Episode 4

When Yadira finished arriving where the groom was, she looked at him with disdain.

It wasn't that the guy was ugly, but he wasn't all that either, he needed exercise and his body was very thin, not to mention he was a weakling.

She doesn't understand how the real Yadira was so stupid.

Judging by the guy's appearance, Yadira curves her lips into a calculating smile, and then says.

"Let the ceremony begin," Yadira orders, and immediately the ceremony begins.

As always, the priest quickly gave a brief speech about what marriage is, and more than once Yadira yawned with boredom, in clear sign that she is not interested in anything that was being said.

The man beside her was enduring the humiliation he was feeling, with the firm hope that he would be the emperor from that day on.

Fortunately for him, the priest finished the ceremony in an hour, and it was time for the bride and groom to say their vows, and exchange rings.

When they did so, the priest declares them husband and wife, and it was time for the now spouses to seal their union with a kiss, but when the husband went to kiss his wife, she moved away and the kiss fell on her right cheek.

That caused anger in Aurelio, who, so as not to make a scene, only gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked away from her, since the main and most important ceremony of all was still to come, which would take him to the top.

Yadira very confidently steps forward and says some hypocritical words.

"Thank you all for coming today, I feel so happy to have married the love of my life, that my heart is full of joy and that is why today I will make an important announcement, Aurelio dear, come forward," Yadira asks Aurelio, and he, raised like a peacock, comes forward.

Being where he is asked, he bows before Yadira and she continues with what she has to say.

"The position of emperor is one that is destined for the best, and that is why today in front of everyone I want to announce that my husband, starting tomorrow, will study hard to become emperor, he will earn that position with actions," says the woman with great confidence, and Aurelio as well as his family turn pale.

None of those present expected that girl to decide that, when it was clearly agreed that Aurelio would be the emperor of Lumia.

A wave of murmurs began to be heard, and Yadira's in-laws came forward in indignation, Aurelio angrily stood up.

"Empress, what does this mean?" Yadira's father-in-law asks in an angry voice and she responds with a bad face.

"Minister of Health, I think I have been very permissive with you, don't address me in that tone of voice, and about your question, I don't have to give details of anything, I am the empress by right of being the only daughter of my parents, and as such, I have the authority to do what I think is possible to do," Yadira expresses and Aurelio gets even angrier.

"Don't talk to my father like that, have more respect for your father-in-law," Aurelio points at Yadira with a finger, while saying those words.

"You... you better know your place, don't think that I don't know that you are seeing my cousin, but what I have just done, I do for the good of the empire, every emperor, reaches that position through merit, it has always been like that. The young Aurelio has not done anything for the empire so far, and has not been educated as an emperor," she affirms and everyone present was at a loss for words, Yadira is right.

Everyone looks with displeasure at Aurelio because he dares to get involved with the empress's cousin, from now on it is seen that he is a man with a not very transparent morality.

Aurelio was pale and Martina, Yadira's cousin, who was also there, was too.

Yadira, seeing how things turned out, adds.

"Since I have nothing more to say, I declare the ceremony over, it is time to go to the banquet," Yadira announces, and then begins to walk.

The Marquez family wanted to stop her and ask her to explain the situation, but the gazes of the people did not allow them to do so.

It didn't take them long to be at the wedding banquet, and there the atmosphere was a bit uncomfortable, the newlyweds didn't look at each other, and each was on their own side.

The young empress was on her throne, while her now husband was sitting below the stage.

People were murmuring about what had happened, no one could believe that the empress's cousin would get involved with someone else's fiance.

That woman didn't know where to put her face, and her parents were furious, although they were aware of the relationship between their daughter and that young man, as well as they agreed, since if their daughter gets pregnant by who is supposed to be the emperor, things for them would be in a good position.

But that brat not only did something different from what was planned, but did not name Aurelio emperor, and on top of that, everyone is commenting on the relationship between that subject and her daughter.

"What will we do now? Our daughter will be the laughingstock of society, we cannot allow something like that," assures Martina's mother, whose name is Liliana.

"I don't know what went wrong, isn't it supposed that this silly girl is in love with Aurelio, and that she would make him her emperor? This is very bad, we must do something to prevent Martina from being the laughingstock of society," says Yadira's uncle, whose name is Natanael, he holds the title of duke, because he is the adoptive brother of the emperor, Yadira's father.

"If anyone is going to be the laughingstock of society, it will be someone else and not my daughter, she deserves the best," says that woman and then proposes to her husband "My daughter must enter the palace as the first concubine, and she must spend the night with Aurelio, that way, everyone will say that the empress is not loved by her husband," assures that woman with a smile.

They both agree on the same thing, and for that reason they call their daughter to tell her the plan, of course Martina agreed to be Aurelio's concubine, and promises to give him a child as soon as possible, that way when Aurelio is the emperor, the child can be his heir and that ensures her position as empress.

What delusions of that silly girl!

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