Chapter 55: The Yandere Sister Doesn’t Want a Sister-in-Law

Brother has a fiancée?

Lorraine’s first reaction was disbelief.

She had always paid close attention to their family’s affairs since she was a child.

For example, when she was ten, there were rumors that Himan was Hall’s fiancée.

At that time, Lorraine would throw tantrums at home every day, arguing that Himan and Hall were cousins, and their marriage would be biologically undesirable.

The Papal State did have biology class, but from a theological perspective, there was a chance of producing geniuses from marriages between close relatives.

Therefore, intermarriage among the nobles of the Papal State was very frequent.

The Papal State’s enduring prosperity for a thousand years was naturally related to the large number of geniuses that had emerged in its history.

At that time, Lorraine’s tantrums were useless.

And whether Himan and Hall were engaged was never officially confirmed.

A few years later, Hall’s reputation collapsed, and naturally, no one mentioned it again.

Lorraine was no longer worried.

Anyway, she didn’t want Hall to have a fiancée, because the meaning of “fiancée” was too definitive.

Having a sister-in-law was something she couldn’t accept.

Now, this sister-in-law wasn’t Himan, but an Eastern woman. Lorraine found it even more unacceptable.

It wasn’t that she discriminated against Eastern women; she had no interest in that.

It was just because her brother looked like an Easterner. What if Hall’s aesthetic preference was for Easterners?

Her sense of crisis was rising.

A strong sense of crisis.

“Brother, is this true?”

“It’s probably true, but I think my fiancée doesn’t like me. She’s here to break off the engagement.”

Hall had to calm Lorraine down, lest she suddenly turn dark again.

He couldn’t handle her turning dark every day.

“Oh… brother is sure?”

Lorraine’s breathing seemed to calm down a bit.

“Of course. My reputation isn’t that good. The other party is a princess of a country. If she has heard about my deeds in the past three years, she must be here to break off the engagement.”

Hall continued, “If she wasn’t here to break off the engagement, then why do I only know now? In the East, if the woman’s family is very satisfied with the man, they will definitely publicize it. What’s more, she is a princess of a country.”

Lorraine thought about his logic.

She temporarily accepted it.

The matter between Himan and Hall had fallen through because of this situation.

“But brother…”

“But what?”

“What if she likes brother? I heard that Eastern women are very obedient to marriages arranged by their families… they are very traditional.”

After hearing Lorraine’s words, Hall thought to himself, ‘Sister, you’re the one with colored glasses.’

‘That so-called sister-in-law of yours is planning to escape the marriage at every moment. She even practiced swordsmanship for three years to escape the marriage.’

‘She paid such a high price just to escape the marriage. Is it possible that she wouldn’t escape the marriage just because she met your brother once?’

But Hall chose to continue to calm Lorraine down.

“Don’t worry, sister. She won’t. She won’t like me, your brother. She must be here to break off the engagement.”

“What if she doesn’t?”

Lorraine retorted.

“Yes, Young Master, what if she doesn’t break off the engagement?”

Lov also hurriedly asked.

“Do you think I would have feelings for someone I’ve never met? She also has no emotional foundation with me.”

Hall vowed.

Then he pulled out a shield: “My heart is not easily stayed by a woman.”

“Is that so, Young Master?”

Lov felt that Hall was being a bit dramatic.

She was half-believing, half-doubting.

Except for matters of the heart, she trusted Hall unconditionally.

But on matters of the heart, she had to judge for herself.

Lorraine, on the other hand, was considering Hall’s words.

A thoughtful expression appeared on her face.

Seeing that the two matriarchs had finally calmed down.

Hall quickly took the letter and ran away.

Late at night.

The distant imperial city of the Great Xia on the Eastern Continent was as brightly lit as Saint Louis on the Western Continent.

Compared to the outside of Saint Louis, there was a special spectacle here.

A night market, where small vendors would display their goods on a large white cloth, calling out to sell them to tourists to choose and buy.

This was absolutely impossible in Saint Louis, where business could only be conducted in shops with storefronts.

At this moment, Ye Wangxue, who had just returned to the imperial city of Great Xia not long ago, was standing under a locust tree by a small river.

She was dressed in a simple gauze skirt of a common young lady, with a jade hairpin that was not expensive but quite elegant.

“Princess, do you have something on your mind?”

Behind her, a young girl in a long green dress was slowly approaching. She said, “It’s almost curfew time, we should go back to the palace. If you come back late again, His Majesty will be angry.”

“Xiao Lu, what’s the big deal? Isn’t it said that the time has been set? It won’t be long before I’m married off to the distant West. Now that I’m looking at my homeland more, can he control me?”

Ye Wangxue said lightly, one hand on the trunk of the locust tree.

“Princess, this matter… is not without room for maneuver…”

Xiao Lu had been Ye Wangxue’s personal maid since she was a child. Her birth was not low; she was the daughter of a large family in the Xia Kingdom, and was considered the princess’s study companion.

However, she was supposed to leave Ye Wangxue’s side three years ago to work in her family’s business, but she couldn’t bear to, so she stayed by Ye Wangxue’s side as a maid.

“What room for maneuver is there? My fiancé…”

The more Ye Wangxue thought about it, the angrier she became.

As the second son of an admiral, his behavior and style were so corrupt. If Hall Faxtius were a normal person, she wouldn’t be so hesitant.

Why?

Why…

Especially on the last journey to the Papal State, she had met that guy.

It proved that the young men of the Western Continent could also be outstanding.

So annoying.

“But Princess, you should decide. You are not marrying to the Papal State for love. You should be clearer about this than I am.”

“Yes…”

She was not going to the Papal State for love. She was going to help her father, that lonely man sitting in the Qiankun Palace, to turn the Papal State upside down in the future.

She was to attend various high-society parties in Saint Louis under the name of Mrs. Faxtius, and get as much contact with the upper echelons and intelligence of the Papal State as possible.

This was her mission. What did the reason for her marriage have to do with love?

“Actually, this is just an engagement. You still have a chance, Princess… If your fiancé is really not good enough, you still have another path to choose…”

Xiao Lu stopped there.

If she had said it and someone else had heard, she would have been beheaded.

Ye Wangxue also understood. Xiao Lu also wanted her to escape the marriage.

But if she escaped the marriage, Xiao Lu, as her personal maid, would definitely be implicated.

If she were to leave, she would have to take Xiao Lu with her.

But she asked herself, how could she guarantee that Xiao Lu would have a better life after leaving with her?

If she escaped the marriage, she would be the only beneficiary, and the victims would be the people around her.

“I know, Xiao Lu. This time, I’ll go to the Papal State first to see what kind of person my fiancé is… I’m not just Ye Wangxue, I’m also the princess of Great Xia.”

After Ye Wangxue finished speaking, she walked out from under the locust tree in silence.

She kept walking, until she reached the place where the lights were dim.

And she never looked back.