Chapter 245: Choices

    Louis was stunned.

    He looked at his father and then asked, "Father, you mean...?"

    Prime Minister Lat nodded. "Right now, the nobles are busy changing sides or remain neutral for the time being."

    No matter whether it was Prince Edward or the second prince who became the king, there would be nobles who won and also nobles who lost. It was simply a competition to see who will lose more and who will lose less.

    They have to take the bet and chose one side.

    Or they would remain neutral and didn’t get any benefit but would not suffer any loss either.

    It was up to them.

    No one but themselves could decide on this matter.

    "His majesty didn’t set anyone to be the crown prince," Prime Minister Lat said and then sighed. "It was unknown whether he still favor Prince Edward or he would turn his head to the second prince."

    Louis nodded with a frown.

    So far, the Yellow Kingdom’s King’s action showed that he had favored Crown Prince Edward greatly. Making the incompetent prince as the crown prince and even held him up for so many years.

    It was not an exaggeration to say that Crown Prince Edward was lifted up by the Yellow Kingdom’s King alone when he was still the crown prince.

    Now that Crown Prince Edward had lost the title of the crown prince, he has become an ordinary prince in the Yellow Kingdom.

    If he wanted to regain the title of the crown prince, he would have work much harder than before. At the very least, he had to prove that he was suitable to be the crown prince and eventually become the next king of the Yellow Kingdom.

    But with Prince Edward’s personality and habit...

    This might as well be a pipe dream.

    It was very likely that the position of the crown prince would fall on the second prince. Of crows, unless the Yellow Kingdom’s King knew how to make the nobles agreed with his decision when he appointed Prince Edward as the crown prince again.

    "I see." Louis frowned. He looked at his father and seemed to be able to guess what his father was thinking. "Father, do you want me to follow the second prince?"

    "If you can, it’s better be like that." Prime Minister Lat nodded. "But if it’s not possible, become an ordinary minister would do."

    An ordinary minister?

    Louis knew his father’s position was much higher than the other ministers and nobles. Whatever his father wanted to say, the others have to listen to him.

    Normally, only those with high nobility would be able to do this.

    After all, the ministers were all those high ranked nobility and so one who were appointed to manage the matter of the kingdom in various fields.

    But his father, whose rank was naturally not the highest, was able to do this.

    Louis didn’t want to become an ordinary noble and minister.

    He wanted to be like his father.

    "Go back for now. The announcement should come tomorrow." Prime Minister Lat patted his son’s shoulder.

    "Wait," Louis called out. "How about Lady Adela?"

    "She..."

    ...

    Adela’s side

    Duke White and Duchess Isabella looked at Adela in front of them.

    "This is our decision after careful consideration. It’s no longer suitable for you to be Prince Edward’s fiance?e and from now on, the engagement will be terminated."

    "But he’s the crown prince!" Adela was stunned.

    "Not anymore." Duchess Isabella shook her head.

    They were in the meeting with the Yellow Kingdom’s King and the other ministers not long ago. The discussion was naturally about what Crown Prince Edward did not long ago. Everyone voiced out their opinion and even felt that what Crown Prince Edward did had crossed the line.

    Competition for the throne was one thing.

    But trying to kill his own brother was definitely not a good thing to do.

    The nobles were not measured for Crown Prince Edward to be the crown prince and after a fierce debate, the Yellow Kingdom’s King decided for Prince Edward to lose his title as the crown prince.

    Only in this way the nobles calmed down.

    But Duchess Isabella was really angry.

    She couldn’t believe that the Yellow Kingdom’s King made such a decision.

    Because right now, Prince Edward and Adela had an engagement with each other and it would be impossible for Adela to end well if Prince Edward is no longer Crown Prince Edward.

    So Duchess Isabella tried to fight.

    But this time, the Yellow Kingdom’s King’s will was unexpectedly firm.

    He was unwilling to give them any chance to say anything good about Prince Edward since these things were useless. Over the years, the Yellow Kingdom’s King knew his son very well and it was truly impossible for him to allow Prince Edward to remain as the crown prince.

    So be it.

    As Prince Edward no longer be the crown prince, the second prince’s status became higher.

    Many nobles wanted to get close to him.

    Duke White also think that they might need to prepare for a backup and got close to the second prince.

    But Duchess Isabella refused.

    "Why can’t we do that? It’s not like there’s an agreement that stopped us from doing this?" Duke White asked Duchess Isabella with annoyance.

    "If we got close to the second prince, where do you want to put my daughter in?" Duchess Isabella sneered. "Do you really think that it’s possible for her to get close to the second prince too? Don’t forget that their age is very much different and they never come in contact before this."

    The only time when Adela and the second prince came in contact was when Adela went to pay a visit to see Crown Prince Edward before.

    But even then, there was no way Adela could initiate a conversation with the second prince.

    If she did that, wouldn’t she be making trouble?

    So during the time when Adela paid a visit to Crown Prince Edward, she would only stay beside Crown Prince Edward and treated the second prince like air.

    This was the only way.

    Besides, Adela didn’t know the second prince’s preferences.

    The other five people all have their preferences written very clearly in the game, allowing Adela to follow through with their preferences when dealing with them. In this way, the favorability of these five people would increase when they spent time with Adela.

    As for the second prince?

    He was a character that was only mentioned but never truly appeared in the game.

    Even if Adela wanted to, it would be impossible for her to get close to the second prince without knowing what his preferences were.

    Besides, she had no intentions to get close to other character outside the main targets.

    What was the point?

    For Adela, only these five people were the most important ones.

    The others could be ignored and there was no need for her to even spend a second with them.

    Now that Prince Edward was no longer the crown prince, Duchess Isabella gave her request to the Yellow Kingdom’s King.

    Break the engagement again.

    "No!"

    Crown Prince Edward, who was present at that time, desperately refused it. He had just lost his title as the crown prince, would he also his engagement too?

    He didn’t want it.

    However, the Yellow Kingdom’s King surprisingly agreed candidly.

    "The engagement was arranged hastily by my son, so we can treat it as if it never exist," the Yellow Kingdom’s King said calmly.

    He had heard about what Crown Prince Edward did when he was in the Capital Academy. Instead of spending his time studying, he was busy playing around with Adela and also do many other things.

    When the Yellow Kingdom’s King saw this, he felt that this Adela was not simple.

    The Capital Academy still has connection with the Royal Family. Sending some people to monitor Adela was really easy.

    Through the observation, the Yellow Kingdom’s King could see that Adela was simply a stupid and naive girl. She thought that she was very smart, but her action seemed to state otherwise.

    This made the Yellow Kingdom’s King understood that the two people just like each other because they were similar.

    But...

    Prince Edward would no longer be the crown prince.

    If he still wanted to keep his life, he needed a smart woman who could support him instead of a stupid girl like Adela.

    Two stupid people who knew nothing of the world, they would be eaten clean by the second prince. His second son was not that kind hearted to let Prince Edward go. At least, based on the look that the Yellow Kingdom’s King saw from the second prince, he could guess that much.

    He also felt more reassured to hand over the throne to the second prince.

    But before that time, the Yellow Kingdom’s King wanted to see how the second prince solved the problems in front of him.

    He hoped that his second son would not disappoint him.