Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 541 The Queen’s Plan

In the end, Perfecto and Princess Anne did not reach any consensus, and the two sides even parted ways unhappily.

Some witnesses said that Princess Anne looked very unhappy when she left the Northern Lord's Mansion, and she almost fell down on the steps outside the manor.

Although a royal attendant quickly came out to refute the rumor, saying that Her Royal Highness had merely stumbled and did not nearly fall, a photo of the princess nearly falling published in the newspaper quickly pushed the incident to the forefront.

This is the second time that the relationship between Perfectcot and Princess Anne has become so strained. The last time was when Perfectcot's parents had just passed away and Princess Anne tried to adopt Perfectcot, but was sternly rejected by her.

"Miss, we have asked the newspaper to publish the photo as you wish, and it has received strong responses from all walks of life." Perfectcot's loyal old butler reported to Perfectcot.

Although he was still wearing a simple tuxedo and looked like a serious yet amiable old man, Foster was now a legendary knight with the help of the divine potion.

Perfect, who was sitting on the chair, curled up in the huge armchair, with his back to Foster and facing the window, so that Foster, who was standing behind him, could not detect Perfect's emotions at the moment.

He just heard Perfectot reply with a simple "I know", and there was a very obvious sign of suppressing his emotions in his tone.

This made Foster feel distressed, so he took the initiative to ask: "Miss, if you don't want to, why don't you tell Her Royal Highness the Princess the truth?"

"Tell her the truth? What effect will that have?" Perfect's voice became more self-deprecating, and then melancholy: "Aunt Anne must learn to understand that if she wants to be a qualified monarch, she must make changes.

Her Majesty the Queen personally begged her, even risking her own life, how could I bear to refuse the plea of ​​an old mother?"

On that day, when the Queen came to see Perfect in person, she not only traded the divine potion with her, but more importantly, she reached another deal with Perfect.

The specific details cannot be made public, and even the transaction itself must remain top secret. Only those who are involved in the relevant events can know some details.

The only two people who knew what happened were Perfect and the Queen. Even Perfect's old butler Foster only knew that the Queen had begged her young lady to help Princess Anne grow into a qualified monarch.

During this period, Perfecto's sudden military expansion and its attitude towards Princess Anne can actually be regarded as the concrete implementation of this transaction.

At first glance, it seems that this has nothing to do with helping Princess Anne grow into a qualified monarch, but if you think about it, if the person you trust most suddenly becomes a powerful minister who betrays you, and the mother who has always protected you suddenly dies for inexplicable reasons, Princess Anne, who is pushed to the throne, will be forced to become a qualified monarch no matter how unwilling she is.

Although it seemed outrageous, Perfect also found it incredible when she heard the Queen make this decision.

If the situation has really come to this, does the Queen need to risk her own life to force Princess Anne to grow up?
If Perfectcot is used as a powerful official to force Princess Anne to grow up, this force may be enough in peacetime. As long as Perfectcot controls the force, Princess Anne will eventually be able to grow up.

Even though the empire is facing various problems now, and it is indeed a critical moment that requires Princess Anne to grow up quickly as the heir to the throne, but in Perfectcot's opinion, it is not to the extent that the Queen needs to pay with her life.

However, the Queen's words "I don't have much time left" made Perfecto finally give up persuading the Queen and choose to cooperate.

She checked the Queen's body and found that she was indeed at the end of her life. Although everything seemed normal now, it was the result of a whole medical team using various methods to prolong her life. Perfect was surprised by this. After all, she was the Queen of the world's most powerful empire, and she undoubtedly had the best conditions to prolong her life.

Even if there are no alchemy masters of the level of Perfecto and Sandrion, those people specially raised by the royal family are not vegetarians. They may not be able to achieve immortality, but there is no problem in maintaining a healthy body for the Queen.

So logically speaking, the Queen's body shouldn't be like this.

This made Perfico want to take out the Philosopher's Stone on the spot to make an elixir of immortality for the Queen.

As one of the highest achievements of alchemy, one of the important uses of the Philosopher's Stone is to make the elixir of life to grant people immortality.

However, faced with this temptation that any king would rush to, the queen chose to refuse.

"I am old, little Perfect. I have lived long enough! The empire has prospered under my leadership and has become the world's most powerful country. Talents like you have emerged to help the empire survive this disaster. I am already very satisfied."

"Perhaps Anne is not qualified as an heir, but I have no regrets in my life."

"The only person I'm worried about is Anne. She's too inexperienced. As a king, she also lacks the necessary conspiracy and ruthlessness. I'll have to trouble you to teach her this lesson."

"The empire now needs a qualified leader. Anne is still a little immature and cannot shoulder this responsibility. I need you to help her make up for it."

"As for me? I've lived long enough. I'm tired. I just don't have the energy to continue supporting the empire."

"I have been in power for so many years, and my reforms have affected the interests of too many people. Someone once poisoned me, and although I survived, I was left with a chronic illness. I have been hanging on for years, and I have had enough of this."

"If Annie can grow up, what difference does it make if I live a few days less or a few days longer? It's just hard work for you. You have to do things you don't want to do..."

"Forgive me, little Perfect! Forgive an old man for using you for such a thing."

Thinking of the Queen's request to him, Perfect sighed helplessly again.

If possible, she really didn't want to get involved in such things, and she didn't want the Queen to use this method to make Princess Anne grow up.

But as the Queen said, the empire needs a qualified leader. Princess Anne is growing too slowly. The Queen and Perfectcot have given her too many opportunities, but her growth is still not satisfactory.

There is no other way, we have to take drastic measures now.

(End of this chapter)