Chapter 86

Having overheard a shocking word outside the medicine room and fled the scene, Jayden went straight back to his room.

Bang!

The moment he shut the door, he lunged for the bookshelf — the picture books he never so much as glanced at otherwise.

"Marriage, marriage, marriage...!"

He rifled through the shelf for a long while, pulling out every picture book that so much as mentioned marriage, and started reading.

The prince and princess married and lived happily ever after. They wed, and lived long, long...

"Aaargh! Not this!"

Jayden flung the book to the floor.

Every single fairy tale ended the same way — they married, and then they left.

Why did marriage always mean the two of them running off together? What happened to everyone left behind? And — most importantly — how did you stop a wedding from happening?!

Not one single book had the information he…