Impress him

Unlike in other kingdoms, queen was chosen by the king himself or selected by the council or proposed by the majority but in Morovvan the queen was chosen through multiple competitions placed by the council, exhibiting fairness and equality but remember not anyone can be a queen as only aristocratic daughters and royal princesses can adhere to the competition.

Elizabeth has to remember the answers because she didn't study about the history in her life.

She was busy dealing with her father's business and waste her time on parties with her friends and spend her little time in business with her father even sometimes involved in her father's business meetings and carried along with his duties.

Elizabeth knew well about the business in town, markets and traders but when it comes to history " I won't get any coins if I read those fine books about history, so to hell with history I'm creating my own future" She sometimes said that when the history classes became very boring and relentlessly tired from listening to them.

Her eyes darted as if she wanted to peer at someone else's notes to read the answers.

"You have to breath, just breathe Eliza !!" She talked to herself.

Her eyes met someone. The king who was focusing his eyes on her like a predator eyeing for his prey. Heyy! Come on !!. There is a smirk on his face as he adjusted himself, his back leaning against his chair.

Was it a signal ? Did he accept her ??.

Didn't she just disgusted him yesterday ?!.

To hell with the competition, she felt sorry for the king since he had to follow the protocols in order to get his queen.

What if he didn't like her ?.While every woman dreamed to be his wife, he was dreaming of having the only wife, his only queen.

Then the king left with no choices if he didn't like his queen instead he was at least allowed to have many concubines as much as he wants, only the queen was there for a political purpose.

So why bother becoming a queen ?!.

Only she has to do is to get his attention and made her his concubine.

As if that was easy, meeting him only was limited and it is not like she will meet the king whenever she wanted.

Fortunately, she was lucky to get into the competition and being able to see the king up close.

But if she could decide to wait for the king to see her way, would take time or even forever.

This was her chance to prove that he was worthy of her love.

But the problem is, If she didn't become queen tomorrow, someone will.

And the new queen has to bear a child with the king.

It is a must.

That is the only thing that makes her blood boil and rages within her.

It has to be her and none else.

She looked at him once more trying to make him her motivation. Her father was not here today, she was on her own.

She breathed in and out, trying to calm her mind again until settled.

She told herself that she was smart but a little bit unfocused and overconfident sometimes, and it was the time to keep things at balance.

Since she had to answers those damn questions.

"What was the question again?" determined she asked the courtier.

He told her and she searched for her memory right away few seconds passed and well..She get it after squinting her eyes a lot she remembered the answers and said them loudly and correctly before she finished and went to sit at her chair beside her maid.

Exhausted, she took a drink in her hand to calm her pounding heart.

" My lady, you did great !" her maid cheered her up and Elizabeth smiled.

Even though she cheated but she admitted even cheating was a skill and it wasn't easy doing it.

She had to bribe the examiner to get the answers and tried her best to memorize them.

She wasn't trying to justify her actions or like she cares. Elizabeth wanted to become a queen no matter what !!. And becoming a queen wasn't a simple thing to her.

What she knows is whether she will be a bad or a good queen but at least she thought she will be both in her life.

It is not like a king had been attracted to her but she was doing it for her own.

None made her do that. It was for her, her own decision and she was grateful that her father was supporting her.

But where was he, he had to be there to witness her daughter performing her talents since it was the time for the every participants to show their special talents as part of the test. And the king will be the judge himself so Elizabeth had to impress him, she thought.

"My lady, may I know if you do have a talent that I'm not aware about ?" her maid Stella knows that Elizabeth didn't have time to immerse hersealf in finding her talents instead she was always talkative and only knows how to cause troubles.

Troubles and her, perfect combination.

She looked her with her green eyes behind her long eyelashes, scrutinizing her maid and finally rolled her eyes. She knew her maid was cutting her off and tried her best to unmotivate her.

What a bad maid she had, she thought.

But Stella saved Elizabeth's face yesterday by bringing her coat maybe her maid wasn't aware of her talents because what she always sees from her was troubles.

"Why Stella ?! don't worry, for your information I have many talents that you are not aware about. Won't it be good if I surprise you ?!" She commented.

"You have to choose wisely my lady, among all the talents that you have got to impress the king". Stella said sarcastically.

Choose wisely?!.

Yes, she must choose wisely since the king is the one who have to pick the one who impressed him.

He was her target then. The king.

"I know how to impress him" she claimed.