[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

"Are you all ready?" Titus straightened his priest robes, complaining when he could take off this damn clothes.

And counting the days, Titus has been preparing for the farewell banquet tonight for a whole month, and he didn't even have time to sleep peacefully last night.

Thinking of Octavia's cold face after Otto's trial, Titus subconsciously shivered. He didn't know whether it was because of fear or excitement. Goosebumps kept appearing on his arms, and his whole heart beat. Accelerated as if fainting at any moment.

"That hateful woman." At this moment, Titus' excitement was far greater than Octavia's, and even his complaints turned into a slightly sexual whisper.

He double-checked his appearance before heading out, slipped on his secret signet ring, and chewed some mint leaves to keep himself awake.

Today is a big day for Titus.

Otto's death knell is also the sound of celebration when Titus enters the Senate.

Even though Vepasian didn't want Titus to enter the seniority-based senate full of black shadows so early, Titus didn't want to follow the old path of his father and grandfather, and he didn't want to start the real one until he was over thirty. official career.Besides, he was not the only one who made an exception and entered the Senate, so under the temptation of Octavia's familiarity with the road, Titus decided to sing against his father, and on the condition that he helped Octavia solve Otto, he jumped from the temple to the Senate. Not the army.

In fact, long before Octavia found Titus, Vipasian had already arranged Titus' future, and after the return of the Thracian Legion or the Germanic Legion, Titus would be placed in it to mix seniority.

You must know that before becoming a military officer, Vepasian was the construction officer of the Thracian Legion and the lieutenant general of the Germanic Legion, so no matter which army Titus joins, it is a cutscene with a stable qualification, and there is no need to worry about being judged by others. Bullying or not getting ahead until retirement.

However, this is not what Titus really wants.

Especially after Wei Paxiang took back Domitian, who had been fostering relatives, Titus' sense of crisis became more and more serious, and he even had a tendency to be paranoid about being persecuted.

Although in big families, resources are given to the most promising children or the best-married daughters by default, but with the accumulation of wealth and changes in the social structure, some knight families who are not short of money will always raise more A spare son, so that if something happens to the eldest son, there is another one who can take over.

Domitian was Titus' backup.

Even if Vepasian intentionally separated the second son from the eldest son to prevent the competition between them from ruining the whole family, when Titus joined the army, something unexpected would always happen to Vepasian.

After all, deserters on the battlefield are equivalent to the death of family status and official career.

Vepasian must train Domitian from now on, so as to avoid any accidents to Titus who entered the army, he was forced by his mother to choose his nephew as his heir.

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[This feeling of having a substitute behind me is really uncomfortable. 】

The moment Titus walked out of the room, he bumped into his brother who had just returned home, and then gave him a gentle smile: "Let's go together?"

Domitian, who was only five years old, was not very familiar with his family because he was taken away at birth.

Although Vepasian intended to use Domitian as a backup for Titus, he strictly distinguished the identities of the two sons in daily life, and even forbade Domitian to call himself father and Titus elder brother. Use "Adults" and "Your Excellency" as a substitute.

At the beginning, Domitian was not very used to the change of identity and address, but after Vepasian locked him in the dungeon twice, Domitian was able to change the address of others skillfully, and then became more silent than before. .

"Your Excellency, you go first." Facing Titus' kindness, Domitian, who has experienced several dungeons, took a step back, let Titus walk in front, and then followed Titus's ass like a little tail later.

For a moment, Titus actually thought Domitian was very cute, but this soft heart soon dissipated.

[He is his competitor! 】

Titus kept emphasizing this point in his heart, and when he arrived at the gate of the banquet, he gave Domitian some warnings: "Don't leave the steward's side, and don't answer some unimportant things."

Considering that this banquet was a test for Domitian by Vepasian, Titus couldn't remind him more, and he didn't want to be his brother's nanny all night.

Although the dinner was Otto's transfer banquet, everyone's focus was on the emperor and his wife.

Nero still embraced Octavia's shoulders as always, that intimate gesture confused some nobles who were trying to verify the relationship between the emperor and his wife, and then looked at the host couple with scrutiny.

Under this scalp-numbing gaze, Pompeo Sabina still maintained a decent smile, and even approached Nero with a thick skin, full of hints: "I thought His Majesty the Emperor would not be here. Woolen cloth!"

Pompeia Sabina deliberately made that "come" sound so imaginative that she almost publicized her affair with Nero to everyone.

In this regard, Nero originally wanted to bypass this woman he was tired of, but when he thought of Octavia beside him, he suppressed his boredom with Pompea Sabina, and deliberately said: "As Otto's friend , I will of course send off the most loyal people of Rome before he is transferred."

Octavia was completely indifferent to Nero's naive provocation, and even joked: "Nero misses your family's fine wine, beautiful scenery, and beauties."

It was only now that Pompeo Sabina met Octavia's eyes, and she always felt that the other's light-colored eyes were rendered like the vertical pupils of a poisonous snake by the candlelight.

"After all, once you leave, I'm afraid Nero will miss you for a long time." Octavia greeted verbally, politely, and then sentenced the Otto couple to death in her heart.

Not far away, Julia Sirana nervously covered the ring on her left ring finger with her right hand, as if she was trying to hide something, but she was startled by a sparrow that suddenly fell into the wine pool .

"Ma'am, are you okay!" A slave hurried over to greet Julia Sirana.

Caius Silius, who came with his wife, was very disgusted by Julia Sirana's rude behavior, and didn't even want to have anything to do with Julia Sirana at the banquet.

Julia Sirana, who was already nervous, made a big fool of herself in front of everyone, so she looked for her husband helplessly, only to find that he was having a good time with some noble ladies, which made Julia Sirana Sirana's unbearable heart froze completely, as if she could no longer feel the beating.

This time, she wanted to make a break with this heartless man.

Julia Sirana closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her eyes were so cold that no trace of hesitation could be seen.