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.

to ask yet dared not do so. "Don't you... Don't you hate me? I once did such a

beginning. Later, you merely strayed 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,

she had no idea what exactly she liked

were so intense that they had seemingly been

love for him made it so that no other men existed for her.

you and whom you love in return. I'm not all that 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 you as a friend

Bastien's lips curved into a faint

to possess her, yet she chose to let go of all grudges after having been through so much. Truly,

we really... still be friends?" Bastien ventured with

I think we re more suited to be friends." Pausing briefly, Natalie continued, "I also heard that the king of Loang commended your performance during the coup and issued an edict designating you as the crown prince. Congratulations. Thus, I hope you are worthy of the weight of the crown you wear and become a good king in the

Inclined his head a fraction in

I'll definitely do

In the past, tasting sweetness, bitterness, love, and