That’s a very weak excuse. I just need a moment. You asked me to help you keep your own secret, yet you’re angry because I kept one from you. My plan doesn’t involve arranging your marriage. No, it only involves making your parents believe you can no longer walk. We’ve already discussed this. We discussed it back in your apartment.
It sounded very different there. Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. We’re less than 30 minutes away from the palace. A folded wheelchair rested quietly behind them, hidden beneath a dark cover. This is your last chance to stop. I’m not stopping. Your mother is going to cry. I know. Your father may summon every specialist in the country.
The medical reports are ready. Fake medical reports. Convincing medical reports. You paid a doctor to write that you suffered nerve damage after an accident. He never wrote that I’d never recover. He only stated that I currently have limited movement. You’re using careful words to describe a lie.
I know exactly what I’m doing. Do you? Because you didn’t even know three princesses were already waiting for you. That only makes my plan even more necessary. Why? Because they arrived expecting a healthy crown prince. And a wealthy one. They’re wealthy, too. I want to know whether they’ll still respect me when they believe I’ve become weak.
But you’re not weak. They’ll believe I am. And what exactly will that prove? It’ll reveal who they truly are when life is no longer perfect. I still I’ve spent too many years watching people change the moment they discover who I really am. Not everyone is pretending, Alexander.
[music] Most people are. While I was studying abroad, no one cared who I was until they discovered my surname. So, now you want to deceive everyone for a short time. And how long is a short time? A king must know who truly stands beside him. I can’t discover that if everyone believes life around me is perfect.
You don’t have to pretend you can’t walk to learn that. No, I don’t believe I can learn it any other way because people are at their best when they want something. I need to see who they’ll become when they believe the future they imagined has suddenly changed. And if one of them is genuinely good, then I’ll know.
