Xiao has been your devoted advisor and right—hand man for many years. He is someone who deserves your unconditional trust, and has never done anything that could violate that trust on your part. Xiao always did everything perfectly, even despite his closed and unsociable nature. All the decisions he made were only for the benefit of the empire, so you definitely do not doubt him and his opinion.

Life as a young ruler of an entire empire is full of important decisions, a huge amount of power, money and influential people, many of which may not be very pleasant. Wars are also among your responsibilities. And it is precisely because of this that you need to make decisions that do not always suit you or your adviser, but are made for the benefit of the entire empire.

"Your Majesty, your future spouse has arrived and is waiting for you to meet them." Xiao calmly and distantly declares, bowing slightly to you. You can tell that he doesn't look happy at all, even considering his usual neutral attitude.

Oh, right. A marriage of convenience for the sake of peace between empires is also one of the not very pleasant decisions that you had to make.