The demon princess was defeated and captured? Sorry, I acted in it)

14. The Garden is Full of Flowers (6K)

The night in the suburban villa is warm, with two moons nestling against each other, fish leaping on the lake creating layers of ripples and splashing water, causing insects on the shore to chirp melodiously, numbing the entire night sky.

But~when some people are happy, some people are worried.

A hundred miles away from the suburban villa is the heavily guarded royal palace in the royal capital, Cormier Castle.

The distance between each bedroom is quite far, and the central axis of the palace is guarded day and night by royal knights to ensure the absolute safety of every royal member living here.

At this late hour in the early hours of the night, all the magic stone lights in the bedrooms had been extinguished, and it was pitch black when looking down.

It seems that the prosperous Cormier Castle has fallen asleep with the night, waiting to regain its majesty at dawn.

However, there was only one magnificent flat slightly behind the sleeping area, which was still brightly lit and magnificent at this hour.

The decoration style is majestic yet cute, with elegant and simple furniture. On the pink painted wall, the medal representing the royal family is clearly visible.

This seems to declare that this bedroom belongs to a beautiful princess.

Yes.

This two-story palace, which still has lights on in the middle of the night, is the residence of Livra, the third princess of the Kingdom of Orus.

Buried in front of her desk, her long, dark hair hung down to the edge of the table. Livra held a feather pen in her hand and wrote beautiful words on the stacked papers.

Just looking at her handwriting and the rhythm of ink, every piece of paper is enough to reach the level of being called a calligraphy work of art.

Livra has been practicing calligraphy since she was young, and is proficient in both literature and martial arts. This is the most basic accomplishment for her as a princess.

It’s a pity that Livra is not copying calligraphy now.

After much effort, I finally wrote on the densely packed "art" paper...

But after Livra paused for a moment to think, she rolled it into a ball of waste paper. As Livra's upper body suddenly fell on the table, the ball-shaped paper was also thrown to the edge of the table, becoming part of the "ball-shaped paper mountain" that had already been piled up on the table.

Ah... I'm so tired. This is already the number of abandoned drafts I've written tonight.

I don’t remember, Livra just felt her head buzzing!

Since returning from the meeting room, she has been sitting at the table writing for more than ten hours in a row. She is really exhausted!

The bedroom door was pushed open a little.

Then, a middle-aged woman in a palace maid outfit pushed open the door and trotted towards Livra anxiously.

She saw Princess Livra lying on the table and thought that Her Royal Highness had fainted!

"Your Highness...! What's wrong with you? Are you okay?"

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay... Don't worry, Sister Anna, I'm just a little tired. I'll take a short rest and then I'll pick up the pen and continue the battle... Ugh, I'm so tired."

The middle-aged woman heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.

This middle-aged woman in her forties, the maid called "Sister Anna" by Livra, is a member of the Royal City Maid Corps with seniority in the Cormier Palace.

She had come to work at Cormier Castle more than 20 years ago, before Livra was even born.

Ever since Princess Livra was born, Anna has taken on the responsibility of taking care of Her Royal Highness the Third Princess.

Although she is a maid, she has watched the princess grow up, and can even be regarded as Livra's second mother.

There is absolutely no problem with the law.

So when Anna saw Princess Livra working herself so hard, she must have felt heartbroken.

"Your Highness, you have been writing here since you came back in the afternoon... You didn't even have dinner. Is it really such an important government matter? Why don't you take a break? Please take care of yourself and don't exhaust yourself..."

"Ah... Thank you, Sister Anna. I'm fine." Livra turned over with her face against the table. She responded to Anna with a haggard look, not like she was fine at all. "Today's work is a bit special... It's very important. If I can't finish it today, I'll be finished tomorrow."

"It's... It's over?"

"Yes, the future of the kingdom is ruined."

"Is it so serious?!"

Although Anna knew Princess Livra, she was always naughty and liked to exaggerate, but this time, there was only helplessness in her eyes, and she was not in the mood to joke.

It seems that this is indeed the case.

There's nothing we can do about it...it was Livra who made the promise herself at the negotiating table.

——She will try to persuade the first princess of the demon clan to turn hostility into friendship and promote the continuation of peace between the kingdom and the demon clan.

This sounds simple... but when you really do it, it's full of murderous intent. If you say one wrong thing, you might be killed by the demon princess!

What Livra is writing now is what she plans to say when she meets the Demon Princess tomorrow.

But no matter how she wrote it, Livra felt that she was in great danger.

For example, the sentence just written, "What does Your Highness like to eat? Maybe the king has some food that you like" is quite nonsensical!

How could the conversation between the royal families of the two countries use "what to eat" as the topic? The demon princess would definitely think that I was humiliating her!

When Livra thought that she might have to say goodbye to this beautiful world tomorrow, she held her head in pain like a big hamster.

Seeing that Princess Livra was so worried, Anna frowned and tried to give some advice.

"Don't worry, Your Highness... I don't know what happened to make you like this... But why don't you go and talk to His Majesty the King in the morning? His Majesty will definitely be able to help you."

"Wow...I just came back from my father's place this afternoon."

"What did your Majesty say?"

"My father said... he doesn't have a daughter like me! Woo... I know my father was just speaking in anger, but I feel like I'm about to be kicked out of the family!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness. His Majesty the King is furious with you almost every day. It's not uncommon for him to say this, right? You won't be kicked out of the house, don't worry."

"Sister Anna, you are so good at comforting people...I am crying my ass off."

Livra lay on the table, moving the feathers on her quill pen, while recalling what happened yesterday afternoon when she went to the palace to meet her father.

She reported the situation in the council chamber to the Celtic king truthfully, and the king's reaction was very real.

——Almost fell off the throne at such an old age!

Woohoo, Livra did think about whether she should be more subtle, but if she was subtle, she would not be able to highlight the urgency of the situation. If she was more urgent, she would not be able to guarantee the safety of her old father's heart.

After weighing the pros and cons, Livra decided to sacrifice her own family to protect the whole community and take a gamble with her father's heart health.

Fortunately, the Celtic king had a strong mentality. He nodded, acknowledging Livra's on-the-spot reaction in the meeting room.

But then he sighed and shook his head, feeling that the kingdom had a bad fate in his generation and that it was more likely to be in trouble than good.

If Xuefeiya Halder cannot be persuaded, a battle far more intense than before will inevitably break out between the demons and humans.

If the persuasion is successful, the two countries will have a stable period of recuperation for a considerable period of time, which is of course the best outcome.

But the probability of successfully persuading the demon princess... is it really there?

Will the vicious Xuefia Halder really listen to Livra's advice patiently?

Celtic thinks this possibility is unlikely.

Compared to this, the possibility of collecting the daughter's body may be greater.

But Celt certainly couldn't watch Livra take such a big risk, so he suggested letting Eklet accompany her tomorrow. With the brave man also there, if the two tenth-level warriors protected Livra together, even if the negotiations failed, they would still be able to protect Livra.

But what the king didn't expect was...

Livra actually rejected the proposal.

They can't follow.

Because this meeting with the Demon Princess was not a negotiation between the two countries in nature, but an olive branch extended by Livra to Xuefia in her personal capacity.

If two tenth-rank players followed behind, the negotiation would be hostile from the beginning, and the success rate would be greatly reduced. Moreover, even if they hid in the dark, Xue Fei would not be able to

Ya Halder should be able to sense it as well, right?

Celt couldn't bear it, but he admired his daughter's courage.

As a royal family of Orus...the responsibility running in Celtic's blood seemed to make him see himself when he resolutely put on his armor and went to the border battlefield.

He agreed.

He allowed Livra to make her own attempt, which could determine the future destiny of the Kingdom of Orus.

At the same time, Celt informed all the royal family members, including himself, that they all had to think about what to say in order to convince the demon princess, and that they all had to go to the castle tomorrow morning to explain their ideas.

This is not war, but it is more dangerous than war.

Having said that, Livra doesn't expect any good advice from her royal brothers and sisters.

Although Livra is naive, she is not stupid.

She actually knew that her father usually looked favorably upon her, which led to her brothers and sisters smiling at her on the surface, but in reality they were fighting openly and secretly for power and profit, with undercurrents surging.

It's normal that none of them is willing to give up the next throne easily.

Livra has no interest in the throne, she just likes to be free, but this does not prevent her from becoming a thorn in the eyes of the royal family.

She also explained to her father that she did not want to be king.

But my father said, let it be.

The country will eventually decide on the king who best suits it, and as a royal family member, you cannot easily give up.

Sigh... Although it's pessimistic to think this way, Livra feels that maybe her brothers and sisters would rather hope that she will die tomorrow than help her...

It doesn't matter.

Anyway, Livra has always believed since she was a child that at the most critical moment in life, one cannot rely on others but only on oneself.

Anna looked at Princess Livra who had regained her spirits and picked up the pen to write. Looking at her delicate yet strong back that had never compromised with anything, she felt relieved but also filled with sadness.

She whispered her blessings and quietly left the palace, not disturbing His Highness from his work.

"Your Highness...I wish you all the best, and may God bless you..."

Anna walked out quietly and closed the door again quietly.

While standing guard at the door, keep your eyes far ahead.

Go and gaze at the small courtyard in front of the palace where His Highness has lived for nearly eighteen years, and the distant sky.

Not only have the pines planted that year grown tall and straight, the fragrance of flowers in the garden is refreshing. When His Highness was a child, he often ran among the flowers accompanied by butterflies, and was very naughty.

Anna couldn't help but smile.

After all, who could have imagined that this small courtyard was no longer big enough for Her Highness to run around. She longed for a bigger world and often climbed over the wall and ran around everywhere. She also asked me to keep it a secret. It was hard to tell whether this was a continuation of her mischief or a testimony of her change and growth.

But here comes the thought...

Anna couldn't help but look sad again.

Your Highness loves to laugh now, more than before.

But Your Highness...

When did you laugh?

.................................................. ...

When Livra was born, she couldn't laugh or cry.

There are rumors in the palace that the Third Princess was born with a curse and was born with a disease that causes her to have "no emotions".

The king and queen would not believe such nonsense. They raised Livra like other royal family members and ordered everyone to stop talking about the third princess and treat her equally.

But how can a verbal order stop those rumors?

When Livla was walking outside, she would hear children from the ministers' families in the royal capital pointing at her and laughing at her, saying things like "ice monster" and "cold eyes", and even throwing stones at her.

Livra ignored them.

He turned his back to the loud and shrill laughter and left on his own.

It's not that she doesn't get angry.

But she had no idea what the children were laughing at.

If you can’t laugh...is that funny?

Livra didn't understand, because she naturally felt that there seemed to be nothing worth laughing about.

Because of this, no child in the palace was willing to play with her.

Among the people, the title of "Ice Princess" is circulating.