Under Viscount Lister Roald's deliberate arrangements, news of the engagement between the foreign prince and Miss Mana quickly spread throughout the territory and the surrounding regions.
Clearly, he was deliberately building momentum to secure a legitimate status for their future children.
After all, illegitimate children had no inheritance rights in noble circles. At best, they would be raised as servants, attendants, coachmen, or stewards.
Many noble parents did not even care whether their illegitimate children lived or died, leaving them to fend for themselves without bothering to ask about them.
To satisfy the local nobles' curiosity about the "foreign prince," Viscount Lister Roald specifically held a grand engagement ceremony and invited all the neighboring nobles.
Raymond did not disappoint him either. Before long, he had conquered the entire noble circle with his bearing, manners, conversation, and charm.
Because anyone who had seen this "prince" in person could not help but sigh that this was what a true noble was supposed to be.
Compared with him, these local nobles were simply too shallow and too low-class.
Whether it was their clothing, food, living conditions, travel, or their attainments in art, literature, and philosophy, they were comprehensively crushed in every respect.
Especially that powerful air of authority, along with the habits he casually revealed in daily life, was enough to prove that he was a ruler accustomed to giving orders and having others obey him.
So regardless of what intentions they had initially harbored, all they felt now was envy and jealousy.
Through this marriage alliance, the Roald Family had not only resolved the danger surrounding its succession but also gained a new family member. It was like being struck by a pie falling from the sky.
But no one noticed the murderous danger hidden behind all the celebration.
"Master, are you