After returning to the Earl's Palace, Lin An had a lot of things to do.

First of all, there is a steady stream of greetings sent to your door along with gifts.

Most of these prayers belong to people you know.

For example, the families of the recipients who came back with Lin An in the same batch.

Although most of the parties have left the imperial capital and have been stationed in various places, Lin An can be regarded as having a turning point with the other party's family, so his family can send a message of worship and invite Lin An to a banquet or ball.

If it was just that, Lin An wouldn't have made a fuss.

However, these various gatherings to welcome her "big arrival" are often not held by the small families with whom she has a turning point, but often by one or more families jointly with the former.

In fact, joint gatherings were common among nobles.

Some good families are a good way to show intimacy, to promote each other, or to include each other's social circles, and it is a good way to hold a party together.

The nobles who received the invitation could also have a clear idea of the purpose of such gatherings and decide whether to attend them at their own discretion.

But this situation often occurs at the same level, or between families with different levels.

And if there is a difference in status between the two families, they will often distinguish the priority and explain which family is hosting it on the invitation card, so as to avoid the guests not being able to distinguish clearly, and making jokes in terms of etiquette and clothing.

However, among the invitations received by Lin An, more than a dozen in a row were invitations to jointly hold a party, and the priority was not stated on it, which meant that it was co-hosted by two families.

And among these two families, one is the family of the honored person Lin An knows, and the other is an upper-class nobleman above the earl that Lin An has heard of but has never dealt with, and the status of the two is very different, and the circle does not coincide, the meaning of this is too obvious.

Lin An couldn't laugh or cry.

"Mainly because there are so few people who know you."

"The master is notoriously unsociable, and those nobles who have not spoken to you can only get in touch with you in such a turn."

has been in charge of the Earl's Court alone for two years, although she is still nominally an internal housekeeper, Bedica already has the demeanor of a big butler, and the invitations that come to Lin An's hand are all selected by her, so she naturally knows the content inside.

"According to aristocratic etiquette, most of your friends are not in the imperial capital, and if you don't want to go to the banquet hosted by their family, you can send a gift to the banquet, which will not be rude, nor will it consume your precious time and energy."

In the past, Lin An had always been like this, and Bedicka had hardly seen Lin An respond to an invitation other than the prince and the prince.

The threshold was so high before, let alone after being promoted to archmage.

Unexpectedly, Lin An frowned at her beautiful eyebrows, and her eyebrows showed a hint of embarrassment.

"It's a different situation now, I don't want to alienate everyone, but ...... I don't want to spend too much energy on it either. ”

Bedica realized the change in Lin An's attitude, thought about it for a while, and couldn't figure out Lin An's intentions.

Obviously the status is higher, why is it approachable?

But she still dutifully gave advice:

"If that's the case, you can hold a ball at the Earls' Court and invite someone you are interested in. As a ball to celebrate your promotion to Archmage, the family that received the invitation will be honored. ”

Since Lin An's accession to the Earl's Palace, there has never been a ball, not even a formal ball, if it weren't for Lin An's identity as a mage, those nobles would have laughed at the Purple Rose Lady behind her back for being an upstart who doesn't understand etiquette-

Of course, this kind of slander has always existed in some circles.

It's just that Lin An's aristocratic circle basically has no enemies.

And her beauty is an invincible weapon for men.

Therefore, under the wind of mainstream public opinion, Lin An's various behaviors are only regarded as the maverick behavior of the mage.

After all, although Lin An did not accept their family's invitation, he did not agree to others, which was fair and eliminated potential contradictions invisibly.

“…… When a person has reached a certain point in prominence that no one else can even think of catching up, there will be less and less slander against him, such as your current achievements, and your well-known beauty. ”

Byron was personable, holding a glass of champagne, and there was no frustration at all.

"The jealousy of women is terrible, but you have long been recognized, and it has made your fellow sex have to consider whether it will be accused of being jealous of your beauty before speaking ill of you—"

“…… What's more, thanks to that well-known opera, 'Purple Rose' has become the most desirable dream of all women, who would desecrate the idol of their dreams? ”

Another voice interjected, and York, dressed in fine clothes, didn't know when he walked into this corner, and he didn't know how long he had been listening to it, when he interjected:

"Especially after you returned, you didn't step down from the altar, but climbed to a higher place, as if you were a goddess far away from ordinary people, so your status in the minds of people of the same sex is even much higher than that of the opposite sex, which makes many men jealous!"

Lin An knew that they were laughing at her before being surrounded by the ladies and ladies, and the stars held the moon, and couldn't help laughing.

Yokjardan raised his glass, "For the sake of me being poked by the eyes of those men, to this beautiful smile!" ”

"To this beautiful smile!" Byron raised his glass in response.

The goblet touched in the air, and the light liquor swayed slightly.

Lin An took a shallow sip of the rose champagne in the glass, and smiled on his lips moistened by the wine, which made many men who quietly looked at the corner stunned.

"Father left?"

"Well, he quit with the Saxons."

The two brothers exchanged in a low voice, and there seemed to be some kind of tacit understanding between their words.

Lin An took a drink, of course she knew when the emperor and the Saxon left, the opening dance and the second dance, Lin An danced with the Saxons, but in the opening dance, the Saxons danced with Lin An on behalf of the emperor.

When these two grandchildren appear at the ball, of course, they can't let people relax and enjoy the ball, and it is customary to leave the stage after a short appearance.

The emperor has not appeared at any balls for a long time, and this time he appeared with the Saxons, which gave Lin An enough momentum.

Before they left, they had already informed Lin An.

"I didn't expect you to stay at such a boring court ball for so long."

"I remember the court ball held for the Saxons two days ago, and you only showed one side and left, so that no one could find you. ”

He was talking about the dance party he had sent back before.

"After all, it's a dance party specially organized for me by His Majesty, as the protagonist, how can I go as I want." Lin An smiled at Byron so that he would not feel left out.

In fact, sooner or later, Lin An will have a formal meeting with everyone, and he will not show up at the Saxon dance for too long, on the one hand, he does not want to steal the limelight, and on the other hand, he is also hungry marketing.

But her idea of holding a ball at the Earl's Court had not yet been put into practice, and the emperor had already taken the first step to harvest the fruit that Lin An had deliberately hung on everyone's appetite in front of her, causing the guests of today's ball to flock in, which was not inferior to the Saxon grand occasion.

It can be seen that in terms of communication and people's hearts, the emperor's old and spicy, Lin An is still far from being defeated.

Fortunately, Lin An is not what he used to be, and the identity of the archmage far overshadows the fame of his beauty in the past.

Although there are still many people, they still come because of the fame of the Purple Rose in the mainland, and they want to see Lin An's true face.

But when it comes to the social scene, even if Lin An does not deliberately wear a black robe to show her current identity, the nobles still invariably abide by some unspoken rules-

The only people who can stand in front of Lin An and communicate with her face-to-face for a sentence or two are the leaders or representatives of the major families, most of these people are middle-aged or even elderly, and they know how to measure things very well.

After that, no one casually leaned up and talked to Lin An.

On the contrary, the female dependents, with the convenience of their ladies' communication, are far less scruples, although the noble ladies who are surrounding Lin An also know how to distinguish between them, but Lin An, who is trapped in the red array, wants to get out, but it is far from being as easy as for the opposite sex.

Fortunately, Byron appeared in time to come to the rescue.

Lin An didn't stay idle for long, and the conversation with York Yadan was only a short intermission, as the protagonist of the ball, soon, several big nobles came to join the conversation, Lin An socialized for a while, and found that in the circle around her, York Yadan and Byron had unconsciously withdrawn.

Lin An couldn't help but admire the emperor's control over his sons.

I don't know what he instilled in Yokojadan and Byron, the two seem to have really accepted the reality, at least in a few deliberate contacts, although Lin An can feel the unwillingness of Yokoyadan and Byron, but the two really don't seem to have the idea of resisting.

You must know that these two are once big favorites, and there are many people around them, if they join forces, I am afraid it will also cause a lot of trouble to the emperor and Lin An.

But Lin An looked at it and found that there were few people around them, and Byron and Yokjadan had no idea of saving people's hearts at all, and let people be estranged.

Even when the two brothers were talking just now, Lin An was listening on the side, and Byron had already revealed his intention to return to the territory.

Although Yokjadan was slightly concerned, he did not bother to keep it.

Lin An understood that the two of them took the initiative to approach her several times in order to use her mouth to spread their voice to the emperor.

After all, now that the emperor is around, the only person who can be regarded as good friends with them, and who is not afraid of being burdened by them, is Lin An.

But between father and son, it was reduced to Cheng Dù, who needed to rely on outsiders to spread the word, and the relationship between flesh and blood in the royal family was really cold.

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