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.

wavered time and again, but ultimately, he couldn’t resist giving voice to the question he wanted to ask yet dared not do so. "Don't you... Don't you hate me?

I know is the man filled with righteousness and would stand up for others in the very 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

day, she had no idea what exactly she

with him. Her feelings for him were so intense that they

made it so that no other men existed for her. He

but in all honesty, I can't bring myself to hate you, perhaps because of the same blood flowing

into a faint arc that brimmed

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

friends?" Bastien ventured with

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 future, giving Loang's citizens a prosperous

Inclined his head a

definitely do

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