The Reason

Under Leslie's lead, Arthur arrived at a bright and clean room.

There were two people sitting inside. One was Felt IV, and the other was Opatra. The two of them were dressed in plain clothes. They sat in a corner with their heads lowered, like two strangers.

To be honest, when he saw him for the first time, Felt IV was completely different from what Arthur had imagined. He originally thought that a violent and extravagant king should be potbellied and silver-faced!

Unexpectedly, he actually looked like a strong man!

Hearing someone come in, Felt IV raised his head and looked at Arthur. In an instant, he understood who the person in front of him was. It was just that he was the same as Arthur. He did not expect that St. Martin's King was actually a handsome young man in his twenties.

For a moment, the two people looked at each other in the eyes.

Then, Felt IV's face revealed a trace of bitterness and he shifted his gaze away.

He turned his gaze and saw Marcus next to Arthur. His expression was somewhat complicated, but there was no hatred after being betrayed.

When Opatra saw Marcus, her eyes widened in excitement.

"Sister!" Marcus also ran forward excitedly and hugged her tightly.

After hearing Marcus' shout, Opatra raised her head, stood up, and hugged Marcus tightly!

She cried bitterly and said, "Brother, you are not dead. That's great, that's great."

Seeing this, Arthur did not disturb them. Instead, he waited quietly at the side. In any case, Felt Kingdom had already been taken down. There was no need for this bit of time!

The two of them were ecstatic after a long separation.

Marcus' expression suddenly changed. He pushed Opatra away and looked at her with a complicated expression. He said with a slight bitterness, "Sister, why?"

Opatra knew what Marcus was asking. After a long silence, she slowly said, "Listen to a story!"

Marcus was somewhat confused, but in the end, he still nodded.

"Things have to start from when I was seventeen." Opatra's voice trembled slightly, as if she was narrating something heart-wrenching!

It turned out that when Opatra was seventeen years old, she was already considered an outstanding beauty. For this reason, there was an endless stream of people who admired and asked for a marriage!

However, her parents, who were Marcus' parents, loved this daughter very much. They did not want their daughter to get married so early, so they rejected all the pursuers with the reason that their daughter was still young!

However, because the Opatra family could be considered a middle-class noble in Felt Kingdom, no one forced them.

But at this time, an accident happened. At a noble dinner party, the king himself, Felt IV, took a fancy to her!

Originally, with the king's power, the people of the Opatra family did not dare to refuse. However, the king did not reveal his identity. Instead, he asked his two followers to ask the her family for marriage as an ordinary person.

The Opatra family did not know the identity of a family member and thought that he was just an ordinary person. How could the they agree to this?

It had to be known that they had rejected even a quite a few of nobles, and a commoner like him still wanted to come and ask for a marriage?

In this way, the king who had been rejected flew into a rage out of humiliation. In a fit of rage, he sent people to snatch Opatra away and then killed all the of her family. Fortunately, she was taking the young Marcus out shopping and was not at home!

Thus, Marcus also survived.

As for why, why did Opatra know about this?

When she rushed home, she found a box that her mother had left behind!

Because her mother was born with a heart on the right side, those killers did not know that when she was still breathing, she wrote a dying message.

And it was stored in a stainless steel box!

In that letter, she told her who was reponsible for the incident. Only then did she know that the one they had rejected was the king himself!

After learning of this news, Opatra's heart went completely crazy!

After that, she hid it from Marcus and entered the palace with revenge in mind.

What was the best revenge against a king?

Of course, it was to destroy his kingdom!

Therefore, with her beautiful face, Opatra bewitched the king to corrupt the country. As a result, Felt Kingdom slowly became like this!

Originally, she had already arranged everything. When the kingdom completely declined, she would unite some great nobles in the kingdom to overturn the entire kingdom!

However, before that, she still wanted to meet Marcus and send someone to send him out of the kingdom, not letting him get involved.

Unexpectedly, before her matter began, St. Martin Kingdom had already called, so things wrapped up quicker!

"Sister…" After listening to Opatra's words, Marcus cried and hugged Opatra.

He did not expect the whole story to be like this. He also did not expect that the real cause of death of his parents who died in the fire was like this!

But he could imagine how much suffering a naive and innocent girl like Opatra experienced when she stepped to a place like the king's palace where people schemed against each other to climb through the ranks!

Arthur, who was listening to this drama, could not help but look at Felt IV.

There was no expression of grief or madness on Felt IV's face after being betrayed by his closest consort. Instead, there was a bitter expression!

"What a foolish drama!" This was Arthur's first thought, and then he noticed Felt IV's expression.

"Hmph.."

"There seems to be some other plot!" Arthur touched his chin, revealing a look of interest.

"Felt IV, I want to hear your story!" Arthur looked at Felt IV and said.

"My story?" Felt IV pointed at himself and replied in surprise.

"En, there seems to be more to it according to your expression. Can you tell me? You're going to die anyway!" Arthur revealed Felt IV's fate without any hesitation!

"Hehe, that's fine too!" Felt IV smiled bitterly and slowly began to tell a story that was similar to Opatra.

The story was similar to what Opatra told him. All the other things were that Felt IV had indeed taken a fancy to Opatra at the banquet, but at that time, Felt IV was a full twenty years older than Opatra!

Opatra's beautiful face and innocent character made him like her to the extreme. But at the same time, he did not want to destroy that innocence and just quietly admired her!

However, he was a ruthless king. Most of the people who could be by his side were those who liked to flatter him. Some of the honest ones had already been dismissed or killed by him!

And the two attendants who followed him at that time were such people!

The two attendants looked at the king's eyes and thought that he liked Opatra. In order to please him, they wanted to ask Opatra's hand in marriage. However, they did not dare to ask for a marriage in the name of the king. They were afraid that the king would kill them after the investigation!

Therefore, they disguised themselves as civilians. During that time, they revealed their intention to some of the Kerry family.

Unexpectedly, the people of the Kerry family rejected. Moreover, the two attendants had just followed Felt IV, so the Kerry family did not recognize them!

They really thought that it was a commoner who came to ask for a marriage, so they refused and even chased out the two attendants.

The two attendants thought that they were noble people who followed the king. They felt humiliated and flew into a fit of rage. In the end, they sent people to kill the Kerry Family and thought of snatching Opatra and send her to the king!

Anyway, considering the king's usual personality, he might even praise them!

"Only then did I pick up Opatra's story!"

After hearing Felt IV's story, Opatra was stunned. Did this mean that she had been taking revenge on the wrong person for so many years?

Arthur touched his chin thoughtfully and said, "So, you have always known why Opatra presented herself at your palace?"

"At first, I didn't know. So when I saw her, I sent someone to investigate!" Felt IV shook his head and said bitterly.

"Then are you pretending to be bewitched?" Arthur could not help but ask.

"Yeah!" Felt IV nodded gently.

"Then why…" Opatra couldn't help but want to ask him why, but she stopped halfway.

Felt IV revealed a bitter smile and said, "Half of it is because of guilt, and the other half is because... love you!"

This sentence stunned Opatra again, and tears could not help but flow down. They had lived together for so many years, how could it be possible to say that they had no feelings for each other?

Arthur couldn't help but sigh. Felt IV was really a person who loved beauties and didn't love his country!

"Wait…"

"I think I came to interrogate and punish Felt IV, right?" Arthur suddenly thought, "Why did I watch a family drama instead?"

At this time, Felt IV spoke again with a pleading tone, "I know. I will definitely die. Can you spare her life?"

Arthur was a little surprised. He did not expect Felt IV to even want to save Opatra's life before he died!

Seeing Arthur's expression, Felt IV thought that he wouldn't accept his request. He gritted his teeth and said:

"As long as you spare her, I will tell you about the treasures left behind by our Felt Kingdom's first king!"