Fortunately, not many people knew about this sort of thing. Ajani had already gone far overseas, and Thalia would not go around talking about it either.
Few people had known about that secret room to begin with. Back then, Ajani and Thalia had been peeking through a crack in the window together, and Franz had gone over out of curiosity.
However, Franz had no desire to meddle too much in such private matters within the family. After all, the things that happened in other noble houses were even more outrageous.
In truth, Archduchess Seneka's dissolute private life was only a minor problem. Her greatest problem was that her ideas were fundamentally different.
Having grown up in the Oman royal palace, Archduchess Seneka held life in very low regard. Although court life inevitably involved some filth and ugliness, she simply did not regard anyone outside the royal family as human.
In the Oman Empire, the Sultan's power was virtually limitless, so deciding who lived and who died was nothing remarkable.
In the past, Seneka could dispose of servants however she pleased, according to her mood and preferences. But the Austrian Empire was different. Even the imperial family needed a reasonable excuse to kill someone.
Moreover, most of the time they would not execute them outright, but drive them away—out of Vienna, even out of Europe.
Of course, Seneka had been exposed to modern ideas, and Friedrich was not some bloodthirsty, self-indulgent man. But Seneka's punishments were often excessively harsh, and she also misunderstood what it meant to be an Archduchess.
Friedrich was not a man blinded by love, but he still could not keep his wife in check.
Simply a disgrace to the House of Habsburg.
All these reasons combined to fuel Seneka's extreme thirst for power. Yet in the Austrian