I’ll Quit as The Empress

Chapter 8: The child’s eyelashes

The child’s eyelashes were beautiful as he fell asleep in his cradle. In fact, there was no place that wasn’t pretty.

“His mouth is like his stubborn grandfather.”

Honey dripped from Miriam ‘s eyes. Whether that was the mind of her parents, or because their terrible son-in-law, who couldn’t see them properly, didn’t come to mind. They just saw a place that looked like a family of their own.

“It’s the same as you when you were young. His lashes are neat and his cheeks were plump.”

Miriam was happy to see her lovely daughter and the child she gave birth to alternately.

“But, are you sure you’re okay?”

But Evelyn asked back with a worried look. It was heartbreaking to think that her parents, who never left a stain on their life, were filled with scandals that they had an illegitimate child in their old age.

“I’ve already decided.”

Miriam deliberately turned away from her daughter’s gaze and shook the cradle.

“What’s the big deal about people’s words, right, Adrian?”

“But mother, ······.”

Evelyn, who had been through it, was able to understand Miriam’s pain. The failure to give birth to a son as a successor was the greatest misfortune for the woman who had been groomed.

Evelyn didn’t dare to guess her mother’s heart, because Miriam had raised her only daughter, Evelyn, without showing such emotion.

“It’s okay. It’s true that I didn’t have a son, and no matter what anyone said, I can’t help it.”

“I’m sorry ·····.”

Still, her parents didn’t shake by that. They kept their eyes on each other and protected the royal family. But their honor was tainted.

People now would laugh at the king for being blind to their son, and mocked the queen who failed to give birth to a son. Evelyn had learned how terrifying people’s malice in the imperial family.

“Evelyn, people’s words can’t hurt us.”

Miriam’s keen eyes turned to her daughter.

“And it’s our job to keep this child bright so that we don’t hear such words.”

Evelyn clenched her hand for no reason because she was frustrated. Now that she had to protect Adrian, and she had vowed not to show her tears.

“No matter how many people in the world sin with words, if we are not shaken, things like this will soon be scattered without form.”

Evelyn wasn’t as strong as her mother. In the imperial family, malicious words always scratched Evelyn violently.

She escaped from the place, piling up the wound, and flew here. If this was a match, Evelyn was a loser.

“The important thing is not to break up with a loving family. Isn’t that right?”

“Yes·····.”

Miriam nodded at her daughter and looked again at Adrian in the cradle.

“I once thought I was the unhappiest person in the world.”

Evelyn confessed late.

“I was trapped in a tiny world, and I thought it was. I was a weak loser there.”

Miriam looked at her daughter with sore eyes, but Evelyn didn’t stop talking.

“The next time I had this happiness, but I didn’t know it like a fool.”

A meaningless life, a pain without a price.

A foolish woman who was imprinted as a loser and did nothing. A weak mother who couldn’t even protect her own child. The misfortune had already passed.

“I met and knew Adrian. The most important thing is not honor or nobility, but happiness in this moment.”

“I couldn’t really teach you something important, but this child taught you.”

Miriam warmly grabbed Evelyn’s hand.

“Please teach it to this child again someday.”

Only

“Yes.”

The hope that Evelyn kept was asleep in the cradle.

“I’m sure, I will.”

Evelyn thanked someone for giving her life back to her. So she could run away. And it was a great pleasure and relief that she could protect this child.

“I have to protect this child.”

Evelyn was no longer thinking about Fabian from Adrian. The dark hair and the dark blue eyes belonged to Adrian, not to Fabian.

Evelyn loved the child as it was. It didn’t matter who the father was right now. So Evelyn was forgetting her cold ex-husband.