Leo looked at the duke and asked, "Your Grace, since you have noticed this problem, do you know the solution for it as well?"

The duke sighed and nodded, "You have the power of the people behind you, Leo. The nation will not offend you, however, the politicians also have the power to make policies that could cause you to suffer in the long term. Another thing that we have to keep in mind is that despite everything that you have done in the remote areas, but the majority of the people will still choose the men who wear the pins on their lapels. So, since you can influence the people and make them insecure, why not join the gallery?"

Leo was shocked and he then chuckled before he replied, "Your Grace, this joke is not funny. I have no intention of joining the charade in the political galore, I need to take care of my children. Lily is growing and so are the twins, and believe me when I say this, the younger ones are rather naughtier than Lily could be."

The duke was shocked, and a twitch developed on the corner of his lips. The young prince beside him was even more shocked, Leo smiled and asked, "Is it really that difficult to believe that I would rather live with my family than trying to fight it out in the battle of wits. These people have no morals, even the ones who are in chair, they will do anything to keep that chair warm. I am not that person, nor am I that cunning. My way of handling things is rather simple."

The duke rubbed his forehead and asked, "What shall we do then? Give them a few kickbacks, but father will never agree to that." 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Leo nodded and replied calmly, "Yes, it is immoral."

The duke looked at Leo and asked, "What do you think if we bring Snow overboard?"

Leo shrugged and replied, "Please consult her for whatever you want to discuss. I will never make a decision for her."

The middle-aged man nodded and agreed, indeed, it was only right for him to talk to Snow if he wanted her to decide upon something. After that was settled, Leo went out of the study with Elena in his arms.

The family was still sitting in the living room, and the Duke and the Prince followed behind the young man. Julian yawned and Leo said, "Your Highness, I apologize, but can I take the kids to sleep?"

The duke nodded and then gestured at a maid to show him the room. Leo carried the twins in his arms and then they reached the bedroom, where he put the twins to sleep after feeding them. Shortly after he finished, Lily came inside as well, so the young man carried her in his arms and put her to sleep as well.

After an hour, the young man laid in the bed with Lily beside him and finally Snow came inside the room, and her expression was rather somber. Leo asked softly, "What did you say?"

Snow shook her head and replied, "I asked him for some time to think about it. Such a decision is not to be made in haste. Also, my origin from the Stag Nation is something that would be used as a leverage by the people of the cabinet and the opposition. I cannot just waltz in there and tell them to accept me."

Leo nodded and replied, "This was why I didn’t want to jump in on this. It is all so tricky. Like what are we supposed to do if someone on the ground level screws up? Take a fall? That is not how we work."

Snow nodded in agreement, because in politics the one must-have skill was diplomacy, and they both lacked it a lot. Snow may appear to be cunning but that was only limited to her company, apart from that she would take up the knife and start carving away at the enemy. Thinking about it, she went to the bathroom, washed up and changed her clothes before she walked back in the bedroom and laid down with Lily between her and Leo.

The princess, Amare, wanted Lily to stay with her for the night but the young lady just stated how she is unable to sleep with her Baba, and how it gives her nightmare, and managed to stay together in one room. Leo listened to all that Snow said, and then he said, "It’s okay, take your time and then make a decision, I will support you with everything and don’t worry, even if I have to shuffle the entire cabinet, I will do it for you."

Snow turned to look at him and asked, "Even if it involves poking a hole between a certain someone’s forehead?"

Leo didn’t even blink as he replied, "Yes, it is. I will nail enough people to create a throne for you if that is what is needed in this situation."

Snow was not surprised by his words, she knew that Leo would really do this for her. The young man watched her fall asleep before she closed her own eyes to sleep and at the same time, explore the possibilities of creating a track on the moon. After all, since the idea was taking place, he had to come up with a proper method to keep things going in the future and that would not happen without any research.

...

In the morning, he sat up and was wondering if he should go out for a run or not when his communicator went off, it was Percie, he frowned, picked up the earbuds from the side slots and then accepted the call. The rest of the people were sleeping so he wanted to make sure that they are not disturbed. The call connected and the lady on the other side said, "Sir, there is a situation. The ministry of resources and mining had accused us of monopolizing the moon by developing the advanced bases there. They are asking if we want to declare moon as a private property."

Leo frowned, and then he heard another thing, it seemed that the ministers were forcing them a lot now. They even blamed the King and the Duke for all the high level privileges that the Cardinal Group had, and that was not all, some of the officials have come forward driving the public opinion against the Cardinal Family. While the people who believed them fought back valiantly, the haters had nothing to stop them. They all were after blood of the noble creatures. From the medieval times, it was the fight against the noble and the good that gave men the adrenaline rush.

Leo looked towards Snow and said, "I am aware that you have woken up, Love."

Snow opened her eyes and sighed, "I have been following the news since last night when the first threat surface. Believe me, they have been getting on my nerve now."

Leo smiled and then he said, "Let’s go take a walk and we will sure find you a soothing emotion in the greens of the palace."

Snow nodded to him and the two went to run around the palace, just then another alert popped up and this time the target of all the news was none other than Lily, and at the people were calling out to how she was just being given the competition awards because her parents were influential people. This current of sudden defamation was akin to a poke at the sleeping tiger. This alone was enough for them to lose their temper.

Snow decided that she was going in to take down these bastards off from the chair they all loved so much. That said, Leo took the initiative of submitting a nationwide defamation case against everyone and the entire firm was mobilized. The Cardinal Group didn’t make any single retort just directly took action and the suites were massive.

Within twelve hours, people began to retract their posts, and some stubborn ones were beginning to create a mess one after the other. However, it was too late, the Golden Sigil had privileges, and they were being exploited by Leo Cardinal at this moment. He didn’t hold back at all.

The nation realized how crazy the consequences were for poking the sleeping lion. One week passed, when the rest of the Sigil Families also stepped up to join Snow and form a team of representatives to join the cabinet. Many of the politicians said that this was an attack on democracy and a way for the crown to take back the control and force the world back into the way of monarchy.

However, Snow held a press meet and there she smiled and raised her hand to stop all the people from asking questions and the young lady said, "You all have been clamoring all these days about how the crown is trying to take back power and this and that, but look at what this hollow democracy has done to the system and the people that it was supposed to serve."

She took out a small drive and plugged it into the system before she began to present the data to the people in slides. It was a full scale break down of the public information and the statical reports. The conference lasted for seven hours. The media was stunned by the facts, about how in the past four decades the country had fallen into rot. The monopoly of the politicians that ran wide and undiscovered, and at the end of the conference, Snow just told them, "This is why the crown looked back to the Sigil Families, the ones who earned the privileges and the have done nothing but serving the people. If you all have trouble believing that, then you can go and cry for help to those politicians after all, they pay you to distract the nation from what really matters, no?"