Excuse me, your highness

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"Do you hear it?"

"The marriage proposal coming for our youngest princess."

"It said to be promised but Grand Empress Dowager breached it and decided another marriage partner for her!"

"Heol! No way!"

"I heard the proposal comes from a foreign crown prince!"

"Wait, wait, I also heard the one Grand Empress Dowager chose as our youngest princess's partner is from uh... her faction?"

"Politic, I said! This marriage is politic!"

"I heard it is a son of a duke! You know the Northern Duke?"

"So he would be the heir to the title of Duke of the North? Hm.. this will be a hard decision."

"A foreign crown prince and the heir of duke of the north. Wow, novel worthy!"

"I root for the prince!"

"We don't even know who the prince is! What if he is evil to our princess?!"

"Ehh?? But if he was the promised partner, isn't that mean the royal family already approved of him?"

"Grand Empress Dowager decided to breach the promise might be a reason where she found out the prince is evil and she can't bear her granddaughter to be married off to that man!"

"Hm.. arguable but sure I'll take the reason."

"Are we really talking about the marriage partner of our youngest princess?"

"Obviously! We have been deprived of gossip!"

"Yes! It is our youngest princess! We should protect our treasure from malicious man!"

"Better to protect your life by not spouting blasphemy, girls. The royal guards might heard you guys."

The voice of an old woman froze the three young ladies. The three ladies who were busy gossiping about the newly circulated hot tea among the commoners and even nobles looked to the old woman who was looking at them with disappointment.

"Haha, grandma, we are just talking!"

"Yup! No harm done!"

The last young lady nodded along with her friends. The old woman looked unimpressed with the three young ladies.

"Come here and distribute these vegetables or you won't get paid for today!"

"Ah! Wait, wait!"

"We'll work!"

So the three young ladies stopped their gathering of hot tea about the youngest princess of the royal family and continued working.

Nevertheless, despite three mouths were shut down today, there would be many more that would continue to circulate the gossip about the royal family, especially because it was regarding the youngest princess - the guarded, full of secret, and protected princess.

The commoners used to see their crown prince (now emperor) due to his lovable and attentive nature to the citizens. The second prince with his mischievous soul that used to make the royal knights in search for him because he loves to sneak out and mingled with the citizens. Then, the first princess that was known to care for the unfortunate children and family, always seen with the previous empress.

However, the youngest princess was the only royal family member that they never seen up close. Only some brief information about her was known.

Then now, there is a huge rumour about a marriage proposal coming for the youngest princess after it was already announced that the youngest princess would be married in a few weeks! It was a shocking news to everyone in the empire!