Alas, it took two years to finally convince the kid…
If the ministers and officials knew about this, they would weep in joy and thank whoever enlightened the little devil.
Isabella didn't care about the ins and outs behind the festival's preparation, so Mariella also acted out the same response.
"Okay, okay, I trust you, dad. I'll leave all the festival preparation to you and those ministers or officials, " Mariella spoke indifferently.
"I only have to use my ability and pick talents, anyway."
Hearing that, Duke Fez said nothing, and Mariella also didn't have anything to do with Duke Fez anymore.
She immediately left the room to explore the castle, playing here and there.
While Mariella was enjoying a lazy and luxurious life, a certain female protagonist was kneeling next to her mother's bed with an ashen face.
"Mom…"
Lizeth called out to her mom weakly, and her mom looked at Lizeth with eyes full of tears.
"Liz, oh Liz, my daughter. How can you be so careless to the point of accusing the queen in front of so many people?"
Anne squeezed another batch of tears, and Lizeth's heart immediately felt like it's going to explode.
She couldn't bear to see her mother's crying face, but she also knew that her mother was a sickly beauty and a crybaby.
Obviously she wasn't like this before. When she was still a royal dancer, the woman was bright and lively, she's really charming.
But she fell for the cold-hearted queen and was finally tempted to use bad tricks to seduce the king against the man's will.
She did succeed, but the king was furious and didn't even bother to take care of her after the incident.
Anne successfully became a part of the royal harem, but her status was the worst among the others.
The king's love for the queen was well-known, and he had never slept with other concubines more than once.
After doing his duty with an ashen face, the king wouldn't care to visit his concubines anymore and would only look at his legal wife– the queen.
Because of this, the concubines stuffed into the harem were all influential daughters, and none of them would be as ordinary as Anne.
In the king's era of government, the nobles weren't as obedient as now, and the kingdom was in chaos.
He really had to rely on marrying the concubines to stabilize the kingdom.
These concubines were either princesses of other kingdoms, daughters of the previous generation's prime minister, the daughter of the previous cabinet's ministers, and so on.
But after the king established his regime and slowly converted the cabinet to be under his control, he no longer had to rely on the concubines.
Thus, he didn't mistreat them, but he also chose to ignore them.
He's kind to his children born of other concubines, but he's undoubtedly biased to Isabella, his legal wife's only daughter.
After the king was no longer pressured by all sorts of people, the concubines' status in the royal family also fell to the bottom.
Nowadays, when the king was gone, and the new ruler was just a kid, the concubines had no way to raise their status.
They could only rely on their sons or daughters!
Yes, all the concubines had ideas about the throne.
They're all daughters of good families, but their families declined because of the king's action.
They wanted to revive their families through their children! If their children could replace that incompetent tyrant and be the new king or queen...
As their mothers, wouldn't they also hold great power? Especially when the children were all fairly young, with the oldest being Lizeth.
Yes, the legal queen married the king for so long but had only given birth to Isabella in her old age, when she's already a middle-aged woman.
The concubines in the harem were more fertile than the queen, and they gave birth to princes and princesses before the queen.
Isabella was the youngest child in her father's harem but also the most favored by the king.
This kingdom didn't rely on the order of one's birth to claim the throne.
Whoever was blessed to inherit the special ability would become the new ruler.
The one with the thickest royal bloodline would be the one to inherit the special ability, and Isabella was one of them.
Other children were born between nobles and the king, but Isabella was held between the king and the neighboring kingdom's princess.
There were other princesses in the harem, but maybe because the previous queen's mother was also a royalty, the royal bloodline was especially thick.
That's how Isabella was chosen...
As for how Lizeth inherited the special ability after Isabella died despite her thin royal bloodline?
Let's say because she's the one seen as 'suitable' to be the queen.
The special ability would choose people suitable to be the next ruler if there were no royal members with a thick royal bloodline!
And it is also because of the novel's plot line power...if not, how could Lizeth actually inherit the special ability when her mother was just a commoner??
There were other princes and princesses with thicker bloodlines than her, and more capable than her too!
But they all went unnoticed.
Anne, as one of the royal concubines, actually also hoped that Lizeth could pursue the throne.
"Liz, mom wants you to be the queen for your sake. Look, the commoners are suffering..."
Anne took a deep breath.
"As an ex-commoner, mom only wants a ruler who can understand a commoner's heart."
Lizeth was born from a commoner mother.
Because of that, Anne believed that Lizeth should be the only one among the royal family members who could understand the commoners' hearts!
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