The reason for the siege.

Being trash isn't really the concern here, but being trash who thinks he's right is an aberration.

So this shitty emperor wanted to use blackmail against me and believed he could intimidate me? For him it will be enough for him to deprive me of my princess comfort for me to fall into his arms? Can we make it more swollen? I don't know and I don't want to know.

Either way, he's now set on my position.

I'm not going to let it happen and if he thinks it's just lip service on my part, I'm going to prove him wrong. I will never let a man hurt me again, like my father and James. I will never bow to this man who thinks the whole world belongs to him. The history books say it, he conquered the entire continent with his barbaric and inhumane methods but that is not the question.

Does he at least know that he is facing a woman who hates men like him? A woman who will spare no means to defend her physical and moral integrity? He's going to see some green ones and some unripe ones.

Faced with my arrogant and even insolent smile, his face distorts as he gives an exasperated smile. It seems like he can't believe his eyes and therefore wants to convince himself that he must be dreaming. It's not possible that in this world, a woman would stand up to him that much and not want him. There's no way she could be so stubborn and unwilling to give in.

Well he has already crushed rebels more ferocious than this little woman, he has already brought down braver and stronger kings and princes so it is not an 18 year old child who will succeed in standing up to him.

She's still playing smart but she doesn't know him very well.

Once he decided that something should belong to him, that thing would belong to him willingly or by force.

He doesn't care if it's a territory or a person, whatever he likes he takes.

People praised the beauty of this princess but he did not know that she also has so much passion and impetuosity within her. He knows that women are fragile and weak beings who need the protection of strong and powerful men. In exchange, they will have to give themselves body and soul to their protectors, which implies being submissive to them.

But this woman dares to stand up against him, raise her face in front of him and stare straight into his eyes.

What audacity and what temerity!

Is she brave or just foolish? He thinks it's the second idea. She must be crazy and not understand the extent of her stupidity in wanting to run against him when in the end she is only a hostage in his empire. A hostage who thought she could do as she pleased.

Doesn't she know that she is alone against everyone in this place? That without his protection, she is heading for big problems?

All his other wives are Sylian, daughters of distinguished nobles whom he took to consolidate his power. He never sought to marry a woman from the countries he destroyed or subjugated, he was content to just make them territories under Sylian and exploit their wealth.

But Garten refused the clauses on trade and commerce on its roads and seeing that this would harm Sylian's economy, he had to crack down.

Indeed, Garten is like the hub of trade on the continent, despite being a very small kingdom, the fact that the majority of trade routes pass through its territory and with the ability of its king, Philip, Garten has become essential . But he had to not accept the terms he proposed, which ultimately led to their siege.

If he can't have something willingly, he gets it by force. This is how he has always proceeded and this is the strength of his policy, both internal and external.

His entire empire expected him to proceed as with other countries, but no, he had to discover this unbearable princess. She is so beautiful and seemed won over by his charm.

He wanted her, desired her like he had never wanted a woman before, but this kid had to be so stubborn and annoying.

He wants to punish her but he also fears that she will hate him more. Him, Yann De Sylian, the much-feared emperor, is afraid and it's because of a child.

The world would laugh about it.