As mentioned before, Yetana was someone extremely impulsive when it came to feelings, whether love or family. Generally speaking, such people were unquestionably good people. After all, no one liked someone cold-blooded and heartless. But for a ruler, this trait was not an advantage.
Good people could not be rulers.
One could not govern a nation while mixing in personal feelings. History had proven this more than once.
Yetana had previously only had Diana as family, and it could not be said that they had been particularly close. Before Yetana was born, after Yetana's father became Grand Duke, Diana left the palace to live on her own, so the two had not spent much time together.
But Xianna was different. Before Yetana turned ten, she and Xianna had been practically inseparable. Their bond was very deep.
So when Yetana saw Xianna again, she became so emotional. After her father and mother passed away one after another, Xianna was her only remaining family! And Xianna had suffered so much unfair treatment.
This filled Yetana with pity and guilt toward Xianna.
"But I don't want to be your family! I even wish I had never been born!"
Yetana's words were indeed deeply moving, but unfortunately, they meant nothing to Xianna—at least on the surface. And what she said was truly how she felt. Xianna had never felt even the slightest pride or any other positive emotion toward her birth.
She often wondered whether her life might have turned out differently if she had been born into an ordinary family from the start. Don't talk about how prosperous and happy it was to be born into royalty. Looking at her life, could that be called happiness? Perhaps her material life had indeed been better than others', but what use was that? Hadn't she