Leon was silent.
He looked at his father and seemed to understand something. Even if Duke Sun didn’t explain everything to him clearly, but he was not stupid and could hear the implications behind his father’s words.
It was just...
"You’re a duke, aren’t you, Father?" Leon asked. "Can’t you make your own decision?"
Duke Sun smiled. "I might be a duke, but I’m not the person who stood at the highest position. Leon, you have to understand that for me to stand in this position, there are people whom I can’t offend and had to listen to."
Everyone thought that he was free to do whatever he wanted, but Duke Sun knew very well that it was wrong.
He had many things that he couldn’t do.
Even if he wanted to, there were many restrictions given to him and Duke Sun could only follow through with it. He couldn’t show what he truly wanted on the surface or there would be people who would go and accused him for being disloyal and many other things.
Duke Sun couldn’t afford it.
For the people under him who depended their lives on him, Duke Sun had to consider them all and couldn’t do everything he wanted to do. He had to listen to these people’s words.
"You’ll understand if you’re in my position, Leon." Duke Sun shook his head. "And there’s nothing you can do to change it. We’ve been trapped in a high power game and had to make a choice for our survival."
Leon clenched his fist.
He knew what his father meant.
His father also wanted him to make a decision whether to follow the same route as his father or to make his own. After all, he would be separated from Duke Sun’s family after he become an adult and become a knight on his own.
He had decided that he would become a knight and become a noble on his own, getting married and could still inherit her title.
It was not bad at all.
Or he could decided to fight against the arrangement where he made enemies with the entire world.
At that time, it was estimated that no one would be helping him in the slightest bit.
Duke Sun saw his son’s conflicted expression and stepped forward. He patted Leon’s shoulder. "You don’t have to make your decision right away. Take your time because... this would not be the first time this will happen to you if you continue to stay in the nobility. But in the future, it wouldn’t be this severe."
Leon stood still as Duke Sun left.
He looked at the carpet in front of him with his fingers clenched to form a fist. But he knew very well that for those at the high position, there had never been any chance for them to truly enjoy the power and privilege in this position.
To keep their position and to protect the people under them, they would have no other choice but to do things they actually didn’t want to.
It was really...
Disgusting.
But this was the way for the nobles to live.
Even those at the bottom also knew that there were people they couldn’t afford to offend in the slightest bit and thus, they had to follow the arrangement that was made.
In the end, it all simply depended on their face and all.
That was how it was on the surface.
Now, Leon knew that there were many people who were powerful and that they were nothing in front of these powerful people. As long as they didn’t touch the interest of these people, nothing would happen to them.
But once they did, there would be no doubt that some people would start making a move against them and targeted them in various ways.
To the point that they could do nothing but surrender.
...
Today, there were several nobles who came to visit their children.
Their excuse was that their children would graduate soon and many of them couldn’t attend their graduation ceremony, so they wanted to congratulate their children in advance.
This kind of excuse was really lame.
The Headmaster knew that these nobles didn’t really care about the graduation whatsoever because if they couldn’t graduate, the nobles would go to him to smash money.
Many of the nobility were rich.
Those who were poor usually couldn’t even send their children to the Capital Academy to study.
So smashing some money for the students who have poor result was already the norm for them. Anyway, they were not lacking in money and to achieve what they wanted, it was an easy way.
Among these people, Marquess Brown also came.
Annelie Brown was confused when she heard that her mother had come to pay a visit to her.
When she heard the excuse given that she paid a visit now because she couldn’t come during the graduation ceremony, Annelie decided to see her mother. It was strange that her mother couldn’t come when her mother didn’t really have anything to do but to party and party again.
If it was her father who couldn’t come, Annelie wouldn’t be surprised because her father was indeed a very busy man as the marquis.
"Mother," Annelie called out when she saw her mother, who was fully dressed up as if she was going to the party.
Marquess Brown was sitting gracefully. She smiled brightly when she saw Annelie who came into the room. "You’re here, Annelie. Take a seat and drink the tea."
"Yes, Mother."
Even though Annelie was a bit suspicious of her mother’s intention when she came here this time, Annelie still decided to follow her mother’s words and sat down.
Marquess Brown didn’t immediately speak and continue to make tea in front of her. Her movements were vey standard and elegant, but if Annelie had to say, it was still worse than Aurora.
No one seemed to be better than her in terms of making tea.
"I heard that you’re in the tea ceremony club?" Marquess Brown suddenly asked.