The real emperor looked nothing like the one in the portrait Xyla Quest had seen previously.

“That is merely a coincidence. The real emperor is different from the one you saw in the portrait, isn’t he?” the empress asked.

Xyla nodded her head and then leveled her gaze directly at the empress. “Thank you for protecting me, my husband, and our two children, Empress.”

At last, she had finally found the answers to some of her lingering questions after so long.

As it turned out, the one secretly