Summary
My mom always read me fairy tales.
Stories where the heroine was loved by everyone, married a prince, and became an empress.
“I want to marry a prince too!” I once said.
And naturally, I dreamed of becoming an empress.
“I’ll make sure you do,” Mom told me with a strange smile.
At the time, I was too young to understand her words, so I didn’t think much of it.
Years passed, and by the time I turned ten, I had already forgotten that silly dream of becoming an empress.
‘That’s impossible in real life!’ I thought.
But one day, after being away from home for three days, Mom suddenly came back with a boy she said she bought from the slave market.
“This is Claudiel Tenes Adeboil. He’s the current emperor’s illegitimate son,” she told me.
As always, Mom said something unbelievable.
Before I could even make sense of it, she disappeared again—this time leaving behind a strange book and a letter.
When I opened the letter, I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.
[Hello, Elena. I’m an alien. I know the future.]
“What kind of nonsense is this?! Even for my weird mom, this is too much!”
Now, standing in front of me was a boy who claimed to be the emperor’s illegitimate child.
And Mom, who always acted as if she already knew the future, was gone—leaving only a book she called a prophecy.
‘Wait… could it be true? Is this boy really the emperor’s son?’
But one thing’s for sure—
I don’t want to be an empress!
