Chapter 141

Because he knew that he didn't even need to take action in this matter. Other dukes, even Duke William of Prussia, the absolute ally of Duke Antica, would not let Odysseus interfere with the Duchy of Orleans when considering the interests of his own duchy.

There is no doubt that whether this debt can be recovered depends on whether François has a conscience.

"Oh, by the way, mother, you are not going to tear your face off, right?" Orson said, taking out the video magic stone.

"Everyone present, there should be no one who doesn't recognize this item?"

When Mary saw this item appear in Orson's hand, her heart trembled.

Then, Orson input magic power into it.

Sure enough, the scene that appeared in it was Lucius' bedroom. At this time, Lucius was sitting in the center of the room.

"Although there are not many cases of using video magic stones as a form of will, it has existed in history. Although video magic stones are very valuable, it is worth using them to record more valuable evidence."

As Orson's voice fell, everyone saw that Lucius moved on the image.

"Ahem, Albert, the recording magic stone is working now, right?"

"Yes." Albert's voice came out from outside the image.

"Okay." Lucius nodded, and then said: "My mental state has not been very good recently, and I may suffer from amnesia later. In order to avoid confusion in the family inheritance position, I will say it here first."

"I, Lucius, as the head of the Stranik family, the hereditary Dukedom of Antica, hereby make a will. If I die or lose the ability to manage the Dukedom, the position of the head of the family... will be..."

When everyone saw this, they held their breath.

Because in the picture, what Lucius said next meant the establishment of the will, that is, the establishment of the heir to the Dukedom of Antica.

Off the court, Olivia and Lianka looked at each other worriedly.

As a special guest, Chelinina also showed a complicated look.

"It will be inherited by my son, Lit Stranik."

As this sentence fell, everyone was shocked.

Although everyone knows that Lit is your biological son, it shouldn't be like this, right?

How is Lit better than Orson now?

But everyone can understand this. As for the heir, there are two choices, and it's understandable to choose either one. Maybe Lucius has his own considerations.

"At the same time, my son Orson will get half of the Duke's property."

"Master, is the content of the will over?" It can be heard that Albert's voice in the video is also unexpectedly surprised.

"No, there is one more thing." Lucius said, looking at the center of the video.

Everyone can see the anger and dissatisfaction in Lucius' eyes in the video.

"Drive my unfaithful wife, Mary, out of the Stranik family!"

When Mary heard this, she knelt on the ground in fear.

"Master! Are you

telling the truth?"

"Yes, I am very conscious now, Albert." Lucius nodded. "This is my will. I hope you keep it well and make it public one day."

"Okay."

Then, the recording of the magic stone ended.

Everyone present didn't know what to say.

This family farce, a family scandal that was originally not wanted to be made public, is now likely to become gossip in the empire for a long time in the future.

And the meaning conveyed from the short few minutes of video is clear enough.

Leet inherited the title, Orson could only take half of the property and got no power, and Mary's treatment was even more outrageous.

The word "unfaithfulness" is not a joke. Once it is spoken, it cannot be taken back.

Everyone looked at Mary.

At this time, the butler Albert also came out.

As a witness to the will, he needed to come out at this time to prove the authenticity of the will.

"As you can see, I was the witness when this video was recorded, and I can guarantee the authenticity of the will."

"As for the extra words the master said, it's up to you to judge for yourself."

Then, he bowed respectfully and retreated.

"Mother, you may not think it, but the one who betrayed you is precisely the person you trust the most." Orson said this, walked in front of Mary and squatted down.

"Mr. Randall has confessed everything about your relationship with him." He whispered in Mary's ear.

"Sometimes I just don't understand. In this big family, if you just do your duty as a mother, won't you get praise and wealth?"

"You also know that a married daughter is like a helpless duckweed. Over the years, you have colluded with servants and sent money to the family just to get their support, but what is the final outcome?"

"Even when the emperor came this time, you must have wanted to ruin our reputation and let the emperor deprive us of our inheritance rights and give them to the child in your belly, right?"

"Your talent is very strong, but unfortunately, you have high aspirations, but you are walking on the most dangerous single-plank bridge. Once you make a mistake, you will be doomed."

As he said this, Orson laughed and said, "What's funny is that you made so many mistakes, and it was your father who pulled you back. But your father was kind-hearted and gave you so many opportunities, but you ignored them and finally lost to your inner desires."

"It's ridiculous to try to shake a tree with an ant. Mother, oh no, should I call you Miss Mary now?"

Orson's words, without a doubt, broke Mary's inner defenses step by step. Mary just stood there, not daring to speak, and didn't know how to speak.

After speaking, Orson stood up and looked at the people around him.

"There should be no objection to this matter, right? Everyone?" The first person he looked at was Duke Ivan of Lucia. "Just as Duke Ivan said just now, this is all private affairs of our family. If you accuse and make a rash conclusion, it would be a bit unreasonable, right?"

Then he looked at Odysseus.

"Excuse me, Your Majesty. It was originally just a small matter within the family, but it has reached the point where you have to come forward."

"No problem." Odysseus said this and shook his head.

Lucius was taken upstairs by Vivian to rest while the video magic stone was playing.

Downstairs, it was already the home court of the juniors. He was tired and needed to rest for a while.

Chapter 29: Self-exposure

Downstairs, the reckoning continued.

"Your Majesty, although this is our family affair, if such a thing happened in any family, the handling would only be more serious." Orson said this and turned his head to look at Francois, Duke of Orleans.

"Duke Francois, considering the relationship between the Dukedom of Orleans and the Dukedom of Antica, only Miss Mary was expelled from the Duke's family. What do you think about this?"

"Why are you asking me?" Francois looked at Orson puzzled. "Isn't this your family affair? It's better to say that even if Marie comes back, I won't take her in."

For Francois, Marie's exposure means the complete disappearance of her value.

Before he ascended the throne, his ambitious sister had used some tricks to try to snatch the inheritance rights from her. After she couldn't compete with him, he married her off, and she wanted to hollow out the power of her husband's family.

To be honest, if Marie could really do it, Francois wouldn't mind helping her, but

now it seems that Marie is completely a drowned dog. Why should he protect her? Just because she is his sister?

Among the nobles, the strongest bond is family affection, and the weakest bond is family affection.

Especially for great nobles like Francois.

The inheritance law based on blood relationship determines the order of heirs, but the inheritance law cannot arbitrarily deprive others of their inheritance rights. This also means that once something unexpected happens to him, the position of the duke may not fall into the hands of his descendants, which makes the nobles keep a close eye on their relatives.

Although some nobles did not have to be on guard everywhere because of the close relationship between their families, for most nobles, it was normal to wish that all their peers and relatives would die.

After all, keeping them would only make the world's rice expensive.

Mary raised her head and looked at her brother Francois. In order to get rid of this hidden danger and to win an alliance, he married her to Lucius, the Duke of Antica, who was 20 years older than her and could be her father.

She was powerless to change the status quo and could only let fate arrange it. She did not love Lucius, and Lucius, who missed his deceased wife, did not love her either. For a long time, the two of them only maintained a nominal husband-and-wife relationship.

Even when she married into Lucius's family, his son Orson was only ten years younger than her. According to age, she should be his sister, but she was forced to learn to be a mother.

She tried to resist fate. She wanted to take the power of the Dukedom of Antica into her own hands, and then take revenge on her brother.

To this end, she temporarily committed herself to her brother and quietly transferred the surplus taxes of the Duchy of Antica to the Duchy of Orleans in a clever way.

She was like a helpless duckweed, and only a gust of wind could blow her to the top of the sky, but she didn't wait for the gust of wind that belonged to her.

It rained heavily in the sky...

At this time, she suddenly remembered.

Long before, Lucius seemed to have warned her half-way.

"If you really feel that you are unable to do it, then please give up your position."

At that time, Mary only felt that this sentence was very inexplicable, but now thinking back, it was only ironic.

Yes, Lucius had warned herself, but not only did she not give up, but she became even worse...

Thinking of this, the string that was tight in Mary's heart finally broke.

"Hehe, haha..." Mary stood up, looking a little crazy.

"You bunch of high-sounding people, do you really think you are all clean?!" Mary said this, pointing at Francois, Duke of Orleans.

"Brother, why do you think I used the Dukedom's finances to support you? To make up for the financial gap in the territory after you inherited the title?"

"You wrote me a letter at the time, telling me to ask if I needed help from my family. You also mentioned that it is the duty and obligation of family members to help each other. You won't forget this, right?"

"Why are you telling me this? It's like I asked you to do this." Francois frowned.

"Oh, yes, you know how to add insult to injury." Mary said this and smiled.

Then he looked at the others.

"Oh, I have been a duchess for so many years. Guess, do you have any leverage in my hands?"

Saying this, Mary pointed to Giovanni.

"Duke Naples, what your son Donny does at Imperial College is no different from what you did back then, right?"

Giovanni, who was watching the show, was stunned for a moment when he saw Mary suddenly blowing herself up like this.

"Mrs. Mary, let me call you Mrs. Mary now. Please pay attention to your words and deeds and control your mouth."

"Ha, so you did something bad and you don't want others to know?" Mary laughed when she heard Giovanni say this.

"As the Duke of the Empire, when the Duke of Antica suffered a disaster, he only sent five thousand troops to respond! This is a good thing you did, right?"

"Your Majesty, take care of this crazy woman!" Seeing that Mary couldn't speak, Giovanni set his sights on Odysseus.

Odysseus heard this and nodded.

"Come here, Mrs. Mary has a mental problem, please take her down."

Hearing Odysseus' words, the guard standing at the door was stunned. After getting Orson's permission, he walked in and lifted Mary up.

"Let me go! I haven't finished speaking yet! And you, Ivan! Yourself

Don’t you know how many illegitimate children there are? ! "

"And you Leon...!"

Mary was pulled upstairs and shut into her room.

If nothing else, today should be the last time she is in her room.

After Mary finished making trouble, the joyful atmosphere of the celebration party was completely gone.

Instead it turned into a moment of embarrassment.

No one expected that the Stranik family would actually do such a big job.

After Mary was liquidated, she unexpectedly revealed more contents, intending to involve other nobles.

Fortunately, she was carried upstairs.

"Sorry for making you laugh." Orson said with an apologetic smile.

"It doesn't matter, who doesn't have something unspeakable in their family?" William said, stood up, came to Orson, and patted him on the shoulder.