#Chapter 174: Eavesdropper

The advisors badmouthing me haven’t seen me yet, hidden as I am behind the brush.

Their words sting me, but they aren’t anything that I haven’t heard before. The advisors might have the king’s ear, but they’ve never been kind to me. So I’m not particularly alarmed by these insults, more annoyed by the blatant disrespect to Roman, who has chosen to favor me.

Roman wouldn’t likely take kindly to the