Grand Princess May Guillaume raised her voice slightly and said, "You've read some classic novels too? Then tell me, which authors' works have you read?"
She casually named several authors. Charlotte was dumbfounded. Naturally, he had no idea. What the hell was there to read in this era's novels?
Grand Princess May Guillaume sneered. "I knew you were talking nonsense. You don't understand literature at all, much less have you read any classics. Today, I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of all writers, you treacherous little courtier."
Charlotte was nearly going mad. His thoughts raced as he desperately activated Insight and "looked" at the book in Princess Mei's room.
It was a knight novel, a genre that had long declined on Earth, ultimately leaving only the anti-knight novel Don Quixote enshrined among the world's literary classics.
Charlotte had never read Western knight novels, but after merely flipping through this Old Continent knight novel with Insight, he felt that however bad Earth's knight novels might have been, they could not possibly have been this bad.
He racked his brains over all the web novels he had ever read. After discarding those whose settings differed too greatly from the Old Continent, he surprisingly found very few fantasy classics.
While cursing those web novel authors for not writing more fantasy stories, he selected one from the few fantasy classics he remembered. He abandoned the overtly male-oriented ones, chose a fantasy story with a somewhat female-oriented slant, and shouted, "Once upon a time, there was a Graycastle Kingdom, and there was a fourth prince named Roland..."
Princess Mei was actually quite annoyed. It had been abnormal enough for Charlotte to become her neighbor. It had been even more abnormal for her imperial nephew to personally appoint him as an envoy to Fars. Then,