Princess Qian Niya's carriage slowly rolled out of the Lord's Villa.
At a second-floor window, Alice and Ruxiji were leaning out and looking down. They watched the princess's carriage pass through the gates and disappear completely before withdrawing their gazes.
"Big Sister, do you think Princess Qian Niya really came this time just to see us?" The precocious Ruxiji looked in the direction the carriage had gone and asked.
Alice turned and shot him a look. "What do you think?"
"Of course not. If she came to see us, why didn't she come upstairs and play with us?" Ruxiji said. "Why did she only talk to Mama Bell downstairs?"
Children were sharper than anyone. They knew perfectly well who treated them kindly.
"It's enough that you know!" Alice turned her face away and stopped looking at her brother.
Even a princess of the Royal House had become captivated by him. Father really was amazing. She had heard that, apart from Princess Qian Niya, several other aunties and older sisters also had very good relationships with Father.
Thinking of this, Alice could not help revealing a faint smile.
Under the continent's marriage laws, every man could marry only one legal wife.
During the Demon Calamity, it was said that a man could marry three wives. Unfortunately, that period lasted only three years. Her mother Bell had seized that chance and obtained the status of wife.
There was also Aunt Owenna, who originally could have done so, but she had run away for no apparent reason. Now, the chance had become completely invalid.
Alice shook her head, feeling that Aunt Owenna was truly foolish.
Becoming a Knight could wait until later, but becoming Father's wife offered only the tiniest sliver of an opportunity. Once lost, it would never return.
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