After Niviea punished her kidnappers, her head started bleeding again (she hit her head during the kidnap and didn’t any receive proper treatment). She managed to keep herself awake until she reached the ground, but fainted as soon as she landed. Kyle was there to catch her, and whispered “you did well.” before she was out.
3 days later, Niviea woke up and she went to the palace to visit the king. Now that she became the saintess, she wanted to see if she can do something about the king’s illness. Turned out Egoni has some kind of healing ability as well. The king’s condition got a bit better, but still asleep.
Because Niviea helped the king, it was unavoidable that the prince should now officially greet the saintess. However, still afraid of revealing his true identity, Kyle ended up switching clothes with his knights (the shadow guard that he always talks to). When Kyle showed up and invite Niviea to dinner, he noticed Niviea was not in a good mood. He wanted to know how her recovery was but Niviea gave him the cold shoulder. She eventually left the table and Kyle went after her.
The 2 found an empty room to speak privately, and Niviea was implying something with her tone, (at one point, she asked Kyle, If there is something she should know…) but Kyle chose to ignore it, until Niviea finally popped the truth herself, that she now knows Kyle was indeed, the prince.
Niviea found out the truth from Duke Aetius. He visited her after she woke up and told her the dagger she received from Kyle has the royal symbol.
Anyway, so Niviea was hoping Kyle could come clean himself. But he disappointed her. She started to think that Kyle was just using her for his plan, just like the Duke. (get the saintess on his side). She gave Kyle a piece of her mind, and then stormed off the palace.
Not long after, Niviea was informed by Hugo that her father was in critical condition and she had to go home asap. So she left the capital immediately. Her aunt asked a few paladins to accompany her for the travel.
On the way home, Niviea found out one of the paladin was Kyle. The 2 had a heart to heart and they reconciled. (sweet moment s here)
Niviea still didn’t make it, and the funeral was already in progress when she arrived. Her sister became the new head of the house. Niviea had to stay to help her sister for her new role, while Kyle had to leave when they heard Arkan’s troop was getting close to the boarder.
Niviea met the second prince of Arkan, Simon, by chance. She obviously didn’t know who he was, but he knew she was the saintess.
I don’t remember exactly how things went from here, but Niviea also went to help Kyle after settling her family’s affairs. She sneaked into the Duke’s mansion to look for evidence of treason (She knew from the novel that Duke and Arkan were in an alliance). But she got caught by the Duke.
Kyle had a meeting with the Arkan’s army and Simon. The meeting didn’t go well, but during the conversation, he found out something big was going to happen in just 3 days at the Duke’s mansion.
Niviea was drugged by the Duke and was about to be forced into a marriage with him. Kyle crashed the wedding at the last minute and Niviea also got her sense back around the same time, right about the Duke was about to kiss her, to be exact. Niviea rejected the wedding and made it clear this time she had no intention of marrying the Duke ever.
The 3 got into some serious conversation. At the end, Niviea gave him the letter his mother left him and the Duke confessed his own treason. Kyle exiled him instead of giving him the capital punishment.
Niviea and Kyle once again headed back to the palace to deal with the aftermath of the Duke’s exile (reorganize the court). On the way back, they finally confessed to each other. (Kyle started the mood, but it was Niviea who kissed Kyle first, just saying). It was also mentioned that Niviea already knew Kyle’s feeling for her from the way he looked at her (didn’t say when she knew though), but couldn’t make up her mind until the “wedding incident”
To be continued
