Chapter 77: The Princess Hero’s Troubles
And so, Lonis was officially appointed as the “Princess Hero.”
This was not merely an honorary title. In fact, Lonis was now considered an aristocrat of the Kingdom Ming, not only possessing the ability to freely enter and exit any area of the kingdom but also being granted a district in the Royal Capital as her territory, with her name even recorded in the annals of history.
Such a status was already incredibly noble.
However, Lonis had not been comfortable these past few days.
Because…
She was simply too popular!
…
Elus and Candelle had gone to deal with the remnants of the Demon Race and were not by Lonis’s side.
The Kingdom Ming was just recovering from war, with everything needing to be rebuilt. Although Lonis no longer had to perform the duties of a princess, there were still many things that required her attention.
For example, the plants that pierced the earth had many unstable forms, requiring Lonis to run around and neutralize them with energy.
For example, some stones that looked very much like Yixiu Fragments could not have their true danger confirmed, so Lonis needed to use the Crystal Staff to identify them.
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These tasks involved going here and there, and the beautiful figure of the silver-haired girl naturally drew everyone’s attention.
“Look quickly, that’s the legendary Princess Hero. So beautiful!”
“It’s true. She looks very much like Princess Cécile too. If you don’t observe closely, you can barely tell the difference.”
“Is that tail real? It looks so soft~~~~~”
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(Why is everyone praising my beauty? Shouldn’t they be praising my bravery?)
Being watched by so many people, Lonis didn’t know where to look… and this feeling of embarrassment was even more intense than when she was a sickly maid at C. Academy.
Because back then? She had been forced by Elus, and becoming a little maid was unavoidable.
But now?
It was the result of her own thoughts and actions.
In other words, Lonis had fully displayed her abilities and gained the recognition of the people. No matter how “heroic” and “valiant” she appeared from now on, it would not change people’s impression of her.
(Wuwu… This way, I’m practically like a teen idol! Damn it, Elus must have predicted all of this and had Cécile appoint me as the Princess Hero!)
…
The silver-haired girl sighed. Although the enthusiasm of the people made her awkward, it wasn’t exactly unbearable.
What made her even more flustered was…
Her mailbox in the Kingdom Ming was stuffed full of love letters!!!!
Not only were there from men, but also from women and children.
There was of course Cécile’s influence: Cécile was very popular in the Kingdom Ming, and people had always loved this kind and mature girl… But precisely because she was the princess, people dared not write her love letters or harbor any strange thoughts about her.
And Lonis’s appearance?
It completely fulfilled those fantasies… She had the princess’s beauty and temperament, could perform the princess’s duties, yet was not the princess herself, making her marriageable as a wife.
Imagine having such a pure, cute, handsome, and capable silver-haired beautiful girl, who wouldn’t be moved?
If Lonis were a man, even she would have been moved.
…
Therefore, Lonis received nearly a hundred letters in one day!
Perhaps this was an excellent opportunity to start a harem… but how could Lonis dare to start a harem while Elus was busy?
Elus was already busy, and if she knew Lonis was flirting around and seducing girls, Lonis might not see the sun tomorrow.
…
…
So Lonis could only honestly reject these love letters.
It was fine for the men; a reply stating she had no intention of falling in love for now would suffice. However, when it came to replying to the girls, Lonis needed to be extremely careful.
After all, it was already a remarkable thing for a girl to actively write her a love letter.
And Lonis was also a very “gentle” man. Her inner philanthropy made her not want any girl to be hurt.
Therefore, the wording and the reasons for rejection needed to be very clever.
…
“Hmm… Should I say that I won’t be staying in the Kingdom Ming for too long, or that I already have someone I like? But about having someone I like… won’t that create strange rumors?”
In fact, Lonis’s worries were valid.
Because these letters not only contained love letters but also greeting cards wishing her and Princess Cécile well!
The sender seemed to have mistaken her for Princess Cécile’s lover… In reality, such a misunderstanding was quite normal.
After all, on the day of the ceremony, Princess Cécile and she had acted very intimately, showing no distance at all.
However, looking at these greeting cards, Lonis had no intention of explaining.
Because she knew…
Princess Cécile needed her to cover for her.
And this cover was not only for the princess’s identity but also for Ling Li’s identity.
After receiving the treatment from the fruit, the blue-haired girl’s condition had also improved significantly… Although she had not yet woken up, the black spots on her body had begun to fade.
And Lonis certainly had not forgotten that Ling Li was Princess Cécile’s brother, the son of Ruo Hui Gong, and that their relationship was very close.
If she were to exist, the attention from the outside world on Ling Li would be much smaller—after all, both the Demon Race bloodline and the incestuous relationship between siblings were not something that could be announced to the public.
So…
“Hmm, I’ll write it a bit vaguely. I’ll describe Cécile as an older sister who has helped me a lot~~~”
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Lonis wrote it like that, but she didn’t expect…
After reading the reply, the sender revealed a rather cunning expression.
“Oh? The reply is so ambiguous, it seems like she’s avoiding the important issues and implicitly admitting a relationship with Princess Cécile?”
The pink-haired girl sat at her desk, spinning her pen quite cunningly… That’s right, the greeting card with the peculiar angle was sent by Mi Xue Zhou.
Because she knew many young ladies of the nobility in the Kingdom Ming, Mi Xue Zhou had used the name of one of them. And Lonis, being unfamiliar, naively didn’t realize it.
“Haha, Lonis junior and Elus junior have been quite tired lately, right? They need something to spice things up, so I’ll make some modifications to this letter and send it to Elus~”
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And so, Lonis’s letter, after being embellished, was delivered into Elus’s hands.
