The Emperor Neptune
The Secret Revealed

"Violet, you calm yourself first. When it calms down I'll tell you what really happened from the start."

Violet covered her face with both hands, her cries instantly spilling out.

"I feel like I'm the dumbest person."

"Vi, you don't talk like that. No one thinks or thinks of you that way. Precisely because we know you'd have a harder time accepting all this if you knew everything from the start."

"You what else, brother? Explain it to me."

"Okay, I'll explain but promise to calm down. And listen well. Can you?"

Violet took a deep breath, preparing herself to come to terms with what other secrets she would hear.

"alright. I'm ready."

Lisa looked at Violet's puffy face, the remains of her tears still around her pretty face.

"Vi, actually from the beginning Kay wasn't interested in me. He's interested in you."

Like a nuclear explosion, Violet heard the first sentence her brother spoke. Instantly his eyes widened, his eyes began to heat up again.

Lisa touched her beloved sister's shoulder. She knew her sister must be in shock with her explanation.

"What?" the question managed to escape from Violet's mouth whose entire body had already felt very stiff, accompanied by a single tear flowing through her eyes.

"Yes Vi, she used to ask me to meet for the first time not because she wanted to date me. But he wanted to get close to you, he touched on how so he asked for my permission and help to get close to you."

"Why didn't you tell me?" violet asked weakly, she began to resist the urge of anger that had gathered around her.

"Because all this time you were very indifferent to all the men who tried to approach you Vi. I think he's the man who suits you. After all, it is rare for a man to ask his family for permission to approach a girl he likes, unless he is a man who really has good intentions."

"And that's why Lisa's sister asked me to accompany her to dinner at that time on the grounds of illness?"

"I happened to be really sick at the time. I've tried to explain to you that what Kay likes is you, not me. But you always cut my words. Next time throw away your bad habit."

Violet's memory rudder returns when Kay declares her love and also asks Violet to be his wife while at Kay's mansion.

Violet immediately cried knowing that from the beginning Kay was always chasing after her. It was just his misunderstanding and excessive fear that made him now in a pitiful position filled with regret.

"So all this time Kay's been stalking me because she wanted to get close to me?"

"Yes that's how."

"So why so bad. Why not say it from the beginning?" violet yelled in frustration shaking Lisa's shoulder.

"Sorry Vio, brother is afraid that you will be indifferent to him. Besides, your age doesn't matter if you're in a relationship." Lisa did not get tired of giving explanations so that her sister could understand.

"And now look. He left and I don't know where. What am I supposed to do now?" Violet wiped her tears violently.

"Are you sorry he's gone? Are you aware of your feelings now?" asked Lisa gently while rubbing her sister's hair.

Violet looked at her brother, though,

"I don't know brother. I feel so guilty for being rude to him. And he's gone now because I also kicked him out of my life very rudely. Maybe she won't forgive me either." Violet's tears flowed back along with her heart that seemed to be slashed continuously due to reality.

"If he really loves you then he has no reason not to forgive you."

"Now what can I do? She was already gone." Violet's cries broke out drowning in her regret.

Lisa grabbed Violet's head and put it on her shoulders. Swiping her affectionately to appease her only sister she has.

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Meanwhile, somewhere far away

"Greetings to the emperor's majesty." a prince who was the emperor's cousin saluted him.

"Come and sit down!" the emperor gave the order.

The prince immediately carried out the emperor's orders with respect.

"What news did you bring after your trip?"

"Your majesty, all the business that is there goes very well and smoothly."

The emperor nodded his head understandingly.

"Pardon your majesty, don't you want to go back there?"

"No. Wh-wh-what for? Health experts say it's not good for my health. I also feel weaker." said the emperor as he sipped the tea in his hand.

"Your majesty, can you remember where the blue jewel ring belonged to the late empress?"

"Ah yes, I just wanted to ask you if you know where I put it?"

The prince shook his head weakly without answering a word.

Deg. deg... The Emperor held his left chest that was pounding very hard. The sweat immediately washed his face.

The prince and some panicked ladies saw him.

"Your highness.." The prince held back the Emperor's body that was about to fall.

"Hurry up and get a stretcher, and bring your majesty to her room!" his orders were to the ladies and guards.

They swiftly carried out the order.