Vivian looked across the crowd and watched from a distance as Victor walked step by step into the dark corridor. The January night was bitterly windy, and there was neither moon nor stars in the dim sky.
There was a black figure at the end of the corridor, and Vivian could tell that it was Mr. Levon Royston. I heard that Princess Elena was planning to break off the engagement recently, but the queen disagreed.
The two left without talking for long. Vivian walked out from behind the pillar, and there was no panic on Victor's face.
"I know that I can't hide anything from my sister."
"My brother is too naughty. As a sister, I have to pay more attention to avoid accidentally getting into big trouble."
Vivian took the initiative to hold Victor's hand, and it seemed to outsiders that the relationship between the siblings was close. Only Victor knew how painful his wrist was.
On the way back to the banquet hall, I happened to see the Crown Prince and Andrea hugging each other. Andrea hurriedly explained that she accidentally fell, but fortunately the crown prince helped her.
Vivian looked up to the second floor and found Eunice looking at them in shock. The Crown Prince has never been close to women. If a strange woman approaches him, he will scold her angrily or chop off his hands.
Eunice thought she was the only one special, but she felt sad that the Crown Prince did not push Andrea away. Perhaps it was destined from the beginning that the male protagonist belongs to the female protagonist.
Starting from tonight, Eunice will try her best to match up the male and female protagonists, kissing me and me, and even having sex while drunk, getting pregnant and giving birth to a child...
Let’s not talk about her anymore, the important thing now is Andrea. Vivian doesn't want her to get involved in other people's love whirlpool and hurt others and herself.
"I've met the Crown Prince." Vivian raised her skirt and saluted.
The crown prince glanced at the siblings, then nodded and left.
Andrea was so frightened that she almost stopped breathing. When she almost fell down just now, she grabbed the person next to her without noticing. If she knew that person was the crown prince, she would rather be embarrassed than touch him!
"I heard that except for the crown prince's lover, any other woman who touches his clothes will have her hands cut off. Vivian, I'm so scared!"
"Don't worry, you are Duke Hoffman's daughter, even the crown prince would not dare to do anything to you."
"Really? Let's go shopping in two days!"
"Okay, I'm glad you want to play with me."
The three of them returned to the banquet hall. The king and queen had left, the second prince was dancing, and Princess Elena was surrounded by people.
Not far away, four dukes were having a heated chat. Lawrence Stan, the Duke of the East, was the king's younger brother. He was about forty years old and looked handsome. He supported the second prince because the death of the prince's biological mother was related to him.
The Duke of the South, Aden Stan, is the king's uncle. He has a round figure and pale hair. He looks to be in his sixties. He supported the crown prince in order to maintain the eldest son succession system. Once the imperial power fell, the empire was likely to be at war.
Duke Hoffmann saw them first, so he smiled and waved, and Vivian hurriedly pulled Victor over to salute.
The three of them were juniors. After saluting, they were allowed to be looked at and questioned by several elders. For example, they asked about Andrea's marriage, Victor's hobbies, and how Vivian discovered the mine, etc.
The banquet ended at twelve o'clock, and Vivian and others took the carriage back. Before leaving, a maid slipped her a note, which contained a discussion about breaking off the engagement.
The "abuse of orphans" incident three months ago was related to the Royston family. Princess Elena would definitely be able to cancel the marriage as long as she was ruthless. Who would have thought that she would be persuaded by the queen.
The queen's years of neglect have made Elena very lacking in love, which led to her willingness to be the marriage tool as soon as the other party gave her a good look.
Now the Royston family has not been affected in any way. The evidence Irina has long given to the queen, and the queen is not surprised that it was destroyed.
Alas, it looks like I have to find another way out.
The next day, Vivian didn't get up until noon. There were many ladies drinking tea downstairs.
In the past, Duke Klein never took his wife and children with him wherever he went, so it was difficult to establish a relationship with him. Now that Maivis is in the palace, he has a gentle and reserved personality, so it is not difficult to make friends with him.
Vivian took two days off and went shopping with Andrea on the third day. There were many parties during the New Year, and Andrea liked to join in the fun, so she made many friends, including Eunice.
"I heard that Eunice is the crown prince's lover. No matter when, the crown prince's first dance is with her." Vivian pretended to test.
"Everyone has misunderstood. Eunice is not that kind of person." Andrea has seen Eunice twice, and every time she takes the initiative to help her resolve the embarrassment, so she thinks she is a good person.
"I see. I heard that the Crown Prince's birthday will be in ten days. Why don't we go there together?"
"Okay, the birthday party must be held in the palace."
The two went from a jewelry store to a dress store, and then from the dress store to the theater. Victor frowned and followed behind. He obviously had a lot to do, but was forced to be taken as a guard by Vivian.
Vivian wrote a letter asking Catherine to help Andrea recognize the true face of the crown prince, so that she would not throw herself into it and end up losing both her life and wealth.
Catherine is willing to help, and she has great influence in the social circles of the royal capital. Within a few days, Andrea discovered that the relationship between Eunice and the Crown Prince was not a simple relationship between monarch and minister.
Three days before the crown prince's birthday, the queen invited Vivian and Andrea into the palace to talk. She has great ambitions. While bringing Andrea and the second prince together, she also wants to capture the Klein family.
In a blink of an eye, it was the Crown Prince's birthday. Someone broke into the villa where Eunice lived late at night. Just when she was about to scream for help, she discovered that the person turned out to be the Crown Prince.
The crown prince confessed his love under the influence of wine, and the two bodies overlapped, and what happened next became logical.
Andrea no longer believes in Eunice, let alone getting close to the crown prince or the second prince. The people in the royal capital are too scary. However, things didn't go as planned. At the end of January, the king forced the crown prince to marry Andrea.
When the crown prince received the news, the first thing he did not go to the king to cancel the engagement was to warn Andrea not to have hope in him because he would never fall in love with another woman.
Andrea was so shocked that she immediately retorted: "Since the crown prince does not want to be engaged, why not refuse the king?"
The Crown Prince was angry and ashamed when he heard this. He thought that the marriage was initiated by the Hoffmann family, and he never thought that the girl would not like him!
Duke Hoffmann did not expect that the king would make an engagement without consulting him, and he was extremely angry. Especially when I heard that the crown prince was confused with other women, he wanted to draw his sword and chop them in pieces.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have brought my sister to the royal capital." Talon also felt very sad. He would rather keep his sister at home for the rest of his life than let her get involved in royal affairs.
"It's no use hiding at home. The king and the queen are fighting, and it's not the crown prince but also the second prince. Alas." Duke Hoffmann sighed. He didn't want to bring the entire family with him.
"Fortunately, my sister doesn't like the crown prince. It would be nice if the marriage could be cancelled."
"How can it be so easy to withdraw from a marriage granted by the king, unless your sister dies of illness." Duke Hoffman suddenly thought of Duke Klein.
The man appeared to have a graceful demeanor, but in fact he was full of intrigues. Perhaps he could find a way to break off the engagement without damaging the reputation of the royal family, but the price would be high.
At this time, Duke Klein is testing his two children. The theme is how should the Klein family choose under the current situation of the empire?
This month, apart from going shopping with Vivian, Victor spent the rest of his time investigating the situation in the royal capital. He is good at peeling off cocoons, so he can analyze many family problems in a clear and logical way.
It's a pity that I have too little experience, so I can't guess the real thoughts of the great nobles. Vivian supplemented his analysis and also analyzed the royal family's choices.
"Father, the king granted a marriage to the crown prince before anyone could react. What do you think the implications of this behavior are?"
"He was forced to lose his mind by the Queen, otherwise he would not have made a decision without consulting Duke Hoffmann."
"The king's move is urgent and absurd. It's not like the queen can do it. I suspect there are other reasons, such as illness."
Duke Klein thought about it carefully and felt that the marriage was strange. If the king is ill and unable to resist the queen's power, he has to drag the Hoffman family in...
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Vivian's hypothesis made sense. The king was in his fifties and had experienced many assassinations when he was young. It was normal for his body to be unable to withstand it.
"Perhaps the Klein family can't escape being used." The king asked him to enter the palace tomorrow. It seemed that the war to seize the rightful son had entered a fierce stage.
"If the crown prince wins, given his prejudice against the Klein family, I'm afraid the north will have a new owner; if the second prince wins, given his greedy temper, I'm afraid all the property in the north will be donated to the royal family."
"Is it possible that you want to choose Princess Elena?"
"No, we don't choose anyone. The North should become independent."
Vivian originally planned to support Princess Elena, but after meeting yesterday, she discovered that the princess could not escape the queen's control. Now that the crown prince and the second prince are fighting fiercely, she is busy trying to please the queen instead of contacting the noble forces.
It seems that this card can only be discarded. If the North wants to escape from the control of the royal family, it can only become bigger and stronger.
