I love a good slow burn but this is literally just beating around the bush. It's not a slow burn!! Plus why doesn't she just confess already to the prince? Isn't the guilt of hiding such a great secret from someone who loves you so much, big enough to want to confess. Moreover she already got his promise that he will forgive her once. So she should just confess (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I really don't get it. If the mother had ipolito as a love child then that must mean that she was married to the cardinal and had affair with the man named Simon. Then why does having Arabella matters? No one except her would know who Arabella belong to so she could have just claimed her to be Simons as well and still run away with him...i don't get anything here. Is it the translation or is it the way the author intended? ╮(￣▽￣)╭