The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

King Raff slammed his right hand down, his face was consumed by anger, his eyebrows knight together and he stared down at Sigrid with a menacing gaze.

His nostrils flared with each breath that he took, he seemed to be struggling to hold himself back from striking Sigrid down.

"What should we do your grace?" Lord Button asked duke Thorin.

The duke shook his head, "Nothing___" he paused, "yet." he added. "Sigrid never starts a battle she cannot finish." he said with confidence.

In the last two months, they had all witnessed Sigrid’s abilities to foretell the future, every move that she made was calculated carefully to safeguard the future of their Thorin family.

They had agreed on a secret move, if Sigrid put two fingers to her heart, he would interfere. She had not moved yet so it was not his turn to jump in.

"Crown princess, how dare you slander the noble consort in front of me? Are you tired of living?" King Raff growled out.

Sigrid held her head high, showing no fear as she looked back at the king. "Your highness, I tell no lies in my words, I simply cannot repeat what was said in this open court because it will be too demeaning for your royal ears. I would rather be punished than besmirch your good name."

Her response elicited murmurs and drew curiosity from the lords, the more she refused to respond the more they wanted to know.

"I command you to repeat what was said." The king barked.

"Your highness, please don’t make me say it." Sigrid lowered her head, a small smile played on her lips. In the back of her mind, she was thinking, please make me.

Rina sniveled and rushed to the emperor’s right side, pushing aside the red knight that was standing there as the king’s immediate guard.

She grabbed the king’s arm, to the great agitation of the queen that clenched her fists. This was a gathering of the king and lords to debate on changing laws that affected their kingdom but the secondary consort was acting as if it was her bedroom and only she and the king were present.

"Your highness, she is trying to ruin my name, if she is not punished today she will not learn." Rina coquettishly complained as she pulled on the king’s hand, stroking it lightly.

She made sure to bend slightly so that the king could peer at the her firm breasts that were slightly escaping at the top because her gown was too tight.

King Raff smelled a familiar scent of jasmine on Rina that he loved, he felt a stirring in his loins and he smiled.

"Alright, the crown princess will be punished if she doesn’t give you a proper explanation." he touched Rina’s arm, lifted it and kissed the back.

The hearts of the lords and nobles shrunk, indeed when it came to Rina, the king ruled with a different organ on his body, not his brain.

"Crown princess, I command you for the last time to reveal what was said or you will be receive fifty lashes with a thorn whip."

A collective number of gasps went around, it was not the punishment that surprised them but the weapon of choice the king had chosen. Even if the crown princess had offended the consort, to whip her with a thorn whip was equal to peeling off the skin of her back.

"Your highness I think the punishment is too cruel." Lord Benwick called out.

"Your highness, please rescind your order." Lord Bailey begged.

"Your highness..." a third lord started.

King Raff slammed his fist on the arm of the throne. "Are you all trying to teach me how to be the king? Do you want to rebel?"

Naturally, the lords backed down, with the same response of ’no’ coming from many of them that had come forward to plead for Sigrid.

"Your highness, the crown princess is the wife of the crown prince, to punish her like that, aren’t you afraid to hurt your son’s heart? What about the opinion of the people when they hear of this, that you whipped your daughter-in-law to please your consort, what will they think?" The queen intervened.

The king glared at the queen, he felt even more determined to punish Sigrid. In his mind, he suspected that the two had joined hands to suppress him.

"This is the court, here I make the decisions, if I order for her to be beheaded, she will be beheaded." The King responded loudly.

Once again, the lords and nobles gasped into an uproar, the situation had escalated beyond what they expected. Surely, the king was speaking out of anger and he did not mean his words.

Sigrid raised her head and said loudly, "In that case, to avoid losing my head, I will share what was said, I want to make it clear however that you ordered me to do this and I apologize in advance.

They said that the women of Eldoria are unlucky because the king married a bad consort that put a rein around his neck and has been riding him a horse, steering him in any direction as she wishes and none of the directions are developmental."

There was a mixture of reactions in the hall, most common was jaws dropping and whispers of surprise. Sigrid did not pause, she just continued on as if she was reading from a script.

"They said that someday, Eldoria might be conquered and nobody will be wiser because the king will be asleep with his head between the consort’s breasts."

The king slammed his fist down. "How dare they say such filth about me, someone go and bring me those female merchants."

"It’s too late, they are already gone, this happened one month ago." Sigrid turned her eyes to Rina, "It is not your fault your highness, all these rude things were said about the consort. As she said a few minutes ago, women are to be blamed if they cannot keep the interest of their husbands, in this case she is to be blamed because she has ruined your reputation."

King Raff loved Rina, but he also loved his reputation and when things went wrong, he always found the nearest scapegoat. Sigrid had read the novel, she was familiar with the king’s character quite well and she wanted to take advantage of it to draw a line between him and his consort.

In fact, she wanted the king to kill Rina personally, as Rina was the one that would clear a path for Emmah to the throne. She was also Emmah’s main financier, that provided funds for her business empire to grow.

She was also the one that framed her second brother and accused him of trying to take advantage of her at a palace ball which led to his beheading.

Rina was as much a danger to the Thorin’s as Emmah was and she had to be eliminated. It was just hard to do with the king protecting her.

Sigrid had considered killing Rina but if she was assassinated, suspicion would fall on the queen which would lead to her dethroning and inevitably the removal of Roland’s crown prince title and that was not Sigrid’s goal.

Out of the blue, the king shoved Rina away from his side as if she was something disgusting.

"How dare you ruin my reputation out there and make others look down on me?" he bellowed at her. "Guards, remove her from my presence this instant."