The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 253

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Chapter 253. An Unexpected Proposal (2)

“I have admired Your Majesty for a very long time.”

She might have just turned twenty. A woman with a beautiful but youthful face clasped her hands tightly together.

She confessed to The Man standing before her with a trembling voice.

“So please, if you would consent to marriage with me…”

“I’m sorry.”

Hair black as the night sky and golden eyes that shone like stars.

The Man with the captivating appearance was none other than Kaiden Ram, the young founding king of the Adamant Kingdom.

“I have no intention of marrying you.”

“Pardon?”

The Woman looked at Kaiden with surprised eyes.

She was the only daughter of the Saint Family, which had been an influential noble house even when this land belonged to the Lionel Kingdom.

“W-why? I know Your Majesty has no interest in women, but marriage is a different matter!”

Born as a noble’s daughter, she would have to marry whoever her family arranged anyway.

So if she had to marry, she wanted it to be with The Man who had the highest authority, was young, and handsome.

Like The Man before her eyes, Kaiden Ram.

“I dare not hope for Your Majesty’s heart! But I’m confident I can become the most helpful spouse to Your Majesty!”

“I know. Your family was a noble house with deep roots even in the Lionel Kingdom, so it would certainly help stabilize the domestic situation.”

Kaiden spoke with an expressionless face.

Though he had conquered the Lionel Kingdom by force, he hadn’t destroyed all its foundations.

Most of the Adamant Kingdom’s people were originally citizens of the Lionel Kingdom, and to reassure them, gaining support from nobles of Lionel origin was a very important matter.

“But I…”

Kaiden seemed to choose his words for a moment, then smiled.

It wasn’t a smile meant to seduce, but a businesslike smile that felt distant.

“I believe that marriage, at least, should be with someone I love.”

“What do you mean…”

“A spouse is the only family I can choose for myself, so what’s the point of picking just anyone?”

“Your Majesty!”

“Don’t worry. I’m sure other good marriage prospects will come your way. Well then…”

The Woman called out to Kaiden once more as he tried to leave.

“Then please give me a chance!”

“A chance?”

“You said you’d marry someone you love! Then at least give me a chance to make Your Majesty love me!”

It was a bold proposal.

Kaiden looked with interest at The Woman whose eyes sparkled even though her face seemed frightened. Of course, that was as far as it went.

“…You remind me of myself in childhood.”

“Pardon?”

“I understand wanting to grasp at straws, but I’m afraid that’s difficult. As things stand now, I can’t even give you such a chance.”

The Woman blinked blankly.

Then she asked in a small voice.

“Don’t tell me… do you have someone in your heart?”

Instead of answering, Kaiden turned his head to gaze into the distance.

In the garden of the Adamant Kingdom, white jasmine flowers and purple jasmine flowers were in full bloom.

“Yes.”

It was a belated answer.

But it wasn’t hesitation from uncertainty—it was a pause to compose his overwhelming feelings while thinking of that person.

“…That person.”

The Woman stared blankly at Kaiden’s somehow wistful profile before speaking.

“What kind of person are they?”

“…Well.”

Kaiden gazed quietly at the flowers blooming in the garden.

Before he knew it, a real smile had replaced the businesslike one on his lips.

“A cruel person.”

Even while kissing him and sharing her body with him, Rachel had never once said she loved him. She had only said magnanimously that while she couldn’t marry him, she could become his mistress if he wanted.

“But thinking about it, I might be even more cruel.”

From the beginning, that woman—Rachel had wanted to keep her distance from him since her days as Kayla. Yet he was the one who revived her, coveted her, and seduced her first.

Despite all that, his feelings for Rachel hadn’t grown any lighter.

Perhaps what was cruel wasn’t the person, but love itself.

“…Then, are you in unrequited love, Your Majesty?”

“Unrequited love? Perhaps that might be the case.”

They say when hearts are different sizes, one side is bound to suffer.

Kaiden was experiencing the meaning of those words very keenly.

“Still, I had hoped she would contact me first at least once…”

A gentle breeze blew from afar.

Kaiden shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly.

“As I thought, she’s more cruel than I am.”

“If it were me, I wouldn’t leave someone like Your Majesty alone.”

“Haha, thank you for saying so.”

“I’m serious! Where else would you find such an excellent husband material as Your Majesty?”

Though her proposal had been rejected, her feelings for him were genuine.

The Woman added in a tearful voice.

“Even if you searched the entire kingdom—no, The Continent—it would be hard to find a man like Your Majesty.”

“My, such excessive praise makes the one who rejected you feel embarrassed.”

“I held back as much as I could. And I have no intention of hating Your Majesty just because I was rejected.”

“The Lordling is more magnanimous than she appears.”

“Of course, sulking just because I was turned down would look too pathetic.”

Kaiden waited for The Woman who was wiping her tears with her dress sleeve.

She sniffled for a moment, then looked up at him with a spirited face.

“Later, when Your Majesty works things out with that person, please let me meet her too.”

“Haha, it’s refreshing to hear such words from a suitor for the first time.”

“I’m not joking. If she’s someone who won that heart of a man like Your Majesty, there must be much to learn from her.”

“Well, she is someone with much to learn from. She takes care of children, after all.”

“Pardon?”

“Anyway, as The Lordling requested, if things work out later, I’ll introduce you to her.”

Kaiden nodded lightly to The Woman who looked puzzled.

“Well then, I’ll take my leave first. I have much government work piled up. Take care on your way back.”

The young king crossed the garden, leaving The Woman standing there.

His steps crossing the jasmine flower bed were light and without hesitation.

* * *

“Your Majesty! You rejected another proposal!”

Aurel, the mage of Adamant, stormed into the king’s study.

And for good reason—the king had already turned away suitors five times.

“The nobles are furious! They’re saying they’ll wait and see what family’s daughter you’ve set your sights on that you keep rejecting young ladies from the kingdom’s most prestigious families one after another!”

“Is that so?”

Kaiden replied leisurely while turning through documents.

“Then they’ll all faint when they learn that the person I have in mind is neither an Adamant noble nor a citizen of the kingdom.”

“Would they just faint? There would be dozens of people storming into your study immediately! Dozens!”

If a king of already unclear origins announced he would marry a woman who was neither of noble birth nor a citizen of the kingdom, it might shake the very foundations of the kingdom.

“Why are you doing this? That woman said she wouldn’t marry Your Majesty anyway!”

Aurel raised his voice as if frustrated.

“How can you trust and keep by your side a woman who claims to be a mistress in the first place….”

“Aurel.”

The gaze that had been fixed on the documents turned toward Aurel.

Golden eyes were burning fiercely.

“Watch your words.”

“…I apologize.”

“I don’t understand why you do things you need to apologize for.”

Aurel scrunched up his face and lowered his eyes.

Then, seeing Kaiden turn his head back toward the documents, he couldn’t hold back and opened his mouth again.

“But Rachel, that woman doesn’t care about Your Highness at all! Has she ever contacted you first even once since returning to Adamant?”

“That’s….”

“That woman never had any intention of choosing Your Highness anyway! From the beginning, she only planned to use Your Highness as a tool to drive out the Marquis of Redcliff!”

Kaiden frowned for a moment.

As far as he knew, Aurel was perceptive and intelligent.

At the very least, he wasn’t the type to ignore his words and make reckless remarks.

“Aurel, I told you to watch your words….”

“Rachel Brown, that woman is getting married!”

A suffocating silence fell for a moment.

Kaiden stared blankly at Aurel while holding his quill pen.

“What did you just say….”

“I received a report from the spy we left in the Empire! They say Rachel Brown Lordling is having a matchmaking meeting with the eldest son of an Imperial County! With that woman’s personality, would she meet a man for matchmaking if she had no intention of marrying?”

How exactly should he react to this?

What should he call this emotion he was feeling now?

He just felt like all the blood in his body was turning cold.

“Your Highness, so give up on that woman and focus on Prince Edwin and Princess Emilia….”

Aurel was speaking in a sighing voice when he suddenly stopped and opened his eyes wide.

“Your Highness? Prince Kaiden? Are you alright? What’s wrong?”

No matter how many times he called, Kaiden didn’t respond.

Feeling something was strange, he approached closer and couldn’t hear any breathing from him.

“Prince Kaiden!”

That day, a rumor spread quickly throughout Adamant Royal Palace.

It was a rumor that the young king had suffered acute cardiac arrest due to repeated courtship rejections and excessive work, but barely survived thanks to the help of the court mage who was beside him.

“I’m going crazy! I won’t let this slide when she comes back! This black-haired beast!”

However, no one knew why court mage Aurel, who had taken over for the king who was supposed to recuperate for a while, was spouting incomprehensible curses.

* * *

“It’s been a long time, Rachel.”

I slowly raised my gaze that had been lowered.

The Brown Count and Countess, whom I was seeing for the first time, had more ordinary impressions than I had expected.

They observed my reaction and then carefully offered their greetings.

“Ahem, have you been doing well all this time?”

It was quite an awkward greeting for parents to give their child.

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