"Jane, prepare a change of clothes." said Ana giving Jane an order when her personal maid entered her room.
"Okay miss." answered Jane obediently.
Ana nodded, then gestured with her hand for Jane to do her job.
Ana looked out the window, she felt as if she had missed something, but she didn't understand what it was.
"Maybe it's just me." said Ana in a tone that only she could hear.
After a while, Jane returned to Ana's room with a light blue dress with dandelion flowers that was comfortable to wear.
"What's wrong lady?" asked Jane who saw Ana a little dazed.
Ana turns her head, she's still lost in her thoughts and doesn't realize that Jane has got everything ready again.
"Nothing." answered Ana.
Jane just kept quiet and no longer asked her little master again. She immediately helped Ana put on her dress.
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Two weeks had passed in a very short time, the day of the imperial family's arrival to the Moonhill border finally arrived.
All members of the Orde family and all the servants in the castle lined up neatly in their respective places to welcome the arrival of the Lutherluke imperial family.
A black carriage with a troupe of knights and maidservants appeared in the distance and slowly approached the grounds of the Orde castle.
The horse carriage stopped and a man, woman and boy were seen getting out of the black horse carriage.
"Welcome to the Moonhill resident, Her Majesty the Emperor, Her Majesty the Queen and also the crown prince." said Ana's father respectfully to the man, woman and boy who came out of the black carriage.
"Thank you for the warm welcome of the famous Orde family." said the man with a smile.
While the queen and crown prince did not speak, neither did the rest of the Orde.
"It's an honor for the Orde family to receive a visit from the imperial family. Your Majesty, the Queen and the Crown Prince must be tired of traveling all the way from the capital. We have prepared a room for the imperial family to occupy while you are at the border of Moonhill. Please Your Majesty." said Ana's father in a friendly and polite manner as he gestured for the imperial family to follow him.
That's the way to talk to people who have a higher status than them.
Without wasting any more time, the group and the Orde family immediately headed to the room that the Orde family had provided for the imperial family.
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"Miss Ana?"
A boy is seen in the corner of the garden inside Orde castle, he is looking for Ana who is nowhere to be seen.
The boy was the crown prince who was currently staying at the residence of the Orde family.
"Miss Ana?" said the crown prince again while looking here and there.
He looks like an innocent child and is also quite patient with Ana's behavior that suddenly disappears somewhere. But how is that possible? He was the crown prince of the empire, there was no way he had such a trait.
On the other hand, Ana is hiding. They weren't playing hide and seek, it was just that Ana didn't like this crown prince, her sharp instincts told her that she shouldn't get too close to him.
"Miss Ana?"
Again, Ana heard the crown prince calling her name. Ana sighed in annoyance.
"Isn't there brother Gilbert accompanying him?! Really annoying, and also don't call my name, we're not that close, stupid crown prince!" Ana muttered annoyed in a tone that only she could hear.
"Miss Ana?"
The voice continued to call out her name, stopping her disrespectful grunts towards the crown prince.
"Where's Gilbert? Weren't they together?" mumbled Ana again.
"Miss Ana, where are you?" asked the crown prince again in quite a loud voice.
Ana sighed, it's not good to offend the imperial family, but this crown prince is really annoying, he continues to follow Ana like a parasite, Ana doesn't like that. She did want to have friends, but obviously she wasn't referring to the spoiled crown prince calling out her name!
"Crown Prince?"
A boy who was bigger than the crown prince walked over, it was Gilbert, Ana's second older brother.
"Ah... Gilbert." said the crown prince with an expressionless face.
"What's wrong crown prince?" Gilbert asked again cautiously.
"Nothing. I'm just looking for Miss Ana." answered the crown prince again in a slightly irritated tone.
During the two weeks of preparation for the arrival of the imperial family Ana always pleaded and convinced her family that she was not fit to be the guide for the imperial crown prince Lutherluke.
Initially his father still behaved with all the rules and norms that they were a noble family loyal to the Lutherluk empire.
Ana did not expect that the father who loved her so much continued to reject her proposal to make her second brother, Gilbert the crown prince's guide while they were at their residence.
Therefore, Ana disappeared as she is now, her father a little angry and dizzy with Ana's behavior, as well as her mother. However the Ana they had always pampered had this temperament that they couldn't blame her for. They could only sigh.
"Girls have their own business Your Majesty. Let's just visit the training ground, I guarantee you will like it Your Majesty, compared to just chatting with a girl, it's boring." said Gilbert smiling at the crown prince.
The crown prince smiled and he reluctantly spoke, "Is that so?"
After that the two boys walked away from the park and towards the training ground.
On the other hand, Ana is very grateful to her brother, Gilbert. He had taken that annoying crown prince all the way, Gilbert's age wasn't too far from the crown prince either, but why did the crown prince always bother her?! Ana doesn't like it very much.
Just look at his hypocrisy, he is still small but his eyes show a sly nature, he also clearly doesn't think that the Argents family is important, he is the type that Ana hates, arrogant and selfish.
Ana is spoiled, but she is not arrogant or selfish, her parents still impose limits on her so she doesn't get out of control.
Ana didn't know how great the imperial family was, but she could never get close to the crown prince who not only not respected the Orde family but also tended to belittle her family.
"He thinks he's great because he's the crown prince of the empire?! I'm not really clear what my father's occupation is but I know our peerage is marquess and we are royal swordsmen. My father tried hard to protect and guard the borders, and look at the emperor's attitude towards father, he spoke politely to father, but the crown prince dared to look down on brother Gilbert openly?! He also seemed to think I belonged to him?! Disgusting!!" muttered Ana who was still hiding, her voice was low but anger was clearly visible in her eyes.
Brother Gilbert is also not angry with that damn crown prince's treatment, even her father and mother aren't on her side and are forcing her to accompany the crown prince, there's clearly something wrong here!! Ana has to figure that out! Sure enough, the imperial family couldn't be underestimated.