Desanya Vox Lenon. She was none other than the prestigious and noble daughter of the Emperor of the Lenon Empire. She grew up tended to and did whatever she wanted without being scolded or told to stop.
Refusing marriage proposals at the age of 16, 18, 20, and 22, she is by far the oldest unmarried woman in the history of the Lenon Imperial Family.
Now, at the age of 24, Desanya remained a bachelorette, even at the behest of her Imperial father and her crown prince brother.
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At the weekly dinner gathering set up at the Emperor's main palace, Desanya sat in the comfortable monster leather chair at the left of her father's seat.
Beautiful black hair paired with half-lidded golden eyes, Desanya was the embodiment of the Imperial Family's symbol, the raven.
Desanya's beauty was proclaimed as the best in the Empire, and the Emperor was proud of that fact. However, the Emperor can only shake his head at the fact that his daughter's words are also the sharpest.
"Desanya." Roxan feigned a cough and started.
"What is it, Imperial Father?" Desanya lifted her eyes from her plate and stared at her father's golden eyes, the same shade as her brother's.
"My dear princess, do you remember your wishes?"
"Which one, imperial father? The one where I told you I want to travel the world but you didn't acquiesce, for it is risky? Or the one where I told you I wanted a tiger cub as a pet but you didn't assent because of how dangerous it is?"
"Keum- Well, the former." Roxan cleared his throat. It is exemplary that his daughter's memory is good, but it's also unfortunate at the same time since his 'sins' can be brought up in any conversation.
"And what about it, Imperial Father?" Desanya lifted a brow in a questioning manner, which is disrespectful to the Emperor, but since she was his precious daughter, it was condoned.
"Dear sister, the thing is... I talked about your awaited departure with Imperial father and managed to convince him to let you go for a trip!" the Crown Prince, Sellio Vox Lenon, cheerfully bragged.
The Emperor and the Crown Prince have a plan, a plan to make the beloved raven of the family get married. In their carefully elaborated plan, it was Sellio's duty(Desanya's favorite) to be the good guy.
"Don't try to console me with a trip around the Empire." Desanya scowled and continued to eat the delicious Arban meat. Despite being the favored daughter of the Emperor, Desanya knew that there are things she isn't allowed to do for the maintenance of the reputation of the Imperial Family.
"My dearest, it isn't a trip around our Empire!" Roxan acted, eyeing his son to continue the act.
Sellio, noticing the cue, immediately smiled at his big sister.
"Dear sister, I was able to convince Imperial Father to allow you to travel to the neighboring Empire!" Sellio exclaimed and saw the passing glint in his sister's eyes.
'It worked!' Sellio glanced at his father and faintly nodded.
"The Gregon Empire?" Desanya's tone raised a bit, excitement flashing in her eyes.
"Yes, my dearest." Roxan smiled at his daughter's undivided attention.
"Sellio told me that you look forlorn in your palace. And having visited all the good scenery in our Empire, I thought that I should at least allow you to expand your horizons." Roxan attempted to craft a perfect backstory for the trip.
But as always, his daughter had to talk in a very candid manner.
"I've always been downcast when you rejected all my wishes. How come you've only realized that you should broaden my view of this world at this old age of mine?" Desanya looked at her father with a little bit of suspicion.
'What is he planning?' Desanya's half-lidded eyes narrowed at the thought.
Roxan and Sellio exchanged glances and initiated the real phase one of their plan.
"The truth is, I have finally cleaned up the loose waste around the border between the Gregon Empire and ours. I have now trusted people in that place and they deemed that Empire as a safe environment." Roxan started and Sellio followed his words closely.
"And the thing is, dear sister, the birthday banquet of the Gregon's Empress is coming. We have always sent diplomatic personnel to the Gregon Empire on each special occasion while their Second Prince personally visited the Capital upon Imperial Father's birthday. Isn't it kind of rude that we, a neighboring and friendly empire, can't send someone of Imperial blood to visit?"
'Oh, so it's like that.' Desanya nodded at their words. Unlike the busy Emperor and the Crown Prince, Desanya was very free from the responsibilities of Imperial blood. Though she might need to attend some unpleasant tea parties to associate, she threw the other responsibilities to her little brother.
It was a very rational move to make the most carefree of the Imperials visit the neighboring empire for the Gregon's Empress banquet.
'I just wonder why they keep sneakily looking at each other.' Desanya keep thinking that there was a hidden scheme behind those glances but she decided to forgo it, as her spirit for the upcoming trip is uplifting her.