The Girl He Dumped Becomes a Billionaire.

Chapter 21

Richard of Solins waited outside the deserted bedchamber, watching the anxious-faced maids bring out basin after basin of blood. And all the priests who had been recruited into the bedchamber couldn't stay for more than a few moments before they were racked out with pale faces, as if the blood and water the maids brought out was also the energy they had lost.

"The priests have gone in?" Richard could smell a stench of blood that made him despair even without inhaling hard.

The Patriarch standing by Richard's side surreptitiously observed Richard's face and tried his best to keep his tone from sounding particularly emotional, "I got all the priests who don't have assignments in."

Before the Patriarch could finish his words, he saw an older maid carrying a blood-stained swaddling cloth towards Richard, the hatred engraved in her humble gesture was hard to describe.

"It is a boy." The maid said word for word to Richard. She wanted to turn every word into a sharp nail and nail Richard to the holy pillar called "Good and Evil are rewarded".

"I know." In the face of the maid's hatred, Richard just lightly glanced at the bloodstained swaddling clothes, without a single bit of interest in this child that had already died: "Take it down for burial!"

The Patriarch stepped forward to block the maid's gaze and gave a blessing to the aborted baby, "Is the Queen okay?"

"This female duke is still being resuscitated." Although this female duke of the Duchy of Britannia has been crowned Queen Solins, her personal attendant still insists on calling her master a female duke, "Lord Fitzroy is confirming the female duke's last wishes, and the issue of the heir is being discussed there at the council of nobles."

Since the lady-in-waiting dared to say so, she was certain that the female duke of the Duchy of Britannia would be difficult to salvage.

Or, even if this female Duke of Britannia is temporarily rescued, she can only rely on the priests' divine healing six times a day to barely hold on to her vitality, and it would be considered a blessing from the gods if she can last for a month.

If the female duke of the Duchy of Britannia has no desire to live at all ......

Richard thought of those radicalized Independents of the Duchy of Britannia and felt the need to prepare a series of countermeasures before the death of this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia.

As for this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia who was dying in the bedchamber, she was no longer of much use after being resuscitated.

Perhaps the Regent of the Duchy of Britannia and Richard of Solins were still calculating to drain her of her remaining value.

But this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia didn't want to be at the mercy of anyone at the end of her life.

When the sleeping female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia was awakened by the sharp pain after the anesthetic, there was no one else in the bedchamber except for Lena, the lady-in-waiting that she had brought from the Duchy of Britannia.

"Your Highness, are you alright?" Lena, who had been on guard for half a day, touched the forehead of this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia and found that the other party's body temperature was still slightly higher than usual: "I'll call the priest for you."

Lena had just gotten up when she was stopped by this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia.

"Don't bother." This female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia coughed a few times breathlessly, realizing that even if she received the blessing of the gods, I'm afraid she wouldn't have a few days to live, "I just want to think quietly for a while now."

As things stood, the female Duke of the Duchy of Bretonia had no chance to regret, and could only arrange for an heir that could convince all parties before the end of her life, so as to prevent the countries from fighting over the inheritance of the Duchy of Bretonia, which would ultimately lead to the suffering of the people of the Duchy of Bretonia.

"Lena, I'm really an unqualified ruler." The female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia reached out her hand from under the covers and tried to gain strength from her maid, "If father had made Isabella (the female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca) his heir back then, perhaps the Duchy of Britannia wouldn't have suffered such a bad fate."

"Your Highness, all of this is the will of the gods." Lena rested her forehead against the hand of this female duke of the Duchy of Britannia and tried to restrain the indisputable tears, "You shouldn't take all the faults on yourself."

"Yes! If I could, I wouldn't want to take all the faults on myself." The female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia struggled to touch the top of Lena's head with her one remaining hand in an attempt to keep the maid from crying.

"I need you to do something for me."

The next words from this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia caused Lena to look up and quickly dry her tears before meeting her mistress' eyes.

"That bastard Richard will most likely use Midelyn to control Henry, so the inheritance of the Duchy of Britannia cannot fall into Henry's hands, nor can it be left to Isabella." Although this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia gave off an impression of being a foolish white woman who was not well versed in the world, she had at least been sitting comfortably in the seat of the Duchy's ruler for nearly thirty years, so it was impossible for her not to have an ounce of political literacy.

"I can't think of anyone better suited to inherit the Duchy of Britannia than Marianne." Mentioning the niece she almost adopted, this female duke of the Duchy of Britannia was nothing but guilty, that is, she was unable to bear it. Because she knew very well that Marianne, who had been pushed to the throne by herself, would most likely repeat her fate.

"Richard had broken off his engagement with Marianne and was still married to me, so after my death, due to ethical and legal kinship, Richard was unable to marry Marianne, which means that the Duchy of Britannia will most likely remain independent." Although this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia did not spend much time with her young husband, she knew very well that this King of Solins, who could be ruthless to others and himself, would never let the Duchy of Britannia go easily.

Even if Marianne were to marry a ruler after her succession, Richard would use every means to keep the Duchy of Britannia out of Solins' hands.

And that would mean that the Duchy of Britannia would be able to gain the maximum amount of autonomy in the game between the two sides.

"But will King Solins really let it go?" Lena had but seen how cold and hard Richard's heart was. When she carried the aborted fetus of this female duke of the Duchy of Britannia out of her bedchamber, Richard of Solins not only didn't bother to look at it, he didn't even pray for the poor child.

"He'll let it go." The voice of this female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia was surprisingly firm, "Richard wants to sit on his hands in a three-way standoff between Canterlot, Odin, and Obstar, but the rulers of all three nations are no fools, so they don't mind going to Richard's expense while he looks the joke in the eye, they're even happy to do it. "

Lena knew it was a necessary means of balancing the countries and was happy to see Richard exasperated but helpless.

"So what do you need me to do?"

"Deliver to the Pope the treaties I made at the time of Marianne's betrothal to Richard." This female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia commanded, "Richard will do absolutely everything in his power to destroy those treaties, and there's no way that my bastard uncle will ever ascend to the Duke's throne, so his best bet is to use me to make a deal with Richard of the Duchy of Britannia."

Saying this, this female Duke of the Duchy of Bretonia coughed heavily a few more times, and her voice became even weaker than just now, "These two men are plotting to devour my country, and Isabella (this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca), as a potential heir, will be criticized for being unfair no matter what she says, so I need to find a decider who will leave everyone speechless. I'm going to find a decider who will make everyone speechless."

The female Duke of the Duchy of Britannia looked out the window, which was as black as her future.

"A decider with an authoritative status that makes it difficult to attack, and with a selfish agenda."