Chapter 612: The King’s Marriage 3

Chapter 612: The King’s Appointed Marriage 3
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat？”

Paul looked dumbfounded at Hansel and his father, Earl Pearson Abbott, sitting in front of him.

His eyes were round and wide with disbelief, and his face presented a level of surprise that Hansel had not seen in Paul.

It took a long time for Paul to come around somewhat!
“I’m sorry, I may have heard you clearly just now, Earl Abbott, could you say that again?”

“Ahem!”

Count Abbott cleared his throat.

“Our king’s majesty, Rodney XVIII, wants the royal family to become in-laws with the Greiman family, and he wants to give his sister, the daughter of his uncle, the former king Rodney XVII, Princess Catherine to marry you!”

Earl Abbott’s conclusive answer completely confused Paul!
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As Paul grew up, Steward Philip began to plan his life’s work for him; Paul was the only one left in the direct line of the Greiman family, and reproducing offspring was a very important task.

The old butler showed him portraits every now and then, from which he could choose a wife who would please him.

These portraits are mostly of daughters to be married in various noble families in the Northwest Bay, but they always make Paul dissatisfied.

Don’t get me wrong, Paul is not like other travelers, even if the other party is an impeccable beauty, but also want to yell about free love, what marriage autonomy, what hate arranged life.

If the family really arranged a marriage partner for him that satisfied him, Paul would have laughed his ass off.

For his other half, Paul once had a beautiful fantasy.

However, this kind of beautiful fantasy is not what interesting souls and so on.

This aspect of Paul is a big vulgar, he fantasized that the beautiful is good-looking skin.

But good-looking skin is the need for a side of soil and water to moisturize out of the life of the rich plus the precipitation of time, generation after generation to “cultivate” out.

And the Northwest Bay well! We all know what kind of place it used to be.

Now the Northwest Bay is not poor, but still lacks the precipitation of time.

Paul’s previous life at least in the Internet has been subjected to a variety of beautiful bombing.

This led to him being a little down …… on the girls of the Northwest Gulf.

The two out-of-town beauties who came to him, Betty Diaz and Laddie Sertia, were very much in line with Paul’s definition of “good looking”.

But Betty’s temperament is a bit arrogant, Paul and her contact, always feel that the other side is a bit condescending, and Betty later also left the Northwest Bay.

As for Laddie Sertia ……

Beautiful appearance, mysterious magic, calm mind, such a character put into any game or movie is very popular.

It’s also true that there is some ambiguity between Paul and this witch.

Facing Ladi Sertia, Paul had more than once had one of the three major illusions in life.

Especially when he drew big pictures of industry or technology, and when he gave scientific explanations for certain natural phenomena, Laadi, who was a scholar, always looked at Paul with a certain admiration.

On more than one occasion, Laddie had sacrificed her life to protect him.

On more than one occasion, Lardy had expressed her loyalty to Paul and his cause, but Paul was not sure whether it was akin to a knight’s loyalty to a monarch or something else.

When Paul begins to test the waters, or tries to shift the relationship from ambiguous to something else, he meets with resistance. The first resistance comes from Phillip, the old butler, who knows of Laddie’s status as a witch and immediately warns his master when he realizes that Paul may be harboring some sort of fantasy about the beautiful lady.

“If Ms. Sertia becomes your companion, once her identity is leaked, it will bring you great trouble and even …… tragedy!”

Paul asked in surprise: “Tragedy?”

Philip replied, “Yes, it would be fine if you and her were merely a lord and vassal relationship, you would still be able to protect yourself after her identity is revealed, or your prestige and power could be strong enough to overpower the crowd or even fight against the church.”

“But if you become a couple, that’s different, your wife will share your power and become the mistress of the territory. Your people may be able to accept that their lord has a witch under him as she is also under your rule, but not necessarily that they can accept having a witch to rule them, they will be suspicious, they will be fearful, and they will eventually spread their suspicions and fears to you as her other half.”

“At that time you had emotional and familial ties, and even the greater tie of having a child. I know, Lord Gryman, that like your father, you are a man who values these things greatly.”

“At that time, you, and your witch wife, will inevitably be faced with some sort of very bad choice. It would be a great tragedy for you, and especially for your children.”

“Children? Philip, you’re thinking too far ahead!” Paul listened with some amusement.

“Nah! Not far at all!”

Paul remembered well that Philip at the time had looked at himself with a look of pity, as if the tragedy had already happened.

Always, Steward Philip, whom Paul regarded as his elder, was against it, or at least disapproved of it.

The second resistance came from Lardy or Paul himself.

Ladi Sertia was a woman with a quiet, watery disposition; she was not one of those iceberg beauties who rejected people, yet she could not be described as much of a warm person either.

Whenever some sort of flirtation had flared up between Paul and her, the woman had always been shallow.

Paul even once suspected that the other side is not intentionally hanging himself, just like the green tea in the previous life.

But through years and years of getting along, especially after she had risked her life several times to protect herself, this kind of suspicion was ruled out to a clean slate.

Paul had also asked her, as an aside, about the caster’s attitude towards marriage.

“Witches bring plagues on their men.” Lardy had answered then in all seriousness, even with a warning of sorts.

It was not unlike what the old butler had said.

Paul also wanted to take the initiative in developing a relationship between the two, but he held a certain concern.

What if Laddie’s heart was resistant and he forced her away from him?
She was a witch, not an ordinary human being, and Paul lacked the strong restraints on Lardy that he would have on an ordinary human being who was a lord over his people.

If she were to leave, could he stop himself?

Not to mention Lardy’s beauty, her magic had been of immeasurable value to him, saving his life on several occasions, and that was something Paul didn’t want to lose.

And Paul kinda enjoyed that occasional ambiguity between the two.

For all these reasons, Paul didn’t want to let Laddie go.

It also stopped him from taking the initiative to change things.

(End of chapter)