The door was opened, Gileno stepped in and closed the door quietly.

She raised her head, her eyes swept across Philip's desk, and looked at the guest table with chess pieces on the side.

Philip was setting up the chess pieces. He turned his head to look at Gileno and smiled with narrowed eyes.

"What's wrong? Why are you here so late? Have you considered my proposal?"

Gileno ignored Philip's words, walked over silently and handed over the letter in his hand.

"A letter from the royal capital."

Philip raised his eyebrows in surprise, reached out to take the letter, looked at the postmark on it, and then couldn't help laughing.

"Haha, Alan is really popular, which is completely different from me. I pursue others but get rejected repeatedly."

Gilenu looked a little embarrassed when he heard this.

"Will Madam not be dissatisfied if you let me be your concubine?"

Philip opened the letter and said as he read it.

"That was Hilda's suggestion."

Gileno was stunned for a moment, then listened to Philip continue.

"You also know that she sometimes likes to get stuck in a rut, unable to think straight, and unable to let go. Last year, Allen had a heart attack. The more times like this, the more she wants to push me away. She also said that she knows I am helpless, and that taking a concubine will happen to keep you in Boreas forever."

Philip shook his head, narrowing his eyes and curling the corners of his mouth.

"It's clear that the Boreas family rules owe her something, but she always feels inexplicably guilty and doesn't want to add too much pressure to me."

"In terms of emotions, Allen is surprisingly similar to his mother. They both value emotions. Haha, they are not as cold and heartless as me."

Gileno glanced at the letter in Philip's hand, then glanced at Philip's face.

"Do you think so?"

Philip's hand holding the letter froze, and he was silent for a moment, but he laughed at himself.

"I sent this letter at the end of October last year because I really didn't want to see Hilda suffer any more. Since it's hard to explain to my father and Alan himself seems to be struggling, I'll give him a reason to get out of Boreas and be free."

Gileno looked down at Philip's hair.

"But this will prevent your plan to integrate Allen into Boreas from being realized, right? For the sake of Madam."

Philip shook his head.

"Alan can take the time to think about it, but before that, if Hilda really gets into an accident, I will be very unhappy. But I didn't expect that before the letter came back, Alan had already taken care of everything by himself, and even convinced his father. This was beyond my expectations again. I thought he would come to me."

He quietly touched the edge of the letter.

"Hilda has been smiling a lot more recently, which is good, too."

He placed the letter on the table, read it quietly for a while, and then started to set up the chess pieces.

"I originally intended to let Alan and Hilda spend more time together before starting the next phase of the plan. Now that things have progressed to this point, and the battle for the crown prince in the capital has already begun, this result is not bad."

"In that case, Mrs. Hilda is..."

"I naturally understand my wife. Hilda's knot is not whether Ellen is by her side, but that Ellen was raised by James and didn't even know that she was her biological mother. This is the real reason why she can't let it go. Now her knot has been untied.

Moreover, if the matter in the capital goes smoothly, it will only be a good thing for her. You have to know that Allen's mind is more like an adventurer. If he is tied to the capital with power, if everything goes smoothly, Hilda will be able to move to the capital in a few years and meet Allen every day. To some extent, Hilda and I have the same idea.

But what she wants is companionship, and what I want is for Alan to focus on the right things, instead of letting him go out to be an adventurer like Paul and disappear for many years. This is an unacceptable result for Hilda and me.

Paul, the legitimate heir of Notos, has been a wandering adventurer for so many years, and finally has to beg me for help. It's really ridiculous that he has to be a low-level knight from Buena Village to "live a peaceful life." "

As he spoke, Philip let out a breath, and he looked at the chessboard in front of him and smiled, then reached out and picked up a chess piece.

"Alan's stage should be in the capital. He is a natural politician."

"But now that we are naturally in conflict with James, Allen should not continue to be under the influence of the First Prince as 'Boreas'. In this way, in the eyes of the First Prince, his utility can only overlap with that of James, and James is currently the next head of Boreas."

He reached out and snapped the chess piece in his hand into the center of the back square of his own side of the chessboard.

That is a 'king'.

"So, before he goes to the capital, I need to help him find a new 'king' so that he can act freely."

"Bring James."

Philip's eyes flickered.

"No, not just James, but the First Prince faction."

"Step on it."

"Ascend to the pinnacle of power in Asra."

I was locked in a small dark room and had to delete 600 words. I shrugged.