REINCARNATION THIS TIME, THE EVIL EMPRESS WANTS TO BECOME A BUSINESSMAN

FOUR

One of the nobles began to collect Aelia's sins. "The empress has accused the queen and is ungrateful for her efforts, still the same as before. Emperor, the empress has been toying with the law by injuring many people. If the queen does not appear and mediate, what other sins will arise later."

Selena stared intently at the old noble. "You dare insult the empress for taking refuge behind the queen?"

"Daughter, you must be wise to defend whom. People today need wise leaders, not selfish like empresses."

"The empress also spent a lot of imperial treasures, in contrast to the queen and concubines who only displayed simplicity."

"Right, what the Count said."

Aether laughs at the queen's sycophants. "That means all the luxuries of my birthday, not part of the queen's plan but the plans of my mother and I? I'm just wasting imperial money?"

The sycophant nobles were shocked then one of them hurriedly explained.

"The crown prince is only a child who obeys the parents' orders while this plan from the beginning was indeed made empress, the queen simply continues."

Selena took a long breath. "Ah, want to make anything still wrong empress."

Aelia exchanged a silent gaze with Aether.

The understanding Aether immediately spoke to the emperor. "Your Majesty, if that's what the honored guests say. What if my birthday party gets here?"

The invited guests were shocked, they did not expect the crown prince to go to the extreme.

The emperor glanced at Aelia and then patted her eldest son's shoulder. "It's a crown prince event, the emperor has no right to interfere."

Aether stood up and hugged her mother's shoulder. "Emer, the night weather is not suitable for you. Better get back to the east palace."

"Empress, if conditions are improved. Can go back to the empress' palace." Cut off the emperor, the look on the eyes remained as cold as ever.

The queen's followers became angry, not supposed to end like this.

"Emperor, did we take the time to meet the crown prince but now instead finish the event?"

"Emperor, a meeting with the crown prince is essential to have the support of the nobles."

"Emperor, think of the future of the crown prince."

The emperor looked straight at his eldest son and asked. "How's it?"

Aether remains on its stand. "Building good relations is not only at parties, the empress and I have a party to have fun with other nobles of my age. So that meeting, it's none of my business. Another case if the queen held a veiled meeting behind me.

The queen was startled and almost fainted, the concubine hurriedly caught her.

The emperor made his decision. "Go, take the empress to her room."

The crown prince rushed the empress and princess to the eastern palace.

The nobles who swarmed, gave way to them.

"Isn't the crown prince's and princess' relationship bad to the empress? Why do they look good?"

"Ah, I heard that too. It's so weird."

"When have they been making up?"

The nobles gossiped with big voices.

The three of them came out of the hall and walked through the passageway, Aether and Selena glancing at their mother's bewildered. Why use a detour?

The question was answered when there was a commotion from one of the rooms reserved for party guests.

"Stop!"

"You can't escape! I will be the crown prince of this land, be my lover!"

"No!"

"Shut up! If you don't shut up, I'll tell the whole country that your father was involved in sending broken food to the empress' family's territory!"

"Selena, call the emperor and make a furore for our guests to come. Aether, you hold mom tight across there." Aelia pointed at the wall, right opposite the special living room.

Selena immediately called her father and made a fuss at the hall.

Aether held her mother tight. "They're coming."

Aelia pretended to be weak so she fell to the floor.

Aether hugged her mother.

The emperor and his followers rushed towards the living room and kicked hard at the door until it was destroyed.

The queen almost screamed when she saw her son, the prince of Bence overpowered a noblewoman.

Bence pushed the woman down from the table. "A-dad-"

The Emperor stared coldly at Bence. "What are you doing at your own sibling's party?"

"I-that-"

"What do you do with the food that is sent to Birendra region?" press Selena.

Bence snapped at Selena. "What are you talking about? Can't you be polite with your own siblings?"

Selena is not afraid of Bence. "Sister? My brother is only one. Ah, didn't you just say you were going to be the crown prince? What are you going to do with my brother?"

The emperor gave orders to his men. "Investigate the girl and I want to get the results tonight. Prince, you've been sentenced to one week's imprisonment."

The queen actually fainted when she heard the emperor punish her son.

"If indeed they make a mistake against duchy Birendra, I want compensation" Aelia said behind Aether's embrace.

The Emperor glanced at Bence once more and then looked back at Aelia. "Did he make a loss to the duchy empress?"

Aether nodded and was about to answer.

Emperor cuts. "I'm talking to your mother, Aether."

Aelia recalled her past, while sick and after the party. The crown prince has been accused of having immoral relationships during parties as well as spoiling his grandfather's own duchy.

This is what makes the relationship of the crown prince stretched with his own biological grandfather.

Before entering the party, Aelia observed the invitations and the dresses the woman was wearing because during the investigation of that time, the woman handed over her dress.

Aelia memorized it out of her head, but the woman wearing the same dress was not inside the party, where was the woman?

By trying to bet, she passes a special room for guests with her children, apparently-

"Selena, get the woman to come closer to me."

Selena was confused by her mother's strange request, but she kept up and brought the woman with the help of the royal knights, closer.

The emperor observed the empress' strange request.

The woman's clothes were torn and already damaged, Aelia might have slightly forgotten the condition of her dress but she would never forget the details of the dress that made her son's good name smudged.

Aelia knelt down and traced the woman's torn dress to the bottom with her fingers then looked at the picture of the rose on the ripped bottom, the tearing of it was the same as back then.

"Prince Bence raped you but you're going to accuse my son of doing it?" ask Aelia.

The woman was surprised, it was Prince Bence's plan to use a servant but it turned out that the servant who would be used ran away in fear because he knew the punishment that would await was death.

So the enraged prince Bence, replaced the plan with his rape. Even though his parents had a small territory, but they were still of noble blood and could avoid death.

Aelia had felt an oddity in the past because her son had never once touched a woman, but where was Aether back then when everyone accused her? And why couldn't Aether answer all the emperor's questions back then?