The view of the royal city of Lordaeron is beautiful, and the palace garden on the higher ground can overlook the whole city.

The solemn Cathedral of the Holy Light, the beautiful Central Opera House, and the bustling trade area show the vitality and antique heritage of the city.

Princess Lordaeron Garia Minahir has long been accustomed to coming to the gardens every afternoon to enjoy afternoon tea and take in the magnificent views of the city.

Ten years is like a day.

Ever since she was sensible, her king's father, Terenus, had been instilling in her an idea.

"You were born for the kingdom of Lordaeron and for the Minethil family, and while you enjoy the privileges, you must also take on your responsibilities as a royal child."

The responsibility of "children" is a nice thing to say.

The responsibilities of the son and the daughter in the mouth of Terenus are very different.

Galia is the eldest princess of the kingdom of Lordaeron, and according to the rules of the feudal dynasty, she should have the right to inherit the throne, and the succession is very high.

However, Terenus never intended to raise Galia as an heir, instead pinning all his hopes on Arthas, who was born two years later than Garia.

The queen of Terenus died of illness not long after giving birth to Arthas, and the royal family of Minechel had only two siblings, Galia and Arthas.

Never left the royal city...... Even the royal palace Galia could not personally contact the outside world, but through the legends and stories that the palace maids heard from the bards of the court, a doubt was buried in the young Galea's heart.

Since the queen exists in these stories, why did her father never teach her any way to govern the country, and only blindly let her show her charm as a woman at the banquet?

Growing up, she has attended countless banquets, and she feels like an artificial landscape in the center of the ballroom for people to see.

You don't need to think, you don't need to be ego, you just need to maintain a fixed elegant posture and a fixed smiling expression.

Born five years before the Dark Gate, Gelia is just 17 years old this year, which is the age when flowers are beginning to bloom.

After countless generations of bloodline optimization, the descendants of the royal family of Minahir are handsome and beautiful.

Since three years ago, dozens of young nobles, large and small, have approached Tyrenas in the kingdom of Lordaeron alone, hoping to marry the increasingly beautiful and moving Princess Garia.

Terenas was well versed in the principle of waiting for a price to sell, and did not promise any of the nobles in the country.

From the bottom of his heart, he hoped to rely on Galia's marriage to obtain a strong claim to the kingdom of mankind, which would help him unify the seven kingdoms of mankind and restore the great cause of Emperor Soladin.

However, no one is stupid, especially the kings of the great kingdoms.

Terenus's ambitions are so clear that no other prince wants to marry a princess of Lordaeron who may explode at any moment.

At the level of the royal family, appearance and figure are no longer the primary criteria for choosing a wife, but whether they can help the princes after they succeed to the throne is the most important thing.

Princess Lordaeron has a strong backstage, but the price to pay to gain support from Lordaeron is too high for any human kingdom to be willing or bearable.

At the end of the Second Orc War, in the 7th year of Kuromon, 5 years ago, Terenus had the idea of marrying the then 12-year-old Kalia to the heir of the Alterac Kingdom.

At that time, there were two families closest to this position, one was Lord Davar Presto, who had jumped out of a crack in the stone, and the other was the Barov family, who had received the promise of Terenus.

Legend has it that the Presto family is a distant relative of the Pirenod family, but this identity is actually fabricated from beginning to end, and it is a false identity created by the rebellious black dragon led by Deathwing using illusion.

After Deathwing escaped with a serious injury, Nefarian, the Black Dragon Prince, inherited the identity.

Due to all the troubles, Nefarian abandoned Deathwing's original plan and hid in the Blackstone Tower to concentrate on his own research on colorful dragons, leaving the name of the Presto family to his sister Onexia to run.

It is known that Onexia was abducted by Sarayan years ago.

In desperation, Nefarian sent a female black dragon to replace her, but in the end, she was also killed by Sarian and others in Stormwind City, and the identity of the black dragon of the Presto family was completely exposed.

After Davar Presto (Nefarian) voluntarily withdrew from the succession race, Alterac's succession to the throne seemed to be a certainty, destined to fall into the hands of the Barov family, the in-laws of the Pirenod family.

Many people still don't understand why Terenus would give up a more secure marriage and forcibly annex Alterac in a hurry.

Alex Barov has a happy family and has two sons and a daughter with his wife Yin Luxia.

And according to the investigation of Lordaeron's intelligence services, the two sons of the Barov family, Alex and Wilton, are out-and-out sloppy bales and are very easy to control.

Regardless of which of them they marry, Lordaeron's ministers are sure to use this to meddle in the internal affairs of the Alterac kingdom and take Alterac into their pockets step by step.

But Terenus took the most radical approach, which drew strong condemnation from Stormgard and Gilneth.

Five years have passed in a hurry, and Princess Jialia still hasn't been able to get married.

However, through the recent changes within the Barov family, some ministers have found a way to wash the ground for Terenus's radical moves.

The Barov family has publicly announced the abolition of Alex's inheritance and has chosen their youngest daughter, Jandis, who has always been inconspicuous, to inherit the family business.

However, as the party who almost reached the marriage, Galia herself knew that Terenus did not think about it that far at that time.

He just didn't want Stormgard and Gilneth to intervene in and dismember Alterac, so he took advantage of his status as the leader of the alliance after the victory of the war, and left endless troubles.

As he grew older, Tyrenus became more and more stubborn, and despite the persuasion of the nobles and ministers of the country, he still held on to the marriage of Galia, trying to marry the princes of other kingdoms, unwilling to give up his long-unrealistic dream of unification.

Persistent and self-ambitious, Terenus did not notice that his daughter had grown up and began to have her own ideas, and she was unwilling to be a tool for marriage and childbirth.

In the gardens of the palace of Lordaeron, Princess Garia, who was in the middle of the flowering season, had a gentle smile on her face and half-squinted her eyes as she listened to the new story that the maid had heard from the court bard.

Most of the stories of the bards have been artistically embellished, and the stories of the court bards have a lot of political purposes.

The latest story is based on the Battle of Alterac (a scrambled one) and highlights the godlike use of Alexandros Mowglini and the Lightbringer Uther, as well as their personal prowess.

Stories of all kinds have been heard since childhood, and Galia has long been accustomed to distilling really important information from a lot of nonsense legends.

"Count Saljane Deepshadow."

After the good-voiced maid stopped telling the story, Galia opened her slightly closed azure eyes and smiled and nodded to her encouragingly.

Sending off the court maid who was responsible for retelling the story, Gelia took a black teacup and strolled gracefully to the edge of the garden, standing in front of the railing of the withered flowers, looking thoughtfully at the familiar scenery of the royal city.

In the tales of the court bard, the name of the Earl of Deep Shadow does not appear very often, and only a few references to his identity are made.

The representative of the evil High Elf kingdom of Quel'Thalas, who traveled to Alterac to win over the rebels of Alterac on behalf of the Sun King Kael'thas Sunstrider, and create chaos in the rear of the kingdom of Lordaeron.

After Crown Prince Arthas was placed under house arrest in his bedroom, Princess Galia gained the trust of Terenas, who had not yet recovered, and finally began to have access to state affairs, and thus became acquainted with a group of ministers and nobles who were close to each other.

There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart.

Princess Jialia is that kind person, and when she tried to play the role of a vase over the years, she never gave up her search for state affairs.

Most of the ladies in Lordaeron's palace came from various noble families.

Not only Lordaeron, but also the major kingdoms, including Quel'Thalas, have adopted this set of selection rules.

Through her personal maids, she contacted some nobles who were willing to help, and Jialia secretly obtained a lot of information from home and abroad over the years.

Naturally, this information will inevitably mention the neighbor next door who has an increasing sense of presence, the Kingdom of Quel'Salas.

Saljan Deepshadow's name rarely appears in official documents, but he is mentioned from time to time in some intelligence that cannot be put on the table, which has attracted the initial attention of Galia more than 2 years ago.

As the lord and faction, Princess Jialia secretly gained a lot of support in this internal political struggle, and thus connected with the Barov family, and unexpectedly heard the name of Salian again in this behind-the-scenes peace negotiation.

"I will soon rush to Lordaeron in person to meet with my pen pal, Princess White Rose...... Is it? ”

"Heh~"

Princess Galia shook her head with a smile, took a sip of black tea, and said to herself disapprovingly: "As a high elf, it is not easy to enter the royal city of Lordaeron silently. ”

"Oh? Does Her Royal Highness the Princess think so? ”

A pleasant low laugh suddenly sounded beside Jialia: "Actually, I don't think it's that difficult. ”