Chapter 161: Completely Choiceless
Being the honored guests were something the Crown Prince and Princess were used to. People fussing over them was a familiar aspect of their lives. All they could do was simply sit there and take it with polite smiles on their faces or it could be reported to their father that he was raising ungrateful children.
However, the truth was that those things mostly only applied to the Princess. She was the one forced to act a certain way. If her eldest brother was displeased with something in his surroundings, he was allowed to voice it.
This knowledge made him rarely hold back.
As the two esteemed guests sat at the table in the front of the room alongside Earl and his wife, they were waited on hand and foot. Their plates were never empty, nor were their cups.
As customary with events such as that, the Crown Prince was the one who decided the pacing in which things happened. Only when he got up to dance would they begin dancing.
That also meant the heavy burden of him finding a suitable partner. His decision would be important to the way people perfecieved him or considered his true reason for being there.
Already promised to a princess in a southern kingdom, he wasn’t there for romance and didn’t care about the girls who fawned over him. He could have them if he wanted, but they could never have him.
Since the Prince wanted to dance, it was made as such.
He stood up and perused the room for someone suitable. He then settled on Baroness Dethorn whose husband wasn’t in attendance that day.
Considering her age compared to him, she was a good choice because it wouldn’t be scandalous but seen as a way for him to bridge the gap between southern and northern nobles.
Princess Marie’s maid stood along the wall, occasionally going forward to fuss over the girl.