Villain Princess.

On her way here, it was not like Aurora hadn’t done any reflection.

She was already thinking hard about the people who wanted to bring her down in this incident but there were too many people who could make a good use of this incident later.

’It’s really tiring.’

Aurora took a deep breath and looked at the ceiling above her.

For her next plan, she would have no other choice but to hasten everything. Because she knew very well that if she was caught off guard, they would be able to bring her down. At that time, it would truly be desperate.

But...

Aurora curled up the corner of her lips.

Even if she would be fated to fall in the end, she would not let it happen so easily. They have to fight her until the very end and she would make sure they bleed profusely for putting her in this position.

With that in thought, Aurora slowly closed her eyes.

This confinement room is good enough for her to rest.

Tomorrow, there were still many things for her to do.

...

The confinement itself didn’t actually last for a long time.

Duke White also knew that there were many things that Aurora had to do. Asking him to be the one to manage them?

He would raise his hand in refusal.

So no matter how annoyed he was, Aurora didn’t stay long there and had to face the Royal Family who inquired about her work. The documents were indeed there, but the management and so on still had to be discussed with Aurora and the nobles in question.

In this way, Aurora was back to work.

Adela went back from the academy as the semester was over.

"Mother," Adela greeted with a smile when she saw her mother again. Duchess Isabella was really kind to her and Adela really liked this mother.

Duchess Isabella also smiled when she saw Adela. "How’s your study, Adela?"

"I’ve improved," Adela replied proudly.

She knew that it was not that easy for her to actually improve with her aptitude. It was really hard for her to study in the past.

This made her unable to do much when she was criticized. Coupled with the comparison with Aurora, Adela felt really suffocated.

But now, Adela could proudly raise her head.

She knew very well that her result was not the best yet, but it was not that bad either.

"Oh right, Mother, Crown Prince Edward’s result has started to be posted. He’s in the middle," Adela said.

In the past, Crown Prince Edward’s result has never been posted because his result was really bad. The academy didn’t really want to offend the Royal Family by showing how bad their crown prince was.

But as Crown Prince Edward started to make improvement, his result was not that bad.

The teachers discussed and agreed to give some leniency when grading his scores, allowing him to appear in slightly higher score.

This alone would make the Royal Family relieved.

At the very least, they knew that their son was not that bad.

After all, the practice of the academy not showing the score of some students were something that has been agreed tacitly. No one actually discussed it on the surface, but they all knew about this matter deep down in their heart.

With Crown Prince Edward starting to show his result, it meant that he was already better than many of the other students.

"Come inside to eat first," Duke White said as he looked at the pair of mother and daughter in front of him.

With Aurora at the front as the successor, Duke White didn’t actually care that much about what Adela was doing. As long as Duchess Isabella was not stupid, she would teach her the proper etiquette and so on.

The result was pretty good.

But hearing Adela’s proud tone, Duke White’s eyes flickered.

He had heard the report that Adela often stayed in the Student Council Room where Crown Prince Edward and the others were located. Even if it was not every single day, but he kept hearing that report.

Could it be...

As Duke White was thinking, Aurora was watching from the side with a faint smile on the corner of her lips.

"Father, I’m going to White Dukedom’s territory," Aurora said. "There are some negotiation to be done."

"You have to go?" Duke White frowned.

The last incident had already made Duke White felt really annoyed. The engagement with the Royal Family was still kept after they knew that it was actually nothing more than a rumor spread by someone with unkind intention.

However, it was easy to see that the Royal Family was a bit dissatisfied with how he was doing things.

For this, Duke White felt rather helpless.

He couldn’t really do anything and he felt that it was not really his fault. He still make sure the security of the White Family’s Mansion was strengthened, though.

For those people to bribe people close to him...

Duke White had to admit that he was terrified.

If it was not aimed at his daughter but to him, then Duke White couldn’t guarantee that he would be able to respond as flawlessly as Aurora nor be as decisive as her. For his own safety, he strengthened the mansion’s security.

"It’s in our territory," Aurora replied calmly. "I can bring more knights if you’re willing to give them."

More knights?

Duke White nodded. "You can."

He had made the plan to recruit more knights. Anyway, after the deaths of many knights, he was indeed lacking in the number of knights.

Every noble had a limited number of knight they could recruit. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Coincidentally, Duke White’s knights were far from the limit. He could recruit more and also cultivated his people in the meantime.

"Sister is going again?" Adela asked in surprise.

She did know that Aurora was going during every holiday and this time happened earlier because it was an exception.

But shouldn’t it take more time before Aurora go again?