Chapter 140

“What?”

“I said I don’t understand what you want me to do.”

Adrian was sick of it.

The old, long-accumulated emotions he had quietly buried alone began to seep out.

He hadn’t been born Crown Prince because he wanted to be.

Why should he dedicate his entire life to his birth and bear responsibility for it?

He detested being swept along by a fate decided before he was even born.

And yet, the reason he had lived without complaint until now was simply that he knew the affection and expectations his mother and father placed on him, and he didn’t want to disappoint them.

Because of that, he had finished even the grueling Crown Prince lessons without a word.

It was never because he felt burdened by carrying the nation and its future.

Adrian was an excellent candidate for Emperor, and even now he was an excellent Crown Prince.

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