Chapter 320: Secretly Striving
The light inside the palace was not bright, and the flames in front of the fireplace flickered. In the quiet and spacious palace, they could clearly hear each other's breathing.
Despite the dim light, Anno felt that the body beneath her was translucent white.
Especially with his smooth black hair hanging down his chest, his skin appeared even whiter.
So she blurted out, "You're so fair-skinned."
The higher the level of the Zerg's familiars, the more perfect their appearance and physique, but they are all more wild, and their skin color is mostly a healthy wheat color.
Tanvel was the most handsome and gentle-looking of her several companions. When she went out and concealed her Zerg features, she didn't seem like a warlike Zerg at all.
Hearing Anno's exclamation, Tanvel's smile deepened. "I'm glad Your Highness likes it."
Anno just thought he had fair skin and didn't have any particular thoughts about him, but when he said it like that, it took on a slightly different meaning.
Anno then realized that he was her relative and would one of her husbands in the future.
She is now...
Anno's mind flashed back to Sitar's kiss at the concert, and that strange dream that made her blush.
Her face suddenly felt hot, and she coughed lightly.
"Your Highness?"
Hearing her cough, Tanville asked with concern, "Does Your Highness have a sore throat?"
"No."
Anno cleared her mind of all the jumbled thoughts. It was all Sitar's fault; she had never thought about these things before!
After applying medicine to Tanville's wounds, Anno noticed a bruise on his cheek and applied medicine to his face as well.
Just then, several familiar energies emanated from the balcony.
Anno and Tanville both looked toward the balcony, where they saw Sitar, Caesar, and the others standing there, with the portal behind them gradually disappearing.
The family members stared at Anno and Tanvel with slightly wide eyes. In their eyes, Anno leaned forward slightly, her hand on Tanvel's cheek, while Tanvel placed one hand on the edge of the sofa, as if he were holding Anno's petite body in his arms. They looked incredibly intimate and ambiguous.
The atmosphere gradually froze, becoming tense without anyone noticing.
Sitar looked at the two of them, his expression as indifferent and calm as ever, but there was frost in his deep blue eyes.
Caesar broke the silence first, "Your Highness, we are back."
Anno looked at Sitar, his mind went blank for a moment, and without thinking, he replied, "It's not that you're not allowed to come back."
Caesar showed no outward expression, but a raging fire was already burning in his heart as he looked at Tanville.
Upon hearing Anno's words, he glanced at Sitar, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.
Anno saw that all the family members had lowered their heads and snorted softly, "You all listen to him."
Upon hearing her words, Caesar and the others immediately panicked, wanting to explain but unable to do so.
Anunu is their prince, and so is Sitar.
One let them stay, and the other led them back.
They all have to listen.
Moreover, they wanted to come back, but His Highness only brought Tanvel back with him, and they didn't want Tanvel to have His Highness all to himself.
Upon returning and seeing His Highness and Tanvel so close, they knew that coming back was the right thing to do.
Of these followers, Caesar was openly cunning, while Tanville was covert; he was a dark and ruthless man, and in some ways, he was even more feared than Caesar.
Sitar stood there watching Anno for a while, then suddenly turned around and jumped towards the balcony of his room, disappearing from Anno's sight.
Anno's eyes widened slightly, and her hands, hanging by her sides, slowly clenched.
Sitar... he just ran off without saying a word to me!
Just as Anno was about to lash out, she saw her mother enter her palace, followed by Nancy and Elro, two of her attendants.
Nancy glanced at Tanville, whose clothes were open on the sofa, and raised an eyebrow slightly.
When Tanville saw the Queen arrive, he stood up, quickly dressed, and stood aside.
"My darling, look what good things I brought you."
Sevier sat down next to Anno, and Nancy handed them the box she was holding before standing next to Tanville.
Both of them work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and are very familiar with each other.
Tanville now spends most of his time with Anno, leaving most of the diplomatic affairs to Nancy.
Nancy had been mentoring Tanville for a while, so she was considered Tanville's teacher.
The two exchanged a knowing glance, their thoughts briefly converging, and they knew exactly what the other wanted to say.
Nancy thought to herself, "The young princess is gentle and easy to talk to. Her retinue seems to be more likely to gain favor than Queen Sevier's retinue, but that's not actually the case."
Despite her imposing rule, Queen Seville treated her family and relatives with kindness and generosity.
Nancy is more capable in many ways, so she has more opportunities to stay by the Queen's side.
But that's all; even towards the king, the queen wouldn't show much favoritism or affection.
She would always put the Zerg as a whole first, and only in private would she spare some affection for them.
Not many, but every high-ranking member of her family had one.
If they want more opportunities to spend time with the Queen, they can only improve their abilities.
But the young princess is clearly not like the queen, who makes her preferences very obvious.
Therefore, her male insect king has a completely opposite personality to hers, and he also manages most of the insect retinue.
Seeing Tanville and the young prince together, Nancy thought to herself that Tanville was secretly trying to win them over.
However, the young prince is very slow to understand. Even though he has finally grasped a little, his mind is not really on his family.
Nancy's gaze swept over the few family members on the balcony. They all stood upright to one side, and the aura of Prince Sitar had not yet completely dissipated.
He turned his gaze back to the young princess, and looking at the youthful girl, Nancy calculated the time it would take for the young princess to enter adulthood.
Her core left her three hundred years ago, but she entered a spacetime rift, and time flowed through her for less than eighteen years.
However, the core is one with her. Her entry into the adult stage cannot be calculated according to her personal time. The core will allow her to enter the adult stage a little earlier.
Like Sitar, Sitar entered adulthood less than a year after hatching from his egg. This is because he had been in the egg for tens of thousands of years and his body had already matured. Once he hatches from the egg, his body will mature very quickly.
He only needs to spend some time digesting the knowledge passed down from the Zerg consciousness network to grow rapidly.
Now, Anno's core return is also advancing her development.
There is an attraction between two queen beetles, which is a "warm-up" for the budding of their union before and after the adult stage.
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