"Your Majesty, could you please let Agnes and I talk alone first?"
After Alice was silent for a moment, she asked Aiglon.
Originally, Aiglon could completely ignore this request, but the beautiful blonde woman in front of him had a gentle temperament, which made the young man unable to bear to refuse rudely.
It didn't matter anyway, so Aigron agreed to her.
"Of course, let me go out first."
"No, no, how can I drive you out?" Alice quickly kept Agron, "Agnes and I will go inside, please just wait a moment."
The so-called "inside" refers to a small room in this suite that she opened up as her own lounge, where she would take a short rest when she was tired.
"Okay." In this case, Aigron had no objection. He lay half-lying on the sofa, then picked up a document on the table and browsed it casually.
Alice got up from the sofa and motioned for her sister to follow her. Although Agnes still looked a little embarrassed, she still obeyed her sister's call.
Soon, the two sisters came to the room together. There was a lounge chair in the room, and incense was placed in the closet. The window also faced the garden, and the warm spring breeze kept pouring in from the window, mixing the fragrance of flowers and incense. , refreshing and refreshing.
However, Alice was no longer as carefree at this moment. She looked at her sister nervously, and then asked. "Agnes, what's going on?"
"I don't know any more than you do." Agnes replied with a wry smile, "Your Majesty will not discuss with me what you want to do."
"But you are the party involved." Alice was a little confused, "Didn't he discuss it with you beforehand?"
"No." Agnes replied honestly, "Maybe he is sure that I will not object at all."
"Then will you object?" Alice asked.
Agnes was silent for a moment, but quickly responded, "...No."
"Why?" Alice asked.
"Is there any need for this?" Agnes was a little confused. "He is His Majesty, and our family is loyal to him. It is his right to arrange things for me as he wants. I just need to do it."
Alice didn't know how to respond to her sister's answer.
Logically speaking, this was indeed the correct and irreproachable answer, but she knew that if it were her former sister, she would never think so.
But what can she do?
My sister is right. Now her mother's family and her husband's family are all loyal to His Majesty, and she herself is receiving His Majesty's favor. In this case, and since His Majesty has made it so clear, she cannot overthrow her at all, nor is she qualified. To overturn Aigron's opinion.
But asking her to shut up, she felt like she couldn't do it.
She was worried that her sister was too young and naive to see the danger involved.
So, she carefully reminded her sister.
"Agnes, things are not as simple as they seem..." She tried to lower her voice so that the young people outside would not hear her. "Do you really think he puts you next to him just for so-called 'protection'? There are many guards around him, and he is so skilled, so why does he need you to look after him all the time?"
Before her sister could answer, she continued, "Obviously, he covets you, so he just wants to find a seemingly reasonable excuse to keep you by his side..."
Maybe because she felt that what she said was a bit "disrespectful", she quickly went back to make up for it, "Of course, I'm not saying that His Majesty will definitely have evil intentions, but think about it, what will outsiders think? If I feel that If something is wrong, outsiders will only have more vicious speculations. When rumors spread, what will happen to your reputation? Agnes, this is not a fun thing to say, you'd better consider the consequences seriously. "
After finishing speaking, she looked at her sister eagerly, waiting for Agnes's response.
Unexpectedly, even though she said it so bluntly, Agnes did not show any anxiety or anger. Instead, she looked at her sister with pleased eyes, "So, you are trying to persuade me to refuse. ?”
"That's not what I said... I just advise you to think carefully and not to be dazzled by the superficial honor." Alice instinctively dodged, but her words already hinted at her meaning, "I I know that you have been angry with me because of the previous things, but on this matter, I ask you to trust my judgment. This will definitely get you into trouble and ruin your reputation... Why bother? Are you asking for trouble?"
By saying this, Alice was already guilty of the following. She was really trying her best to persuade.
She also sincerely hopes that her sister will not fall into the pit of fire - after all, she is different from her father and father-in-law, two old guys who are obsessed with using Agnes to flatter and favor her. Even if she does not have the favor of her sister, she has already obtained it. Without the trust and importance of their two majesties, she had no motive or need to "sell her sister for glory."
However, her efforts are destined to have no effect at this time.
Because in her eyes, the sister who is the most virtuous and the least likely to collude with the world will eventually undergo some changes in this sinister world - or make some inevitable choices.
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"It's too late," Agnes whispered.
"What's too late?" Alice asked in confusion.
"First of all, I want to thank you. In the face of His Majesty's pressure, you still have the courage to persuade me to refuse. This shows that you still love me as much as you did in the past..." Agnes smiled slightly. In this smile, There is both relief and helplessness, "But I am also a little dissatisfied because you have always treated me as a child, an ignorant child, thinking about everything for me, or hiding everything from me. But you may have forgotten that even me, He will grow up slowly - do you think that I am just being deceived by His Majesty and don't notice anything...?"
"Agnes!" Alice was shocked after hearing this. "So you knew that?"
"Although I can't figure out his thoughts at all, and I don't bother to think about it, I can naturally tell how he treats me and what he wants to do to me." Agnes could no longer laugh, but I still mustered up the courage to answer my sister, "He has been pestering me several times during this period, and now he probably wants to take it a step further."
"Have we reached this point?" Alice took a breath, she was already shocked in her heart.
Because her sister's words meant a very scary possibility for Alice - since Agnes already knows everything and is ready to agree, doesn't it mean that... she has already acquiesced that she will commit herself to His Majesty?
It's not that "becoming His Majesty's lover" is terrible. Even if Agnes does become His Majesty's lover, it will not make Alice feel ashamed. After all, according to the standards of an aristocratic society accustomed to debauchery, being a Being a married man's lover is no longer shocking, but being His Majesty's lover is not even a disgrace - it can even bring glory to the whole family.
What’s really scary is, how could Agnes become like this? How could she possibly make this choice?
Is it for the sake of wealth and glory? Although these things are indeed enough to confuse people's minds, Alice is unwilling to believe that her sister will become such a person.
She blinked her eyes and looked at the sister in front of her in bewilderment, who was the most familiar to her but was gradually becoming stranger. She felt like her world was collapsing.
"Why? Why are you like this?" She asked her sister in a trembling voice, "Did you be forced by your father? Or did he coerce you?"
Looking at her sister's look, Agnes was moved but also a little amused, "That's not the case, it's my own decision. Of course my father wanted to do this, and he clearly hinted in front of me several times that I would find a way to please His Majesty. But he couldn’t tie me up, could he? And His Majesty... His Majesty never forced me, all of this was done voluntarily and I made my own decision.”
"There are right and wrong decisions." Alice replied in a low voice, "Of course this decision is the right one for those women who like glory and wealth, but it's different for you, you don't covet those things at all! Since you don’t need those things at all, why do you bother to smear yourself with dirt and face all kinds of right and wrong? With your appearance and talents, you can still live a good life even if you don’t depend on His Majesty!"
"Have you ever considered an additional factor?" Agnes asked softly.
"What?"
"I like him." Agnes moved her lips slightly and answered in a volume that was difficult for both of them to hear.
"Huh...?!" Alice was caught off guard and almost choked.
"Is it strange?" Agnes asked.
Alice didn't know how to reply for a moment. When she thought about it carefully, it didn't seem strange that a girl would like His Majesty - or rather, it seemed a bit natural. Regardless of appearance, talent, or other things, it is enough to make a girl's heart fall.
She looked at her sister carefully, trying hard to find signs of lying on Agnes's face - but, based on her understanding of her sister, she really didn't lie.
If she had heard this when she first met His Majesty, she would have been very satisfied, but now everything is very different.
"Okay, I accept this reason. But... things in this world are not that simple, and you don't just have to ignore everything as long as you like it." She thought for a moment, and then carefully reminded her sister, "What will Her Majesty the Queen think? ? She is not such a generous person. She once made a big fuss without caring about her manners when you were slightly ambiguous. What will she think if you go one step further now? "
"Even if you ask me about this kind of thing, I don't know how to deal with it. I have no experience at all." Agnes smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I have no ill intentions towards her, and I have never thought of taking the initiative to stab her. Hurt her, and I never took the initiative to seduce His Majesty - but His Majesty wants to get close to me, how can I refuse? No matter from my father's perspective, from my family's perspective, or from my personal perspective, I can only accept it, right? ?”
Perhaps these words had been brewing in Agnes's heart for a long time. After her sister triggered the opportunity, Agnes suddenly said it out in one breath, "I like him, and he happens to like me too. He wants to get close to me and wants to be with me." I stay with you, and he is your Majesty, the person we all should obey, and the benefactor of our whole family. Every one of my relatives relies on him... In this case, then I can satisfy him! What's wrong? What about? Even if it really doesn't work, it's not something I can control. If Princess Teresa insists on being angry, then I can't help it. She can do whatever she wants. Her husband is her own and she can't control it. Can you still blame me for staying?”
Agnes' words made Alice, who had always been clear-minded, a little confused.
She felt that there was something wrong with her sister's brain circuit, but she couldn't find any problem in her haste.
Theoretically speaking, since he is loyal to His Majesty, he should do his best to fulfill all his wishes. Alice may even benefit from it, so she should strongly support him.
However, after all, Alice is different from her father. Her father can put aside family affection and completely regard his daughter as a "tool" to flatter and favor; but she cannot completely treat her beloved Yaomei as a tool—— Although she had also been deceived and used, in the end she still had undying family ties.
"You are still too young. Because you are young, you make obscure choices. You don't know the cruelty of fate, and you don't know that seemingly glamorous things often come at a huge price..." Alice said As he spoke, he almost choked up, "I really can't bear to see you make a wrong move and regret it for the rest of your life..."
"As I said just now, you have always treated me as a child, thinking that I don't understand anything and can't think of anything." Agnes retorted to her sister, "But I can see all this myself! You are just saying that in the future He might dislike me and abandon me, but so what? I would also say that I might abandon him... I don't ask him for anything, and I won't be afraid of losing my support, because I can become it myself Rely on yourself! I can bear all the costs of my own destiny, and accordingly, I can do whatever I want! Sister, I have grown up and can make decisions for my own life, whether it is right or wrong , I will take responsibility for myself, you don’t have to worry so much about me anymore.”
How could you not be worried? Alice's heart ached.
"Okay, let's not argue about this anymore, and you don't have to take the risk of offending His Majesty for me. Just let him do what he wants to do." Agnes suddenly laughed, and her tone became brisk. , "Maybe you think he is playing with me, but from another perspective, I also want to have a taste of playing with the emperor~ Those ladies laugh at me every day for being a talentless old man. As a result, they are probably going to be jealous of me and go crazy with jealousy. Well, they will never be able to achieve my achievements in their lifetime..."
Alice knew that her sister said this on purpose to comfort herself, and her tears rolled down quietly, but in the end she said nothing and hugged her sister tightly.
