The body fell rapidly, and Caterina looked at the window with a still expressionless face, knowing that he would not come to save him, if he wanted to save him, Sven could reach out the moment she turned out of the window just now, instead of coldly watching himself fall to the ground as he did now.

But Caterina didn't feel any remorse or anger in her heart, she was already mentally prepared for it. After spending time with Pritton, she knew very well what kind of person Swain was, not so much expecting Swain to find his conscience at this moment and save herself, but rather that what Caterina really hoped for was to let herself die, to see Swain's cold face again, so that she could give up those extravagant hopes.

Perhaps she wanted to leave her most beautiful face at the end, Caterina looked at the expressionless Swain by the windowsill and smiled the most movingly, at that moment, Her Royal Highness the princess was like a floating cherry blossom, gorgeous and poignant, and after a moment of beautiful blooming, she would usher in her own end.

The sound of the wind whistled in Katarina's ears, more than ten meters was not too high, but it was enough to end this young life, however, the original short time of a few seconds was unexpectedly long in Katarina's feelings, probably because she realized that she was going to die, and even the sense of time became so slow.

Caterina closed her eyes, ready for the final splendor.

However, just as she was about to fall to the masonry floor, a familiar and unfamiliar touch wrapped around her waist.

At the last moment, Swain jumped out of the window and landed on the ground at a faster pace, catching Caterina and saving Princess Celestia's life.

Caterina opened her eyes and looked at Swain, who was hugging her, and her smile was gentle and pure. She knew this feeling, she had experienced it once when she was in Puerto Leon, and that time, Swain carried her over the roofs of one building after another, as if she were flying freely in the air, and it was that time that Caterina had a different feeling for Swain.

The feeling called freedom, which both of them longed for.

"You're still reluctant, aren't you?" Caterina smiled at Swain, as if she had won.

Sven didn't have any expression on his face, he looked at the eldest princess in his arms lightly, and his breath was also very calm.

"I just want to see how determined you are, to see how far you can go. ”

When Sven fell from the window just now, in order to reach the ground before Caterina fell, there was a lot of movement, and even the stone bricks were broken by him. At this moment, the servants in the castle who heard the movement rushed out to see what was happening. And when they saw Swain standing in the garden with the eldest princess in his arms, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

"Your Excellency," Finally, the lady brought by the eldest princess stood up and asked Swin, "may I ask what just happened......?

"Stand down. Swain said without looking back, turning his back to the female officer.

The female officer hesitated for a moment, because she was blocked by Sven's back, she couldn't see the situation of the eldest princess, so she continued to ask: "Please hand over Her Royal Highness to us, if she is injured, it is better for us to take care of her......"

"Stand down—" Sven turned his face slightly, the corner of his eye revealing a terrifying pressure, which frightened the female officer and the other servants into taking a step back, and some of them fell directly to the ground with weak calves, "Do you have to let me use the word 'roll' so you can understand?"

The female official was stunned, it would be rude for Swain to say this, she was a female official in the court, the royal family was close, if she was normal, how could she be frightened by the threat of an earl, even the Prime Minister Earl William Noe Pitt, was not qualified to scold her like this. However, Sven's power was terrible at the moment, and the pressure that had fallen on her was even greater than what Nicholas I had brought to them when he was alive. Threatened by this pressure, the corners of the female officer's mouth trembled, but in the end she couldn't speak.

"Stand down. At this time, the eldest princess spoke, "I'm fine, there's nothing wrong, Swain is protecting me, you don't have to worry." ”

As she spoke, she hugged Swain's arm tightly, with a rare mischievous look on her face.

Since the eldest princess has said so, the female official has no position to insist anymore, and as for the other servants, they are not even qualified to intervene.

Swain carried Caterina back to the castle and led her back to the bedroom on the fourth floor.

Although Katerina was full all the way, Swain's face was not very good-looking, although he was still expressionless, but Katerina, who was familiar with Sven, could still see that Swain's expressionless face at this time did not represent his inner peace, on the contrary, the cold storm in the earl's heart was climbing his face.

Swain put Katerina on the couch and asked a little stiffly, "Why did you do that?"

"What?" asked Caterina with her hair, deliberately rhetorically.

"If you fall like that, if you do fall to the ground, you will surely die. ”

"But you're still here to save me, aren't you?" Caterina curled her sideburns with her fingers and looked at Swain with interest, she was angry with Swain before falling out of the window, but at the last moment Sven came to save her, which gave Caterina a little hope in her heart, maybe this person is not hopeless, "On the contrary, I want to ask you, why did you come to save me?

"There was also a company of Munster's army outside the castle. Swain looked at Katerina, as if to see if the princess had something wrong with her brain, "If you die here, I can't escape the blame, the death of an imperial princess, who would believe that it was an accident, people will speculate whether this is a murder or not, not to mention that I just solved a Gion." ”

Caterina glanced at her, and her gesture of anticipation was full of amorous feelings, as if she was flirting with Swain. "Then why didn't you come and save me if I was about to fall to the ground—do you like this, or do you think it's handsome?"

"Because I want to see your determination. Swain walked over to the window and closed it first, "I don't understand you, and I don't want to bother with that, I'm even more tired of being suspicious of you like this, so I'll just say it." I would like to cooperate with you, but this cooperation is based on the premise that we can have a common goal and mutual constraints, not let you pull me back, I will serve you, before and after the saddle, this is my loyalty to you, but correspondingly, I also pray for your return. I don't expect your trust, I just pray that you will trust that I will stand for our common good, for your future, for my purposes, and not for your unrealistic, naïve ideas. ”

Caterina couldn't help but raise her eyebrows as she listened, no matter what, it must be a very unpleasant thing to be counted down like this, not to mention that the eldest princess didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, if she wanted to say it, she felt that Sven was too hard-hearted and only cared about him, and did not consider her own feelings.

"So that's why you want to get rid of me?" Caterina propped herself up on the couch, "You think I'm not obedient enough, so you want to get rid of me so you can get another collaborator, don't you?"

"I told you, I've taken precautions, you ......"

"Don't deny it, Swain!" Caterina interrupted Swain loudly, "no matter how you explain it, this is the case. Of course, I don't want to worry about this with you now, there is so much unhappiness between us that I can't figure it out if we want to settle accounts. So, I'm willing to forget about it, but you have to promise me one condition!"

Swain was slightly stunned, he thought that Caterina would be in a tug of war with him for a long time in this matter, after all, judging from the previous incident with the Vincent, Caterina is not a person who will be easily convinced, her stubbornness, sometimes even Swain feels a headache. And now, the eldest princess is willing to take the initiative to give in, which is a good thing, at least it saves Swindle more than foam.

"Tell me about it. Since the other party was willing to back down, if her request was acceptable, Swain didn't mind reciprocating and agreeing to her request.

"Did you know?" said Caterina, who didn't immediately ask, lowered her eyes, and spoke of an unrelated matter, "the Imperial Diet finally passed the bill, yes, Sir Humphrey Noe Wallace's. It is also ridiculous to say that when Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs troops launched a rebellion, they were still in meetings, and even the parliamentarians who had defected to Beria did not receive the news of the rebellion in advance. As a result, these people regarded the meeting of that day as extremely important, and everyone was eager to show their faces, and when the Ministry of the Interior troops came to the parliament, these guys were still talking as if they were the rulers of the empire. Oh, to be honest, I really have to admire the eloquence of these parliamentarians, they actually say that they believe their big words, and when they see the army of the Ministry of the Interior enter the parliament, these guys still want to order them out in the name of parliament, and they really think that they have a lot of power. ”

Caterina said, but her eyes didn't look at Swain, her eyes kept dodging to the side, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

Swain turned, his eyes looking like he had seen through Katerina. "What are you trying to tell me by this? Speaking of him from side to side, it seems that you are in a very unstable mood. ”

Caterina took a deep breath and tried to look back at Swain.

"You like Sophia, right, I can see that your brother and sister are a little too good, and the average brother and sister are not like you. Especially Sophia, she cares about you so much, she is 'elder brother' and 'elder brother' all day long, and she can't wait to write the matter of 'you are hers' on her face and tell everyone. ”

"That's right. Sven nodded, without any evasion, "I have decided, there should be a result in the relationship for so many years, and I am not willing to marry this sister to someone else, so I will marry her." ”

"You can't do that. ”

"Why, because of that ridiculous bill?"

Caterina's teeth trembled slightly, although she had already thought about it, but when she really had to say it to Swain, her mood was not as calm as she expected.

"Because my request is: Marry me. ”

Sven's face changed suddenly.

It's not that Caterina hasn't seen Swain's expression change, although it's rare, but the count's face is not a mask after all, and sometimes, that stiff face can still show his thoughts. However, it was the first time that Caterina had seen such an ugly face on Swain's face.

Sven blushed and stared straight at Katarina.

"You're not kidding, are you?"

"Joke?" Caterina sneered, and then lay down on the couch again, and her mood was relieved as she said that, "Do you think so?"

"Then tell me, why are you making such a request. ”

"That's how we really have a foundation to trust each other, don't we? It's too illusory to be fully trusted for the sake of a common desire or something. Moreover, if you marry me, you can also get the right to speak in the imperial political arena. Katerina stared at Swain, her eyes sparkling, "In this way, no matter what you want, I am willing to help you with all my might, what could be a stronger relationship than husband and wife?"

Sven looked at Caterina's expectant eyes and didn't speak for a long time.

According to Swain's choice, he will enter the main story and the princess line, which is the world line of the Queen Regent chapter. Of course, the main story is naturally a sister line.