A Severe Lesson

“Your Highness Sean, tell me, is it the same with the case of Count Xusha?”

Flora immediately associated it with another matter.

Once is luck, twice is habit.

This time, Sean didn’t have so many scruples and, instead, said with a bit of a bravado:

“They were illegal vampires. Many people in the territory were turned into husks by them. I killed these guys and their five slaves.”

Flora immediately noticed the problem.

Then why were the external evaluations of this matter all negative?

“Never mind what those guys think. The important thing is to eliminate the harm and solve the problem.”

“Your Highness Sean, your approach is wrong,” Flora said, a little angry.

“At first glance, what you did seems very efficient, very rational, but most people are emotional beings, and you don’t just plan to do good for the people once, do you?”

“You’ve incurred a bad reputation this time, which will cause others to be wary of you the next time something similar happens, even hindering you, making it difficult for you to move forward!

“And the others who followed you to do this are also unlikely to care about their reputation at all; they will feel wronged, and their enthusiasm will be dampened.

“In the future, when you have to carry out similar tasks, everyone will have complaints in their hearts and be lazy…

Even if it’s just to get them the praise and evaluation they deserve, it will also cause misunderstandings from you, Your Highness Sean!”

Flora became more and more heartbroken as she spoke.

“You risked life and death, fought bloody battles, and finally survived, but you defame them as traitors, as sinners…

How much does that make them feel aggrieved and indignant.”

“I’m sorry, this is indeed a bit selfish and childish.”

Sean also realized he hadn’t taken others’ feelings into consideration.

He didn’t care about the bad reputation, but it was hard for others to be as strong as him… and sometimes, he was just being stubborn.

He wanted to be different from that old guy who valued reputation so much.

He wanted to prove himself right.

How very cute.

However, when Sean showed too much guilt, the others who had just been rebuking him immediately stopped.

“Your Highness Sean, don’t be discouraged. It’s not too late to make amends now.

“First, you must encourage and reward the soldiers involved, and then overturn the verdicts on these events and clear your name.”

Sean felt a deep sense of relief in his heart, but on the surface, he shook his head:

“Overturning the verdict is not possible. You forgot what I said, the old guy forbade me from spreading this.

It’s the same… It will affect the reputation of the entire aristocratic group.”

“That doesn’t matter either. Defeat rumors with rumors. Facts that are known but unspoken are better than lies flying everywhere, and this is something to be proud of and celebrated!”

Flora was still firm, “And, Your Highness Sean, please don’t let their reputation completely fall because you look down on other nobles.”

“Moreover, Your Highness Sean, you are guided by justice.

Justice can be upheld, and there are still those in the nobility who are seriously adhering to the laws of the country or considering the regulations.

The country is maintained because of this.

“Every affirmation, encouragement, and praise of a righteous statement is a blow to the perpetrators of crimes and moral decay. It is also a constraint and reminder to those who intend to act wantonly!”

Sean was a little surprised because he had already sensed that Flora seemed to have a relatively respectful attitude towards that old guy.

But he hadn’t expected that Flora would dare to completely ignore the old guy’s orders to get things done…

Instead—he was always saying he wanted to resist the old guy, but he had given up on thinking and struggling long ago.

To put it bluntly, he had always been cowardly, clinging to the old guy’s shadow, and had never truly stood up and resisted.

However, Flora hated and resisted, doing some things that she thought were resistance, but in reality, weren’t even struggles.

“I understand. I’ll arrange for people to do it,” Sean said solemnly, stroking the short golden-haired girl’s head.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Flora then realized she had been a bit too emotional, quickly calmed down, and smiled: “Your Highness, go for it! I will also assist you well.”

Sean didn’t expect Flora to get his support in the world’s public opinion, but in school… it still depended on the situation.

He explained the situation just now:

“The Eastern Region countries and many middle and upper-class nobles in the country have connections, so my judgment is that they will give up sooner or later and plan to attend the appointment.

“The Slayke Kingdom was defeated, but it was greatly damaged.

We supported a new king and established two checkpoints near the Slayke Kingdom, as a throat fortress leading to the Eastern Region… For the countries of the Eastern Region, our power has already penetrated too deeply.

In fact, many countries are worried that they will be annexed by us.”

Sean once again emphasized from the side that the students of the Eastern Region were not trustworthy.

Flora wouldn’t blindly trust the people of the Eastern Region either, but her starting point of thinking was that the other party would definitely prioritize their own country’s interests.

It wasn’t impossible to invite Sean to a Hongmen banquet, but in Flora’s opinion, these princes studying in the Lorende Empire were actually about the same as a count with a certain degree of decision-making power.

In other words, without considering the other party losing their minds and being driven to desperation, what the other party said would definitely not harm Sean or even provoke the Lorende Empire’s anger, and then cause their own country to perish.

Unfortunately, the enemy was in the dark, and they were in the light. Sean’s connections were too few, and he didn’t know anything. Without more information and evidence, Flora could only nod, indicating her compliance.

“How’s Faldry doing?”

“I explained it to her again, and it should be going smoothly.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

Because Flora might be using her old feelings from the Blue Lion family to persuade Olivia, Sean didn’t plan to interfere in this matter for the time being.

She would use her abilities to help Olivia persuade her.

In learning, Sean continued to deepen his understanding of the new realm, communicating with the grass and trees of the world, allowing his swordsmanship to reach the state of unity between heaven and man as much as possible.

Dinner time arrived, and they went to the cafeteria.

On the way, they met the waiting blue-haired girl.

“Your Highness Sean, I really appreciate your help,”

Stella, on the other hand, bowed to Sean.

As always, Sean really couldn’t like this blue-haired fiancée.

Because her ability was such that the more someone treated her well, the more she knew about them.

For strangers who didn’t care about her at all, he could only tell whether the other party was deceiving him or harbored a deliberate killing intent.

And this deliberate part, if the other party wasn’t thinking about it on the spot, but had planned it beforehand… he couldn’t feel it.

Stella’s attitude towards him, regardless of how active and enthusiastic it seemed, was actually at the level of a stranger.

She used to be full of lies.

Even if she wasn’t lying now, Sean couldn’t believe her.

“Why do you say that?”

Even so, in order to test the other party’s true purpose, he still tried to speak to her in a relatively friendly tone.

But the facts proved that—

“Your Highness doesn’t need to be so humble,” the blue-haired girl smiled happily,

“Now everyone in the school knows that you helped our Blue Lion family clean up the house and thoroughly taught that Olivia Bradley a lesson…”

He really couldn’t like this fiancée at all.