Expectation (2)

Aurora listened to her mother's words and nodded slowly. 

This was only one of the few negotiations. The others related to the trades and so on and she would have to be familiar with them soon. 

"I'll tell you everything on the way and you better remember them," Duchess Isabella said and looked at her daughter coldly.

Aurora saw her mother's eyes and lowered her head. "Yes, Mother."

She had to remember it.

Because if she failed, her mother will punish her and never let her off. 

…

The journey took several days and during this period of time, Aurora felt her head was stuffed with so many things. Thankfully, she had trained herself to remember many things at once in her study.

If she didn't, she wouldn't be able to reach her parents' expectation of her. 

From the time when she was young, her life has been filled with study and study again.

When other children were allowed to play, Aurora was given books ever since she could remember and was taught many things. Slowly but surely, her life was filled with nothing but books, study, and learning.

No matter how tired she was, she had to finish her study or her parents would punish her. 

It was painful. 

So Aurora could only grit her teeth and followed the education set to her by her mother. 

"It's been a few days." Duchess Isabella looked at the bustling Capital City of Red Kingdom in front of her and nodded her head. It has been a while since she came here because the diplomatic matter in the past two years were handled by the Queen. 

Aurora heard Duchess Isabella's words and looked out of the window only to see a majestic city across the river. There was a large bridge that could allow one to cross this large river. 

It looked beautiful.

"Red Kingdom's Capital City is located right beside the river while Yellow Kingdom's Capital City is closer to the lake at the end of this river, so the distance between the two capital cities are not that far," Duchess Isabella said lightly.

If not because the two Capital City was not that far away, it would have been impossible for them to come here in just the matter of days. 

Even then, they still had to cross the forest, so it was by no means an easy journey.

At least, for normal people, it would not be that easy. 

"Yes, Mother," Aurora replied.

She had studied the geography and knew very well that it was precisely this river that caused a lot of dispute between the four kingdoms, including Yellow Kingdom and Red Kingdom. 

The water's real source was from the mountain of another kingdom, but that kingdom has always been neutral.

On the other hand, the end of this river was a lake that was then used to transport water to various small rivers by the four kingdoms. It was the real source of dispute because they were not allowed to take too much or the lake water would drop very quickly. 

Since the river first passed by the Red Kingdom, Red Kingdom always had dominance in the negotiation. 

This was why Yellow Kingdom was willing to get into an agreement with Red Kingdom through her mother. 

Now, their daughter was even arranged to get married with the crown prince. 

It was obvious that the Yellow Kingdom wanted to make their relationship with the Red Kingdom even stronger. 

"Mind your manner," Duchess Isabella said when they reached the bridge and after the knights communicated, they were now allowed to continue into the city.

"Yes, Mother."

Aurora looked outside at the street and saw the bustling atmosphere. There were many people who were walking around and aside from the dress of the people looked a bit different, there was not much difference with the situation in the Yellow Kingdom. 

After looking for a while, Aurora finally saw the castle and retracted her hand that was holding the curtain back. 

She knew she had to hold back now. 

"Madam, Miss, we've arrived."

The two of them came down of the carriage and then Aurora followed Duchess Isabella forward. Even though she wanted to look around in curiosity, Aurora also knew that such behavior was not appropriate.

She could only hold back. 

Before they could enter the castle, a middle aged man was already waiting there and laughed loudly. "It's been a while, Sister. It seems you're doing well in the Yellow Kingdom."