A Cue for Love (Natalie and Samuel)

Chapter 1232

Natalie studied Bastien closely.

Sure enough, he's the one who resembles Mikhail most among the latter's many sons. His first instinctive reaction seems... exactly the same as his father's.

Smiling, she shook her head. "Twenty years ago, I've never enjoyed the glory and prestige brought by the royal family. After more than twenty years have passed now, I similarly don't need all that now. I've got no interest in being a princess or a queen in the future. Don’t you think it's better to maintain the status quo?"

Verily, those words of hers were far too casual and nonchalant.

Although Loang wasn't a huge country with vast territories, the fight for the position of the monarch was often accompanied by siblings killing each other throughout the ages. At the end of the day, no one with a stake really had zero desire for power.

Bastien was silent for a very long time.

Haha. the things I'd once cared about turned out to be wholly worthless in her eyes.

giving voice to the question he wanted to ask yet dared not do so. "Don't you... Don't you hate

from the path and misunderstood the meaning of love. True love has never been about possession regardless of the cost." Staring right into his eyes, Natalie enunciated, "Even without the blood ties between us, I still wouldn't have loved you. It isn't because

no idea what

him. Her feelings for him were so intense that they had seemingly been engraved into the marrow of her bones and

it so that no other men existed for her. He was the one and only person in her eyes and

magnanimous, but in all honesty, I can't bring myself to hate you, perhaps because of the same blood flowing through our veins. Or maybe it's because I truly regarded

lips curved into a

wanted to possess her, yet she chose to let go of all

friends?" Bastien ventured with

during the coup and issued an edict designating you

Inclined his head a

definitely do

the past, tasting sweetness, bitterness, love, and hatred. But right then, all that