I! Cleaner!-Chapter 775 - 709: Sister-in-Law and Sister’s Night Talk

Just as Melanie, due to a momentary oversight, was extorted and had to painfully give up her shares, Princess Veronica had already changed out of her wedding dress, and pulled Anna, who had changed back into her casual clothes, to her room.

After taking off that resplendent yet cumbersome and heavy wedding dress, a good amount of vigor flew away from Princess Veronica. With the maid's help, she barely managed to change into her sleepwear before she directly threw herself onto her large bed.

"Finally, it's all done..."

After burying her face into the bedding and letting out a sigh, Princess Veronica turned over, smiling mischievously as she beckoned to the somewhat reserved Anna.

"Come on, come on! Now there's only one step left. As long as you sleep through tonight with me, tomorrow I'll be a member of your Ryan Family."

"Veronica sister!"

Brought to a blush by the princess's ambiguous words, the naturally soft-spoken Anna shook her head rapidly, her face flushed as she refused:

"It's still better if I sleep on the sofa…"

"Oh come! Come here!"

Patted the empty space next to her, Princess Veronica said with a hint of faux reproach:

"Why are you like Leon, always preferring to sleep on my sofa? Do you guys insist on forcing me to move the sofa out?"

"I…"

"No more I, come over here!"

Stepping barefoot on the carpet of the room, she ran over and pulled Anna over, then hugged her with a smile:

"I know you're not used to it, but on the night before a wedding, having the bridegroom's female kin accompany the bed is part of the entire wedding process. If you don't sleep with me tonight, tomorrow's wedding won't go well~"

"Oh dear!"

Falling onto the soft large bed, tightly embraced by the princess, Anna squirmed twice but found herself unable to break free, unable to bear the embarrassment as she groused:

"Isn't this process too strange? It's clearly your wedding, why do I have to accompany you?"

Why do you need to accompany me for the wedding process? That's obviously to help your brother with the screening~

Looking at Anna whose face had blushed all the way down to her neck, Princess Veronica couldn't help but laugh but didn't open her mouth to explain.

Due to some special reasons, the purity of bloodlines is extremely important for royal families, and before the Crolock Kingdom invented instruments to test kinship through blood, there was no method for such tests.

So on the night before the majority of weddings, the bride's family would have the groom's female elder accompany her bed, and then... conduct some rather primitive checks to ensure the maintenance of bloodline "purity".

Although such checks are no longer necessary now, the ancient tradition of hundreds or even thousands of years has preserved the custom of pre-wedding bed accompaniment as part of the process...

Hmm... it's a pity that if the person she's hugging now were Leon, she'd bring up this old tradition to tease him. But since the person on her bed is Anna, it's better not to mention, otherwise, if the bashfulness scares her away, Veronica would certainly be in trouble.

...

"I don't know either."

After casually lying, Princess Veronica snuggled Anna tighter into her arms, buried her head next to Anna's neck, sniffing the scent of washing detergent, and with a relaxed face, gently said:

"The kingdom has existed for so many years, going through countless kings. If anyone left a little requirement, it might have become a tradition passed down for hundreds of years… But this tradition is quite nice."

"Stop! Don't move! Oh dear!"

Watching the princess, looking like a female thug, bury her head next to her neck and breath in, Anna couldn't help but gently push her and rarely showed a bit of temper.

"Veronica sister! If you keep messing around, I'll… I'll leave!"

"That won't do~"

Faced with Anna's soft and tender yet slightly trembling threat, the princess, with thick skin, naturally ignored her, tightened her grip instead, and with a teasing smile buried her head:

"How about this, if you start calling me sister-in-law, I'll loosen my hold on you a bit, alright?"

"I…"

Hmm?

After waiting for two seconds without getting a reply and noticing the body in her arms stiffening slightly, Veronica couldn't help but raise her head in surprise, looking into the hesitant eyes of the slender girl.

"What's wrong?"

After seeing Anna's expression, Princess Veronica pondered for a moment, then slightly loosened her arms, gazing into her eyes, and gently asked with some apology:

"Did I make it difficult for you? It's okay if you're not used to changing the way you address me…"

"No, it's not!"

Shaking her head rapidly, Anna subconsciously clutched the hem of her dress, then mustered some courage to look back, softly asking:

"I just want to know...sis... Veronica sister, you chose to marry my big brother; is it because you truly… truly like him?" 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Wow, turns out you really are here to 'screen' him!

Faced with the childish question from her sister-in-law, Princess Veronica couldn't help but smile, instinctively wanting to joke, but when she saw the slightly anxious and worried eyes of Anna, her heart softened a bit.

Given Anna's gentle nature, the fact that she mustered the courage to ask this kind of question surely means she's afraid that Veronica actually has an ulterior motive and is targeting what Leon represents behind him, worrying that her brother would be hurt in this "political marriage".

So both she and Leon don't care about the significance of marrying into the royal family, don't consider the interests behind the marriage, and don't care about the glory of the prince's title or the benefits it can bring; she only cares if her brother can find happiness after the wedding.

Ah, truly worthy of being Leon's sister, she's certainly not ordinary… Hmm… Or perhaps Anna is the most normal one, and the people Veronica has dealt with before, including herself as a calculative woman, are the truly "extraordinary" ones.

With a self-deprecating smile, Princess Veronica couldn't help but hug Anna tightly, then lovingly and tenderly kissed her cheek, subsequently honestly confessing amidst Anna's gasp and refusal:

"Honestly, at first, I certainly didn't; at that time, choosing Leon was more about his identity as the Duke of Lionheart and the convenience that the identity could provide me."

"Now…and now…"

"Now, I certainly do."

Blushing slightly herself, the princess withholds her embarrassment while gazing into Anna's eyes, sincerely saying:

"Though it may sound a bit odd, Leon indeed has something that strongly attracts me. He…I don't quite know how to describe it, but the way he looks at me is genuinely different from everyone else, lacking possessiveness, awe, and greed.

I can faintly feel that he doesn't care about my status, my wealth, my power and position, or my looks… mm…"

Pausing here, Princess Veronica recalled Leon occasionally sneaking glances when they "met privately," then changed her words:

"Doesn't care much about my looks and figure… In short, in Leon's eyes, I'm not the first princess, nor a future queen, but simply Veronica as a person.

With him, I don't need to play a particular role, worry about disappointing anyone, or become an emblem for anyone's ideals; being with Leon makes me feel the most relaxed… Anna, do you understand what I mean?"