Question?
Adela quickly shook her head.
She didn’t even manage to listen to most of the words Aurora said, how could she possibly ask any question now?
"I... I’m going back first. It’s already late and I have to rest."
After casually throwing an excuse, Adela rushed back and Aurora didn’t pester Adela. There was a faint coldness within her eyes that was quickly suppressed back.
Even if she knew that the person in front of her is not her sister, what could she do? Exposing it without any direct evidence will only make others feel that she was jealous of her sister and thus didn’t treat her well.
But keeping it like this and maintain the status quo... it was hard for Aurora to truly see the current Adela as her sister.
The appearance was the same, but the personality was inconsistent.
’Let’s not think about this.’
Aurora looked at the stack of books not far from her. Soon, it would be time for her to go to the academy.
The academy here is the special academy for noble children. From age 12 to 18, they could study in the academy.
Though, not everyone would last until the very end.
Many girls from the lower nobility would be married away by their family members once they reached 16, the legal age for marriage. Of course, before that, they would definitely have their debut first.
Some men would also return to their territory without finishing their study if they were already asked to manage it.
It was not a compulsory education.
But for those who had higher nobility title, they would rather let their children continue to stay in the academy until graduation more than anything else. This was because this concern their face.
They didn’t want to lose face by not finishing their study in the academy.
And it was not like they have anything else to do if they were asked to go back earlier. Those with high enough nobility would definitely want their descendant, especially future successor, to finish their study.
Aurora is the future crown princess.
With this position alone, Aurora knew that her parents would make her stay in the academy until the term was finished.
Besides...
Aurora glanced at the window.
There were a lot of knights guarding the entire mansion. When she went out, there would also be a lot of knights coming to ’protect’ her. Escaping from this place was simply an impossible dream.
Even if she started practicing swordsmanship, she would never be able to contend against these powerful knights.
Aurora took a deep breath.
She’s a noble daughter.
It was her duty to follow the arrangement...
No matter how much she didn’t want it deep in her heart, she would never be able to show it on the surface.
...
The next day, Aurora didn’t continue her study yet because she had some works after the negotiation was done.
The servants who heard about Aurora’s work were truly amazed. They didn’t expect that such a young miss would be able to do the work that many adults couldn’t do. But seeing how tired Aurora were, her maidservants were a bit worried.
"Miss, how about if you take a break?" Les asked.
As the maid who have followed Aurora for a long time and also helped Aurora in various matters, Les was genuinely worried for Aurora.
She had seen for herself how Aurora worked for the past year, finding information and also gathering people for the diplomatic mission. Because of that, Aurora could barely rest enough and even had to eat at the fastest speed possible while maintaining her etiquette.
It was definitely very tiring.
"Take a break?" Aurora repeated and looked outside the mansion. She tilted her head and then said, "I guess it’s time for me to go to the training grounds."
"Miss..." Les felt rather helpless.
Her Miss was definitely a workaholic who only knew how to work without doing anything else. The problem was, Aurora was still very young and this made Les worry for Aurora’s body.
Ever since Aurora started learning swordsmanship, her body had gotten somewhat better.
But it was still not an excuse for her to abuse herself like this.
Les sighed deeply and helped Aurora to change her clothes before Aurora made her way to the training grounds.
Aurora had no plan to train her body today.
She was too lazy to do something like that.
What she wanted to do was to look around and find the person she wanted to see. Along the way, the servants were whispering to each other but when they saw Aurora, they put down what they were doing and bowed respectfully.
"Did you hear about what Miss Aurora did?"
"Yes, it’s really amazing."
"Some people outside said that it’s because of Duchess Isabella that Miss Aurora could do this, but they didn’t know that Duchess Isabella almost never pay attention to Miss."
"Yes, I tried to talk with them, but they’re skeptical."
"Tsk, if they know how hardworking our Miss is, they’ll know that this is not a rumor but the truth."
The result of the negotiation was said to be something that belonged to Duchess Isabella and Aurora. Some people tried to explain that it was Aurora’s alone.
But they didn’t believe it.
After all, it was not so easy to believe this.
Duchess Isabella was still present in the negotiation room at that time, making people think that she should have helped Aurora.
The truth?
Naturally no.
Duchess Isabella had no time to waste with her daughter because she was too busy coming to various parties.
Along the way, Aurora could hear this conversation, but she was not in a hurry to refute the rumors. It would be useless to clarify and when it was time for her to do the negotiation on her own in the future, they would definitely know that Aurora did it by herself.
Aurora’s eyes flashed with a faint glint as she bypassed these servants.