Birthday Banquet (VIII): Are You Not Entertained?

[No matter how much you plan, children much like the future would never act or do the thing you expect the to.]

ANONE

Alex looked around, not exactly sure why everyone looked so shocked; was the idea hat there was someone who would be completely unwilling to marry the ninth princess that much of a bad thing, the world's doesn't revolve around her beauty and talent. Besides this was his own way to strike back at the Emperor, with his grandfather here the emperor couldn't do anything to him without valid reason and everyone here could see that the emperor news deriving pleasure from treating Alex like he was nothing more than a tool for his empire, unfortunately for him this tool had claws and teeth to scratch and bite back.