The Royal Hostage Has Vanished: The Black Wolf Knight Yearns for the Persecuted Princess Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Ajigozen

Author:Ajigozen
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: Now, Let the Story Begin

I was a caged bird. The kind their owner sometimes forgot to feed.

On paper, I was Sonia, the fourth princess of the Kingdom of Sylvario and a daughter of the king’s concubine. You would think that I would be well treated. But unfortunately, I chose the wrong time to be born.

The queen birthed the first prince, the first princess, and the third princess. The king’s concubine birthed the second and third princes and the second princess. With three boys and three girls each, Sylvario had a wealth of progeny, and while there were some tensions with neighboring countries, the lack of any major conflict meant they had all the pieces they needed for any political marriages.

From the inside, our kingdom (or rather, our royal family) had a bountiful ocean to the south with a capital boasting a well-maintained fishing and trading port that generated much wealth for the royals. The economic strength of this industry granted us a strong domestic influence.

The royal family, seeing that I had hardly any political support, and further determining that having me marry below my station and expand the royal bloodline into the nobility wasn’t worth the trouble, didn’t bother having me engaged to anyone.

With my status thus decided, I was left to grow up in conditions far inferior than the average princess’s.

The last nice dress I ever received—that I could wear to tea parties and other social events—was made for me when I was thirteen years old. And that was all. I was forgotten, never invited to any tea parties anyway, and completely unable to host one of my own. Now that I thought back on it, I never got a debutante either. Without a formal introduction to society, I was virtually unknown to the nobility. Only my tutor even knew what I looked like.

I had the same tutor my whole life. This wasn’t because they were particularly enthusiastic about it. It was actually the complete opposite: I’d once overheard them laughingly say that they’d never leave such a cushy job, where they could get paid well for teaching me next to nothing.

Of course, after I’d heard this, I asked for a new tutor. But I got rejected. I later learned that this was because the head maid and that tutor were in cahoots, embezzling the funds meant for me and inflating the tutor’s reward money, among other things. They’d pulled some strings to make sure my request didn’t go through.

Because of them I wasn’t able to get a proper education, and was also unable to use any of the funds budgeted for myself. Once I realized that neither my parents or any other adults around would help me, I started studying by myself in the palace library. I thought that if I gathered enough knowledge and was able to train myself mentally, I might find a way out of my situation.

Things got a tiny bit better when Laura became one of my maids. Normally, a baron’s daughter like her would never be able to become a princess’s maid.

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