Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Chapter 607 World 65

"Third Prince?"

Catherine thought for a moment and said to Stella, "I'll go take a look first. Stella, can you sit here by yourself for a while?"

Stella naturally nodded in agreement.

Catherine had a lot of tea and snacks sent over, and even asked for a few books before leaving, feeling at ease.

Stella casually flipped through a couple of pages and found that they were all popular novels on the market. Although they all seemed to follow the pattern of aristocratic ladies falling for men of ordinary birth, they were still readable overall.

Stella had only watched a short while when Catherine stormed in from outside.

Stella looked up: "What's wrong?"

Catherine sat down next to Stella in anger, gulped down a large glass of water, and then said, "Stella, you have no idea how disgusting their royal family is."

"Guess what the Third Prince came here for?" she said, continuing without Stella's reply. "He saw that I had broken off my engagement with the Crown Prince, so he came to me and asked my Eugene family to join forces with him to help him remove the Crown Prince, saying that he could promise me the position of Empress in the future."

"I bother!"

"How clever of you! You're incompetent, so you try to take advantage of me."

“This third prince is really too brainless,” Stella closed the book. “He doesn’t even think about how, when your family didn’t want to break off the engagement, no matter how much the Queen and Miss Erskine tried, they couldn’t succeed.”

"Now that your family has agreed to the termination, the royal family still wants you to become the Crown Prince's wife, which is obviously because they are reluctant to give up the support from the Eugene family."

“Under these circumstances, he still wants your family to do things for him based on just a promise... I think he must be a bad person.”

“Stella, you’re right,” Catherine said, her anger subsiding. “The royal family wants to control my family, but they’re also unwilling to actually abandon us.”

"After all, besides my Eugene family, no one can make them..."

At this point, Catherine paused, not finishing her sentence, as if suddenly realizing something.

“I was saying that Stella was too trusting of others, but I never expected that you could see through the Third Prince so clearly.”

Faced with her probing, Stella calmly put the book away: "I told you, I won't fall for that easily."

"Don't you and the Third Prince now resemble noble ladies who have considerable wealth but are facing a plight of poverty and hardship?"

“If a noble lady is not thinking clearly and actually marries him, it’s hard to say how many years she might have left to live.”

Catherine glanced at the book, then laughed and leaned against Stella: "That's right, that's right, Stella, you're absolutely right."

"However, he is a bit different from the impoverished. After all, he is a prince, so we have to give him some face."

"So, I've packed my things and I'm leaving first thing tomorrow morning. Stella, would you like to come with me?"

“Of course,” Stella said matter-of-factly. “I came to Xue’an Royal City specifically to find you. Now that you’re leaving, what’s the point of me staying?”

Catherine took her hand and said, "Okay, we'll prepare the carriage and travel slowly."

"Anyway, it's still early. I can take this opportunity to see the local customs and culture, and you can also travel around the mainland. We can do both at the same time."

Stella hesitated deliberately: "Traveling across the continent like this isn't really a good idea."

“Why not?” Catherine said playfully. “Just because it didn’t happen before doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. You’re perfect to be a pioneer.”

"Besides, who says that traveling across the continent has to be done on foot in a miserable way?"

"As long as you don't cheat by using a flying artifact, it's fine."

Stella was "easily" persuaded by her.

"You're right, it's definitely possible."

Catherine spoke with her for a while longer, and then news came that Duke Eugene had returned and invited them to dine in the main building.

This was also the first time Stella had seen such a complete set of Eugene's main descendants in this generation.

These people didn't know Stella's identity, but because she was Catherine's friend and Eugene's amiable demeanor, they treated her relatively kindly.

However, Catherine's relationship with them was only so-so, and she wasn't even as close to them as she was to Stella.

Stella saw this but didn't ask anything. Instead, Catherine, worried that Stella might misunderstand, explained it to her.

“In the past, they mostly only interacted with me because of my engagement. Even though I am their own sister, they still looked down on me.”

“When my father was searching for materials to lift the curse for me, everyone except my eldest brother felt it was none of their business. It was only after my engagement was broken off and I regained my aptitude and truly became a magician that they became close to me again and considered us family.”

"Perhaps that's true in terms of blood ties, but I don't feel that they are my real family."

"Stella, don't you think this version of me is bad?"

“How could that be?” Stella said, enduring Catherine’s burning gaze. “I believe that family members should be like my people, of the same origin, helping and loving each other.”

"Although they are related to you by blood, they do not interact with you emotionally. They only treat you well when there is something to gain from you. It is normal that you do not have deep feelings for them."

“Thank you, Stella,” Catherine hugged her. “Thank you for coming into my life.”

Stella's puzzled look only made Catherine happier.

Although the small courtyard where Stella used to live had been prepared, Catherine was unwilling to let her go there and insisted that she stay in her own room, saying that she wanted to talk by candlelight late into the night.

Stella couldn't persuade her otherwise, so she had no choice but to stay for the time being.

Catherine kept her word and chatted with Stella about everything under the sun until late into the night.

Fortunately, Catherine has always maintained a regular schedule, and as she talked, she fell asleep first.

Stella breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes to rest.

Although she was surrounded by familiar faces, Stella could not sleep peacefully unless she was in the Elf Forest.

The next day, Catherine was in good spirits, and Stella was also doing alright. After breakfast, they boarded a carriage and left the royal city of Xue'an.

After they left, many of the people who had been waiting outside Eugene's house hurriedly went back to report the news.

As for how many people in the capital were happy or regretful after receiving the news, that was of little concern to them.

In this era, the most prosperous place in a country is its capital.

Apart from the capital city, the economic centers and transportation hubs are slightly better, but overall, they are all pretty much the same, and no place is much better.

After all, there was royalty above them, lords and nobles below them, and some even held the title of city lord. The ordinary people below worked diligently, hoping only to survive.

After only two days of being away from home, the novelty wore off, and Catherine became restless.

"A carriage is nice, but riding a horse is even more comfortable. Stella, would you like to try it?"

Stella glanced at the dust on the road and the dirty ground and shook her head.

She prefers to walk through barren mountains rather than take this kind of route.

Of course, in this area, all the land is owned, so there are no barren mountains at all.

Ultimately, the barren mountains only had trees with long growth cycles, which were too slow to generate income, so the nobles naturally cut them down and planted crops that yielded higher profits.

“Then I won’t go either,” Catherine said, giving up with remarkable ease.

Right after she said those words, the carriage suddenly came to a screeching halt. If Stella hadn't caught her in time, she would have hit her head.

Catherine's face hardened: "What's going on?"

Soon someone came over and hurriedly replied, "Miss, a little beggar suddenly ran into the road."

"Gods above, we really didn't touch him, but he has already fainted!"