Aster rushed all the way to seek help from Fair, but she didn’t know where he was now. She went to the river where she had met him for the first time, but there was no trace of him after she yelled his name for several times.

She began to look for the exit of the palace desperately like a beast, and got lost.

"Are you kidding me...how can it be so large?"

Aster felt her legs were going to cramp, and only then did she realize the Delmont Palace was way much larger than she had imagined it would be. The few places where she had been were just like a small corner in the Louvre.

Now she was sitting on a short stone among the rockery, wiping her heartbroken tears in desperation.

"Oh me dear, isn’t this the future Delmont Queen?! What happened? Has anyone caused you any trouble? Tell me! I’m going to report to the king for you. Whoever bullied you surely would bear all the consequences!"

Some old man with white beard popped out suddenly, and he looked like a turtle.

Aster was caught off guard and forgot crying, she stared at him for a while and burst into tears again, "I’m not your queen, you king will not take me as his queen, instead he wants me dead, and even has given me a death notice, one month later. How could your king be such a psycho? Heartless and brutal! I am so miserable indeed... he doesn’t show any interest in me no matter how hard I’ve tried..."

She was too sad to care about anything else, thinking that she was going to die a month later anyway.

It was only a reprieve!

All of this was a torture, and she felt such misery in her heart.

"Alas... our king is a heartless one, for sure." the old man with the white beard sighed after hearing her complaint, "I’m afraid if the Delmont would have an heir."

"Yeah, who wants to carry a child of someone like him?!"

"Girl, you are quite right... who would want... Oh no!" having realized that he had said something very inappropriate, he corrected himself, "you can not say that, no you can’t, our king is a wise and gallant one, the lord of the Monde, of course there would be a lot of girls who admire him and would like very much to carry his child! It’s just that he is not willing to have children... he is just not wiling to..."

"A celibatarian and dink?" Aster asked the old white bearded man as she wiped her tears.

"What?"

"It means one doesn’t want marriage and a family. Is he so open minded?" Shouldn’t it be true that a man with a crown will have kids like one dozen after another? Maybe monsters have a different point of view in this matter?

The white bearded man patted his thigh and sighed after a while of recalling, "our king is just an extraordinary man who likes to do things in his own way. The queen mother used to live in the palace, but now she has moved out just because of his rebellious son, the reason being obvious that the king wouldn’t get married and have a family. In the earlier years, our queen mother even asked me to give Stinging Nettle to the daughter-in-law she had picked up in person for fertility in the hope of a grandchild."

"What is Stinging Nettle?" She had never heard of this herb before...

"It’s a herb for fertility, very strong and the efficacy is absolute for monsters, but unfortunately it is banned here because it’s also poisonous for both the physical and the mental health of monsters."

"I see..." she didn’t know there was such magical plant for fast conception. That wolf must have really caused his mother some trouble. Using such dark method with her daughter-in-law. "Then what happened?"

"Nothing happened. The king didn’t even lay a finger upon them. Just two days ago, I was given the order again by the Empress dowager and asked to figure out some other ways for her to have a grandchild as soon. I’ve just reported to her that there would soon be a queen and a baby prince in the near future. How unexpected news you have brought me..." he stroke his bead and shook his head in a heavy mood, "now bang... everything is out of the question... how wonderful would it be if you were pregnant right now..."

Aster got the chill and said in a screeching voice, "pregnant?! He wouldn’t kill me if I am pregnant?!"

"If you are pregnant, the queen mother will be your solid backing! Girl!"

"Um..." Aster seemed like enlightened, "will it be a matter if her daughter-in-law is not a monster?"

The old man almost laughed himself to stitches hearing this, "now the queen mother has abandoned her standards of a daughter-in-law. If it’s not because she must a grandson to hold, it does even matter if it’s a daughter-in-law or son-in-law, ha ha ha ha..."

"..."

Damn! That was solid!

Then at this very moment the red headed Herald Grant popped out of nowhere, and sang, " I'm so high, I can touch the sky. I know it's my time, and it's now or never. Shine so bright, I light the night. And it feels so right, ain't nothing better."

After he was done in a falsetto, Herald turned his face to them and pointed at Aster, "a baby! Yes, baby!"

Aster was trembling in horror, shaking her head like a rattle-drum.

Herald squinted and pointed out sharply, "does anything matter more than your life... think about it, you are going to die one month later, why? Because you have swallowed his majesty’s spirit essence. But if you are pregnant now! Things will be totally different! The queen mother will protect you under her wings. After the baby is born, so his spirit essence is out. Then why would the king want you dead? Right? Think about it!"

"It seems pretty much of it..." Aster started to be persuaded.

When the spirit essence is no more in her, she can go whenever she chooses to go.

So?

Why everything seems to have become so clear when it is considered in this way?

Herald pulled back her red hair, "because it is! So why the hesitation! Go get pregnant right now!"

Aster was choked by the sudden recalling of that horrible experience, and got the chill. She started to get her senses back.

Things are not that simple,alright?

On the one hand she believed life was more important than anything else, and now having a child with a wolf was not such an abomination.

But...but the question is that he is horrifying, both in bed and off bed!

The possibility of death before pregnancy is quite real!

Moreover, he seemed to detest her in every single way, how could he do it with her?!

"I think I just won’t be escaping the fate of being killed anyway..." Aster confessed her concerns like she had nothing to live for now.

She had thought that they would just kill the idea and give up, but never had she expected that the two met their eyes and something sparkled.

They gave each other a high five, "then fake it at first... and afterwards... a real one!!"

"the king would definitely be gentler later, how could he be cruel to a pregnant lady?!"

"Am I right, old fellow!"

"Yes yes... and it won’t matter if he keeps doing it his own way. You can rely on my medical expertise, I once brought a dead monster back to life! And you, have the king’s spirit essence in you, it isn’t that easy to be dead!"

Aster was stunned by the two men, and forgot about her sense of shame.

It seemed that they wanted to be the queen more than she herself did...

Is is an illusion?

After a long time of excited talking and plotting, the show was put on the next day.

"Congratulations! The lady is pregnant!"

"Congratulations! The lady is with the king’s child!"

The little monsters couldn’t wait to spread the news among them...

About a blinking of an eye later, the king Adalwolf appeared in Aster’s humble little room. At the first sight, he seemed to being wearing a frozen facial mask made in the cold Siberian area.