“Elysia has come to visit. What shall we do, shall I let her in?”

“Ah. Let her in.”

Chohee, wearing a pure white dress with a light purple shawl, stepped gracefully through the office door. Seeing her beautiful appearance, Claes couldn’t stop his c*ck from getting instantly *rect.

“You’re absolutely stunning today, Elysia. How did you manage to dress so beautifully and come to see me?”

Fortunately, his long uniform jacket could hide his *rection. So Claes stood up and gently embraced her as she came close to him.

Pressing her cheek against Claes’s chest, Chohee thought it felt warm. Though she said nothing, Claes thought such behavior from Elysia showed intimacy toward him, and a bright smile bloomed on his face.

“Did you come because you wanted to see me?”

“……”

Chohee quietly nodded her head. Then Claes smiled and bent his face down to kiss Chohee’s cheek. Chohee grinned bashfully and wrapped her arms around his neck.

“Since you came to see me like this, I can assume you’ve taken interest in the work I do, right? Would you like to see how I handle state affairs?”

Chohee nodded and followed where he led. On his desk, documents were piled up like mountains – roughly speaking, the processed documents were placed on the right, and unprocessed ones on the left.

Claes picked up one processed document from the top and placed it in Chohee’s hands. Chohee slowly scanned through the document.

‘Generally speaking, it’s about imperial finances… They’re supplementing finances from rock salt mines and sapphire mines.’

Chohee was about to say something but stopped herself. When she quietly returned the document to him, Claes looked at her with a gentle expression and asked.

“How is it? Now that you’ve seen it directly. You might end up doing this kind of work too. If you want to.”

Chohee hesitated for a moment. If this were reality, she would have wanted to help him with the paperwork, but she didn’t want to rack her brains over such documents even in a dream.

“……”

“Hmm……”

Chohee shook her head back and forth. Claes gave a bitter smile at that, but since this was a dream, she didn’t want to leave any elements she’d have to worry about.

“I understand. But if you ever become interested, tell me anytime. Ah, after you give birth to our child and can speak, you can remember this conversation and tell me then too.”

“……”

When Chohee nodded, Claes could confirm that his thought about her understanding everything he said was correct.

Then wouldn’t she be able to speak earlier too? Somehow, when the situation came where she could speak properly, the thought occurred to him that he might be able to help her speak sooner.

“Then shall we have some tea here briefly and go to the training grounds together? It would be good to see the knights training and get a preview of what kind of country you’ll be ruling.”

Though Elysia was traditionally treated as a breeding vessel, Claes had no intention of making Elysia just a wife in name only. He intended to treat Elysia as his one and only wife and make sure others treated her that way too.

“Although the system has become a bit more conservative since Karad took over as knight commander, Karad will be secretly pleased when you come to watch too. That guy is like a child who doesn’t properly know what he likes, so he gets scolded sometimes, but basically he’ll treat you well once he considers you his person.”

Of course, he added.

“That said, speaking rudely to you, Elysia, is unforgivable. I’ll intervene each time that happens, so Elysia doesn’t need to worry about Karad’s words.”

“……”

“And whenever you have complaints or want to say something, come to me. Then I’ll listen to everything you have to say.”

After speaking affectionately, Claes gazed into Elysia’s black eyes. The black hair and black eyes, extremely rare colors in the empire, always reminded him of the mysterious night sky.

His heart fluttered and beat rapidly.

He reached out and gently stroked her black hair with a soft touch.

“Speaking of which, you’re truly dazzlingly beautiful. With makeup on, your beauty is absolutely stunning. With this beautiful appearance, you might bewitch me.”

At those words, Chohee covered her mouth and laughed softly. She was so lovely as she smiled innocently with her black eyes crinkling.

Unable to bear it, Claes bent his head down and kissed her temple.

His heart was so soaked in excitement that he absolutely couldn’t keep his hands off her.

“Then let me prepare tea time briefly. I need to finish processing all of today’s documents in the meantime. Wait just a moment, my lovely Elysia.”

Chohee nodded and sat on the sofa.

Soon Claes returned to work. He diligently added notes to documents with his fountain pen, and sometimes read documents aloud.

‘The assistants here must be happy. Their boss is so diligent…’

Watching the assistants come and go, placing finished documents on trolleys and taking them outside, Chohee was truly impressed by how detailed this was even though it was a dream. Usually in dreams like this, work content doesn’t appear in such detail…

‘Come to think of it, Karad said that Elysia was possessed by a soul pulled from another world.’

Claes never brought up such topics. He seemed to avoid any stories that might distance Elysia from him. Lars was also careful with his words around her.

‘Karad might be the only one I can get proper information from.’

Though he felt l*st for her while being hostile, he would unhesitatingly spill content that could hurt Elysia. No, in fact, he seemed to want Elysia to get hurt.

‘Even though it’s a dream… Karad is truly a nasty person.’

Though she pitied him for being exhausted by comparisons with his brothers, she thought she should tell Claes without hesitation whenever he was mean to her. But even while thinking this, Chohee found herself ridiculous.

All of this was a dream.

Though the week she was spending was unusually vivid for a dream, it wasn’t enough to get worked up over each character in the dream. Besides, Karad had never caused any real harm so far. So Chohee thought lightly of him.

“Let’s go, Elysia.”

Chohee nodded.

Lightly grasping his arm and looking up, Claes still radiated his handsome profile. Just looking at such a neat face, it was hard to imagine that during s*x he would push pleasure to its limits while giving her shame.

“What is it? Is there something on my face?”

When he asked affectionately, Chohee shook her head back and forth. Then she grabbed his forearm and stood on tiptoe to kiss his cheek. Claes’s pure white eye corners curved elegantly.

“When you act cute with me like this, how can I not love it? You appeared sporadically after several months and completely stole my heart. Without you, I can’t satisfy my desires. But that’s not everything.”

Gently tickling Chohee’s cheek with his fingertips, he spoke tenderly.

“I hope you’ll properly fulfill your role as the empire’s empress. Until now, emperors have embraced women who served as breeding vessels called Elysia while making other people their official empresses, but I will absolutely never do that.”

“……”

“For me, being empress isn’t about securing a politically advantageous position. It’s about having a companion to share my love, respect, and work with as my wife. I can’t place a woman I can’t embrace in that position. Besides, my heart is directed only toward you, Elysia.”

‘Even though it’s a dream… Claes really thinks properly…’

Being the wife of such a person might be quite joyful. When Chohee began to smile softly like spring flowers blooming, Claes also gave a seductive smile and caressed her lips with his thumb.

“I’m happy that you understand my feelings like this. I hope I can always be with you from now on. It would be even better if you didn’t spend about a week with me like this and then suddenly disappear, only to appear months later…”

That’s right. Moreover, Elysia was fundamentally in a position where she had to get pregnant with the three princes’ children.

The current throne would be inherited by Claes, and the next heir to the throne would be the very first child Elysia bore. But while thinking she’d prefer to bear Claes’s child, Chohee lightly rested her head against his forearm.