Villain Princess.
Chapter 124: Meaning of Vassal

Chapter 124: Meaning of Vassal

Les worked quickly and William also helped to carry Aurora’s belonging to the carriage.

Honestly, William really wanted to ask Aurora to help him investigate this matter. Yet at the same time William also knew that Aurora had a more important matter to do.

This made him rather conflicted.

On one side, it was his duty and also responsibly.

But on the other side, it was his heart that was full of anger and sadness.

The location of the White Family Residence was not far from the academy, so Aurora arrived very quickly.

Duke White was already waiting for her.

"Aurora," Duke White called his daughter. When he received the news, he was also surprised. After all, he knew very well that Mr. Wren has been helping Aurora to finish some work that she was inconvenient to touch with her status.

Besides, some people would feel that negotiating with an adult man like Mr. Wren was more reassuring than a half grown child like Aurora.

"Father, can you tell me what happened?" Aurora asked.

Duke White shrugged. "Some people are not satisfied with your negotiation with the Sun Dukedom."

Aurora’s eyes narrowed.

The only reason why Mr. Wren would be in Duke Sun’s territory should be for the negotiations with Duke Sun.

With the relationship between Duke White and Duke Sun, it was indeed impossible for Duke White to be the one to manage this matter. When the two people met, it would be good enough if they didn’t end up pointing their sword to each other’s throat.

"Where’s Mr. Wren’s body?" Aurora asked.

"It’s still in Duke Sun’s territory," Duke White replied with a frown, clearly dissatisfied with Aurora’s question. "They brought his body to the nearby city."

"Why did the negotiation is not in the Capital City?" Aurora asked another question when she saw her father’s displeasure.

As much as she wanted to know more about Mr. Wren’s condition and how he died, she knew that it would be useless to ask this to her father. Duke White would not care about this matter in the slightest bit.

In fact, he might not know anything about it either.

"Duke Sun is busy and refused to finish the negotiation in the Capital City. He has other things to do," Duke White replied.

Aurora frowned.

While there were indeed some matters that might be more convenient for Duke Sun to do by himself, but did he not want to finish the negotiation?

It has been signed by the two parties.

If Duke Sun were to back away now, he would have to pay a lot of fee for the damage he had caused.

This was based on the agreement with Duke Sun and the other noble.

Aurora took a deep breath. "Father, I’m going to Duke Sun’s territory."

"Alright," Duke White agreed candidly.

He was not worried for Aurora in the slightest bit. Besides, Aurora was very capable and Duke White felt that there was no point in worrying about her in the slightest bit.

As long as the negotiation could be finished, the White Family would be able to earn a lot of money.

It was good.

Aurora saw her father’s attitude and knew that he would not stop her. He only cared about the result and not the process.

It was indeed as expected.

"Before you go, do you remember what your mother told you before?" Duke White suddenly stopped Aurora.

What her mother said?

Aurora thought of the time before her return to the academy that her mother wished for her to be able to participate in the trades again. Even though there would be no water negotiation and so on, but there would still be other trades that happened with the other nobles.

If necessary, it was not impossible for Aurora to be the third party who benefit from other people’s trade.

Back then, Aurora couldn’t refuse.

Even now, she knew that if her father gave her the order, she couldn’t possibly refuse and had to follow it.

It was just...

"Father, do you want me to continue with the trade arrangement instead of returning?" Aurora asked, her tone was somewhat cold.

She felt that this was not the time for her to think about this, but her father felt that this was the best result.

It was also because of this that Aurora’s tone was much colder when she faced her father.

Aurora had always known that people of the nobility were cold. They treated themselves as superiors and those below them were worth nothing more than tools around them. They have no value whatsoever aside from being used by the nobility.

While she couldn’t really refute it that much.

Everyone was indeed born at similar condition but it was their family background that made them different.

But it was not the basis for them not to care in the slightest bit.

Especially since Mr. Wren was going on Duke White’s order.

Now, her father was instead thinking about this matter that had nothing to do with this incident.

For a moment, Aurora couldn’t control her emotions.

"Yes," Duke White replied frankly. "I heard from Adela that you didn’t have much classes to attend and if there’s enough time, it’s better for you to spend it doing other things more important."

Other things more important...

In the past, Aurora’s role was to study and study again.

It was to the point that Aurora wanted to vomit blood. But she had to adapt in order to survive and at some point of time, managed to ’enjoy’ the process of studying. It had become some kind of her second nature to a certain degree.

But...

It didn’t mean that she was not tired.

There were also times when she just wanted to do nothing and simply lie down.

Now, her father was simply asking her to continue working instead of studying and didn’t give her any chance to rest at all.

This made Aurora wonder sometimes whether she’s her father’s daughter or not.