad.

In contrast, the Imperial Family of the Eastern Empire had always been admired.
Sovieshu stood to lose more in the end.

After a while, Sovieshu stood up and rang the little bell on the desk.
When Marquis Karl entered, Sovieshu coldly ordered,

“Find Viscount Roteschu.”

***

As the sun’s rays broke through the clouds, the sky was tinged with a red light that slowly turned blue.

Viscount Roteschu wandered with a gloomy face through the streets as the traces of dawn faded.

‘A girl suddenly ran out as if she was being chased, and those walking around her stopped to look at her like ghosts.
It was strange.
It looked like a horror scene.’

Viscount Roteschu recalled the story a little boy had told him.

The little boy was so frightened that he went home immediately, so he didn’t know who the people were, nor what had happened next.

But the Viscount learned from a drunk that, on that same day, someone had offered everyone on the street free drink and food at a nearby bar.
Supposedly, that person wanted to celebrate, so people ran to the bar and became intoxicated by the festive atmosphere.

Even little children who usually played in the alleys went to the bar with their parents and received sweets.

‘The streets were intentionally cleared of passerby that day.
So how come there was a crowd staring at the running girl?’

Viscount Roteschu clenched his teeth.
He was convinced that someone ordered an attack on Rivetti.

But he couldn’t guess who had done it.
He didn’t know who would want to get rid of Rivetti at such a high cost.
Although Rivetti was immature, she wasn’t the kind of person who would arouse such deep hatred.

However, he had to pause the investigation due to articles that appeared in that day’s newspaper.

The princess, the daughter to whom Rashta gave birth, was not the Emperor’s daughter.
She was the daughter of the same man who fathered Rashta’s first child.

Upon hearing the news, most people would say, ‘Oh, my gosh! That’s crazy!’ But this was not the case for Viscount Roteschu, because Empress Rashta’s first child was his grandson!

That day, Viscount Roteschu saw multiple articles in the newspapers and felt like his head would explode.
When he first went out to look for Rivetti, he feared that Alan would get into trouble.
Now, his fears had become true.

People talked about it with excitement, but he felt overwhelmed and aged.
He found it hard to even think.

As long as the father’s identity was unknown, only Rashta would be blamed for cheating the emperor with a fake daughter.

However, Viscount Roteschu could not believe that in this case his son had been identified as the father.

The fact that Rashta had a first child with Alan could be overlooked by the emperor, but he could not ignore that the princess also had Alan’s blood.

‘I never talked about Alan, not even when that damned asshole Koshar cut off my ear.
Why did this come out now?’

Although Viscount Roteschu wanted to repeat the paternity test, he knew he did not have the power to do so, which made his headache worse.

He had built up many connections with the money he received from Rashta, but would these friends still be on his side in such a delicate situation? He was only the lord of a small territory with no influence.
He wasn’t sure anyone would listen to him.

His fear only increased when he learned that the Emperor was looking for him.