Chapter 62

He had no idea what spirit he had returned in. Rowena had told him not to tell their father that she had made such an offer. Louis wasn’t an idiot either, so he had no intention of telling the Count.

Living in the Imperial Palace…

Looking at the outfit Rowena was wearing and the people she had, it seemed possible.

It seemed that the crown prince was doing a pretty good job and Louis was relieved. Rowena looked at him carefully to see if she was just being nice to his outward appearance.

If the crown prince were such a violent human being, Rowena would never have told Louis to live with him in the palace.

Is that possible?

His father was Paul, and he was Lord Adelia. It might be possible to live together until adulthood because he was still a minor.

He thought living in the imperial family would be good in many ways.

He would have the best education, good clothes, food, and a lot of people that he couldn’t get in the Adelia Family. Maybe Matthias and Theo would be jealous.

Louis was excited just imagining it, but the thought of Paul calmed him down again.

Paul was going to stop by to take advantage of Louis somehow. Rowena would try to wield her concern for him, using it as a weapon.

What if Rowena gets kicked out by the crown prince?

Rowena would return to the Adelia family to be miserable again. Rowena, who he saw earlier in the drawing room, wearing a gorgeous dress with a combination of gold and cream.

He didn’t recognize her because she was always dressed miserably, but Rowena also thought it was worth looking at.

Now she’s living well…

He wanted to leave the count. Although he was a bad father to Rowena, he wasn’t a bad father to Louis.

Since when he was young and quite cute, and up until now, Paul had always been on Louis’ side. If it weren’t for Matthias, the one loved most by his father would be him.

What to say about Matthias… Isn’t being the eldest son just being born first?

Usually, the eldest son is the one who receives the most support and leads his younger siblings to go out first in a difficult world, but not Matthias. He was like a man who lived in the world alone.

He was dissatisfied that the world did not support him, and he thought his brothers were just born to be at his command.

Stupid Matthias.

It was only Paul and his servants around him that supported Matthias.

Even so, Rowena gradually fell apart as she became engaged to the crown prince. Paul also used the power of the royal family, and he seemed to know that Matthias was not helpful.

Theo is smarter than Matthias.

Rather than Matthias, who had someone to feed him even if he sat still, Theo thought he would take care of himself. So Paul wondered whether he should bring Theo, not Matthias, to the aristocrats’ gathering.

Matthias, who always thought he was the only good one, seemed to be starting to notice it. This seemed to be the reason why he was more nervous than before.

He didn’t try to hit Louis that much before.

No, he had Rowena before that.

Matthias seemed to be under great stress because he didn’t have Rowena to take his anger out on and he might be pushed out of his father’s plan.

What he was holding on to though, seemed to be about to explode as Rowena stopped coming into the house.

Matthias thought that everything Paul planned was for him after all. It all fell apart, and he seemed angry because he thought he would be ignored and have nothing in his hands.

As Rowena said, wouldn’t it be better to live in the palace?

Paul bothered, but Louis wasn’t confident he could hold back against Matthias if treated him like he did the previous time. Again, he wondered how Rowena endured this.

Even if Rowena was a few years older, she was smaller and weaker than him.

“You don’t have as much power as I do. Why do you keep coming forward?”

It was the day when Rowena stepped up and she was beaten up, just because Matthias had hit him once or twice. Louis had been so impatient that he said it out loud.

Rowena looked at Louis for a moment with a bruised face and replied.

“Because I’m older than you.”

Thanks to Rowena, Louis’s body was fine, but he felt terrible. He felt free, however, and relieved at the back of his mind.

Who would even want to be beaten?

He wasn’t a good brother. Upon hearing this, Louis became angry and mocked Rowena.

Damn it. I’m an idiot.

He wanted to follow Rowena to the palace, but Paul was around. He may not be a good man or a good father, but he was his father nonetheless. At least for Louis. He didn’t want to disappoint him.

Louis dropped his head in a melancholic expression. He didn’t have the heart to go after Rowena, and he didn’t have the confidence to give up on his father.

What do I do now?

Only the sound of a carriage rang loudly.