Vivien stepped past the crowd and watched from afar as Victor walked down the dark hallway. The January night was bitterly windy, and there was neither moon nor stars in the dim sky.

At the end of the hallway was a black figure, and Vivien could tell it was Son Levine Royston. I heard that Princess Elena was planning to withdraw from the marriage recently, but the queen disagreed.

The two left without saying a word, and Vivien stepped out from behind the pillar, without any panic on Victor's face.

"I knew that I couldn't hide anything from my sister."

"My brother is too naughty, and I can only bother more as my sister, so as not to accidentally get into big trouble."

Vivien took the initiative to hold Victor's hand, and to outsiders, the siblings were intimate. Only Victor knew how much pain it was in his wrist.

On the way back to the banquet hall, I happened to see the crown prince and Andrea hugging each other. Andrea hurriedly explained that she had accidentally fallen, but fortunately the crown prince helped her.

Vivien looked up at the second floor and saw that Eunice was looking at them with a shocked expression. The crown prince has never been close to women, and if a strange woman approaches him, he will be scolded angrily and cut off his hands.

Eunice thinks she's the only one who is special, but the crown prince doesn't push Andrea away, which makes her feel sad. Maybe it was destined from the beginning, the male protagonist is the female protagonist.

From tonight onwards, Eunice is trying to match the male and female protagonists, kissing me and me with the male protagonists, and even getting pregnant and giving birth to children after drinking......

Not to mention her, now it is Andrea who matters. Vivien didn't want her to get caught up in someone else's love vortex and hurt others and herself.

"I've seen the crown prince." Vivien lifted the hem of her skirt and saluted.

The crown prince glanced at his sister and brother, then nodded and left.

Andrea was so frightened that she was about to stop breathing, and when she almost fell down just now, she grabbed someone next to her without noticing it. If she knew that person was the crown prince, she would rather lose face than touch it!

"I heard that except for the crown prince's lover, other women would have their hands cut off if they touched his clothes. Vivien, I'm so scared! ”

"Don't worry, you are the daughter of Duke Hoffmann, even the crown prince will not dare to do anything to you."

"Really? Let's go shopping in two days! ”

"Okay, I'm glad you're willing to play with me."

When the three of them returned to the banquet hall, the king and queen had already left, the second prince was dancing, and Princess Elena was surrounded by people.

Not far away, the four dukes were chatting, and Lawrence Stein, the Duke of the East, was the younger brother of the king, about forty years old, and looked personable. He supported the second prince because the death of the crown prince's biological mother was related to him.

Aden Stein, Duke of the South, was the king's uncle, with a round build, pale hair, and a look in his sixties. He supported the crown prince in order to maintain the primogeniture system, and once the imperial power was lost, then the empire was likely to be at war.

Duke Hoffman was the first to see them, so he smiled and beckoned, and Vivien hurriedly dragged Victor over to salute.

The three of them were juniors, and after saluting, they let several elders look at each other and ask questions. For example, ask about Andrea's marriage, Victor's hobbies, and how Vivien discovered the mines.

At twelve o'clock, the banquet ended, and Vivian and the others went back in a carriage. Before leaving, one of the maids stuffed her with a note about the discussion of divorce.

The "orphan abuse" incident three months ago was related to the Royston family, and Princess Elena would definitely be able to get out of the marriage if she was ruthless. Who would have thought that she was persuaded by the queen.

The queen's long-term neglect made Yelena very lacking in love, which led to the fact that as soon as the other party gave her a good face, she was willing to be a marriage tool.

Now that the Royston family has not been affected in any way, the evidence Yelena has long been handed over to the queen, and the queen is not surprising that people are ruined.

Alas, it seems that another way out is going to be found.

The next day, Vivian slept until noon and got up, and there were many noble ladies downstairs drinking tea.

In the past, Duke Klein didn't take his wife and children with him anywhere, and it was difficult to get into a relationship. Now Mavis is in the palace, with a gentle and introverted personality, and it is not difficult to make friends.

Vivien rested for two days and went out shopping with Andrea on the third day. There are a lot of parties in the New Year, and Andrea likes to join in the fun, so she makes a lot of friends, including Eunice.

"I heard that Eunice is the crown prince's lover, and no matter when, the crown prince's first dance is to dance with her." Vivien pretended to be tempting.

"Everyone's misunderstood, Eunice is not that kind of person." Andrea has seen both sides of Eunice, and every time the other party takes the initiative to help her resolve the embarrassment, she thinks she is a good person.

"I see, I heard that it will be the crown prince's birthday in ten days, so it is better for us to go over it together then."

"Okay, the birthday banquet must be held in the palace."

The two walked from the jewelry store to the dress shop, and from the dress shop to the theater. Victor followed with a frown, he had a lot to do, but Vivien was forced to take him as a guard.

Vivien writes to Catherine asking for help Andrea to recognize the true face of the crown prince, so that she can save herself from rushing into it and ending up with both people and money.

Catherine is willing to help, and she has a lot of influence in the royal social circle. Within a few days, Andrea discovered that Eunice and the crown prince were not simply monarchs.

Three days before the crown prince's birthday, the queen invited Vivien and Andrea into the palace to speak. She has great ambitions, and while matching Andrea and the second prince, she also wants to capture the Klein family.

In the blink of an eye, it was the crown prince's birthday, and late at night, someone broke into the window of the villa where Eunice lived, and just when she wanted to shout for help, she found that the person turned out to be the crown prince.

The crown prince confessed through the strength of wine, and the bodies of the two overlapped, and what happened next became logical.

Andrea no longer believes in Eunice, let alone the crown prince or the second prince, the people of the royal capital are too terrible. However, at the end of January, the king forced the crown prince to marry Andrea.

When the crown prince received the news, the first thing he did not do was to go to the king to divorce him, but to warn Andrea not to have hope for him, because he would never fall in love with another woman.

Andrea was shocked and retorted at the moment: "If the crown prince is not engaged, why not refuse the king?" ”

The crown prince was angry and ashamed when he heard this, he thought that this marriage was requested by the Hoffman family, and he never thought that other girls would look down on him!

Duke Hoffmann also did not expect that the king would make a marriage contract without consulting him, and he was so angry that he died. Especially when I heard that the crown prince was not clear with other women, he wanted to draw his sword and cut people.

"If I knew earlier, I wouldn't have brought my sister to the royal capital." Talon was also very uncomfortable, he would rather keep his sister at home for the rest of his life than let her get involved in royal affairs.

"It's useless to hide at home, the king fights with the queen, if it's not the crown prince, it's the second prince, alas." Duke Hoffman sighed, he didn't want to take the whole family with him.

"Fortunately, my sister doesn't like the crown prince, if only she could withdraw from the marriage."

"How can it be so easy for the king to withdraw from marriage, unless your sister dies of illness." Duke Hoffman suddenly thought of Duke Klein.

The man was personable and in fact full of intrigues. Perhaps he has a way to get out of the marriage without affecting the reputation of the royal family, but the price is not light.

At this time, Duke Klein was testing the two children, and the topic was how the Klein family should choose under the current situation of the empire?

This month, in addition to accompanying Vivien to go shopping, Victor has been investigating the situation in the royal capital at other times. He is good at peeling back the cocoon, so many family problems are analyzed at the top.

It's a pity that I have too little experience, so I can't guess what the big nobles really think. Vivien complements his analysis and analyzes the choice of the royal family.

"Father, what do you think is the hint of the king's act of giving the crown prince a marriage when everyone else is not reacting?"

"He was forced to lose his mind by the Empress, otherwise it would not have been possible to make a decision without consulting Duke Hoffmann."

"The king's move is urgent and absurd, not like the queen can do it, and I suspect there are other reasons, such as illness."

When Duke Klein thought about it, he also felt that the marriage was strange. If the king was ill and unable to resist the power of the empress, he had to drag the Hoffman family in......

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that Vivien's assumption was very reasonable, the king was in his fifties, and it was normal for him to be unable to survive many assassinations when he was young.

"Maybe the Kleins won't be able to escape being used." The king asked him to enter the palace tomorrow, and it seemed that the war for the succession had entered a white-hot stage.

"The crown prince wins, and with his prejudice against the Klein family, I am afraid that the north will have a new master; The second prince won, and with his greedy nature, I am afraid that all the property in the north will be donated to the royal family. ”

"Could it be that you want to choose Princess Elena?"

"No, none of us will choose, and the north will become independent."

Vivien had planned to support Princess Elena, but after meeting yesterday, she discovered that the princess could not escape the queen's control. Now that the crown prince and the second prince are fighting in full swing, she is busy currying favor with the queen instead of contacting the aristocratic forces.

It seems that this card can only be discarded, and the north wants to get out of the control of the royal family, so it can only become bigger and stronger.