After Fabio returned home, the Duke had finished his external duties and came back to the Visconti estate.

    "Welcome back, Alfred."

    No matter the era, the nobility always faces the constraint of arranged marriages. They might pay a fortune to indulge in a private affair, but in the end, it’s the contractual, often politically motivated marriage that matters.

    This is because their unions can have enormous economic effects, equivalent to deals involving billions or even trillions of gold coins. When thousands or tens of thousands of lives are at stake, a romance outside the arrangement could lead to catastrophic economic losses.

    The situation with Count Farnese''s son and Count Pisa’s daughter could have caused a similar upheaval, so it wasn''t surprising that Alfred, the heir to the Visconti Duke faction, took charge.

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