The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 32: The subtle art of manipulation.

Sigrid chose her words carefully, one; she made everyone aware that the king would rather go for a picnic than handle important matters of state. Two; she used Medoris because king Raff detested emperor Galathor of Medoris, after suffering one defeat at his hands when he intervened in the war between Eldoria and Nemoris, the kingdom to the south of Eldoria.

At the time, king Raff wanted to conquer Nemoris and expand Eldoria to the size of an empire. If he had won the war, he would be called emperor, not king and he would be remembered as a conqueror.

Raff Maximus wanted to go down in history as the greatest ruler Eldoria had ever seen. If Nemoris had not run to Medoris for help and become a tributary kingdom prompting Medoris to send their armies to defend it, Eldoria would have won the war.

To this day, it was like a fresh wound in Raff’s heart and Sigrid’s words were equal to salt being poured on that wound.

It worked to her advantage however, the king forgot all about the picnic, he wanted to beat Medoris even if it was just something as small as a marriage law.

While he had been thinking, the lords in the court had held their breath or whispered about Sigrid’s daring nature. How could she challenge the king so openly? Even if she was a crown princess, she needed to know her limits.

Many of them looked at duke Thorin, wondering what was going through his mind but the duke kept his eyes forward and his nose up as if he looked down on the rest of them.

His loyal followers in the court maintained the same attitude, looking like a group of proud unbothered peacocks.

Everybody waited to see what was to come, the queen and Lord Benwick were literally on the edges of their seats. Rina was seething, hoping that king Raff would order for Sigrid to be thrown into a dungeon for speaking out of turn.

"What did you say about standards?" the king asked Sigrid.

She bowed slightly, pretending to be respectful and polite. "That you the king should set the standards and others will follow. As long as you turn Eldoria into a paradise on earth, we will be the best empire on the continent, not Medoris."

In her mind, she heard Cosmos making gagging sounds, it seemed as if he wanted to vomit and she knew why, it was because she sounded like an ass kisser. But, to accomplish her goals, she had to commend the king, praise him and puff him up like a pastry.

Raff

other empires and kingdoms will be begging to marry my sons. Foreign women will flock to Eldoria seeking refuge, when

gaze and the corners of her mouth adjusted upwards slightly, she could see why Rina led the king around by the nose. A few words of flattery was all it

suggesting Lord Bailey?" King

Bailey eagerly moved forward. "The age restriction should

the law." King Raff

prepared to say more in defense of his proposed new law but those words were all caught in his throat because with a few words, the crown princess had accomplished what would have taken

lords did not even know what the law was about let alone how it

highness..." Lord

see far more than the rest of your humble subjects." Sigrid cut lord Ye off

chest up like

As you are aware, I opened a

silk merchants discussing the laws of divorce on Eldoria, I regret to say that they

weak and foolish, they had some not so nice things to say about the queen and secondary consort, words I cannot repeat but words that would make anyone think that they have

loudly expressing their displeasure, the one thing they all had in common was their sense of patriotism, they could not

certainly looked like she was ready to throttle whoever had said something negative about

troubling assumptions, I would like to propose that the office of marriages makes divorce legal for both men and

loud objections filled the hall, some lords that were clearly against a law allowing women to divorce voice their

a woman divorcing a man will be demeaning to

you