Chapter 1378: Sister-in-law Night Talk

Just as Melanie was being blackmailed due to a momentary lapse in judgment and had to painfully give up a share of the profits, Princess Veronika had already changed out of her wedding dress, pulled Anna, who had changed back into casual clothes, and returned to her room.

After taking off the gorgeous but cumbersome and heavy wedding dress, Princess Veronika's spirit flew away for the most part. With the help of the maid, she barely managed to change into pajamas before throwing herself onto her big bed.

"Finally, it's all done..."

After sighing into the bedding, Princess Veronika turned to her side and beckoned to Anna, who was a bit reserved, with a smile.

"Come quickly, come quickly! Now there's only one last step left. As long as you sleep with me tonight, I will be a member of your Laien family tomorrow."

"Sister Veronika!"

Flushed by the Princess's ambiguous words, Anna, who was very timid in nature except for educational issues, couldn't help but shake her head and refuse with a red face:

"It's better not to. I'll sleep on the sofa..."

"Oh! Come quickly!"

Patting the empty space beside her, Princess Veronika said with a hint of reproach:

"Why are you like Li Ang, both liking to sleep on my sofa? Are you forcing me to move the sofa out?"

"I..."

"Don't 'I' me, come over quickly!"

Stepping barefoot on the carpet in the room, running over and pulling Anna over, Princess Veronika hugged her and laughed:

"I know you're not used to it, but on the day before the wedding, having the groom's female relative accompany you to bed is also part of the entire wedding process. If you don't sleep with me tonight, tomorrow's wedding won't be easy to hold~"

"Oh!"

After falling onto the soft big bed, Anna, who was tightly hugged by the Princess, twisted her body twice. Discovering that she couldn't struggle free, she couldn't help but complain with shyness:

"Is this process too strange? It's clearly your wedding, why do I have to come and accompany you!"

Why does the wedding process require you to accompany me? That is, of course, to help your brother check things out~

Looking at Anna, whose face was red all the way to her neck, Princess Veronika couldn't help but smile, but she didn't explain.

Because of some special reasons, for the royal families of various countries, the purity of bloodline is very important. And before the Koroque Kingdom invented the instrument for testing kinship using blood, there had always been a lack of testing means in this regard.

Therefore, on the eve of most weddings, the woman's side would find the man's female elder to accompany her to bed, and then... perform some relatively primitive small checks to ensure the "purity" of the bloodline.

And now, although such checks are no longer necessary, as an ancient tradition that has been maintained for hundreds or thousands of years, the custom of having the man's female relative accompany the woman to bed on the eve of the wedding has been retained as part of the process...

Hmm... It's a pity. If the person I was holding now was Li Ang, I could have told him this old-fashioned tradition to tease him. But now the person on my bed is Anna, so it's better not to say it. Otherwise, if she is shy and runs away, I will be in trouble.

"I don't know why either."

After telling a small lie, Princess Veronika hugged Anna closer, buried her head beside her neck, sniffed the scent of the same detergent, and then said softly with relaxation:

"The Kingdom has existed for so many years, and I don't know how many kings have been changed. Maybe someone left a requirement, and it was passed down as a tradition for hundreds of years... But this tradition is not bad."

"Don't! Don't move! Oh!"

Looking at the Princess, who was like a female hooligan, burying her head in her neck and sniffing, Anna, who felt numb all over, couldn't help but reach out and push her, and then rarely showed a little temper.

"Sister Veronika! If you touch me again, I... I'm leaving!"

"That won't do~" Facing Anna's threat, which was soft and glutinous and even carried a little tremor, the thick-skinned Princess naturally ignored it directly. Not only did her hands hug tighter, but she even buried her head and teased:

"How about this, you change your address and call me sister-in-law, and I'll loosen you up a little, okay?"

"I..."

Hmm?

After waiting for two seconds without hearing a reply, and discovering that the body in her arms was slightly stiff, Princess Veronika couldn't help but raise her head in surprise, looking at the hesitant eyes of the slim young girl.

"What's wrong?"

After looking at Anna's expression, Princess Veronika pondered for a moment, then loosened her arms slightly, stared into her eyes, and asked softly with a hint of apology:

"Did I make it difficult for you? If you are not used to changing your address..."

"No!"

Shaking her head hurriedly, Anna subconsciously gripped her skirt, then gathered the courage to look back and asked in a low voice:

"I just want to know... Sister-in... Sister Veronika, did you choose to marry my older brother really because... because you like him?"

Good fellow, so you really came to "check" for him!

!.

Facing her sister-in-law's slightly childish question, Princess Veronika couldn't help but smile, subconsciously wanting to tease her, but when she met Anna's eyes, which contained a hint of worry amidst her eagerness, her heart softened again.

The reason why the timid Anna gathered the courage to ask her such a question must be because she was afraid that she actually had "ulterior motives," was eyeing the things behind Li Ang, and was worried that her brother would be hurt in this "political marriage."

Therefore, like Li Ang, she neither cared about the significance of marrying into the royal family, nor considered the benefits behind this marriage, nor cared about the glory of the Prince's status and the benefits she could get. The only thing she worried about was whether her brother could gain happiness after the wedding.

Sigh, she really is Li Ang's sister, not ordinary at all... Hmm... or it could be said that maybe Anna is the most normal one, and the people I contacted in the past, as well as myself, a woman full of calculations, are the truly "special" ones.

After laughing at herself, Princess Veronika couldn't help but hug Anna tighter, kissing her cheek with love and pity, and then, amidst Anna's exclamation and pushing, confessed earnestly:

"To be honest, it definitely wasn't at the beginning. At that time, I chose Li Ang more because of his status as the Duke of Lionheart and the convenience his status could provide me."

"Then... then you now..."

"It is now."

The Princess, whose face also flushed slightly, endured the shyness in her heart, stared into Anna's eyes, and said sincerely:

"Although it sounds a bit strange, there is indeed something very attractive about Li Ang. He... I don't know how to describe it specifically, but the way he looks at me is really different from everyone else. There is no possession, no awe, and even less greed."

"I can vaguely feel that he doesn't value my status, doesn't value my wealth, doesn't care about the power and status I represent, and doesn't value my appearance and body... Hmm..."

When she reached this point, Princess Veronika paused, recalling the gaze that Li Ang would occasionally steal when they were "secretly meeting," and then changed her words:

"And he doesn't value my appearance and body too much... In short, the me in Li Ang's eyes is not the First Princess, nor the future Queen, but Veronika herself."

"In front of him, I don't have to play a certain role, I don't have to worry about disappointing anyone, and I don't have to become any symbol in anyone's heart. Being with Li Ang is when I am most relaxed... Anna, can you understand what I mean?"

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