Chapter 35: Sofia's Crisis

Five days after the New Year's Day celebrations.

Qin Shouzhuo was lying in the garden of the royal palace drinking tea, thinking about the formation changes of the magic cannon system. It's a pity that the whereabouts of the Dongting Lake are unknown, otherwise there is a flagship-level thinking core array on it, which can be scientifically calculated.

The performance of the Magic Mechanics Research Society on the third day of the New Year's Day celebration earned enough eyeballs, won an unprecedented full score, and solved the problems that several empires and even the huge Holy See could not solve in the hundreds of years since the invention of the magic cannon.

Although the protection power has not been tested in a destructive way, according to the estimation of the high-ranking mages present, it will not be possible to take at least one or two hits from a medium-sized magic cannon equipped with the same equipment. All of a sudden, people from the military, the royal family, people from various party forces, people from the Holy See, people from princes, and even people from other countries, their spokesmen, connections, and even spies filled the Jefferson villa, which made Qin Shouclumsy so annoyed that he simply left and ran to Princess Sophia to hide quietly.

Princess Sophia naturally couldn't ask for it.

The royal interior is not calm, there are many things that Sophia does not say, but she understands very well in her heart. He is just a product of his father's drunken disorder, and he has never been taken seriously by the queen and other siblings.

When I was a child, I was often bullied, not to mention, if I wasn't lucky enough to meet my grandfather, I might not have lived to grow up, my best friend when I was a child, the fifth princess Liz slipped in the lotus pond in such an unknown winter, and drowned in the running call of a group of palace maids around.

I didn't find it since I was a child, and I don't know how many traps I stepped into or avoided, until I lived in my grandfather's yard, and the situation improved slightly, but after I got out of the yard, it was still dangerous, and then I simply stayed with my grandfather, and even passed the belongings or something, leaving the personal maid designated by the queen to guard her empty yard.

The royal daughter is not easy.

It's just that she wants to live well, Sophia doesn't know how many brain cells she has broken, everyone says that the princess is good, but she doesn't know that the princess also has the troubles of the princess.

As Sophia grew up, her figure and appearance gradually took shape, and in the upper class society of the imperial capital, the first four beauties got married and had children and retreated into the background. In just a few years, Sophia, who has always been an obscure and low-key person, has suddenly sat on the chair of the first beauty in the imperial capital, but what this beauty brought her was the fate of almost being married to a tribal prince and becoming the lady of the village.

Isn't the biggest enemy of beauty a beauty more beautiful than her?

Those years were the most difficult and dangerous years for Sophia, and it was not until Elsa was transferred to the 11th Legion of the Imperial Capital Garrison as the commander of the Southern Pit Viper Legion and the Holy Daughter of the Southern Diocese of the Holy See grew up and lost her light, the situation gradually improved, and she was temporarily safe after joining the Academy of Magic.

Sophia knows very well that if nothing else, getting married must be the worst thing in her life. For himself, the ideal situation is to practice magic well, as long as the strength is enough, the royal family will not be in a hurry to marry him, and he must always find out his own growth limit in order to sell it for a good price. If you can be taken by an old monster and accepted as an apprentice, you may be able to die alone in a position of worship in the royal family, which is almost the best ending for yourself.

His talent is too strong, and his wisdom is ...... To put it mildly, among his brothers and sisters, he is the only one who really has the talent to rule the huge Lawrence Empire. The three children born by the queen are all difficult to become big, and the other children are also mediocre in qualifications, think about it, you also know that a person with some talent like himself, if he hadn't hugged the thigh of the emperor, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago.

However, Sofia's unbeaten record was broken.

Although there was a reason for the incident, when he helped Qin Shouzhuo wake up Rafeier, he forcibly decoded the central enchantment, although the magic power consumed was not much, but the spiritual power was close to fighting a fine light, so that in the subsequent competition, he couldn't condense too complex magic at all, and even if he gathered a little more elements, he would be dizzy, and finally lost unexpectedly, becoming the biggest upset in this competition.

However, Sophia knows very well that the emperor and empress, who are busy fighting for power, will not have the energy to care about the specific situation at all, and they will only get the briefest notice: the third princess was defeated by so-and-so or the third princess was knocked out of the ring by so-and-so with three moves.

Obviously, he won the championship with an absolute advantage half a year ago, and he has been swept all the way to the end of this competition...... His own strength is jealous of the queen, and losing to a nobody seems to be nothing more than that, through some intelligence operations, the queen can easily cut off her way to become a royal family, and the only thing left is this alluring appearance............

"Married............ If you can, you really don't want to go down this path............"

Turning the pen in her hand, Princess Sophia sat calmly in the study, her whole body leaning on the back of the chair, looking extremely tired. Speaking of which, the fastest reaction to this matter was actually those nobles in the capital who could only look up to themselves before, and they had just been unexpectedly defeated, and they had changed from the unattainable kaolin flower in their eyes to a prop to increase their power and wealth. Sophia got the news that many families had begun to arrange for the elite children of their families to go to the imperial capital, and the purpose was self-evident.

"Already...... It's been three years......"

Three years ago, the queen threw out a chess piece and prepared to marry a gentleman in the south who ate, drank, prostitutes, gambled, and smoked all kinds of drugs, just because the father of the gentleman was the brother-in-law of the head of the Southern Front of the Holy See and could bring benefits to the empire, but her teacher, the berserk witch Professor Christina (who was still a professor at that time), forcibly broke into the palace in broad daylight, held a long staff and beat the petty official who made this proposal half-paralyzed, and pointed at the queen and said cruelly:

"I don't know if you instigated it, and I don't want to know, anyway, Sophia was married to that waste, and I sent the eldest princess to the kiln, and then stripped you naked and went to the street!"

At that time, Teacher Christina's domineering demeanor, Sophia still remembers it clearly. But even so, he only kept himself peaceful for three years, and with his unexpected defeat in the grade competition, the voice of wanting to marry himself as soon as possible began to come out again, although the official channels still denied this matter until now.

A gust of wind blew in from the window, blowing up the books spread out on the table, and also attracting Sophia's attention, Sophia found that in the middle of the garden outside the window, Qin Shouzhuo was lying on the grass and sleeping, his leisurely expression was fascinating. Sophia looked at it and lost her mind, and unconsciously murmured, "If it's you...... It's not bad......" After speaking, he suddenly realized what he had just said, his face was red to the neck, and he covered his hands and did not dare to see anyone, and it took a while to gradually calm down.

Qin Shouzhuo likes Raphael.

Raphael also likes Qin Shouzhuo.

Sophia spoke silently in her mind again, as if to dispel her unrealistic illusions. If Qin Shou was clumsy before, a commoner wanted to marry the duke's daughter, but it was just wishful thinking. But now it's different, the secret of the self-propelled magic cannon is only known to him in this world, and it is not unreasonable for the empire to marry the daughter of a duke for this important weapon of the country.

Even, marrying him as a princess is not impossible - Raphael is not a member of the royal family after all, and it is better to keep this kind of murder weapon in the hands of the royal family. Sophia's face turned red again, but she immediately calmed down.

Don't think too much about it, even if you have this kind of opportunity, you will only marry the second sister or the tenth sister, they are either from the queen, or the queen's hardcore faction, and they are born different from other brothers and sisters.

Myself..................

Last night I received a secret report that the son of the cardinal archbishop of the southern diocese of the Holy See will arrive in the imperial capital in a few days to attend the birthday banquet of His Majesty the Emperor. This guy has a very bad reputation, he is just 30 years old, but he has already had two wives die at his hands, but the cardinal archbishop is powerful, and the bitter lord dares to be angry and dare not speak. Coupled with the fact that this guy was the brother who almost married him three years ago, Sophia couldn't help but feel a wave of despair in her mind.

I wish I had a lot of heart. Victor Mu's itinerary has been set a long time ago, and the rumors of his marriage have only been around for a few days, so she should be too careful, even if she has a goal, it won't be her. Although I kept saying this to myself in my heart, I also understood that I was deceiving myself. The queen is also really good at picking the time, it just so happens that the emperor went to the holy mountain of Hyjal to attend the emperor's meeting, and he will return to the imperial capital on about the 15th, if there is really any action, it will probably be seen in these two days.

For now, he has no hole cards to play, and if the queen is really ready to do something in the past few days, he has no other way but to bear it silently. Thinking of this, Sophia closed the book in front of her, stood up, and walked outside. 'Let's have fun while you're still happy.' ’

"Qin Shouzhuo, are you here to play chess?"

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Then the situation took a turn for the worse, it can be said that it was developing in the worst direction expected by Sophia, on the evening of the 4th, news came out from the royal family Zongren Mansion that a princess may want to marry, but it was not specified which princess it was, and there are still many unmarried princesses who are now adults, the second princess born to the queen, the third princess who died of illness in the mother's concubine, the sixth princess sent by the queen and the ten princesses who were born to the queen's maid.

The second princess has just graduated from the Imperial University, with top grades, and is favored by an old worshipper in the royal family, occasionally giving a few words, and her strength has improved rapidly, and her career is really rising, and it is unlikely that she will consider marriage for the time being; the third princess is studying; the sixth princess and the tenth princess are still young, and if they don't count college, they can marry when they are adults, but which royal child will not have a college degree? In this way, these two cannot be married, but they are not so strict, if they need to, they will be married.

Judging from this situation, the princess who may be married at the ball is most likely the second princess, or the sixth princess, the tenth princess, and the most unlikely is the third princess who is still studying. But Sophia clearly understood in her heart, the ladies and ladies in the aristocratic circle also understood, and the adult princesses knew even more in their hearts that this person must be the third princess Sophia, and the marriage partner Bacheng was the son of the cardinal archbishop who had killed two wives, the head of the Third Knights of Light, and the deputy commander of the Holy See Guard in the southern diocese of the Holy See, Victor Mu.

During the day on the 5th, news came out that Victor Mu was going to the imperial capital purely on business and to celebrate His Majesty's birthday by the way, but it did not prevent him from staying for a few days to find a new wife.

When the news came out, the ladies and ladies in the imperial capital aristocratic circle were "excited" and seized all means to dress themselves, and for a while, the price of high-quality incense powder on the market was close to one percent, and everyone put on a warm welcome look, dressing up as the cardinal's son who was popular with thousands of girls, showing that he was the public lover in the entire imperial capital aristocratic circle, but he dressed himself up vulgar or ugly to welcome the most honorable guest of the empire.

On the 6th, Victor Mu's preferences came out, taking advantage of the past few days for the noble ladies to practice catwalks, dance together, and show their singing voices, as if they were cramming for the upcoming exams, and the entire imperial capital was filled with a tense atmosphere.

On the 7th, the palace sent several teams of palace maids to give special guidance to the princesses of appropriate age, and even the third princess Sophia, who was hiding in the magic academy, was not spared, and was taken by the female officials to practice "elegant walking posture", as well as dance, tea art and other self-cultivation arts. It is said that the second princess, who had a very arrogant and domineering personality, couldn't help but beat the female official sent by the palace to a serious injury that day and was reprimanded by the queen.

On the 8th, training......

In comparison, the third princess is the fastest progress among the four princesses, Sophia neither resists nor is embarrassed, just doesn't say a word, and follows the mechanical movements of the female officials with an expressionless face. On this day, the sixth princess lay on the ground and rolled around, and the female officials had nothing to do; on this day, the tenth princess accidentally broke her foot; on this day, the second princess died of a female official.

On the 9th, Qin Shouzhuo seemed to have accomplished something extraordinary, and called the three people from the Magic Mechanics Research Society into the playground behind the palace, where they tossed all day, and when they came to find Sophia to report at night, they were told that Princess Sophia was still training.

On the 10th, the "long-awaited" Victor Mu arrived at the outskirts of the imperial capital in the evening, and after a night's rest, he was going to enter the city early tomorrow morning. The special training for the princesses and ladies of the nobility is over. In the evening, Qin Shouzhuo was called away by the head of Christina's house for a secret talk, and he did not return overnight, and it is said that the eldest lady of Duke Ye's family, Rafeier, was also present at that time.

Early in the morning of the 11th, Princess Sophia was woken up by the female official, spent nearly 3 hours freshening up, and was taken into the palace in a full dress.

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