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The Royal Statesmen and the Empress did the explaining to the citizens. Of course, they didn’t take it well and demanded that the Emperor gets punished, but then they all bowed to Princess Haile who could do little to keep her cheeks dry. Not every citizen had come to terms with it, some were furious about being deceived for years and others were looking forward to having a female ruler for the first time ever. “What did I ever do, Mama? Is me being Empress such so abominable to think about that he tried to take his life?” Haile asked after they had sat at the Emperor’s side for a while. The Royal physician had put him under keen supervision. He said they were lucky enough to have found him when they did, he would have died otherwise. “It’s not you, my dau
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