The Substitute Empress

The Empress was poisoned. The Empress of the great empire Perser fell into a coma after being poisoned. It was because of the Emperor's cursed eyes. "I pushed that child into the well...!" "I've actually been married twice." Everyone who met his gaze was like this. They would spill truths he didn't want to know from their own mouths, then scream and collapse. Except for that woman. That woman who was so insignificant she had no secrets to hide. "My name is Zel." "That's a strange name." "...Would it kill you to say it's not strange, even as a courtesy?" So, he chose her. "I will make you the substitute Empress." The man, for whom making others speak their hidden truths was all to...