
On the eve of the awarding of the title, Joan was asked to present the development of Genteng village from an isolated and underdeveloped village to a prosperous village and could attract the attention of great figures to join.
The Emperor also announced the construction of the first and only naval dock and military base in the Sky Empire country.
Of course it provoked the interest of the people especially the young children of the court officials family to ask Joan many things, which Joan answered casually. Melly and her cousin Bai Ji Gur were also among them, even Mona the son of the headmaster of the Flying Sword School, the mistress of Lam Be Mu.
There are also those who do not believe the news because it is unheard of that the country has a coastline and they all become curious to come to visit the Kersik beach described by Joan as a beach the beautiful white sand is surrounded by small sandy hills.
As the discoverer of the Blue Phoenix bay, that was the name Joan had come to name the bay. Of course Joan gained the appreciation of many imperial officials.
The Board of the Genteng Village Authority who wanted to present the construction of docks and shipyards to build ships that would be used for the exploration of the Sky imperial fleet to distant countries that had not been imagined by them.
Also received praise from the Emperor, as well as officials of the imperial palace of the Sky and therefore, the Emperor gave a gift to the people of Kubar province for tax exemption for one year.
The news of the tax exemption finally reached Kubar province which brought great joy to the people of Kubar province. That was enough to ease the burden on the community in the drought season that year
While everyone else was happy, the first prince could not come to feel the pleasure. With all the achievements of Joan and the third prince who received much praise from palace officials.
The first prince sensed that how many officials who had been supporting him saw where the wind was blowing so they began to look for ways to divert support to the third prince.
It made him become even more upset that he vented it with a lot of wine that night. The first prince stood up staggered as he began to get drunk.
He approaches Mona's table to ask her toast, she raises her wine glass and greets Joan.
"I toast to your appointment as Grand Princess. Thank you for congratulating me".
"Thank you first prince".
Joan said as she lifted her glass containing fruit juice, Joan was eager to drink some more wine, he had already drunk a glass of wine and Andi had already banned him from drinking a second time because Andi knew Joan had a very low tolerance for alcoholic beverages.
One time while they were still in Genteng village, at a party, Joan drank about three glasses of wine and as a result she became drunk and sang all night.
The problem was not that her voice was not pleasant to hear but that when Joan was drunk, she would sing loudly until it was shrill and that caused many items made of ceramics to break apart.
His shrill voice was like the science of "The roaring lion roar" that could be used to attack someone and even kill him with just his voice.
In the palace a lot of furniture from ceramics, as well as glass windows. Andi was afraid there would be a lot of chaos if Joan became drunk.
"He he he, why drink fruit juice, drink wine, it's more delicious".
The first prince said to Joan.
"Sorry first prince, Joan can't do it. Let me represent him".
Andi said as she downed a glass of wine, Joan looked at her with envy but she also knew her low tolerance level towards wine.
Actually Joan does not know what happened when she was drunk but for sure she will experience a great headache after she realized from her drunkenness. Also her sisters told her how she behaved when she was drunk. So Joan refrained herself from drinking more than two glasses of wine even though she wanted one.
"Ah you are! The Emperor said that Joan would be blessed to marry one of the Princes, is that you? or me".
Andi started to get angry, but Joan held her hand and shook her head. It was a success to make Andi calm down.
"The third prince did not forbid me to drink wine, I did not want it myself".
"The first prince does not need to provoke him. Who do I want to marry? The Emperor also had no right to determine it!"
"Obviously I only want to marry a man who doesn't want me. So it looks like you guys aren't in my classification".
Joan said calmly.
"You dare to refuse the Emperor's orders".
Said the first prince who did not expect that such words would come out of the mouth of this young lady in front of him.
Who would dare to reject the Emperor's edict and also who in this country did not know that a prince always married a concubine not even one but several concubines first before searching for the empress.
There was never a story of a prince who only married one woman and the first prince also had several concubines in his house even there were servants who served to heat his bed.
The other princes were like that too except the third prince who had never been heard of had a single woman in his life.
all her bodyguards were male, there was actually a female that was Mo Ying but Mo Ying had always dressed like a male so no one thought she was a female.
"I'm not against the Emperor's orders, I'm just saying I won't marry anyone who wants to grieve me even if it's the first prince".
"The Emperor can't force me into this, I already said it yesterday to the Emperor himself".
Joan added that word with confidence.
The first prince was silent at Joan's words. How the Emperor could tolerate such a word, it seemed to be true because he did not hear the Emperor becoming angry and reprimanding Joan.
"Whether I will marry the third prince or another, it is not the right of the first prince to determine. So there's no need to provoke the third prince to that, as it's my personal responsibility".
"You can't marry the third prince, he....".
The first prince was a bit hesitant to continue with his words, he thought it might not be appropriate to humiliate him at this moment.
If he told you the secret he's been harboring all this time. Doesn't that mean that he will expose the deeds that he has been covering up all this time.
"Why you, why don't you continue what you say about me".
Said Andi while looking at the face of the first prince that turned pale.
He wanted to confirm his conjecture all along ...
The first prince did not say anything more and he turned around to leave them...
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