Chapter Eighty-Five: A Big Blow

At noon the next day, Ping An looked at Joanna, who was still sleeping on her chest, and did not dare to move, for fear of waking her up.

"It's a sin, it's a sin! It's okay now, put Her Royal Highness the princess of the Aerys Empire to sleep, damn it! It seems that this debt can't be escaped!" Seeing the bedding that was stained red all over the bed, Ping An had a big head for a while, and sighed in his heart.

"Are you awake?"

His head was still in his thoughts, when he suddenly heard Joanna's voice, and Ping An was startled. When I looked down, I saw that Joanna had woken up, and a pair of big eyes were looking at her aggrievedly, and she suddenly felt a sense of embarrassment, and couldn't help but move to get up and want to sit up.

As soon as he moved, Ping An felt that the little brother in the lower half of his body was held by Joanna's cold little hand, preventing him from getting up, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

"Don't move, I want to hug it for a while, I won't be able to hold it again!" Joanna said quietly, holding the root of peace with one hand and resting the other on his chest.

"I... I... I didn't mean to do it last night!But I'll be responsible!" Ping An hurriedly stated his attitude so that Joanna could rest assured.

"You don't have to be responsible, thank you for spending last night with me!"

"What? I'll do it if I say it!" Ping'an said with a serious face, thinking that Joanna didn't believe her words.

Joanna heard Ping An say this, and a trace of joy was born in her heart, but she was quickly suppressed by the cruel reality she was about to face.

"Thank you for your promise, but in six years, when I reach the age of twenty-two, I will be betrothed to the son of the patriarch of the Kevin family. This is a family affair that I have already decided not long after I was born, and I have already accepted this fact since I was a child, so that the Kevin family can always stand with our Andrew family, so that other forces within the Aerys Empire will not dare to rebel. So, last night should be regarded as a thank you for saving me and returning me to the Holy Land of Madias, and you don't need to take any responsibility!" As she spoke, tears welled up in Joanna's eyes, sliding down her beautiful cheeks and onto Ping's chest.

"Is there no other way to stubbornly enforce the relationship between your family and the Kevin family than to marry you to him?"

"Although their family has been friendly with our family for a long time, it has not been as close as it used to be in recent years. Even before I was born, the Kevin family had some conflicts with our family. In order to calm these contradictions and mend the relationship, as soon as I was born, the patriarch of our family decided to marry me to him in order to appease the Kevin family, and then the Kevin family decided to stand with our family again. Although my father did not want to do this, he was forced to agree to the patriarch's arrangement for the sake of the family's prosperity. Hearing Ping'an's question, Joanna sighed.

"Without the help of the Kevin family, your family would not be able to control the Aerys Empire?" asked Ping An as he continued.

"The Kevin family can be said to be among the top three powerful families in our Aerys Empire, their family now has a law god and a dragon knight strength powerhouse, and there are only two strong people in our Andrew family who have reached the strength of the law god, one of them is the patriarch of our family, who is my ancestor. Without the support of the Kevin family, our family's control of the Aerys Empire could easily be overthrown by the anti-royal forces within the empire. Unless our family can obtain the support of more powerful forces than the Kevin family, then it is possible to continue to stabilize the current position, for the time being, it is already our family's best choice to win over the Kevin family! I think that this time the Kanter family sent someone to arrest me, it must also be to destroy the relationship between our family and the Kevin family, so that our family will fall into an isolated and helpless situation, so that the other anti-royal forces can easily overthrow our family's rule over the Aerys Empire. Now that I've been missing out of the Medias Holy Land for a while, I'm afraid that the news has reached the Kevin family, so I have to rush back to the family as soon as possible, so that the Kevin family can rest easy!"

"Even if you are just married to him, it shouldn't be enough for the Kevin family to agree to stand on your family's side with all their might!" After listening to Joanna's explanation, Ping An still felt that something was wrong, after all, in this world, he was respected by strength, that is, the princess of the Aerys Empire was married to the Kevin family, and the relationship between the two families was only maintained for a while, and it could not be maintained for a longer time, so Ping An continued to ask.

“... You guessed it right, in addition to marrying me to the son of the patriarch of the Kane family, there's... That is, in the future, the child I gave birth to to him will succeed my father! I had accepted this fate a long time ago, but why did God let me meet you... Woo... Woo..."

Speaking of this, Joanna began to sob, in fact, how much she wished in her heart that she was not the princess of the Aerys Empire, she would rather be an ordinary woman and live the life she wanted. Since she met Ping'an, this longing in her heart that had been suppressed for a long time has been revived.

Before Ping'an, he felt that Joanna must have a lot of things on her back, but she didn't expect it to be like this, to exchange her life for the family's rule over the empire, even if she was reluctant, she had to make this sacrifice, who called her the only daughter of King Andrew XIII of the Aerys Empire. Knowing all this, Ping An couldn't help but feel sad for Joanna, and at the same time felt even more pity, and his hands couldn't help but hug Joanna's petite body tightly.

"Six years... Don't be sad, after six years, you don't have to be forced to marry the son of the patriarch of the Kevin family, let me be your family's backer!" Ping An patted Joanna on the back and whispered in her ear.

During the time he spent with Ping'an, Joanna already knew that he was extraordinary, but how many young geniuses had appeared in this world, and most of them eventually returned to ordinary. Just like Ping An now seems to be improving by leaps and bounds, maybe one day he will hit the ceiling that he will never be able to cross in his life, and no matter how good his talent is, he will eventually improve here, and he can't get any closer. What's more, in six years, it is necessary to be able to grow to the strength of the entire Kevin family. But hearing Ping An say this, the sad Joanna still burst out laughing, although Joanna just thought that Ping An was coaxing her.

"Don't you laugh, you have to know that as long as the man in front of you brags, then he will definitely do it even if he is kneeling!"

Joanna laughed even more when she heard this, and did not reply, but directly blocked the tempting little mouth to Ping'an's mouth.

Soon Ping'an was defeated, and the two began to linger frantically again......