Chapter 135

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After that incident, Adrian desperately avoided Gabriel.

Because he had concluded that it was better not to get involved with her.

But Gabriel repeatedly used her family’s name and her friendship with the Empress to come see Adrian.

Yet Adrian pretended not to see her and shut himself away in the stables.

A year passed like that. When Adrian was ten and Gabriel seven, Gabriel was still the same.

“Your Highness. Yo~ur Highness!”

“Move.”

“Even if you pretend to be cold, I know your heart, Your Highness! You’re shy again today, fu fu.”

Adrian turned his gaze away from Gabriel with a look of disgust and tended to his beloved horse.

It was a horse he had barely managed to bring in after overcoming the Emperor and Empress’s opposition.

‘What should I name it.’

He wanted to give it a wonderful name, and it was a horse…