Chapter 345 - The Princess (1/2)

Chapter 345: The Princess Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

The news that the Princess would be choosing her own husband attracted a lot of bystanders Even if these princes orthe favor of the Princess, still, they tried all sorts of ways to enter the palace, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Princess

Since everybody assumed that the ceremony would not be suspenseful, their attention was solely focused on the Princess for the first tidom had recently turned 16 She was still an infant when she went into exile with her family in Jade City and had no impression of her homeland But her two brothers and the wet nurse told her proudly al in the future”

Having been influenced by their words for rew proud of her identity She had seen with her own eyes, the tragic scene of the queenon with no one to bury her, and the situation when a group of rough machetemen with no ties to the royalty surrounded the Jus’ residence and demandedso to theirto inherit the throne She was, therefore, even more disappointed than her second brother soon after

It turned out that being a princess ed bird, reduced to a hly prized

On the way back to the kingdo Dou fore, you willfamily I will personally choose thePrincess did not understand What about a king? Shouldn’t she be ? Why would a minister’s son be appointed as her future husband? At that tinorant of power and its complexities; she even had the audacity to raise her doubts to the Prime Minister

She would always rehed conte her “There are only about thirty or so kings in the Western region, but hundreds of princesses Do you really think that all of you will irl, soon you will understand that even the Yangs are out of your reach, and you areDou was correct She soon realized that both she and the King were s They were only kept alive because it was better for the food to remain as fresh as possible

She did not even have a chance to see the residents of her kingdo carriage, she was sent to a cold and narrow residence She was forbidden fro her royal brother required approval from the Prime Minister himself

It slowly dawned on her that her only duty was to give birth to a son who could inherit the throne for the Yangs

Froan to hate the title of Princess It had brought nothing but bad luck to her

Soon, a disaster would befall her But she could only sit in her tiny room and look on with cold indifference as she waited for the chaos to s her

At first, the Kang Kingdom had used violent force to pressure the Princess intoDou had been able to edge out his rival by pretending to be polite and subservient

Next was the Meng family, who presented a thick stack of loan receipts and offered to “Erase all debt and provide one million taels as dowry The Princess could choose any s as her husband”

When coion, even Yang Dou, as of one ofHe could only come up with a series of lies to stall for ti family was merely a short interlude, or perhaps, a prelude for as to couan fado family But the killers and secrets placed before hi Dou could not refuse

It was the secret of how the King had conspired with the Prime Minister to murder the First Prince

No one had actually mentioned any of these to the Princess, but every scene of Jade City had run through her mind in those countless hours of solitude She already knew her eldest brother’s cause of death long before the suitor frouan family appeared on the doorstep of the royal fa Dou took the bait The assassination he had planned contained nu more than a child’s trick in the eyes of Golden Roc Fort Despite the incident had occurred h to prove as the instigator at that time

The Princess was hed doith this She did not care who she was going to marry Since the title of a Princess was only in nas? Perhaps the Supreh and could protect her

However, Dragon King’s naons and Leader of the Five Peaks”, the Princess had never heard of such a title before and found it quite laughable Even “Supre” sounded more like a real title than that

Gradually, ru spread to the ears of the Princess The giant roc ed human eyeballs, the Devil Eh and barbaric swordse and was at loggerheads with Golden Roc Fort All these rumors led the Princess, who had already lost all hope toward her future, to pray sincerely in front of the statue of Buddha that she would not have to marry that wicked man

Buddha must have heard her prayers but did not act on it Instead, Dragon King was pushed closer and closer to her

In the beginning, Dragon King had shown little proed to lead with half of the votes and turn the tide around This result was so that the Princess could not have foreseen It had also caused her to be even more fearful of this man