"Aunt," Lilian mumbled, feeling a little embarrassed. "His Majesty doesn't like to be disturbed when he is dealing with business."

"Alright, alright. I'm just kidding. Don't worry. It was just a group of rabbles. Your man is safe and sound."

Hearing that, Lilian looked less worried. "Didn't you say you just wanted to have a walk around the palace today? Why did you two go out?"

"I don't know, either. Rolando told me that he didn't want to show me around the palace because I could do that on my own, so he wanted to take me to walk around the capital. He even didn't take a guard! We were targeted and ambushed as soon as we went out of the palace." While Harper was speaking, it suddenly occurred to her that Rolando had done all this on purpose. The reason why he had taken herself out of the palace for fun was because he wanted to lure the assassins to show up. "Your man was really using me to his heart's desire, huh," she said, sounding annoyed.

Lilian was struck dumb by Harper's sudden change in tone. But then

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e only thing she could do was to be obedient and not to cause him any trouble.

"Aunt, can an emperor really love someone sincerely?"

"Yes!" Harper answered firmly. "Everyone can love sincerely, and emperors are no exception to that."

"But Father couldn't!" Lilian said with a bitter smile. "The person he loved the most in his lifetime was himself. Not everyone can be sincere in terms of love."

"You are wrong. Your father also had the capacity to treat someone sincerely. It all went to his favorite son, unfortunately," Harper said slowly. The former emperor of the Bright Dynasty was neither a good emperor nor a good father, but he had indeed fulfilled his responsibilities as the father of Lucas. In order to protect Lucas, he had used all his other sons as shields and disguised Lucas as a playboy. In actuality, he had secretly cultivated and trained him as the heir to the throne. No matter how cold-blooded a person was, he or she could be sincere. The only difference lied in whom he or she treated sincerely.