Chapter 451: Ancestral tricks

What the hell are you dreaming about!

After hearing the old king's rare "true feelings", the princess pursed her lips and remained silent, while Leon next to her was almost laughing out of anger.

Although we know that the old king fell into a coma early and was not aware of his current situation, his words really created a great comedic effect.

At the moment, his rebels... ahem... enthusiastic citizens inspired by the princess, have basically taken control of the palace and are confiscating the weapons of the guards.

As for the opposition members, when they were leaving the parliament and getting on their respective carriages, they were all arrested by the holders of spatial anomalies in the rebel party, and who knows where they are being held in some small dark room now.

It can be said that there are only a few people left in the entire royal capital whose words are trustworthy. At least in the next few days, the upper-level power will be in a complete vacuum period, and anyone can basically take over however they want.

Although the guards who were coming a few blocks away were the old king's staunchest confidants who only took orders from him and had heavy firepower, they could not be stopped at all by the average level of the "enthusiastic citizens" who graduated from military academies. In theory, there was still a possibility of a comeback.

But now the old king, queen and prince are all in his hands. Can the guards turn the tables?
When the time comes, hang these three guys outside the palace gate. If you have the ability, just fire. If you kill one, you will be brought to a military court. If you kill two, you will be shot on the spot. If all three are killed, the princess will succeed to the throne on the spot!
All in all, the game is completely over.

Instead of ordering Joshua to be nicer to Veronica, it would be better for Joshua to think carefully about whether he should find a slim or plump female monkey when marrying her for him.

……

？！！

The old king sensed something vaguely from the princess's silence. His pupils suddenly shrank, and the warmth that had just appeared on his face suddenly disappeared. He asked with gloomy eyes:
"Veronica? What did you do?"

"Father."

Without answering the old king's question, the princess was silent for a while, then met the old king's sinister and fierce eyes, which were slightly panicked, and responded calmly:

"I'll be a good king."

"..."

"Also, for what you just said, I will treat Joshua well. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer cooperates well, I will not do anything to him or the Queen. You can rest assured and enjoy your retirement."

"..."

After hearing the princess' words, looking at her calm eyes that were filled with sadness, the old king's lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say it. He just turned his head and whispered:
"Feel sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for. Isn't that how you always act?"

The princess bit her lip, pushed the old king's wheelchair out of the study, handed it to the female official outside the door, and asked her to push the old king to rest. Then she stood by the window that was blown out by Leon, staring down in a daze.

"Veronica?"

Feeling that the princess's mood seemed a little off, she was neither happy about successfully seizing the throne nor relaxed after achieving her goal, but rather a little sad. Leon couldn't help but ask softly:
"what happened to you?"

"I...I'm actually fine..."

After hearing Leon’s question, the princess bit her lower lip, then smiled with slightly red eyes:
“It’s just a little regrettable.”

"Pity?"

"Well, that's a pity."

Reaching out to hold onto the edge of the broken window sill, the princess faced the cold wind blowing in and whispered in a somewhat lonely tone:
"It's a pity that the only family I care about has never recognized my feelings from the beginning to the end. They want me to agree to something, but they are still unwilling to discuss it with me. Instead, they are playing tricks in front of me."

"?"

"You don't really think that my father said that because he couldn't see the situation clearly?"

After looking at the confused Leon, Princess Veronica sighed and said:

“Although he was still unconscious and didn’t know that you had taken control of the palace, when he woke up and found that the people waiting for him were you and me, not the queen and Joshua, he should have been able to guess part of the situation.

He also knew my character. When he saw that I was not busy dealing with the aftermath of the coup, but was waiting for him to wake up, he realized that we had completely controlled the situation and Joshua would never have a chance to succeed to the throne. "

Does the old king know?
After hearing the princess' words, Leon couldn't help but be slightly startled, and then frowned subconsciously.

Since the old king had already guessed the situation, why did he still say that after Joshua succeeded to the throne, he should treat the princess well...wait!
"It seems you have figured it out."

Glancing at Leon who seemed to be somewhat dazed, Veronica smiled, then with red eyes, she said self-deprecatingly: “This is the way the royal family shows affection. He is worried that after I succeed to the throne, I will kill Joshua, so he took advantage of the fact that he could still ‘control the situation’ and pretended not to notice it, and deliberately said this.

Although it's just words, since Joshua treated me well after he succeeded to the throne, I should also show some kindness after I succeed to the throne. After all, I can't be worse than Joshua, right?"

"..."

So... the old king was playing tricks. He knew Joshua was doomed to lose, so he pretended to be crazy and stupid and used words to trick Veronica, hoping to save his son's life?
After understanding the old king's plan, Leon finally understood why the princess felt sad, but he didn't know what to say to comfort her, so he had to stand with her by the window for a while.

After a while, a cold hand came up, grabbed Leon's hand, and shook it gently as if begging.

"Leon..."

Seeing Leon looking over, the princess with red eyes whispered:

"I'm not going to lie to you. I feel a little uncomfortable right now. Can you let me lean on you for a while?"

"it is good……"

"Thank you."

After leaning on Leon's shoulder, facing the cold wind blowing in from the window, the queen said with a lonely expression:

"Actually, I'm not disappointed that my father is playing tricks on me. After all, I've long been accustomed to this. What really makes me sad is that he is unwilling to ask me for help even at this time."

"Please?"

"Well, beg me once, like a real family member."

After shrinking into Leon's arms, the princess pursed her lips and whispered:
"It's not that I want him to beg me humbly so that I can feel better, but people like my father will make the most of everything they can.

If he thought asking me for help would be helpful, he would have asked me without hesitation. The only reason he didn't do so was that he felt that this father-daughter relationship was worthless and not a good 'card'."

"That's not necessarily the case..."

Looking at the princess' increasingly red eyes, Leon couldn't help but comfort her:

"Your father...maybe he just doesn't know how you see him, and thinks you don't value him as a father that much, so he's unwilling to ask you for help."

"no."

The princess shook her head and said:
“Although my father didn’t know how I viewed him, he must have understood how he viewed me as his daughter. In such a short period of time, he could only use his own feelings for me to subconsciously measure my feelings for him.

Since he made this decision in the end, it proves that in his heart, the relationship between him and me as father and daughter is indeed worthless. Instead of playing the emotional card to beg me, it would be safer to just use a little trick and trap me with words.

To me, he is the only relative I can care about, but to him, I am just a stranger. Playing the emotional card is a privilege only enjoyed by relatives, and between him and me, there are only interests and gains and losses. "

"..."

"I'm sorry for telling you so much nonsense..."

After sighing softly, the princess looked down from the broken window and saw Joshua crying in the garden while holding the queen who had just woken up. She sighed with a lonely look on her face:

“Actually, I’m really jealous of Joshua.

He is reckless, irritable, arrogant, childish, and likes to spendthrift... he has many bad habits, but his father really likes him as a son, he also has a mother who loves him very much, and an uncle who can forgive him no matter what mistakes he makes.

I do everything better than him, I can handle everything in an orderly manner, and countless people are willing to praise me, but since my mother passed away, no one has been able to favor me without reason. "

"..."

"Leon..."

After gently pulling Leon's collar, the princess leaned on Leon's arms and raised her head, her eyes full of tears and she whispered:

"Will you be that person for me?"

(End of this chapter)

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