“Why would we not see each other again?” Darryl smiled and comforted her. “You’re the Princess. Your father loves you so much—you can go wherever you want.”

When he said that, Darryl sized Yvette up. His face was full of tenderness, yet it showed his heartache, too.

He had not seen her for almost a month, and Yvette seemed to have gotten a little haggard.

“I—” Yvette’s face looked bitter. She shook her head. “I have lost my freedom. Do you know that my dad wants to hold a martial art tournament and the winner will be my future husband? I was also grounded at the palace…”

Then, tears fell from her face.

Ever since Yvette’s return from North Moana, she had been on house arrest for nearly a month.

Yvette had always been a free-spirited person. The house arrest for the past month had nearly driven her crazy. That morning, while the guards changed their shifts, she dressed up as a man and sneaked out of the palace.

She was barely out of Royal City when she bumped into Darryl on the s