Chapter 106: Back story
"Isabella. Will you explain why you\'re trying to make your chest look smaller with those ropes?"
Isabella took a deep breath and continued stroking my head. "You\'re really curious, aren\'t you? ... Alright, I\'ll tell you." And so, I found myself immersed in a long story, but since this story was important to Isabella, I listened silently and attentively.
In short, Isabella had been a very beautiful girl since her childhood. In fact, some nobles had proposed to her when she was only fourteen, but, of course, her father rejected them. However, even though Isabella\'s father is now one of the richest men in the kingdom, it wasn\'t always like that.
They were wealthy back then, too, but they didn\'t have much political power, and their wealth at that time was much less compared to now. Over time, Isabella became even more beautiful, and her body started to develop.
Isabella became increasingly disturbed by the marriage proposals and secret harassment from the nobles. However, her body continued to grow and develop in a way that she never wanted. So much so that even her own uncle proposed to her, but fortunately, her father rejected that too. In short, Isabella\'s body was like a magnet for men. So, an idea came to Isabella when she was only sixteen.
When she tightly bound her chest with a rope and wore a conservative dress, her breasts appeared much smaller than they actually were. Although Isabella\'s chest hurt incredibly and she sometimes had trouble breathing, she endured this torment. She spent the following years mostly wearing dresses that elderly, wealthy women would wear.
Fortunately, these dresses naturally made her hips appear smaller, or she would have had to bind her hips with rope as well.
And so, Isabella carried on with her life. However, she continued to receive marriage proposals from many important nobles. Thankfully, Isabella had a lot of Kaizer power, and so she quickly enrolled in the Dragon Academy. But even at the Dragon Academy, she continued to receive proposals from powerful people.
The academy housed many species and races, yet Isabella remained one of the most beautiful girls there. Moreover, she continued to hide her body measurements. Eventually, Isabella realized she couldn\'t go on like this forever, so she accepted the proposal of Richard, who approached her in a less drooling manner and was also the prince of her homeland.
Richard had even dealt with many of the men who harassed Isabella, which made her trust him more. Then, a war broke out in the Kingdom of Asina, and Richard had to leave the academy. Unfortunately, Isabella\'s academy life became a bit tougher, but everything changed when she received some news.
The Kingdom of Asina had won the war against their neighbors, the Moritan Kingdom, but the King of Asina, at the time, had been assassinated on the battlefield.
Richard, cleverly hid his father\'s death with the help of trusted men and did not inform his siblings. After the war ended and Richard\'s siblings, unaware of their father\'s death, were chasing down the fleeing enemies, they entered their father\'s tent, but none of them made it out alive.
Richard had killed his two brothers and one sister who were competing for the throne, but no one knew how he did it. After all, his siblings were strong, too. Eventually, Richard quickly declared himself king, and then a witch hunt began in the truest sense of the word.
Richard killed many of his nephews, some of whom were adults, and even killed the babies of his siblings who were still in their cribs. All of this was to eliminate any possible threats to his throne, and Richard succeeded.
When the kingdom returned to normal, many nobles didn\'t approve of what Richard had done and even accused him of killing his father. Of course, they didn\'t dare say such things in Richard\'s presence, but once the rumors had spread among the nobles, they spread quickly. So, Richard summoned Isabella and swiftly proposed the marriage. Isabella accepted, returned to the mainland, and married Richard.
But, of course, things quickly turned into a nightmare for her. Many nobles insulted her dwarf-born son and even claimed that the spirit of Richard\'s father was seeking revenge. But despite all this, Richard did not stand by Isabella.
In the end, when Isabella began to go mad and cause problems for Richard, he cunningly approached her once again and, for the second time since their marriage, they slept together. Richard\'s goal was to get Isabella pregnant and control her through their newborn child. When Kayle was born, Isabella indeed started causing fewer problems for Richard.
Even though Isabella realized Richard\'s plan, she didn\'t say anything, because she was busy with her daughter, Kayle. And to be honest, even though she hated Richard, she never regretted giving birth to Kayle. In the end, of course, Richard quickly took on many concubines and also married Luciana and Fiona, but Isabella didn\'t care. In fact, she was even glad Richard was occupied with other women.
Since she no longer wanted to be with Richard and didn\'t want him to desire her, she continued to bind her chest with ropes. After all, she\'d only been with Richard twice, and even during those two times, Richard hadn\'t noticed the ropes. In the fact, Richard had never seen her whole body; he simply did what he came for and left without even sleeping beside her both times.
"Wow... I knew Richard was a bastard, but I didn\'t know he was this bad," I couldn\'t help but say.
"Hey, don\'t say that. He\'s still your father... And as I told you, Richard is incredibly cunning," she said.
"True, incredibly cunning, but also incredibly stupid. For not realizing the beauty of a woman like you, he\'s truly an idiot."
When Isabella heard my words, she smiled slightly and hit me on the head. "Stop flattering me," she said. Just as I regained the energy to start a new round, there was a knock on the door. Isabella lifted me off her and started getting dressed. Of course, as she did so, a magnificent view unfolded before my eyes.
"Hey, stop staring and go to the other room before anyone sees you." Obeying her, I stood up and walked into the study. Some of the servants had already seen me drunk and being taken to the study by Isabella, so I quietly passed through the side door into Isabella\'s study, then slipped out and started heading to my own room.
But of course, I acted as if I were hungover and extremely exhausted as I stepped outside.
When I arrived at the room and entered, I saw a woman with long white hair and a beautifully curvy body, even noticeable from behind as she sat on the edge of my bed. Of course, this was my mother, Luciana, and when she noticed me entering, she approached me angrily.
While I wondered what I could have done to upset her, she stopped in front of me and glared at me angrily… Well, Luciana probably thought she looked furious, but to me, she just looked sweet.
"Bow your head!" she said, puffing out her cheeks.
When I lowered my head and shortened my height, she made a fist with her delicate hand and hit me on the head.
"Aaow, what was that for?" I said, rubbing the spot where she hit me.
"Where have you been for days? And I heard you came to the palace drunk last night! What were you up to while the entire palace was looking for you?" she said, displaying an expression as cute as an angry kitten. She probably still thought she looked intimidating. I tried hard not to laugh as I attempted to answer my mother\'s question.
"I had some business to attend to, but why were you looking for me?" I asked.
"First, tell me what you\'ve been doing for days," she said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well… I was with some women…" I said honestly.
Luciana stared at me in shock for a few seconds, then started hitting my chest with her fists. "You insolent brat! How can you use such indecent words in front of your mother?!" she said, chasing after me. During the whole time, I was busy laughing because of her cute expression and the way she was chasing me.
As Luciana continued to chase me, I suddenly turned around, grabbed her arms tightly, and tried to calm her down.
"Okay, calm down, Mom," I said and I placed a long kiss on Luciana\'s cheek Seeming to calm down a little, Luciana grunted and crossed her arms across her chest again. "Okay, fine."
"Now, can you tell me why you were looking for me? Did something important happen?"
"I\'m not exactly sure, but all the nobles and other important people have been personally summoned to the capital by your father. Richard is going to make an announcement tomorrow, and he ordered that every prince and princess, including you, must be there."
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