5 A Pre-wedding Lesson?
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Chapter 5
Sibyl’s POV
The whole palace was bustling with preparations for my wedding.
The queen purposely let the servants walk around the palace with gold, silver, and jewels, showing that my dowry was very generous. But I know that the only real property that belongs to me is some poor silks.
Ever since the death of the Queen's only child, she has been increasingly harsh of concubines' children. As my father's illness grew worse and worse, the queen became the authority of the royal family, becoming more tyrannical and insane.
Very few children of the royal family survived. Many children die at birth for a variety of reasons. They don't even have names, just a few words in the book about their deaths.
The Queen is the Prime Minister's daughter, with a noble lineage and enviable family. My father did not want to offend the queen and her father for the children of his concubines, so he never pursued the cause of their deaths.
We are his children, but our lives are not even as important to him as the leopard he keeps in his garden.
Over the years, almost all the children who survived in the palace were princesses. We were randomly placed in a room where we grew up and married different people as gifts based on how pretty our faces were.
My younger brother is the only prince left. My foster mother Meggie kept him hidden in a storage room, praying that he wouldn't get killed every day. He was five years old when the Queen found him. It was not easy to kill a 5-year-old prince in the palace, so the Queen never found a chance.
And it happened that our father started getting sick that year. At last, with a touch of compassion, he admitted publicly that my brother was the crown prince.
The Queen did not speak. She can kill a newborn prince, but cannot kill a crown prince.
She looked coldly at Meggie, my brother Doyle, and me.
A month later, Meggie was dead.
Another reason for Doyle to be spared is that he was too weak. On our continent, men are proud of their strong bodies. We are surrounded by powerful enemies, and only a man as tall and powerful as Nuri Rodriguez can be considered a hero.
Oh, my poor brother Doyle, he's so weak. How does he survive in this world? Who will take care of him when I'm Married?
I really wanted to get married and leave the palace with him, but I knew it was impossible and Nuri Rodriguez would be angry.
Looking at my shabby dowry, I sighed and asked the Queen if I could take some books from the Royal Library?
The queen nodded impatiently. The books of the royal library were nothing to her but papers, and she was not going to argue with me about them.
I thanked her happily, and before the sun went down, I came to the 10-story library, which had a collection of almost all the books.
This library is heaven to me. During my long lonely and painful days, I always like to stay in the corner of the library, buried in a book.
The high walls of the palace cut the sky above me into a small square, but the world in the book was vast. I learned a lot of interesting things from the book. I know that our country is in the middle of the continent and that the countries bordering us are Dragon Pack, Werebear Country, Werebird Country, and so on. I also know that a group of witches live in a place far away, surrounded by flowers. They have the power of curses and prophecies. They are very mysterious, and never involved in the war between countries. All the nobles wanted to marry a witch, but they seldom married.
Ah, the outside world is really wonderful. There is not a moment that I don't want to leave this palace to explore the unknown.
As I walked down the aisle in the middle of the bookshelves, carefully selecting books, a warm man's voice sounded across the shelf. “You haven't been here for days.”
“I'm a little busy these days,” I replied.
“Nuri Rodriguez is back with a victory.”
“I know.”
“A knight who hates royalty. Now the Emperor was seriously ill, the only prince was only 10 years old and weak, and he became a hero... ... We used to talk about history together. Don't you think it's a lot like one thing in history?”
Across the rows of shelves, I could see his slender hands turning books.
“Yes, there was a royal family in history that died at the hands of a famous knight. When a knight becomes a hero and the royal family does not have a powerful emperor or prince, the royal family is in danger. After all, the highest power can only belong to one person.”
He closed the book in his hand and thought. “There is still a difference. The Knight in history did not marry a princess but now Nuri Rodriguez is going to marry one. If the princess is smart enough, she may prevent this kind of tragedy from repeating itself.”
I was silent.
He's right, but I don't think I can change Nuri Rodriguez.
“For so many years, we've been chatting with each other across the bookshelves and thick books. I don't know who you are, and you don't know who I am.” His voice was still so gentle.
“When you find out who I am, we may not be friends at the library anymore.” I chuckled. “I'm going to say goodbye to you today. I Won't be able to come here to read and talk to you as much.”
“I've been wondering for days if you're Princess Sibyl.”
I was silent again.
I've spent a lot of time in the library since my adoptive mother Meggie died five years ago. I met this man in the library. We read books together, we talk together, but we never discuss our private lives or see each other's faces.
Bookshelves and books give us privacy and security.
Today, however, he guesses who I am.
I don't want to know who he is. The men who have access to the royal library are not ordinary people.
I hurried out of the library with the book I had chosen.
“Sorry for my words——” his voice disappeared into the library.
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When I returned to my room, two of the Queen's servants were already waiting for me.
They were as proud as ever and displeased with my lateness.
“Your Highness, Your Wedding is tomorrow. Her Majesty has sent us to give you a pre-wedding lesson.”
A pre-wedding lesson?
Although I didn't understand what it was, I still obediently lay on the bed and let them unbutton my clothes.
“Your Highness, you can't wear this kind of underwear anymore. Men like big breasts, and if you want to please Sir Nuri Rodriguez, you have to take care of Your breasts.”
To please Nuri Rodriguez?
What does that have to do with the size of my breasts?
Their big hands kept rubbing my breasts. I felt some pain, but I could only grit my teeth.
“After the massage, your breasts will get bigger.”
I wasn't sure if my breasts were getting bigger, but after their massage, my breasts started to tingle a little. I slipped my hand over my chest and a strange feeling came over me.
I've never felt this way before.
The next step is to take a bath and wash your hair. They put a nice perfume on me. My whole body, from my hair to my toes, was carefully tended.
It makes me feel like I'm even more of a gift.
Finally, they handed me a book and said, somewhat uncomfortably, “This is what you need to do on your wedding night.”
What do I need to do on my wedding night?
I opened the book doubtfully, and after a few seconds, I closed it with a blushing face.
I gasped. Shame took over my mind.
Why? Why do men and women take off their clothes and lie on the bed in that strange position?
I used to think the difference between men and women was boobs and Adam's apple. But why are men different from women in that mysterious place?
And why do men put that strange thing inside women on their wedding night...
Oh...
“Your Highness, you must learn it, or you will offend knight Nuri Rodriguez on your Wedding Night.” A servant opened the book in front of me again.
“On your wedding night, you need to get naked and lie in bed waiting for your husband to have s.ex with you.”
She pauses when she says the word “S.ex”.
What's S.ex? These weird positions in the book are S.ex?
“Your bed will be covered with a piece of white silk. When you make love, your blood will drip on it. This is the blood of a woman's virginity, and this blood will prove the validity of your marriage.”
Why will I Bleed?
Another servant continued, “You may feel pain on your wedding night, but you must endure it. You must obey your husband. After a few nights, you won't feel any pain.”
Is the wedding night so terrible? I'm not only in pain but also bleeding?
What the hell is Nuri Rodriguez gonna do to me?
I'm even more terrified of him and tomorrow's wedding.
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