Ania’s Nightmares

Hao Ren was not well-versed with the intrigue and infighting in the palace. He also knew quite a few real princes, nobles, emperors, and generals, but they all had a distinct style of doing things. Compared to the superstructure of the Taros Kingdom, the highly-unified ruling institutions were clearly more "approachable".

Hao Ren could deduce how complex the upper echelons of this old kingdom were from just a few scraps of information from Veronica and what he saw and heard at the banquet last night.

The atmosphere in the room was heavy. Even the obtuse Prince Andrew felt the atmosphere was not right and carefully stopped blowing bubbles in his tea. Veronica frowned, as though a flame was brewing in her eyes. "If it's true… This is absolutely shocking! Ania, have you told father?" asked Veronica.