Chapter 118

Chapter 118

"...Do you even know what that means, what you just said?"

"Of course I do."

At the confident reply, Eliza was momentarily speechless. She squeezed her eyes shut, opened them, and steadied her breath.

"And His Majesty accepted that? The Crown Prince's position is already secure. There's nothing for the King to gain by checking a successor he himself established."

"It turns out we simply didn't know. His Majesty has already been wary of the First Prince."

"Tell me more."

"For starters, he believes it was the current Queen who killed the late Queen."

"But the late Queen died after her health declined following childbirth, didn't she?"

"Who knows the truth."

Eliza looked down at the table and thought for a moment.

The late Queen, once the King's only consort, who had shown a warm affection toward him, had been unable to conceive for several years after the…