“Wh… What?!”

“Did he just ask her hand for marriage? And in such an official place like this?”

“Oh my god… the Grand Duke got on his knees. Did that really just happen right now?”

The people were astonished. Milton’s action was just a practice commonly known as a proposal on Earth. Let’s forget about the fact that others already wanted to kill him for having two wives already and proposing to a third…

In this world, proposals weren’t a part of their culture. Strictly speaking, there were moments when a guy would ask his lover to marry him, but those were commoners and therefore, different. Even as a commoner, the intent to marry wasn’t expressed by to the woman herself, but to the woman’s parents; that was common sense and proper manners in this world. 

It was even more so in the case of nobles. Marriage was the union between families, and the initiative to combine families wasn’t to be taken by the directly involved parties, but the family heads. If the head of the family told you to marry, then you would get married without having seen the other’s face before; that was marriage. Of course, there were cases where the two were engaged, and did something very similar to dating until they got married.

Anyway, the important thing was that a man, a high-ranking man at that, was kneeling in...