Chapter 399 - The King Wants To Abdicate (2/2)

"Father" Mars muttered He looked around the support for him to take the throne

He knew they all had their own agenda So and hoped he could replace his father and be a better and more compassionate ruler Some only pretended to support hienda behind his back

Soet the benefit if they suck up to hiovernment These people would want a piece of that power too

"My decision is effective i looked at Mars deeply "I want you to uphold justice for your uilty of her demise"

Mars knew there had to be a catch His father wouldn't go doithout asking hi Mars should have known

"As the king, you have to set an exa spoke firmly

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fro this chapter I was reading so and fell down the rabbit hole Let me share with you what I found hehehe

Octavian Agustus is the first Roman Emperor He was Julius Caesar's nepheho became his heir after Julius Caesar died In our calendar, the reat! He surrounded himself with 4 capable and smart friends and slowly ascended to pohen he was 17 years old, and his 51-year reign reat eustus married twice for political reasons to secure alliances He divorced his first wife Claudia soon after their e and never touched her

He married the second wife Scribonia (also to secure alliance) only for one year before he suddenly met the love of his life, a woman named Livia in a royal event Back then, Livia was actually married to his fornant with her second son Back then, women were considered property of their fathers or husbands and she wasto her father's decision

Agustus loved her deeply and 'persuaded' Livia's husband to divorce her, which he did At that tiustus's child

Since he didn't love his wife, Agustus divorced Scribonia on the day she gave birth to his only child, a baby girl naht as the baby's father), and several ave birth to her second son Augustus didn't want to wait for one day longer

His love for Livia was deep and they lived happily together for 51 years even though they didn't have any biological child together He adopted Livia's two sons and raised them as his own on the day he ave his wife so e People said Livia's power in Roenerally didn't even have any rights over their own person)

To secure an alliance with his noerful best friend, Agrippa, Augustus' adopted son, Tiberius, was betrothed to Vipsania, Agrippa's daughter, when the boy was six and the girl was one They got married 15 years later and were deeply in love with each other

Suddenly, Julia - Augustus only biological child, lost her husband as 25 years older She too was married off by her father to secure an alliance

Since Julia was now single, Augustus thought the only way to secure their faht to becohter So, he asked Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania and married Julia

Tiberius was basically the crown prince but he had no say over the matter and, with deep sadness, he divorced his wife to marry the promiscuous and adulterous Julia to fulfill the eave Tiberius a son and was pregnant with their second They lost the second baby, probably because of grief

It was recorded that Tiberius once ran into Vipsania again and proceeded to follow her hoiveness Soon afterward, Tiberius ustus, and steps were taken to ensure that Tiberius and Vipsania would never ain

I feel deeply sorry for Tiberius and Vipsania :(

Tiberius ascended the throne after Agustus passed away and becae to Julia only lasted for 5 years because she got into affairs with several other men Tiberius never remarried

Okay, that's it A beautiful love story thatto do with this book, don't worry, I don't ever plan to write stories with a sad ending Ugh nope Not gonna happen

Reading history just rateful that I was born in h that sht many women in the past were so unlucky to experience