Contracting Agreement

After quite a while, a smile finally returned to Camellia's face.

She affectionately linked arms with Perna as they left the little Prayer Room together. The two had already become sisters who trusted each other completely.

Joseph cautiously raised his head and, only after confirming that the two girls' backs had disappeared, stood up. No wonder they'd both taken leave yesterday, one after the other. They'd come here for Valentine's Day "religious activities."

Rubbing his numb thighs from being pressed down for so long, he recalled their conversation just now and felt rather pleased. Perna was gentle and intelligent, while Camellia was sweet and adorable... Yet with his current status, he definitely could not marry either of them. Did he really have to make them his mistresses? Sigh, I still can't quite fit into eighteenth-century thinking. Forget it. I'll pretend I don't know for now...

As he pondered this, the cleric from before bowed at the doorway.

"Your Highness, the ceremony outside has concluded. Shall I invite Archbishop Beaumont over?"

"Oh, then I'll trouble you."

More than ten minutes later, in the reception room on the second floor of Notre-Dame de Paris, Beaumont and several high-ranking Clerics respectfully bowed to Joseph. Smiling, he said,

"Your Highness, have you also come to attend the Valentine's Day celebration?"

I was the one who came up with this business plan. Why would I come here to give you money? Still, Joseph nodded.

"Ah, yes. This is also an opportunity to receive God's gaze. Of course I would not miss it."

"You are truly devout!" Beaumont immediately made the sign of the cross. "May God bless you."

Joseph sat down and went straight to the point. "Archbishop Beaumont, I have a very good business opportunity, and I hope to cooperate with the church."

Beaumont