Mother-in-Law Refuses to Regress! (7 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 121

Larisa had something to do before her knighting ceremony. She tucked the locket given by the Crown Princess into her bosom and left home early in the morning.

Without an invitation from the Imperial Palace, the formal procedure to request an audience with the Crown Princess wasn’t complicated—just tedious.

One simply submitted an audience request in advance, waited a long time to receive an appointment date, and then waited even longer outside the Crown Princess’s reception room.

Larisa waited anxiously for her turn. If her name wasn’t called before the audience period ended, she would have to request another date and wait for the next opportunity.

Fortunately, her turn came before the audience period concluded.

“I humbly pay my respects to Your Highness.”

The Crown Princess had been yawning, clearly bored by the endless stream of formal requests, but her eyes lit up when she spotted Larisa bowing with perfect decorum.

“Miss Larisa? It’s been a while.”

“I hope Your Highness has remained in good health.”

“I’ve been well. Honestly, seeing you here among all these annoying people who line up before dawn just to flatter me—it’s truly a relief.”

Larisa felt reassured by the Crown Princess’s warm reaction. She hadn’t been invited to the palace even once since the Princess’s graduation ceremony, so this was nearly their first meeting in three years.

“Miss Larisa, you’ve grown even more beautiful.”

Larisa sat down in the seat offered by the Princess, who crossed her legs with an easy, unrestrained posture.

The Princess’s current demeanor was utterly unlike the girl she once knew, and Larisa nervously swallowed, her tension mounting.

With the words she needed to say looming ahead, it was impossible not to feel nervous. Larisa stayed silent, waiting for the Princess to broach the topic first.

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