"Your Royal Highness."

Samwell smiled, "Princess Arrene is resting in her room. You don't have to worry, Her Royal Highness is enjoying the most honorable treatment here. ”

"I want to see her." Prince Oberon said in an unquestioning tone.

"Absolutely." Samwell summoned one of the guards and gave a few orders.

Then Prince Oberon followed the guards away, not greeting the nobles of the river, as if none of them were worth his time.

"What rude!" Horace Redwin cursed.

However, Samwell noted that he had waited for Prince Oberon to walk out the door.

"Alright." Samwell smiled and said, "Just let their uncle and nephew talk, and we'll continue." ”

"Yes, yes." Mark Mulendale nodded hurriedly, "Isn't it time for the Dane family to pay war reparations?" ”

The young knight from Highland City seemed to be eager to take the money and leave immediately.

Natalie was taken aback when she saw everyone's eyes turned, and she nodded timidly for a long time: "Of course you can, we'll go and get the money." ”

"Good!"

……

When Prince Oberon opened the door, he saw Princess Arrene sitting in a chaise longue by the window, holding a bottle of summer red wine in her hand, and pouring it into her mouth without a glass.

Hearing the movement, she turned her head, her big black eyes were full of confusion, and it took a long time to recognize who it was.

"Uncle? How did you get here? ”

Prince Oberon closed the door behind him, walked toward Alen, and said:

"If I don't come, will the people of Hewan let you go?"

"If you don't let it go, you won't let it go." Princess Aleen said drunkenly, "I'll just go to Riverbend with me, so as not to annoy you when I go back to Yang Halberd City." ”

Prince Oberon stepped forward and snatched the bottle from his niece, poured a large sip of it himself, and then said with a comfortable look on his face:

"What are you doing in the bend? Do you really think you're a princess everywhere? ”

Princess Aleen reached out and asked for a bottle, but unfortunately her uncle wouldn't give it to her, and patronized it for herself.

She turned over angrily, turned her back to her uncle, and said in a muffled voice:

"What kind of princess am I in Halberd City? They all treat me like a child! And my father......"

"You're just a kid." Prince Oberon drank the wine in the bottle in a few sips, and then threw it out the window, "What's wrong with your father?" ”

"I'm not a child!" Alene sat up straight and puffed out her chest proudly, "I'm twenty-one years old!" It's been five years since I became an adult! ”

"yes, you're so big in a blink of an eye." Prince Oberon retracted his smile and his tone became serious, "Let thousands of Dornish die for you." ”

"I ......," Arlene said.

These days, she has been numbing herself with alcohol, just not wanting to remember that nightmare evening again.

But now, her uncle's words ruthlessly uncovered her scars.

Prince Oberon stepped forward, half-crouched down beside his chair, and looked at his niece:

"You know you've been an adult for five years, so do you know what I did when I was just an adult?"

Without waiting for Aryne to reply, he continued:

"I Earl Edgar Ellenwood's lover, and then the old thing wanted to duel me, and I accepted it, and sent him to the Seven Gods."

Of course, Alene knew the story, and knew that her uncle's nickname, "The Red Viper", came from this.

Before the duel, the two had agreed to stop when they saw blood, because Count Edgar believed that they were both noble and there was no need to fight to the death for a lover.

Unfortunately, Prince Oberon does not think so.

He just wanted Count Edgar to die.

So he put poison on his sword, causing the poor count to die of festering wounds.

"Look." "I'm good at killing people in the arena, so I'm never afraid to fight in a duel. But I never wanted to play chess with your father. You know why? ”

"You can't get off him." Princess Arrene said. She knew that her father, Prince Dowran, liked to do the most was to play Sivas by himself, because no one had ever played him but himself.

"That's right." Prince Oberon stared into his niece's eyes, and his tone became serious, "I love fighting, your father loves to play chess, we are both good at the games we play, and we are all sure of winning." And what about you, Aryane, do you know anything about the games you play? Are you good at it? Are you sure you can beat your opponents? Randolph Tully, Aleken Floren, and that Samwell Caesar, did you think about it before you took part in this game? ”

Alene's face grew pale, and she finally realized her recklessness and willfulness.

Thinking of the Dorne warriors who had died tragically for this, she bowed her head in shame.

But Prince Oberon pinched his niece's chin, lifted her head, and forced her to look at himself:

"You have to remember that we're playing Game of Thrones, not drunks throwing dice. Any negligence and carelessness can lead to extremely serious consequences! ”

"I see." Arlene's eyes sparkled, "I was wrong. ”

Prince Oberon then let go of her chin and took out a silk scarf from his bosom and gave it to her.

Princess Aleen took the silk scarf and wiped away her tears, but she still couldn't help but say:

"But uncle, don't you think your father is too weak? If I don't do something, I'm afraid everyone will think that the Martell family is a bully! ”

"Do you really think your father is weak?"

"Isn't it?" Arlene said angrily, "Uncle you killed Count Edgar in a duel, and the Ellenwood family almost started a civil war in Dorne, but how did my father deal with it?" To appease the wrath of the Ellenwood family, he banished you to the other side of the Narrow Sea, and gave his own son to him as an adopted son. Isn't that weakness? ”

"Then what would you do if you were the ruler of Dorne? Gather vassals and House Ellenwood for a civil war in Dorne? ”

"At least that's better than what my father did!" Ariane vented her long-stored resentment, "What he did disgraced the Martell family! This time I issued a call order, do you know how many people the Elenwood family sent? Thirty. Thirty people! Where are they willing to heed the call of the scorching sun halberd! ”

"They can't be blamed for this, Ellenwood City is too far away from Starfall City to fully support this war." Seeing that his niece was not convinced, Prince Oberon said, "And Earl Anders Ellenwood is already an honest man, you probably don't know how arrogant his grandfather, Count Edgar, was!" So arrogant that even your father can't tolerate him anymore! ”

Hearing this, Arlene was stunned for a moment.

Although she was reckless, she was not stupid, and immediately heard the meaning of her uncle's words: "Uncle, did you ...... back then?"

"That's right." Prince Oberon smiled coldly, "How do you think my duel with Count Edgar happened back then?" His lover was in her twenties, and her legs were as dry as the desert of Dorne, so why should I seduce her? ”

"So you deliberately seduced her to provoke Count Edgar to duel with you......"

"Yes." Prince Oberon admitted frankly, "And if you think about your father's subsequent handling methods, is it really weak?" The heirs of the Martell family have always had to travel to the other side of the Narrow Sea as adults, and my banishment was just a follow-up.

As for your brother, what's wrong with him being the adopted son of the Ellenwood family? You see, he is not now an attendant of Count Anders, and he will be canonized as a knight in the future. This is the path that a noble child should grow up on, and the Ellenwood family will be closer to us because of this. Our Martell family has lost nothing, but we have eliminated a great enemy! ”

Princess Aleen fell into deep thought, and then she realized that her father was not as weak as she thought, but he hid his edge well.

"Moreover, the Ellenwood family is not our worst enemy. Not even the Riverbenders. ”

"And who is our worst enemy?" Alen asked subconsciously.

Then she saw the leaping flames in her uncle's eyes.

"It's Clegane, it's the Lannisters, it's Baratheon......" Prince Oberon almost gritted his teeth, "it's the robbers who killed your aunt and her children!" ”

(End of chapter)