It felt like these three members of the imperial family were trying to make me go crazy, and I was starting to hate this old man as well. Even worse, I was starting to resent our lovely regressor, Kim Hyun-Sung, for placing me in this predicament. I wasn’t sure when it happened, but I had already acknowledged the second princess as the empress. It wasn’t because there wasn’t any hope for the first princess, but I thought the recent incident had made it apparent. As the emperor mentioned earlier, he was thinking about helping the first princess live a safe life, but the issue was that he was sacrificing me for his plan.

‘Anyone with a brain wouldn’t want to settle down with her.’

The moment I accepted his offer, a few people would lose their lives. It would be a lot of work to stop Jung Ha-Yan, and Cha Hee-Ra may find it uncomfortable as well. I was sure that if I settled down with the first princess in the north, she would be found dead the next day and the mastermind would be obvious. Actually, agreeing to go north with her was basically saying I was giving up the central power. I didn’t think it was a bad idea to live the rest...