At the time when Graywhite Territory began major development, the newly appointed Saintess Lilith Darin had just finished a charity event in the Royal Capital.
“Dear, why don’t you take a rest first?”
The fourth prince Klan Augustine looked at the exhausted Lilith with some concern.
“It’s alright, Your Highness. I can still hold on. As long as I’m by your side, an endless strength surges within me.”
Lilith’s pitiful appearance only made Klan feel more heartbroken. He then waved his hand decisively, “You don’t have to attend the next ball. Just rest well here. This is a command from the future king; you are not allowed to disobey!”
He then shouted to Lilith’s maids, “Let the Lady Saintess rest properly, got it?”
“But Your Highness, the next ball is hosted by the Duke of the Western Border. I feel that as a member of the future royal family, I must attend,” Lilith said, although tired, she didn’t want to miss the next ball, as it was actually being held for her by the Duke’s eldest son. Not attending might affect her favorability.
“I don’t care what you feel; I care about what I feel.”
After saying this, Klan Augustine struck a handsome pose and left without looking back.
Lilith’s maids watched the domineering prince leave with trepidation.
However, as the fourth prince disappeared from sight, the maids immediately relaxed. A few of them brought over beverages chilled with freezing magic to Lilith, who was casually crossing her legs.
Lilith took a big gulp, and her expression began to loosen as she fanned herself with her hand, trying to cool down.
“Damn it, having to maintain a composed voice all day is exhausting.”
“What a greasy future king, ugh.”
While enjoying the maids’ massages, Lilith complained, “If it weren’t for wanting to become the future queen, I wouldn’t bother with you.”
The maids quickly flattered her, “Exactly! A prince who hasn’t even ascended to power doesn’t deserve our Lady Saintess. Prince Klan should at least wait until he officially ascends before he speaks.”
Feeling the maids’ exquisite massage techniques and the expensive iced tea in her hands, Lilith’s thoughts drifted back to three years ago when she had just crossed over.
When she first crossed over, Lilith was very nervous, but also a bit excited, as she had really entered the otome game she played in her past life.
Although she hadn’t crossed as the female protagonist but as a minor noble, at least she was in the same academy as the male and female leads.
Moreover, she had crossed over before the male and female leads met.
When Lilith deliberately delayed the female protagonist and prevented her from meeting a male protagonist, she realized that the game’s plot could indeed be changed at will.
However, the more she changed, the more unexpected situations arose. After all, Lilith’s greatest advantage was her knowledge of the subsequent plot. If her butterfly effect led to a complete distortion of the plot, she would lose her advantage of knowing the future.
Thus, Lilith had a bold idea: to replace the female protagonist herself. This way, the original plot would not change, and she could perfectly leverage her advantages.
Things progressed very smoothly. Lilith successfully encountered various male protagonists one step ahead of the female protagonist Isha each time, and according to the choices in the game, she hilariously increased their favorability.
In the end, Lilith not only maxed out the favorability of all the male protagonists, including the fourth prince, achieving a reverse harem ending, but she also avoided the original female protagonist’s influence, sending her back home to do farming.
As for the final boss of the game, Lena Lars, Lilith whimsically married her off to a minor noble with the same name as her brother from her past life.
However, after reaching the ending, daily life was not as beautiful as Lilith had imagined.
The story did not play out like a fairy tale: the prince and princess living happily ever after.
As Klan’s fiancé, Lilith had to attend numerous balls and social events with him every day. Moreover, because of her identity as a saintess, she also had to participate in many decision-making meetings of the Church.
Meetings, meetings, meetings; the endless meetings and socializing shattered Lilith’s dreams of a beautiful life.
And to maintain her persona, Lilith had to speak in a higher pitch every day. Only when she was alone with her close maid could she reveal her true self.
Although the fourth prince Klan allowed Lilith to skip the next ball, looking at the schedule her maids handed her revealed that after the next ball, there would be a joint meeting with the Cape Kingdom and the Church.
There wasn’t even a mobile phone in this world, making it impossible to slack off during meetings. This made Lilith clutch her head in pain, but she quickly regained her composure.
“Get ready; the next meeting is about to start.”
Upon hearing this, the maids quickly sprang into action. The outfits for a princess consort attending various occasions and those for a saintess attending various meetings were intricate and fussy. Lilith felt like she wasted a significant amount of her time every day just on dressing.
Life in this otome world was even more painful than that of a corporate slave. She was already tired of the male protagonists’ smooth-talking faces; now she found them more greasy than the Church Master.
Thinking about this, Lilith couldn’t help but reminisce about the days in her past life when she wore a tank top and played games at home with her brother. Although they would sulk at each other daily, and her brother would always mock her saying that this way she would never marry out, life was tremendously relaxed. Moreover, when it came to fighting in the game, it was her brother who helped her clear levels.
Unfortunately, her brother later stepped up heroically.
Not long after, Lilith, dressed in a specially made saintess outfit, attended the joint meeting with the Cape Kingdom and the Church of the Light Goddess alongside the fourth prince Klan.
Lilith had never been particularly invested in such meetings, at most just paying attention to any information regarding the former female protagonist Isha.
Upon hearing that the former female protagonist had rebelled and had no possibility of returning, Lilith simply gave up.
After all, Lilith was not the protagonist; without the goddess’s favor, she also held little real power as a saintess, and most of the discussion points in the meeting were things she couldn’t understand.
The meeting had many participants, including Lilith’s fiancé, the fourth prince Klan, who was considered the kingdom’s hope. He sat next to the Old King, gazing affectionately at Lilith.
There was also the Old King’s eldest son, the Crown Prince Cliff, who was already middle-aged and starting to bald.
However, this Crown Prince, much like Lilith, was merely there to make up the numbers and was even more restless in his seat than Lilith.
Due to his cowardly and foolish nature, the Old King didn’t favor his eldest son. After Klan displayed astonishing talent and courage, Cliff had quickly lost his status as the crown prince.
However, the Crown Prince himself held no grievances and even felt a sense of relief. There was hardly any noble in the kingdom supporting the Crown Prince, making the change in succession quite smooth.
“Next, we will discuss some issues regarding the war in the Northern Border and the Demon Clan.”
The kingdom’s Prime Minister Caudic waved his hand, distributing various materials to everyone participating in the meeting.
The meeting was conducted in a roundtable format, a tradition passed down from the Cape Kingdom, representing that all parties involved in the meeting could engage in equal dialogue and negotiation.
“The war at the Northern Border has already lasted for five years. Continuing to fight will yield no conclusion and will instead drain the kingdom’s finances. As the kingdom’s Prime Minister, I advise our esteemed Majesty to cancel aid to the Northern Border and encourage a ceasefire between them and the Demon Clan. Both sides should sit down and have a good talk for the sake of peace and their people.”
After finishing, Caudic bowed to the king, Augustus III, signifying that this topic was officially on the agenda.
