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Three days later

The Maro Weekly reported a piece of news in an inconspicuous place: At the invitation of Duke Stein, the Duke of Saint Rose will visit Maro City in the near future.

A few days later, the weekly reported another piece of news: The Duke of Saint Rose and his party have arrived in Maro City, and Duke Stein personally greeted them.

The two sides had a friendly exchange and fully exchanged views.

And at the invitation of Marquis Lawson, the Duke of Saint Rose will attend the Lawson family banquet the next day.

Yes, Ethan, who has never seen an outsider, invited the Duke of Saint Rose to attend the banquet for the first time.

In fact, this banquet is a welcoming banquet specially held for the Duke of Saint Rose.

Early in the morning of this day, Bertner Manor began to get busy, cleaning the manor, processing food... preparing to welcome the Duke.

Since Ethan rarely holds banquets, Angelina will usually be very excited when she is about to hold one,

because she will accept everyone's praise as the hostess, which is very in line with her psychological expectations.

But today she is obviously a little unhappy, even a little sad.

Ethan, who was playing with his daughter, noticed this and asked, "What's wrong with Angelina? Is there anything unhappy?"

Angelina glanced at Sophia, who was writing beside Ethan, hesitated for a while, and finally decided to speak out what was in her mind.

She took out the house rules that Ethan had recently revised, pointed to one of them and said, "Isn't this rule too targeted at Nicole?

Look, it says that if a female member of the family marries a commoner, she will lose her family status and become a commoner, and lose the qualification to inherit the estate. However, both sexes will receive a subsidy of 350 gold.

You are obviously trying to stop Nicole from falling in love freely.

Ethan, even if you are his father, you have no right to interfere with Nicole's freedom of marriage!"

Ethan and Sophia frowned after hearing this.

Especially Sophia, she knew from seeing this house rule that Ethan was extremely biased and wanted to protect Nicole, but why would her sister say that?

Ethan was a little confused about this, so he asked, "Angelina, why do you say that? You should know better than anyone. I love Nicole very much, how could I target her?"

"Then doesn't your family rule clearly mean that you want to arrange her marriage?

Do you want her to marry another nobleman so that you can achieve a political marriage!

Or, in your eyes, marrying a nobleman means that Nicole can have no worries about food and clothing in the future."

After hearing this, Ethan was a little amused.

He finally knew where the problem was. Perhaps in the minds of ordinary people, this family rule was to arrange a daughter's marriage, or as a father, he wanted to give his daughter the most basic guarantee of a rich life in the future.

In fact, this is not the case. This family rule is just to prevent villains.

After understanding this, Ethan pulled Angelina to his side and patiently explained:

"Angelina, I promise you that no matter whether Nicole wants to marry a commoner, a noble, or someone else when she grows up.

As long as it is her own wish, I will not interfere.

Freedom of marriage is the basic right of each of us, and I will never touch this red line."

"Then why did you make this house rule? Doesn't this mean that Nicole's right to choose is cut off?"

Ethan smiled: "Angelina, you can't just think about the problem from your own perspective, you have to think from the perspective of others.

If you are a commoner, and you know that Nicole is my daughter, and she has billions of assets to inherit, what do you say you will do?

At that time, maybe you may not like Nicole, but considering her value, you will pretend to like her very much, and then try your best to please her.

And what I have to do is to prevent this from happening.

Angelina, you have to understand that there are all kinds of people in this world.

There are scumbags among women, There are also men who are low-browed, and once such men appear, they are much more destructive than those bad women.

Women only want money at most, but men may take Nicole's life.

And this family rule is actually aimed at those low-browed men.

I can tell you very clearly that these men are extremely egoists, and they are often very mature in thinking, and their methods are many and poisonous. Once Nicole is targeted by them, there is absolutely no reason to escape.

Only when they know that pursuing Nicole will not benefit them, will they give up.

And the remaining people are still willing to pursue Nicole even though they know that Nicole has nothing.

Then whether it is a commoner or a noble, it is very likely that it is true love.

So, this family rule looks stupid on the surface, but it is actually the only way for me, an old father, to express my love for Nicole.

In fact, you should also know that I love Nicole more than anyone else! "

After hearing this, Angelina's eyes were slightly red: "I'm sorry, Ethan, I blamed you wrongly!"

After hearing this, Sofia pursed her lips and looked jealous.

She knew very well that Ethan loved his only daughter the most. He would take Nicole with him wherever he went. He really held her in his hands for fear of dropping her and held her in his mouth for fear of melting her.

Nicole's food and daily necessities were incomparable to those of other sons, and she had all kinds of toys piled up like a mountain.

On the other hand, he didn't even bother to look at the other sons, whether they were his own or his sister's.

Sometimes he would hug her on a whim, and other times he was either teasing his daughter or on the way to tease her.

In short, he showed the word "partiality" to the fullest.

However, fortunately, he treats all his sons the same, and Sophia feels balanced.

If she wants to be angry, she can only be angry, why didn't she give birth to a daughter.

Of course, in addition to jealousy, Sophia's eyes are more of an admiration for Ethan.

In the minds of ordinary people, many laws seem ridiculous to them, but if these people understand the meaning behind them, they often can't laugh.

Because they will find that these laws are actually aimed at them, and they don't know it most of the time.

For example, in the eyes of ordinary people, most people's ideas must be similar to those of their sister.

But the actual situation is completely different from what they think.

In fact, whether it is family rules or laws, they are actually just the minimum standards for human morality.

However, although what happened today was just a small matter, it fully demonstrated that Ethan has completely deviated from the thinking of ordinary people.

He considers things more and more maturely and comprehensively, and knows how to exchange the greatest benefits for the smallest cost within the rules.

This is also the minimum standard that a mature ruler should have.

Perhaps in the future, I should really retreat behind the scenes and let Ethan lead everything.

Ethan suddenly noticed the strange gaze, so he turned his head and saw Sophia staring at him with a strange look on her face.

His heart skipped a beat, thinking that she might be jealous!

Later, he thought that it shouldn't be the case, because Sophia is not that kind of person.

So he asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Sophia smiled and said, "Nothing! It's just that I've been dealing with tax issues recently, and I feel very tired. I want to resign as the speaker and concentrate on raising children at home in the future."

"Ah..."

Ethan couldn't believe it for a moment. This is what Sophia could say. She actually gave up power on her own initiative?

Ethan would rather believe that a sow can climb a tree than believe that this is true.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course! So, please go to the parliament tomorrow and take over the position of speaker.

By the way, after two or three years of planning, all the subordinate institutions of the parliament are basically people from us and the Casillas family.

In other words, as long as you have a good relationship with the Casillas family, any decision you make in the parliament will be implemented 100% without any discount.

I will sort out the specific personnel in two days.

Who can be used and who cannot be used, as well as their personalities and hobbies, will also be handed over to you."

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