Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 128

Larisa, wearing a dress that gradiented from crimson through orange to yellow, looked from afar like a single Apeldoorn tulip.

‘Ari would look lovely in it.’

Feeling sorry for his daughter, who rarely wore bright-colored clothes, Prince Alfonso placed his hand on Grand Duchess Larisa’s waist.

With their other hands clasped together in midair, they began stepping to the brisk tempo of the San Carlo waltz.

As the prince and grand duchess couple commenced their first dance, other young people gradually joined them on the floor.

“Why don’t you young ones go dance instead of standing there?”

Old Count Bartolini urged Isabella, who smiled and declined.

“No, I couldn’t possibly dance from the very first song—it would be too embarrassing.”

Coming from Isabella, who once swept every first dance at balls, this was hardly fitting. She simply didn’t want others to see her dancing with someone like Jacopo Attendolo.

She watched the prince of this country, who sat beside her like a borrowed sack of barley yet led the dance with impeccable manners, and the foreign woman spinning briskly before him. Everything about the world seemed utterly unsatisfactory to her.

‘I’ll get out of this pit soon enough!’

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Isabella wasn’t the only one staring fixedly at Prince Alfonso and Grand Duchess Larisa. Ariadne, too, stood at the edge of the ballroom, watching her man and his official future bride.

Though Alfonso and Ariadne had agreed not to acknowledge each other in formal settings, whether fortunately or unfortunately, Alfonso was the sole prince of the Etruscan Kingdom and was now leading the first dance at this royal palace ball.

Ariadne’s intense gaze toward Alfonso didn’t appear unnatural among the crowd.

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