Xuân groans as he was riding his horse through the forest. He just wanted to clear his mind.

The empress hasn’t relented trying to marry him off for some reason. He just assumed that she wanted someone that she could easily manipulate. It was absolutely annoying. Almost as annoying as his brothers nearly stepping on his tail.

He pauses, pulling on the reins to make his hose stop. His nose twitches as he looks around. He could smell the scent of blood nearby. Although, the nearest territory would belongs to the baron. He groans at the memory of the baron trying to get him to take interest of his second youngest daughter.

He jumps off his horse and follows the smell. What he didn’t expect was to see a woman leaning over the lake and cleaning her forehead which was bleeding. She looked familiar. He was pretty sure that the baron had an illegitimate child. Though she’s never seen before in public.