["Mel, you...."]
[Lisiti looked at Mel in surprise, as he had been silent before but then spoke up to persuade her.]
[Duke Mel bitterly smiled and said, "I won't lie to you, my eldest daughter has fallen for a girl from a poor family. It would be one thing if it was a boy, at worst I would have accepted him into our family through marriage, but it's a girl, and no matter what I say, she won't listen. Some time ago, I tried to force her into an arranged marriage, and she threatened me with suicide, so I had no choice but to resort to desperate remedies."]
[Duke Holman added from the side, "Princess Lisiti, it's not only Mel who is distressed, there are many nobles facing similar troubles. You have only recently come back, do you really want to disrupt everyone's collective 'marriage alliance' this time?"]
[The restless Yuan Su within Lisiti gradually calmed down.]
