Chapter 100

A noble, and even more so a noble met through romantic attraction — that kind of encounter rarely led to a happy ending.

Being taken responsibility for and brought into the family was, at best, how things turned out when they went well. Even scorned within the household, at least some minimal responsibility had been taken.

As for the bad outcomes... I didn't even want to bring them up. One thing was clear: it was almost always the commoner who ended up paying the price.

A noble lost nothing more than face. A commoner's whole life could be shaken, and more often than people liked to admit, even their life itself ended up on the scales.

So a line needed to be drawn. I didn't want to set a bad example for the younger kids at the orphanage who looked up to a dragon trainer — who looked up to…