Rolando's gaze turned cold once again. Now, there weren't a lot of women in the palace. In fact, Lilian was the only one who was living with him. He couldn't believe that it wasn't that long when he announced that Lilian would be crowned as his empress, and someone had already taken actions against her. "Have you found out who did this?"
"We have questioned every single member of the Imperial Household Department, but no one knows what happened. Moreover, not all of the stones on the road were river ones. They were a mixture of the blue stones and the river stones. Someone has secretly replaced some of the stones. It was quite evident that it wasn't done by anyone from the Imperial Household Department."
The guards sighed with profound helplessness. They thought that they would be able to find out the truth as long as they investigated the entire Imperial Household Department. But to their surprise, no one knew what had happened or even had any clues. Moreover, it turned out that the blue stones were paved a month ago, and nothing unfortunate had happened until Lady Lilian's accident that day. That was to say, someone had deliberately added the river stones into the blue stones recently, so as to make the pregnant princess fall and have a miscarriage. Someone was clearly aiming to kill the baby inside her.
The expression on Rolando's face had become grim. "Have a deeper investigation on it. I want to know who dares to do this nasty thing under my territory!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After the guard went out, the chief of eunuchs, Sean came in and reported, "Your Majesty."
"Have you prepared everything?"
"The palace has been cleaned up. I'm here to inquire about how should it be prepped for Lady Harper?" Sean had been in the palace for many years, so he was already well adjusted with how they did things inside. At present, the imperial household lacked hostesses, and there was only Lady Lilian living in there so far. Although the emperor doted on her, Sean could see that he didn't love her at all.
"Prepare it as you would have for an empress," Rolando replied.
The eunuch was so surprised that he looked up at Rolando. He could hardly conceal his emotions. But Rolando did not even look at him and just read the memorials carefully, as if what he just said was not a big deal.
"Your Majesty, you mean I should prepare the palace for Lady Harper according to the standard of an empress's palace?" In case he had heard it wrong, the eunuch tried to confirm it.
"Yes, make sure that you'll see to it."
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