Villain Princess.

Not far from Aurora, Prince Lester was watching the scene in front of him.

Knight’s oath.

It was an oath only a knight could possibly take.

And a knight is someone who wield the sword to protect the weak.

After a while, Prince Lester left.

He didn’t want to disturb these two.

...

After settling the matter of Mr. Wren’s body, Aurora continued her journey to find Duke Sun to finish the negotiation from before.

The cities in Duke Sun’s territory looked quite different from the cities in other territory. Most of the buildings here were in the shape of square. There were also many buildings made of sand as it was the cheapest materials around.

They only needed to take a walk and they could encounter sand.

But Aurora didn’t pay attention to this.

She went directly to Duke Sun’s mansion and the people there were already waiting for her. When Aurora arrived, she saw a young man standing behind Duke Sun and recognized him as the first son of Duke Sun and also the successor of Duke Sun.

If there was no accident, he should be the next Duke Sun.

"Duke Sun," Aurora greeted.

"Miss Aurora." Duke Sun nodded and then waved to his son. "This is Henry, my first son and also my heir. I hope you don’t mind his presence in our negotiation." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"I don’t mind, Duke Sun," Aurora said slowly. "But there are some matters that we might need to discuss before entering the formal negotiation. Do you mind if he were to listen to it?"

Duke Sun smiled. "He’ll be the next Duke Sun, so he should also hear about it."

"I understand."

The two of them had smiles on their faces, but they knew that the negotiation was actually a battle between the two of them. After all, the content of the negotiation would determine whether they could get benefit or not.

On the surface, the negotiation would appear peaceful.

Both sides needed it.

And they would not let their emotions entered their head and affected their judgement.

"Please come in."

With that, Aurora followed Duke Sun inside.

He had been waiting for a long time for this negotiation and when Mr. Wren died in his territory, Duke Sun was already wary. The relationship between him and Duke White was really bad.

But the two of them would not attack each other.

Because they knew that if they dared to do that, there would be some annoying people who would want to take advantage of the situation and might harm them instead.

So, Duke Sun cooperated with Duke White and explained what happened clearly.

Thankfully, the one who came here in the end was Aurora and not Duke White personally. If it was Duke White, the two of them might end up on the field rather than the negotiation table like this.

"Miss Aurora, do you want to ask about your family’s vassal first?" Duke Sun came to the point directly after they sat down. There was no point in exchanging pleasantries as he had cooperated with Aurora several times in the past three to four years.

They were more or less already quite familiar with each other.

Of course, if there were outsiders present, then Duke White didn’t mind showing some proper etiquette on the surface.

But this time, it was only him and his son in front of Aurora.

There was no need to be so troublesome.

"Yes." Aurora nodded. "Did you try to investigate before my arrival, Duke Sun?"

Hearing this question, Duke Sun frowned. He did try to investigate before Aurora’s arrival, but he didn’t manage to find anything worthy of attention. The people who were sent to do this should be someone who was paid.

Because they did it professionally.

Hit, leave no one behind, and took the thing they wanted.

"I only know that someone attacked them and that group should be a professional, but I didn’t find anything worthy of attention," Duke Sun replied. "My apologies, Miss Aurora."

"It’s nothing much." Aurora shook her head and then said, "Do you know why they’re targeting the contract, Duke Sun?"

The contract...

To be honest, Duke Sun didn’t think that the contract with Aurora was that much different from the other contracts he had signed. Aside from the fact that it was somewhat more detailed and also involved many other aspects he couldn’t think of at the beginning, there was almost no different from the other contracts out there.

So when Aurora asked this to Duke Sun, he didn’t know the answer.

If it was not the contract itself that was special, it might be the agreement between the two dukes that made other wary.

"Perhaps, the content of the negotiation?" Duke Sun frowned. "If it’s leaked, would it affect our cooperation?"

Aurora was watching Duke Sun’s expression as he spoke.

He looked confused and didn’t seem to quite understand it.

To be honest, Aurora herself didn’t think that there was any problem with her and Duke Sun cooperating with each other. Because they were able to benefit in this trade, which would enrich the lives of the people in their territory.

It’s a good thing, no?

But some people seemed to think that it was not good and choose to disrupt this trade in the most provocative way.

Killing the representative who came to negotiate...

No matter what, this death had to be counted on Duke Sun’s head, which was why Duke White didn’t want to handle this matter.

He would be angered first.

"There would not be any problem with the cooperation," Aurora replied. "The trade agreement is here and would you please read it first, Duke Sun."

"Which part do you change?" Duke Sun leaned in and took the document from the table. Before Aurora departed back then, they had already come to an agreement for their trade and what Aurora did was to expand the contract to more people who wanted to trade with Duke Sun.

So if she wanted to change the content, she would have to get their agreement again, which could be troublesome.

"None."

"Huh?"