Chapter225

Elara held Uno's slightly rough knuckles, gently rubbing the texture on them. "Then go deliver what I prepared earlier to Mathias's hall. Tell him after he wakes up tomorrow."

"Yes," the palace attendant replied and stepped back.

With that, today's tasks were basically done.

Elara let go of Uno's hand, stood up, and yawned.

Her health had been improving lately, but she had also been staying up more often.

She couldn't keep this up, her biological clock still needed to be adjusted properly.

Elara waited until the last group of the Wei clan finished their banquet, then got up and left the back courtyard, leaving the attendants to clean up quickly.

She had been busy all day and was tired, ready to go back and sleep well, waking naturally the next day.

But what Elara didn't expect was that just as she naturally woke up and got out of bed the next morning, a palace attendant came running over and said:

"Your Majesty, the two princes sent by the Carnation Kingdom have been feeling very unwell since last night. I tried to get them a royal physician, but they refused and insisted on seeing you."

Still half-asleep and just dressed, Elara spoke lazily, "Oh? What's wrong with them?"

The palace attendant paused, hesitating for several seconds before saying, "The two princes said… said their chests, their chests hurt. It's swelling and painful…"

Elara's mind was still a little foggy and paused for two seconds before she understood what the palace attendants meant by the two men holding their chests in pain.

She was silent for a moment, then after being helped by Uno to wash up and dress, she headed toward the inner palace. "Let's go, take me to see them."

Plumera Palace

Because the Carnation Kingdom had sent two princes who were twins, the Empress of Carnation said they grew up together eating, drinking, and receiving special training without being separated. So after they were sent into the palace, they lived in the same hall.

Inside the hall

Elara dismissed all the palace attendants. She looked at the two handsome men who, upon seeing her, immediately hugged their chests slightly, quickly walked to her, and knelt down. They raised their eyes to look at her, wanting to get close but afraid.

She already knew their names from the Empress of Carnation, called Cleome and Clematis.

Both Cleome and Clematis had golden chains locked around their ankles, limiting their movement to only inside this palace.

The delicate golden cages that once imprisoned them were placed by their beds. The golden chains ended inside the cages, making it easy to lock them back anytime.

However, since they had become hers and this palace had become their own bedroom, with no one else present, they took off their veils, revealing faces that were breathtakingly beautiful.

They were not the kind of beauty that was soft and androgynous but clearly masculine and handsome.

Both were tall, about 1.8 meters, taller than Elara by a head. Their bodies had broad shoulders, narrow waists, and long legs. Their skin was flawless, white, and tender.

Yet at this moment, these two men, both taller than her, looked at her with pitiful, pleading eyes as if they were helpless little pets controlled by her. Whatever they wanted to do needed her permission, or they dared not move on their own.

"Y-Your Majesty..."

They knelt before her, eyes watery with tears, red at the corners. Their hands trembling slightly as they held their chests, clearly in pain.

Elara's gaze subconsciously dropped to their chests.

They wore very little to begin with, and from their training in the Carnation Kingdom, their clothing was even less here in their own palace. They wore only translucent thin veils, making it look like they wore nothing at all.

Their chests... Elara could see clearly that the already large, round places were now even bigger and more swollen than two days ago.

They seemed... to move and even shake.

Kneeling before her, Cleome and Clematis's eyes became redder, as if the pain had reached its limit and they could barely endure it.

"Y-Your Majesty... please, please have mercy, it hurts so much..."

They knelt on each side, pressing their chests out, tearful and begging for her care.

Elara raised her hand to cover her face. In her previous life, she never married or had children, so she didn't know what it felt like to have swollen breasts while nursing.

But her friends who married and had children early had once complained that swollen breasts while nursing were very painful.

Elara didn't know what secret magic the Carnation Kingdom used to make two young men's chests swell like this.

She rubbed her temple, looking at the two handsome men kneeling before her. "How did you handle this before?"

"Before... before, a nurse used tools to help us..."

"And where are your tools? Bring them out and handle it."

The moment she said this, the two men looking at her froze.

Two seconds later, tears slipped from their eyes. Their expressions changed from hopeful to defeated and despairing.

"Do... do you not want us anymore?"

"Y-You... you haven't even touched us... are we... useless now?"

"Do you want to replace us?"

Elara's eyelids twitched. She suddenly remembered the Empress of Carnation saying if she wasn't satisfied with them, she could immediately replace them. The two princes showed obvious fear when she said that.

Elara did not know what fate awaited them if she truly rejected them, but it was definitely very bad.

Their fear was so deep that when she asked, their eyes showed a hint of hopelessness, as if their only path was death if she abandoned them.

Elara sighed in her heart and spoke to stop their wild thoughts.

"No, I am not rejecting you. I have never encountered this situation before. How about this? You use your tools today, and next time when I learn more about Carnation's customs, I will help you. Okay?"

Hearing that she was not rejecting them, the despair in their eyes finally faded.

They looked at Elara with tearful eyes again. Their faces were so beautiful it was almost suffocating, and their pitiful expressions were nearly identical.

"B-But Your Majesty, we... we did not bring any tools... Our bodies cannot even be touched by ourselves. We belong to you now, and only you may..."

Facing these beautiful and pitiful faces, Elara was momentarily speechless.

She had thought of finding an experienced nurse to help them, but they said their bodies could not be touched even by themselves. If Elara brought a nurse, they might misunderstand and show despair again.

Elara felt a headache. The Empress of Carnation and her female attendants still lived in Plumera City. These two princes were the "most noble gifts" sent by them. If Elara wanted to build relations with Carnation, she must treat this carefully.

Besides, no matter what, they were living people, beautiful and alive. Elara could not just watch them despair and seek death.