Joint Exercise

(Sigh, I almost made a big mistake.)

After successfully persuading the Crown Prince to go back to eat breakfast and respectfully seeing him off,

Flora came to the empty washroom, dropped her disguise, and suddenly became depressed.

She had ignored the most important thing, the Crown Prince’s mental state, to the point that he almost did something unforgivable because he hated her too much.

Fortunately, the Crown Prince eventually returned to the right path.

But looking back now, Flora was still a little scared.

Most importantly, she was afraid of repeating the same mistakes in the future.

If she wasn’t careful, she would do too much and affect the Crown Prince’s not-yet-fully-mature mind, turning the empire’s future heir into a cruel, ruthless, and life-despising tyrant.

But once she became timid, she didn’t know how to improve her status in the Crown Prince’s eyes in the future.

(Damn it, this Crown Prince is too difficult to win over!)

Logically speaking, with her current beauty and the skills in A Thousand Strategies, even if ordinary people didn’t fall, they should have entered a friendly and amicable state with each other.

How could the Crown Prince be so unresponsive, constantly jumping between subordinate and enemy?

Okay, Flora admitted that her performance these days had been annoying.

But if she didn’t do this, she would become a useful subject… only talking about official business all day long.

Where would there be opportunities or thoughts for romance!

So she tried hard to change her image in his mind back to that natural, lively, cute, stupid, noisy little maid… although the process was a bit tortuous, she should have succeeded.

At least the anger on the Crown Prince had dissipated.

The bad news was that the favorability on the subject route was also likely to be reset to zero.

(Well, there’s no use in rushing. Let’s stabilize the basics first… the current progress is already very good.)

Not counting the month of assessment, Flora had only been officially working for more than half a month, and she had already become the head maid.

But other than some success in the kitchen work, the duties of a maid had only just begun.

The suggestions and plans she had given to the Crown Prince had either not been implemented yet, or the effects were not yet obvious… normally speaking, she should be acting low-key at this time to consolidate her position.

It could only be said that her old habit of pouncing on opportunities like a wolf or tiger had struck again.

But she would be busy next.

Yara’s family had sent trial tomatoes, and she had to start researching related dishes.

Moreover, after tasting them carefully, she felt that the tomatoes could be made into sauce as a seasoning.

In this way, the previous plan had to be slightly modified.

As for the other ingredients besides tomatoes, since she had brought them up, she naturally couldn’t treat them differently and sit idly by.

Moreover, the Crown Prince and Morick seemed to want to use this method of regulating the economy in various aspects other than ingredients… even if she didn’t directly intervene, she would inevitably have to give advice.

Also, a new batch of maids would be coming tomorrow.

The reason why it was so fast this time was because the new talent training program proposed by Flora skipped the long-term assessment part that would trouble the old butler, and changed it to one-on-one or one-to-many old-to-new, and the new people would start working in the remote areas of the mansion first.

As the head maid, Flora would definitely have to put a lot of thought into this.

Thinking of this, Flora restored her disguise and went to work with great enthusiasm.

After dinner, she found the Crown Prince again.

But don’t get her wrong, she wasn’t stupid enough to start causing trouble again after taking a half-day break.

This time it was serious business.

“Prince Ryan, I want to promote Heidi to be a personal maid.”

Flora looked at the black-haired boy with some apprehension.

It wasn’t that she was afraid that the Crown Prince would misunderstand that she was winning people’s hearts and promoting confidants, but—

“When did you find out?” the black-haired boy asked calmly.

Flora breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and said frankly:

“At the beginning, although Heidi was trying hard to pretend to be a new person, she was too familiar with the situation in the mansion. Her reactions were very calm in many cases.

On the contrary, she would inexplicably know some things that normal new people would find difficult to understand, or even things that were obviously fabricated with a certain purpose… so I think she should be an assessor hidden among the new people.”

But in reality, Heidi was still undercover until now.

This was clearly because the Crown Prince didn’t trust the maids and wanted to continue spying on their every move.

But if this matter was exposed in the future, it would be a huge blow to Heidi’s credibility.

And the best time to be honest was the day the new talent assessment ended, which had already been missed.

Therefore, Flora wanted to let Heidi regain her original identity on the surface and completely bury the undercover matter as a dark history.

Doing so would certainly cause the Crown Prince’s dissatisfaction, but Flora was prepared—

“Now the work in the mansion is starting to get busy, and I need a trusted and capable assistant to help me.

Heidi is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.”

Flora didn’t say another reason, but it was estimated that the Crown Prince had been considering it for a long time.

That was, these days, she had been involved in some areas too widely, and the managers of the important positions in the mansion had too good an attitude towards her… in summary, her power and presence in sensitive positions were a little too strong.

She had to cut her own power and bide her time, and it would be best to become someone who could be replaced at any time.

Especially the third point, she didn’t want to leave a mess behind when she left in the future… after all, playing with other people’s feelings was already too much.

Therefore, it was very important to train Heidi up as soon as possible, both for the Crown Prince and for herself.

“Okay, but she used to be the head maid,” the black-haired boy stared at her.

That was great!

Such a thought flashed through her mind, and Flora said readily:

“Then let Heidi be a personal maid for a transition period first, and then I’ll deliberately make a mistake to let Your Highness scold me—”

“I’m kidding,” the black-haired boy showed an imperceptible smile, “She was just a personal maid to begin with.”

What the heck!

Flora, whose grand plan was interrupted, couldn’t help but feel a little angry, but then she thought that even if the black-haired boy was smiling like this, it was better than being cold-faced and hiding everything in his heart.

She quickly encouraged him:

“Yes, that’s right, Prince Ryan, please be sure to smile more, so that you can get closer to everyone…”

Flora regretted it halfway through.

Because this was very similar to her previous operation of deliberately making him hate her, and the Crown Prince would probably get angry again… huh, there was no expression at all?

Had the sun risen from the west?

It was said that a woman’s heart was a needle in the sea, and Flora only felt that the Crown Prince’s mind was not much different from it. They were both so moody and unpredictable.

“Well then, if there’s nothing else, I’ll take my leave.”

But as long as the result was good, Flora gently lifted her skirt and saluted, preparing to leave.

“Wait.”

The Crown Prince called out to her.

Oh no, was he still angry?

Flora turned around and asked calmly: “Prince Ryan, what else do you need?”

“After breakfast tomorrow, come out with me.”

Ah?

Flora was stunned for a moment. Seeing that the black-haired boy was expressionless, she couldn’t guess the destination, so she asked:

“Yes, where are we going?”

“To the military camp… tomorrow we will have a joint exercise with the Blue Lion Knights.”

The black-haired boy stared at her carefully.