Chapter 214: Lucy

    "Father, you’re kidding, right?" Lucy asked.

    Count Celeste shook his head. "If the war last for a long time, the nobles from other areas will definitely be called. Besides, I think that the relationship between the Yellow Kingdom and the Red Kingdom might be a bit shaky later."

    The relationship between the Red Kingdom and the Yellow Kingdom?

    For some reasons, Lucy remembered Aurora, whose mother was from the Red Kingdom. If she was not wrong, one of the reasons why the good relationship was maintained was because of the political marriage of the princess from the Red Kingdom.

    In this way, Aurora is technically a princess.

    Though, this identity didn’t seem to be that useful.

    Her sister was also the same.

    Moreover, with the engagement between Aurora and Crown Prince Edward, shouldn’t the relationship between the kingdoms become better?

    Seeing Lucy’s confused appearance, Count Celeste felt a bit helpless. He also knew that his daughter was not exactly the brightest person around.

    However, if she wished to be the next head of the Celeste Family, she had to understand about this matter.

    "The situation is not very peaceful. Starting from now, you have to read the news and also listen to the rumors spread," Count Celeste said. "I know you don’t like to read these, but to be the head of the family, you need to have sufficient knowledge. Reading is the fastest way for you to obtain enough information for what you might need."

    "How about my training?"

    "You still have to do it."

    Lucy: "..."

    She didn’t understand what her father wanted to do, but Lucy decided to follow her father’s order. Anyway, she couldn’t really do anything else.

    In this way, days passed by quietly.

    Lucy actually missed the Capital Academy and also her friends there. Even though the friendship between nobles were usually quite superficial, but Lucy still missed those people from the Capital Academy.

    When she was training, her father suddenly called her.

    "Yes, Father?" Lucy looked at her father strangely. Aside from some official business, her father rarely called her to his office. After all, Count Celeste also had a lot of duties that he had to finish and fulfill.

    "There’s a piece of news from the Yellow Kingdom’s Capital City," Count Celeste said slowly. "It’s about your two friends."

    Her two friends?

    Lucy was confused for a moment before her eyes lit up. "Is it Lady Aurora and Lady Annelie?"

    The two of them were of higher status than her, so when Lucy was outside, she still called them politely. Of course, how they called each other in private was another business. It was an agreement they have during the time they were in the tea ceremony club.

    "Yes." Count Celeste nodded.

    When Lucy was in the Capital Academy, she still sent letters to him about her activity and also the friends she made. In this way, Count Celeste knew that Lucy was close to Annelie Brown and Aurora White.

    These two people came from influential family.

    It could be said that the two of them were of far higher nobility than his family. Even if his rank was a count, but Count Celeste knew that this was mostly because his territory was at the border and he was responsible to protect it for generations.

    This had allowed them to have higher nobility title.

    In fact, the size of their territory could only be considered small and even some other viscount might even have better territory’s size compared to them.

    "Have they graduated?" Lucy calculated the time and based on the time, they should have graduated by now.

    This made her feel a bit at loss.

    After all, it meant that they wouldn’t be able to stay together in the Capital Academy like before anymore.

    Hopefully they could still meet someday in the future.

    Count Celeste nodded. "Yes, but it’s not about that."

    "What is it?" Lucy frowned when she noticed her father’s solemn expression. From her impression of her father, he would not show that kind of expression if it was not serious. This made her worry.

    "Well..." Count Celeste thought for a moment and sighed. "His Highness cancelled his engagement with Lady Aurora on their graduation party and got engaged with Lady Adela instead."

    "Huh?" Lucy felt her brain crashed when she heard her father’s words.

    Looking at Count Celeste’s serious expression, Lucy blinked her eyes and process his words. "Lady Aurora’s engagement is..."

    "It’s cancelled."

    "How...?" Lucy took a deep breath. "Is it even possible?"

    The engagement between the two noble families were terminated just like that? From what she knew, this was an engagement with the Royal Family, which should have been highly respected.

    No one would imagine that this day would come.

    Count Celeste looked at his daughter and nodded. "It’s not impossible and who would dare to disobey the royalty’s order?"

    His words clearly told Lucy that the one who took the initiative to break the engagement was Crown Prince Edward.

    Lucy pursed her lips and felt that it shouldn’t have been like this.

    How could Crown Prince Edward cancel the engagement that has ben set by His Majesty so easily?

    He should have the agreement of the Yellow Kingdom’s King and the Queen.

    "Why?" Lucy asked.

    From what she knew, Aurora was doing her work perfectly and there was nothing wrong with her conduct. Moreover, she was doing a good job in the negotiation as the future crown princess. The other kingdoms were said to respect her very much.

    How did such a person have her engagement broken?

    "His Highness said that she bully her sister and the others in the academy." Count Celeste shrugged when he said this.

    Even if he hadn’t been there and didn’t know Aurora personally, he knew that this was nothing more than bulls***. For such a capable person like Aurora, he would believe it more if they said that she bullied the ministers.

    Because she had already made the representative of other kingdoms in tears with her actions.