Chapter 2080

Alyssa held her breath. She tapped into one of her skills—eavesdropping. She pressed her ear close to the door, straining to catch every word of the conversation inside.

"What's with you, Dad? You've been pestering us to get a girlfriend all these years. Now that I've taken a liking to Yules and want to be with her, you're opposing us so strongly. Why is that?"

Out of all of Winston's children, Liam was the one with the gentlest personality. Even when he wasn't seeing eye-to-eye with Winston, he sought to find out Winston's reasoning patiently.

"Miley likes Yules very much too. They interact often in Kontina, and they get along very well.

"Yules is the only princess in the Kontinian royal family. If you're talking about family backgrounds, I'm the one who reached above my station. Why are you so displeased?"

"Your girlfriend can be the princess of a country. She can be a goddess or a homeless woman. I don't care!"

Winston took a deep breath. His eyes were reddened. With a tr