Chapter 32: Seraphina’s Royal Pursuit

The capital city of Caelmont was in chaos not from famine, plague or war but something far more severe.

Prince Rei Valemort, honorary noble, part-time fugitive, and full-time marriage evader… had run away again.

For the fourth time this week.

Inside the city's royal barracks, panic spread like butter on warm toast. Soldiers tripped over their spears. Pages screamed into scrolls and a squirrel wearing a tiny cloak marked "Royal Recon" dashed up a tree to relay code RED-NO-GROOM.

At the city's massive gatehouse, two guards stood frozen.

One finally dared to whisper, "Is that… an army?"

The other replied grimly, "Worse, It's her army."

The golden banners of the Glorianna Empire rippled in the wind like scandalous love letters caught in a summer breeze. Each one bore the imperial sigil: a burning crown wrapped in thorny roses—and beneath it, newly added in cursive embroidery, the disturbingly cheerful words "I ♥ Rei." Some even had sequins.