" I want to manage the business given by my father"
she wanted her parental properties too. Haa! Why not ask for the whole kingdom at once. If it was in my hand I would have thrown the property papers of her parents on her face, that she would have remembered the result of her blatant insults. But there was a major flaw in the situation which I could not tell her.
My lips turned into a thin line, as I analysed her words. If she got full control over the future heir of the dukedom and all the property of her parents, then she would have both. The highest authority which equals the emperor in many cases and she would also be the richest person in competition with the emperor.
There was a reason that our ancestors had distributed the work among them. Each higher noble family was granted power. We are into administration, we have the power to challenge even the emperor's decision is supported by other nobles.