On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Chapter 197: Bright Future

The heaven prepared to welcome the New Emperor and Empress. The preparation began and so did the celebrations. King Aenon and Queen Rivera were not expecting such a huge responsibility to be put on their shoulders. Lihua looked after everything and often visited Water Realm to look at the progress of King Aenon's learning and to see if he has decided who should take the throne of Water Realm. 

"Listen to me," Lihua said to Aenon. "I gave a thought to it about my son and..." she raised. "And my daughter in law," Lihua said the words. She smiled. King Aenon looked tensed. "Aqua will marry Huo'er, and she has already been declared as the Demon Queen ever since she was sent out of heaven, she will not be able to come back, the days of her as the Crown Princess, it's over, don't keep your hopes," Lihua advised.

"Milan is the only candidate," Rivera walked in. "We cannot give Aqua the throne even if we want to, she is gone from us, if we give her the throne we will become the most baised rulers. We don't want that Aenon," Rivera opinionated. She sounded serious and determined. 

King Aenon got up from his chair. He nodded his head. "I thought about it a lot. I could only reach this conclusion too, but I am father too.. I could not let Aqua go like that for some time, I know I'm wrong, but..." King Aenon looked at his wife. 

"She is going no where, she is becoming a queen, and what more, a wife to her love she even sacrificed her life for. As parents we should be happy for her. She is finally getting the person she always wanted, she is going to be free and not tied back to anything we forced on her. Let us feel happy for her," Queen Rivera told her husband. "A mother knows feeling well, just like the father, we should do what as parents must for Aqua. Let us not drag it any longer,"

"The marriage alliance," Lihua said and smiled. "We will hold in after the coronation," Lihua told them. "I will travel after that, I want to experience life outside heaven," she turned away. "Dritan always wanted to do it," she said an disappeared. 

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King Aenon summoned his eldest daughter to his pavilion behind the study in his chamber and served her with tea and snack.

"What is it pa?" She looked forward to his talk.

"I have something very serious to tell you," Aenon began. 

"Okay," she sat patiently. 

"Aqua, are you sure you want to marry Huo'er and live your life with him?" King Aenon asked her. Aqua chuckled. 

"You know the answer more than anyone pa," she replied. "Yes I do,"

"If so, I will tell you," Aenon began. "When a girl marries a man, she will be taken away by husband to his Realm, she will become and her children she will bear will have to follow his footsteps," 

"We are equal in the partnership," Aqua quickly corrected.

"But you will leave Water Realm, or are you planning to stay?" Aenon asked the important question. Aqua stopped and looked af her father. 

"Leave," the answer was clear to both of them. 

"You have been dethroned from the title of Crown Princess Aqua,"

"Pa," Aqua tried to speak. 

"Milan was given the title after you left,"

"After I was kicked out to be exact," she corrected.

King Aenon shot her a look but he could not deny the fact anyway. The mistake was his. 

"It is a crown princess who will take the throne of a Realm," Aenon kept teaching her.

"I'm fine leaving Water Realm and seeing Milan as the Queen," she said. "She is the right person to look after our home and our people, with you and Ma gone from here to the Celestial Palace, you cannot rest in the future for a long time, and I'm not going to live here either, Huo'er and I will have a life live together and his throne to keep, so Milan is the best and the only candidate for the throne of our Relam," Aqua stopped her father. "Why must you think that I would feel bad or misunderstand the situation, when it is the right route?" She asked her father. 

"You may not seek hurt, but as your father more than a King or Emperor, I am hurt, you are my only daughter and I have to watch you leave while all of this belongs to you as the first born," King Aenon sounded all emotional. 

"You should not be sat about this, relax Pa, this is life, mortal or immortal, unexpected things are bound to happen, meant to happen, and will happen for sure, my case is just like that. A high goddess is no exception to fate. We are all the same in the eeyesof greatest power," she told her father feeling totally fine while he was not.

"You have grown all big and even advising me now, has time run forward too much?" Aenon wiped his eyes and tousled Aqua's hair. Aqua hugged her father tight. She needed it. 

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The empress did not mourn like she said. The body has been kept in the coffin. For some reason his soul did not vanish. But Empress made sure he is dead and will never return. Empress decided to not open him up showing his will he had written before to the ministers. But she ordered the royal guards to find the treasures and bury his father he has kept in the coffin in the underground room beneath his bed chamber. There was no heir to crown as the emperor and choosing Aenon felt si right. There was a confusion among people and trouble that stirred about whether the empress would choose her illegitimate son Huo, as the emperor who already is the demon king, the emperor of the hell. The star of Tai had fallen down from the sky. Aqua, Milan and Aiden pretended to not being in a relationship so that others don't bad mouth Milan. 

Aiden walked around the ministers to know what they are gossiping about the future emperor. He heard what was warming to his heart and a happy thing for the family.

Celestial Palace welcomed Aenon and Family. Aqua came along with her parents to live with them until her marriage. She liked the palace for the first time. It did not feel that threatening as it did before. 

The first ten days went busy learning about how things at the palace work and meeting and greeting people who visited. 

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Days passed and everything calmed down. Coronation of Milan as queen was pending. Aqua was bored one afternoon and she decided to take a walk.

Aqua was standing in front of the lotus pond in the west block of the palace, admiring the flowers. And she felt someone putting their hands around her waist.

"Huo'er, you came," she said excitedly.

"I should as a king show my warmnt and gratitude to the new emperor, shouldn't I?" he made a comment.

"Yes, you definitely should," she said as he kissed the tip of her nose. Then she pushed him away they heard people coming from afar. Demon king bowed to the the water princess and walked away. And Aqua couldn't help but laugh aloud. She felt hopeful about life and she took that wilfully and happily. Making her dreams come true. But she was sure and little hurt about the fact that she will have to forever move away from the heavens even though Huo'er had promised her that water realm will forever be her home.