Odette’s eyes widened and then narrowed again.
She had been expecting a proposal all along.
‘Sure, I knew it was coming.’
In fact, if you think about it, Walter had been consistently saying only that.
Let’s get married.
And until now, Odette had consistently refused, but…….
“……What do you gain if I accept your proposal?”
Now she was a little inclined to listen.
She was curious about why Walter was doing this so much, and she was afraid of the 500,000 Dert debt.
“I have no faction in the palace, so it’s obviously not to gain power through me. Then is it related to the Empress? If you want to restrain someone, Sedric Orabuni would be more helpful…….”
“I don’t know what Your Highness is talking about. Isn’t it clear what I gain by marrying Your Highness?”
Walter’s index finger straightened.
Towards Odette.
“……Me, you say?”
“Who else would it be?”
“…….”
Odette could not respond.
She had just admitted that she was neither suitable for factional purposes nor particularly useful in restraining specific powers.
But that’s why she couldn’t hide her bewilderment this time.
“You really intend to marry me?”
Odette’s dumbfounded question made Walter’s brow furrow this time.
“So you accept my proposal but intend to marry someone else?”
“No, that’s not it! Rather, didn’t you like Liza, no, the third princess?”
Liza had made such a fuss about her passionate love affair!
But Walter answered without changing his expression.
“I have no such feelings for the third princess.”
“But you’ve been meeting the third princess!”
“When I asked Her Majesty the Empress to let me meet the fourth princess, she introduced your sister. Isn’t that not my fault?”
“What… what do you mean?”
Walter didn’t want to meet Liza?
Odette’s mouth gaped open in shock at this unexpected revelation.
Walter, for his part, seemed somewhat exasperated as he rolled his pen in his hand.
“I thought she’d let me meet you at least once, but Her Majesty the Empress is really something. I had to wait for the victory celebration, didn’t I?”
“That, that happened…….”
Her grumbling tone seemed strangely natural.
Odette found herself nodding along before realizing she had been caught in Walter’s pace.
‘I mustn’t be easily fooled by such words!’
There was another proof that Walter seemed to be fond of Liza.
“But even at the tea party, you were very close to the third princess? You certainly gave off the vibe that you had feelings for the third princess.”
“Yes. And I carried you, princess. Do you remember?”
“……!”
“Sometimes one action is more solid evidence than a hundred words.”
Odette couldn’t hide her shock at Walter’s casual voice as he brushed his hair back.
She had assumed he wanted Liza, but that wasn’t the case.
But Walter seemed puzzled by Odette’s surprise.
“I’ve been saying the same thing from the beginning. That I want to marry you.”
“……Who would believe that? Naturally, I thought you were joking about me…….”
“Ah, of course, I did play a joke at the tea party.”
You played a joke?
Odette’s eyes began to narrow, but Walter beat her to it.
“I had to create such a scenario so that His Majesty would accept Ertman. There will be no one to dispute Your Highness becoming Duchess of Ertman.”
Only then did Odette understand what Walter was trying to say.
The bombshell he dropped at the tea party.
[Dash]Will His Majesty not allow what Her Highness the Princess desires? [Dash]Tastes tend to follow bloodlines, as my grandfather used to say.With that brief exchange, Walter had backed the Emperor into a corner.
The Emperor, who had vowed not to tolerate a courtship with Ertman, found himself in a position where he had no choice but to accept a marriage with Ertman if the princess wished.
And public opinion was reversed in an instant.
Because Walter did not reveal which of the two princesses he wanted, a confrontational structure was created between the 3rd and 4th princesses.
Since it was the time when Lizaina was getting angry over Walter, everything fit together perfectly.
So now, even if Walter marries one of the princesses as he said, no one would find it strange.
“……Did you plan this from the beginning?”
“Of course.”
Walter nodded his head without even a hint of expression.
“If I had publicly courted you, or had told His Majesty first that I wanted to marry you, His Majesty would certainly have used it.”
Of course, the Emperor does not like Ertman, so he could refuse, but if he can wield a house as good as Ertman by giving up a bastard princess, it’s more than a fair deal.
“It doesn’t matter much if I’m being used…… but they keep trying to send me to the battlefield.”
“You’re being sent again, even though you haven’t been back long?”
“It’s natural, as there are areas in the empire that haven’t been properly digested yet. There’s always a dispute to go to, and Ertman has earned enmity.”
So the choice the Emperor will make is obvious.
“You can’t immediately send His Highness to a siege after marriage, can you?”
……Though I’ve just come back.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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