Princess' personal painter

In Guidinis's voice, there was a natural authority of a superior, and he asked condescendingly: "Irene Auerbach, is this your name?"

"It's...it's me." Irene had no choice but to raise her head to deal with it, "Is there any problem?"

The girl's voice was very soft, but there was no trace of cowardice, and a pure temperament was reflected in her eyes.Guidinis looked at her, became interested, and continued to ask: "Do you know who I am?"

"I don't know." Irene shook her head and asked following his words, "Who are you?"

Erica, who had been in a state of distraction since Guidines came over to talk to her, was frightened for a moment when she heard what Irene said, and hurriedly bowed and said, "His Royal Highness, I am Lucas. Erica, Jacob's younger sister. I don't know what you want to ask, Your Highness?"

Erica quietly tugged on Erin's sleeve, reminding her to salute quickly.

Guidinis glanced at Erica displeasedly, and asked again: "I heard that you happened to be at the scene of the murder yesterday, what's the situation?"

Aware of the other party's identity, it was His Royal Highness the high and mighty Prince, Irene was startled for a moment before reacting.She took a deep breath and replied seriously: "Yorick Swain invited Erica to that restaurant yesterday, and then Erica asked me to go with him...At that time, the protection around him was very strong. Yan Mi, seems to think that even if he becomes the target of assassination, there will be no accidents. I didn't expect the gangster to be so powerful... We also feel very sorry that such a thing happened."

Guidinis narrowed his eyes: "Lucas is over there too, do you know?"

Erica shook her head: "I only found out later..." As soon as she opened her mouth, she heard Guidinis say flatly, "If I didn't ask you, don't talk."

Erica's face froze, and she didn't dare to breathe out for a while.

Irene quietly took Erica's hand, looked up and answered the other party's question: "That Mr. Yorick Swain seems to have a lot of kindness towards Erica, and he probably wants to use Erica's help. Ka's brother's attitude, go get closer to Erika..."

The implication in these words could not be more obvious.

"So, how did you escape?"

"When we were attacked, Yorick asked a small group of soldiers to escort us away first. Fortunately, the gangsters were not targeting us, so they escaped in a thrilling manner. The soldiers sent us to a safe location and went back to protect Yorick. Rick... what happened after that, we don't know..."

"Is it really just the two of you? Why did I hear other witnesses say that there were three young girls who had a dispute with the deceased Yorick Swain?"

Irene nodded, and said calmly: "It's true that there are only two of us. But before the incident, there were other female guests. It must be a mistake."

"Did 'Joker' show up here in the morning?"

Irene responded calmly: "Well, when I suddenly saw that mask, I almost scared us to death. Fortunately, the 'Blood Sparrow' followed his trail and drove him away."

This statement was made by Irene based on the "information" that Yannis said.She concealed the existence of "Mia" and "black-haired girl" in it, and also reduced the unfavorable elements to Erica and Lucas. According to the chaotic scene at the time and the messy situation afterwards, this kind of half-truth False confessions should not be a big problem - of course, the most important thing is that they really have nothing to do with the incident.

"It seems that you were only involved innocently." Guidinis said with a half smile on his face, "One last question."

Irene breathed a sigh of relief, and replied, "Please speak, Your Highness."

"I just lack a smart clerk by my side. Eileen Auerbach, you will be my secretary in the future, how about it?"

Irene was taken aback for a moment, and didn't know how to answer for a moment. At this time, Yannis was isolated in another place and was still being questioned. All the situations could only be dealt with by herself.While thinking about it, she couldn't help casting a searching look at Erica beside her, only to find that she also had a dazed look on her face.

"I want to talk to Mr. about this kind of thing."

Guidinis stared at the chestnut-haired girl in front of him, shook his head and said, "No need, I just ask your wishes."

It is quite rare for a girl of this age to have such a calm mind when answering questions, which made Guidinis appreciate her quite a bit.

Of course, there may be some other content hidden in this "excellence"?

Facing Guidinis's request, Irene naturally wanted to refuse, but she didn't know the consequences of refusing a "prince" who held real power, so she didn't dare to answer for a while.If you think about it better, Guidinis is the marriage partner of Sisyana Theresia. If you stay by his side, you will have a better chance to meet the princess she has been thinking about for a while?

The current crisis has not been resolved, it seems that safety should be the most important thing and compromise?

But once he agrees, it will completely disrupt the arrangement of his benefactor Yannis, and he will not be able to escape from it for a long time in the future, right?

In the end... how to choose?

Chapter 43 The situation that took a sharp turn

"Sorry, allow me to decline."

Facing the sudden request from Guidinis, Irene gave this answer after serious thinking for a while.

"Oh?" Guidinis, who is His Royal Highness and rarely rejected by someone, raised his eyebrows, "Does this mean that you don't want to assist me?"

For Erin, this is not so much an answer given after careful consideration, but rather because of her instinctive "resistance" to the other party's identity.Of course, it is still at a critical juncture, so she naturally dare not neglect, but replied respectfully:

"I feel that with my identity and ability, I am not qualified for this duty, and I am afraid it will drag His Highness down. Please forgive me for not agreeing."

Guidinis' original intention was to test Irene. When he heard the other party's answer, he realized that the girl had probably seen through it, and he couldn't help but think highly of her again.He couldn't help thinking that it was indeed the Kuroshio Chamber of Commerce with a long history, and it was able to cultivate such excellent girls, which was much higher than some nobles who were just waiting to die.

It's a pity that the positions of each other are always opposite. This time, we really can't find any flaws. When we find a chance to deal with you, just don't come to me crying and begging for mercy.

Thinking of this, Guidinnis didn't show any anger on his face, and said lightly: "Then, it seems to have disturbed you, and I will let these people withdraw later."

Seeing that the heir to the kingdom was planning to leave, Irene and Erica couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Guidinis had just turned his back, but he thought of something, and stood there with some doubts.He narrowed his eyes, recalled the details just now, turned around and looked at Erica, and asked, "Erica Jacob?"

At this moment, Erica, whose face turned pale with fright, quickly responded in a low voice: "Yes."

Guidinis stared at the trembling girl, and then at Irene next to her: "How did you meet her?"

"We are classmates who learned to paint together." Erica answered truthfully.

"Learning to paint?" Guidinis' eyes became severe.

"Our teacher is Theo Lessiter and we have three morning classes a week."

After a pause, Erika felt that Guidinis's eyes were getting colder and colder. Knowing that she could no longer hide the matter about Mia Stefan, she said in a low voice, "It was arranged by my brother." I went, and he asked me to observe a subject at close range... Regarding this matter, I don't know the specific situation very well, I think I will report it to His Highness when my brother finds out."

Immediately afterwards, under the questioning of Guidinis, Erica had to tell some information about Mia.During this period, Guidinis observed the somewhat strange expression on the other side that Eileen was trying to hide, and he was sure that there must be some unusual inside story.

"Tell me everything you know about Erin Auerbach!"

Guidinis stared at Erica with persuasive eyes, and added to her: "Maybe it can make up for some of the sins of Lucas' dereliction of duty."

Erica bit her lip and looked at Irene with pleading eyes, only to see the latter return a look calmly, she was a little relieved, and began to report: "Irene...is from the Northeast Because of the death of both parents, she came to Karenin to join her relatives... She is very good at drawing, um, and has a good personality, but when she first dealt with us, she was easily shy, but It's just that she's cute... Besides, she's still very reliable at times..."

In front of Irene, she told the truth about her impression in her mind, Erica relaxed a little, a faint blush appeared on her face, and whispered: "It is said that Irene didn't have any friends of the same age before, actually Me too. Although we have only been together for two weeks, she has a unique aura, like a princess from somewhere... Speaking of which, Irene seems to know that Princess Ruolin..."

When Erica said the last sentence, she suddenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly stopped speaking, but it was obviously too late.She subconsciously looked at Irene, begging from the bottom of her heart that this matter was actually irrelevant, but when she saw Irene's expression sluggish, she felt her body was a little chilly.

"Know Princess Ruolin?" Guidinis turned to Irene and asked in a cold voice.

"No." Irene forced herself to calm down, shook her head and denied, "It's just that we discussed for a while yesterday about Princess Ruolin's upcoming arrival, and Erika probably misheard."

Starting from the incident yesterday, the marriage between Anruel and Ruolin, that is, the marriage between Guidinis and Sisyana, has also been included in the discussion within the royal family, which made Guidinis quite upset.But now that he found out that his fiancée was suddenly involved in the investigation of the incident, he couldn't help feeling obviously angry, and asked:

"Erica, did you really get it wrong?"

"I..." On one side was the persecution from Guidines, and on the other was a friend who didn't want to betray, Erica only felt that her mind was blank.She submissively looked at Erin's expression, and the latter's eyes were looking at herself quietly with a hint of pleading.

However, Erica knew that she had no choice.

As a member of the once wealthy Jacobs family, she knows that if she makes a mistake, she will lose everything.The elder brother has always taken the task of restoring the glory of the family. If there is any mistake on her side, it will lead to the family's inability to stand up in the future, and even lead to death.

On the other hand, she also knew that this seemingly kind prince was the absolute ruler of most of Karenin's underground kingdom, and there were rumors about him being ruthless from time to time.

No matter how she looks at it, since she accidentally said this message, she has only one way left - even so, she is still begging that maybe things are not as serious as she thought.

"Irene, I remember what you said at that time." Erica, who didn't dare to look at Irene, said in a low voice with a sad look on her face, "You said, you had a 'one-sided relationship with that Ruolin princess'. Yuan'... But, you don't seem to understand the situation of that princess, what's going on?"

Since yesterday's incident, Yannis has warned Irene that if someone investigates, don't reveal that she and Sisyana met once, so as not to cause trouble.At the same time, he also mentioned some of the history of the Chamber of Commerce, which will become quite sensitive in the current situation.

Obviously, Eileen is still unable to determine the degree of "trouble" this is, but she obviously finds that things are getting worse and worse.After all, no matter how you explain it, even if the assassination incident yesterday has nothing to do with Irene, her identity is "unknown" after all. This irrefutable fact cannot be easily fooled by the reason of "amnesia" of.

Therefore, Irene tried to avoid the important and light, and diverted the topic: "Before I came to Karenin, my husband took me on a southern route, and when I passed the Principality of Morvia, I was about to meet the traveling princess and her party. I met once."

"That's all?" Guidinis asked sternly.

Irene took a deep breath, and replied: "Reporting to Your Highness, it was really just a one-sided relationship."

"I hope so." Guidinis narrowed his eyes and said coldly.

There is only more than a month left before his and Sisyana Theresia's wedding.

In Guidinis' will, the Princess Sisyana she met at the beginning was like a bird that loves art and needed his careful care.Therefore, he will use his authority to create an absolutely ideal "greenhouse" for her to maintain Sisyana's pure and flawless image in his heart.

He didn't want his future wife to be involved in politics, especially this incident, even if it was only a small possibility, he couldn't tolerate it at all.

Therefore, to a certain extent, he has an excessive cleanliness fetish, and decides to thoroughly investigate this girl named Ellen and the Kuroshio Merchant Association that has exposed suspicious elements.I saw that he recruited nearby soldiers, and ordered his subordinates: "Pass my order and search thoroughly, and no place can be missed!"

Chapter 44 Final Negotiations

Yannis, as an old fox who has been in the mall for many years, rarely deals with people in politics.This is because, as the chairman of the Kuroshio Chamber of Commerce, he has been guarding a sensitive mission inherited from this position for many years.

This mission is very secret. In Karenin's chamber of commerce, Weiss is the only one who knows this secret. Even if it is thoroughly investigated, there will be no accidents.He was very sure of this, so the Chamber of Commerce, which retained the title of "Kuroshio", has been able to continue without any mistakes for so many years.

He always thought so.

But until this time, he realized that he had overlooked a major mistake.

When Guidinis ordered a carpet search of the chamber of commerce, and soon after, a bland wooden box was found from Irene's room and handed over to Guidinis, Yannis knew that it was in his own hands. The "Kuroshio Chamber of Commerce" that has lasted for more than ten years in the world will end on this day.

Faced with Irene's apologetic eyes, Yannis sighed lightly, and returned her an expression of being okay.He knew that no matter what, there would be such a day.

It's just that it came early.

Opening the wooden box, Guidinis saw the contents inside, his expression was subtle at first, and then became extremely angry.

He stared at the trembling soldier who handed the box to him, then dismissed the others, and interrogated Irene alone in the square: "Where did you get these paintings?"

"I drew it." Up to now, Eileen knew that no matter how much she concealed it, it was useless, she simply raised her head and said calmly, "Although it was just a one-sided relationship, I did have the honor to be that person because of some opportunities. The princess painted this batch of works."

When she spoke, there was a strange hostility in her eyes.

Even if the character in front of him is a high-ranking prince, he is also the fiancé of the girl in the painting.

"Oh? You drew it?" Guidinis asked with a weird smile on his lips, "What is your identity? What is your relationship with Xi Ya?"

The feeling of being violated in this private area made Irene very uncomfortable, and she only felt a sense of suffocation in her heart.But under the current situation, she had no choice but to bear with it, and repeated: "I drew it, but the princess and I really only met once."

There was a chill in Guidinis's smile: "Do you think I will believe such childish rhetoric?"

Irene replied in a bad tone: "If your highness doesn't believe me, you can imprison me. After seeing the princess, just ask her to prove the truth."

"If you had directly confessed to me before, maybe I would have spared you." While speaking, Guidinis deliberately raised his head and glanced at the surrounding soldiers. "Unfortunately, it is too late now."

Obviously, the paintings inside the box had been circulated by some soldiers during the search before they were recognized as "evidence". Guidinis could not confirm who had seen these paintings.

But he was really moved to kill.

"Now, regardless of your identity, I will give you three choices." Guidinis unhurriedly drew out the saber from his waist, stabbed it into the grass on one side, and said, "The first one, prove that These paintings are really what you draw and then swear allegiance to me and become mine."

This arrogant tone finally irritated Irene a little, and she asked back, "Swear allegiance?"

Guidinnis said: "When my subordinates are interrogating some special prisoners, they will occasionally use a potion called 'Shen Meng', which can make people obtain extreme sexual desire, but once it is lost, It will become unbearable pain. In fact, many people can resist torture, but they cannot escape the temptation of sex. 'Shen Meng' can completely control a person's mind. When the time comes, I will order you to obey 'Shen Meng' , when you become addicted and take the initiative to beg for medicine from me, it means that you will be my slave girl for the rest of your life."