[Bonus chapter]

His whole body stiffened at her words. He still could not forget what happened between them.

This woman, the empress, was in the position of queen when her mother was the empress.

She has always been kind to him. The way he had seen the political families fighting, he had always felt that they were lucky to not have that in their family even then they were on the top of the food chain.

But his mother was never happy that her husband had another lover.

His father did not spend much time with his mother and kept going to other women. He had an empress, a queen and three other lovers.

Though he was kind and caring towards his child and never favored one over the other.

His behavior towards his wives were not the same.

When the queen was kind to him, his mother hated the queen who had the most favor for his father.