Chapter 162

The Crown Princess’s Ploy (8)

When the Marquis Rasmine’s family had worked hard on Theo for several months and there was no news of their engagement, it was doubtful whether rumors had spread that Theo did not like Catherine.

‘The Count of Adelia is very nice to me!

Of course, if such rumors had spread, Catherine’s father would have noticed and jumped. Since Theo had never treated Catherine carelessly in an official setting, it was also Catherine’s only fear.

‘Ah… What am I doing?’

Knock, knock.

At the knock on the door, Cather6 naturally thought it was her maid. It was because around this time, the maid came into the bedroom.

“Come on in.”

The door opened, and a low, deep voice was heard.

“I’ll leave the door open, Lady.”

Catherine, who was sitting with her legs on the window frame, was surprised. She was in a hurry and pulled the curtain from the window to balance herself.

Although she balanced herself, she still had to borrow his hand.

Catherine quickly lowered her legs from the window frame and arranged her skirt.

“Oh, I didn’t know you were here, count!”

“Because you asked me to come in…… I wasn’t careful.”

Theo hurriedly apologized with an embarrassed face. He shouldn’t have found such a young Young-ae’s room in the middle of the night.

Of course, the door was left wide open.

“Shall we talk outside the door?”

Theo, who had entered the room, asked with a gesture as if he would go out. Catherine shook her head unknowingly.

“You don’t have to.”

In fact, there were countless times when Kathryn and Theo were alone. It’s because Theo was suffering from illness…… He was handsome even then. She thought about it, but now he was more handsome because he was moving with his eyes open.

Especially his body!

‘Patience! Please hold on to me so I don’t rush into that chest!’

It was already wrong to almost fall off the window frame, but Catherine looked at Theo with a ladylike face that valued etiquette. Her heart was pounding, but she thought she could have a conversation with this much space between them.

“If you have something to say…….”

“I wanted to apologize for being away that night at the night market. And if you don’t mind now, I’d like to take a walk with you…… Can’t I?”

Catherine’s face, which was looking at Theo’s face, became blank. She soon affirmed with a red face.

“I-I’ll go! A walk….”

“I’ll be waiting, so get ready and come out.”

When Theo was not seen, Catherine urgently pulled the rope and rang the bell. She needed clothes and makeup to stand out the most in the moonlight.

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Marquis Wenson was ready to enter the palace the next day as soon as dawn broke. However, it was not easy to enter the palace.

The procedure was to apply for entry into the palace at the outer palace and wait endlessly until the application was accepted. At least, members of the imperial family or high-ranking aristocrats were assigned a separate room, but ordinary aristocrats did not even have that.

Even during the early morning visit, the huge iron gate of the palace was easily opened.

He immediately applied to meet the Crown Prince.

“You should know that your Highness has been married less than a week. Application for an appearance is not available until three weeks later.”

The Marquis was furious at the official’s polite reply.

“Three weeks! Is that your answer?! What is he doing?”

“How dare the Marquis now ask about His Highness’s schedule?”

Of course, after the honeymoon period, the crown prince will return to work. However, it did not mean that he would accept the audience of the nobles.

The audience of the nobles is only given according to the permission of the emperor or crown prince.

Even if you apply, it is not necessarily possible to have an audience, but it was polite to set the date of the audience mostly by the emperor or the crown prince.

Marquis Wenson, who tried to hold him down with his position, flinched for a moment. It took a long time to be accepted even if he applied for an audience anyway, but h4 felt different.

“That’s not what I’m saying…… Are you trying to put me in trouble by twisting my words? Give me your family name!”

“It is prohibited to ask the family of the official in charge at the place where you are applying for a meeting. Did the Marquis forget that?”

Marquis Wenson’s face turned red and blue when the official responded like this without any sign of hesitation. In any case, a close aide to the crown prince will be meeting the crown prince through another subordinate without such troublesome procedures.

A few months ago he was the closest high-ranking aristocrat to the imperial family……! Now that he thinks he’s being looked down on this much, he couldn’t stand it.

The Marquis of Wenson gave up his application for an audience and turned around.

It was a mistake to apply directly because he was in a hurry to just put words in and watch from behind.

“Three weeks! How can I wait for that time?”

Marquis Wenson, who came out grinding his teeth, intended to visit the nobles he was close to.

It was embarrassing to hear rumors about Liliana, but if he, her father demanded for Liliana, Rowena, the Crown Princess, would not be able to keep holding on to her.

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