Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 386

“It’s that…!”

Grand Duke Aud bit his lip. The woman before his eyes was Ariadne de Mare—the daughter of Cardinal de Mare and the beloved of Prince Alfonso.

The duke’s mood instantly soured.

Though he himself had once declared—albeit superficially—that his daughter should merely hold the title of wife while allowing him to keep a mistress at his side, actually seeing a strange woman clinging closely to his future son-in-law was an entirely different matter.

Upon noticing Grand Duke Aud, Prince Alfonso’s expression turned unpleasant. Just as the prince was about to say something, the woman beside him tugged at his sleeve to stop him—an act that further displeased the duke.

Yet Grand Duke Aud was in no position to raise his voice right now. He was experiencing firsthand the saying that life is like a flowing river.

Though the phrase typically metaphorically describes life’s constant, restless change rather than fixed stability, it also implies that one never knows when a sudden downpour upstream might violently flood the downstream reaches.

To put it bluntly, forgetting all lofty phrasing—damn it, everything was changing far too fast. Even what he’d considered constants had turned into variables.

For instance, Philippe coming here to Trevero himself was one such change, and Larisa tagging along with him was another.

And there was plenty to say about that black-haired woman clinging arm-in-arm to the prince.

She was precisely the type who’d fit perfectly as a royal mistress.

She wasn’t strikingly beautiful enough to serve as the official concubine of the continent’s most prominent young prince—but then again, a mistress only needed to excel in one area; if she excelled in everything, why would anyone settle for making her a second?

Yet undeniably, she possessed a peculiar charm.

Even Grand Duke Aud—who prided himself on being the most critical judge of Ariadne de Mare on the entire continent—could see it plainly.

Moreover, she was the illegitimate daughter of a powerful cardinal—making her perfectly suited to forge ties with the clergy.

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