Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 43

“He said he was merely acting according to Her Royal Highness the Princess’s wishes.”

“A rather obvious lie.”

“It seemed he thought Her Royal Highness would not deny it.”

Penrel also considered that she might genuinely side with her family.

Some people, even knowing their family treated them poorly, couldn’t abandon their expectations of them.

Though it made no sense logically, such cases were surprisingly common—after all, things learned in childhood tended to linger in memory far longer.

As if having read his very thoughts, the King spoke.

“I’ve already discussed that matter with Ophelia. But isn’t Orienn, the Second Prince of Egelbamot, currently in Reden?”

“Yes, on the day I departed, I saw his procession entering the city.”

It was probably because of the Crown Prince.

Orienn, Netepel Luntalis’s half-brother and Crown Prince of Egelbamot, treated his younger half-sibling—born of a different mother—as if she were merely a messenger. Idren had accidentally discovered this fact in his previous life, though it was known only within the Egelbamot Imperial Palace.

Thus, it wasn’t surprising that the Second Prince had come down to Reden, yet something else weighed on his mind.

The Second Prince had once sent a servant to attend the Marquis Rohos’s funeral—a servant who had previously visited Ophelia under the pretense of delivering his master’s words.

Remembering how strangely arrogant that servant had been, Idren deliberately prevented him from meeting Ophelia. It hadn’t been difficult anyway, since Ophelia held no interest in either the Marquis’s funeral or those attending it.

Since it was quite uncommon for a foreign prince’s servant to appear at a noble’s funeral, Idren investigated further. He uncovered a close friendship between the former Marquis of Rohos and the Second Prince of Egelbamot.

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