Chapter 550 Marry me
The princess gave a happy nod when she heard this before saying, "It's a very simple matter that I need your help with. All you have to do is say yes or no to the question I'm about to ask."
I was very surprised to hear this and I couldn't help looking at the princess with a strange look.
But in the end, I gave a slow nod to show that I understood.
After seeing this nod, the princess said, "I want you to marry me. Do you accept this?"
"Huh?" That was the only thing that I could say when I heard this.
I looked at the princess with a very strange look after I slowly came back to my senses.
This princess was completely different from before…she was no longer so shy that she wouldn't even look at me anymore. Instead, she was directly asking me if I wanted to marry her.
But I also couldn't help looking at Rose with a cautious look.
Someone was proposing to me right in front of her, who was my wife. It would be strange if I didn't end up in the dog house tonight because of this.
However, to my surprise, I found that Rose didn't have an angry look on her face.
She just had a calm look that almost seemed like there was a faint smile on her face.
It seemed like she was accepting this instead of being against it.
But why?
Seeing that I was still stunned and not saying anything, the princess couldn't help saying, "Well, how about it? Will you marry me?"
I slowly came back to my senses and asked, "Your highness, why are you asking this of me? I just don't understand."
The princess said with a smile, "Well, you're the one that I've chosen and my royal father agrees to this. So there's nothing else that needs to be said…Well, other than you agreeing to it."
I was still very confused, but there was something shocking that had been said by the princess that caught me off guard again.
She said that the king already agreed to this…
Why would the king agree to this?
There shouldn't be anything to gain from this…unless there was something that I didn't know about.
I looked at her with narrowed eyes and then asked, "You're saying that the king agreed to this? Why?"
For the first time, the princess revealed an awkward look.
It seemed like I had struck at the heart of the matter, there seemed to be something that she was hiding from me.
After an awkward silence, the princess suddenly said, "There have been aggressive marriage offers from the surrounding countries for me. It's hard for my royal father to keep rejecting them, so he wants to set another engagement for me during this time."
As expected, there really was another reason for all of this.
They wanted to turn me into a scapegoat to help them solve this problem.
But there was something that also bugged me.
Why would the surrounding countries suddenly send all of these aggressive offers of marriage?
If they wanted to do this, why would they wait until now to do it?
So I asked, "Why are they suddenly sending all of these offers now?"
The princess revealed an awkward look at first, as if she didn't want to tell me. But in the end, she said with a sigh, "It's because of the ore trade with the Dwarven Kingdom. They want to build relations with our country to get a piece of it."
My chin dropped the moment that I heard this, but that expression on my face eventually turned into a bitter smile.
That was because…I was related to this in the end.
It wasn't that they were turning me into a scapegoat, they were combining our problems together.
After all, there was no doubt that the surrounding countries would also come looking for me on this matter since I was the one that initiated the trade with the Dwarven Kingdom.
By tying me with the princess now, it would be like saying that they stood with me and that if they wanted ores through us, they would have to go through the kingdom.
This was indirectly a way to protect me as well.
But I couldn't just use a young girl's future in exchange for this.
Making the princess marry me…it didn't sound like a good thing.
So I looked at the princess who was just waiting for me to say something and I said, "Your highness, I understand the predicament that this puts you in, but…"
Before I could finish, Rose suddenly said, "Before you say anything, let's talk in private."
I looked at her with a surprised look, but seeing the look that she was giving me, I slowly gave a nod.
We excused ourselves from that room and went to a different room.
Once we came into this room, Rose turned to me and said, "Why are you rejecting the princess?"
I was caught off guard by her suddenly asking me this, but I still said, "It's just a marriage of convenience, I don't feel like there's a need for this."
Rose shook her head and said with a sigh, "Do you really think that it's like this? I can tell you that it's not, so is there any other reason that you can't accept this?"
I was even more surprised when I heard this.
She was my wife and now she was asking me why I wouldn't marry another woman…
This was a very strange feeling for me, so I couldn't help asking, "Why do you want me to marry her? Isn't it good if I say no?"
Rose just said with a smile, "I already told you that I don't mind you having multiple wives. In fact, it just means that there are more women who recognize how excellent my husband is."
A very strange look appeared on my face when I heard this.
I really couldn't understand what she was thinking when she said this and I don't think that I would ever understand.
But Rose just said all of this with a smile on her face like it was something natural.
She then asked me, "What else is wrong?"
I gave a sigh and slowly said, "This is nothing more than a marriage of convenience without any feelings. A good marriage requires both sides to have feelings for each other or else it will end up with one side leaving the other. I don't want to force her into this kind of marriage."
Rose gave a nod before saying, "That's very easy to solve."
A surprised and confused look appeared on my face when I heard her say this. Slowly, I asked, "How are you going to solve this?"
Rose revealed a smile as she said, "It's plain and simple, we just have to ask her how she feels about this." Then without waiting for a response from me, she grabbed my hand again and left this room.
In no time at all, we appeared back in the room that the princess was waiting in.
After coming in, Rose looked at the princess and asked, "How do you feel about my husband?"
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