“Millian, do you know that the fact that etiquette is not the only thing you have to study is making me more worried?”
“Uh, Teacher…”
Millian, who had been babbling away, finally dropped her shoulders and raised the white flag. She meekly took the test from Liv and checked off the wrong questions with a sullen face.
What Millian was learning was social etiquette. Although it was a bit old-fashioned for young ladies to learn these days, it was something that Liv, who had discussed the course with Baroness Vendons beforehand, could not exclude. It was also a lesson Millian had to learn for her to participate in the aristocratic society in the future.
“Honestly, this stuff only worked in the old days.”
Millian pouted and grumbled as she flipped through the test papers.
“It’s not to that extent yet.”
Even Liv wasn’t entirely sure about that. It was natural because she didn’t engage in the aristocratic society.
However, what she was teaching now was something she had learned when she was a student at Clemence Boarding School, something that all of her aristocratic peers were also required to learn. Thus, Millian surely needed to have the minimum knowledge of it.
“I’m sure everything will change by the time I’m entering the society.”
“I understand your wishes, but the aristocratic society is more conservative than you think.”
Millian pouted her lips in complete disagreement. However, she reluctantly opened the textbook as if she could not turn a blind eye to it all along.
“By the way, Teacher. Did people really get engaged at birth in the old days?”
Unfortunately, Millian’s concentration couldn’t hold out for more than three minutes. With her hands propping her chin like a flower, Millian stared at Liv with gleaming eyes.
“Where else did you read that?”
“In a book I read yesterday, the female protagonist was engaged to a man she didn’t even know at birth!”
“Aha, so it’s a new romance novel.”
No wonder she didn’t do the review. She must have been busy reading a novel. No matter how much she hated studying, she didn’t usually neglect her study to this extent.
Liv could guess how late Millian must have fallen asleep last night without having to listen. She probably stayed up all night.
“But on her coming of age, she met the love of her life and broke off her engagement despite her family’s disapproval!”
“What an adventurous and reckless protagonist.”
The protagonist even broke the engagement against the opposition of the family.
It seemed the novel she read this time had made her reluctant with the old-fashioned nature of the aristocratic society. Liv finally realized where Millian’s uncooperative class attitude was coming from.
Millian was an avid reader who immersed herself in novels, and the depth of that immersion usually depended on how entertaining the novel was.
Millian’s reaction indicated that she was deeply engrossed in the novel she read yesterday.
Sure enough, Millian, putting her hands to her chest as if she had become the protagonist of the novel, screamed in an exaggerated tone.
“But it turns out the male protagonist was the king’s illegitimate son!”
“Oh, that’s surprising.”
Despite Liv’s dry reply, Millian’s emotions reached a fever pitch. Clenching both her fists, Millian put her arms up in the air.
“So a crisis struck the two of them, and they got over it with love!”
“I see, it’s a great novel.”
Novels are novels. Liv nodded, thinking indifferently.
She was surely from a family with a long history for her to get engaged at birth, so it was unrealistic to overturn it. And out of all possibility, she had an affair with the king’s illegitimate son. It was absurd that they overcame the situation with love. A king’s illegitimate son would most likely end up on the guillotine.
As expected of a fiction book, it was definitely focused on romantic love with a lot of realism removed.
Unaware of what Liv was thinking, Millian’s eyes lit up again as she was unable to shake off the afterglow of the novel.
“So, Teacher, did people really get engaged as soon as they were born in the old days?”
“Some people out there still do that.”
“Eek, you’re lying!”
Millian, who became a devotee of romantic and adventurous love, shivered with disgust.
“How can they get engaged to someone they don’t even know?”
“It’s a union between families of long history. I’m sure that you said you knew about partnership between families before.”
“That’s just a partnership! Engagement with someone you don’t even love?! What kind of partnership is that!”
“Because there’s no alliance as secure as marriage.”
Millian, looking resentfully at Liv who relentlessly shattered her romantic fantasies, said in a gruff voice.
“But it will be different now. I heard that the Malte family and the Sighild family also broke up their marriage.”
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