A divorced evil lady bakes cakes - Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Raymond put down his cup and said, facing the emperor.

“There is nothing that is not good. The two of us were divorced by

agreement. Even ordinary couples break up if they don’t fit together.”

“You are not an ordinary couple.”

The emperor calmly refuted.

“You are the future Emperor and Empress. It’s never an ordinary couple.”

“Yes, it was a normal couple. This was a simple family matter.However, since the woman has disgraced the name of the family with dirty rumors, it is not possible to move on to the marital problem.”

“……..”

The emperor did not answer, but turned his gaze. His wrinkled fingers were touching the teacup.

The minister, who has been serving the emperor for 20 years, could see what the old emperor thought.

Even if the Duchess really had an affair, it is not the voice of a man who has lived in the government for nine years.

I can’t speak out, but the emperor refuted it. The prime minister did the same.

Of course, the royal family, especially the male royal family, always had a government.

“It’s just a rumor. I saw the witnesses together. How can you bet that there was a disgrace?”

The emperor spoke slowly and carefully, as if to tie Raymond.

The emperor was always friendly to his grandchildren, not only to his grandson Raymond, but to his son, Calix, who was the son of the Crown Prince.

However, as the two grew up, the relationship was divided into two extremes.

His grandson, Calix, genuinely liked the emperor who raised him, but his grandson Raymond constantly had conflicts with the emperor.

Even now Raymond laughed at his grandfather coldly.

“Your Majesty is always generous to her.”

“….”

At the rude words of the young Duke, he minister looked into the air and swallowed a moan.

The emperor hated Serena and sarcastically told Erin to be generous.

The conflict between the grandchildren began ten years ago when the emperor forced Raymond to marry her,There were signs of it from before that time, but it was from then that it was decidedly.

Then, the conflict between the two continued for years.

Raymond threw out a new bride and put the government into his palace, and the emperor refused to make Raymond the prince.

“Isn’t it better to be generous than to trust a rumor and to dismiss a wife who hasn’t been together for nine years?”

The emperor persuaded his grandson to be calm as if to comfort a child.

“Erin is a wise and good girl, and she has been in charge of the palace for nine years, and she has endured no matter what you do, she is good enough for us.”

Raymond’s blue-grey eyes flashed with annoyance. He seemed to be at the end of his patience.

Raymond spoke to the emperor while the prime minister looked at it with a breathtaking feeling.

Have a cup of tea. in a very strange way of speaking, even with a smile his face

“If you like her that much, make her Empress right now. The divorce process is over.”

The prime minister didn’t understand what it was at first, because Raymond had said it so casually and the meaning in it was so great.

The terrified minister turned to the emperor belatedly. But before he even opened his mouth, the emperor moved his hand holding the teacup.

The emperor splashed a warm black tea from the cup on Raymond’s face.

“….”

The fine silver hair was soaked in the black tea, and the tea water dripped down along the chin line.

The minister and the servant standing on one side looked at the air with an expressionless face as if they had not seen anything.

‘No matter how it is, if you like it, you can marry her……It also leaves his ex-wife.’

The prime minister  could have assured him that if his grandson had said this, he would have hit him with a cane.

Maybe her mother would run in first before he hit he, and beat him to pieces.

The emperor put down his teacup and looked to the window for a moment to calm himself.

The Duke, who was covered in black tea, sat silently.

The emperor set down his teacup and the servant beside him poured it again, as if nothing had happened.

The servant handed the Duke a dry handkerchief. The Duke wiped the tea with it.

“I want you to bring Erin back.”

After a few minutes of silence, the emperor broke the silence of the heavy luck that had been cast in the tea room.

“I can’t do that, she agreed to divorce.”

“Then you’ll bring Erin in yourself.”

“I’m sorry,” he said, looking out into the garden where the warm sunlight was shining.

“I am the emperor and you are my grandson. To divorce, it is polite for two people to come together for permission. Bring Erin, yourself.”

It was a voice that did not contain any anger, but it was an order of firm will.

Raymond, however, retorted without bowing.

“I told you, the divorce is over, and I can’t bring her back now.”

The emperor sighed silently. The prime minister felt that he had reached the end of his patience.

The emperor looked at his grandson and ordered:

“I’m not asking.”

* * * *

“Your Grace—”

Serena found Raymond walking down the corridor and hurried up.

Raymond’s clothes were wet on the back of his neck and shoulders, she noticed what had happened.

Raymond passed her and went into his bedroom. His blue-gray eyes were sparking.

“Go out.”

The servants followed, and then, hurriedly, the cold command of Raymond.

Serena didn’t go close. She knew from experience that she shouldn’t be close to Raymond at this times.

Serena looked at him in horror, and the door closed.

Serena was in the hallway, and she was going to cry.

‘I thought it would all be okay if she was gone.’

I knew that if Erin disappeared, Raymond’s wife could be me.

As soon as the emperor knew that Raymond was going to be with Serena, he took Erin and forced him to marry.

That’s how much she hated Serena.

But I thought he would give up at this point.

Since the wife chosen by the emperor was left unattended for nine years and made to be self-defense, he thought that the emperor would now give up and accept him.

But it was wrong.

The emperor still seemed not to give up.

‘What the hell am I worse than her?’

She felt as if she were going to cry out of anger. Serena squeezed her fists to make her blood.

‘Why can’t he give up, even when she dissapeared?’

* * * *

Erin went into the kitchen in the second floor.

The kitchen was completely new. It was full of fresh, clean water. The cooking tools, the ovens, were all new.

There were plenty of ingredients, including flour, sugar, salt, pepper, butter, as well as ham and sausage, lean meat, smoked fish and all kinds of canned food.

This was not the case when I first bought the house. It was a clean but old kitchen.

All of this was a gift from Einz, even the ovens and tables, pots, frying pans and three pretty china bowls that Einz had sent.

I’m sorry I couldn’t prepare a gift for the opening. What do you need?’

The first day he came, Einz smiled uneasily and asked, Erin replied without thinking.

“Um… would you like a tool or bowl that would help you in business”

Two days later, a full load of luggage arrived at the store in a row.

(A gift from Einz to Erin)

It was filled with a lot of things, all kinds of tools, furniture, and groceries, along with a note reading ….

Not just kitchen items, but living things such as handwriting, beds, closets, and so on, all of the old Einz sent me new and beautiful things.

Thanks to this, this two-story house behind the store has been transformed into a clean and cute new house.

“…I didn’t expect you to go this far.”

Einz hasn’t been in the store since then, perhaps because he’s been busy.

Erin opened the box with the fruit and picked up two apples.

The sweet and refreshing apple smelled over the shiny red skin.

I got the ingredients, so it was time to make food.

I sliced the apples and put them in a pan, boiled them with water, sugar, and honey, and the apple turned into a transparent gold with the smell of sweet caramel.

I put the pie on the pie frame and took the shape. I put the apple on it, sprinkled cinnamon powder, and baked it in the oven.

A moment later, a sour and succumbing Apple pie came out.

I saw a glossy golden apple through the crisp, soft crust of pie, and the apples were filled with sweet, caramel-flavored juice.

The store has been busy ever since its opening day.

Some of the desserts made by Erin were good because they liked tea and coffee, but the biggest cause was the emperor’s servant who came to the day.

The guests in the store saw clearly the servant who came in the carriage with the sell of the emperor receiving the cookie from Erin.

That made a strange rumor from that day.

It’s a patisserie shop that , she worked at the Imperial Palace, or the dessert here is so delicious that he  want to invite you from the Imperial Palace.

The contents are slightly different, but anyway, it was a rumor that the Imperial Palace sent a person to Erin’s store to buy cookies.

I explained that I did not do it a few times, but rather the guests seemed to believe more.