Chapter One

Long ago there was a man named Bulvida. Due to a family curse he couldn’t find it in himself to love any woman. The curse would skip generations and unfortunately he fell prey to it.

This concerned his family as they thought that the curse had been uplifted long ago. The curse turned Bulvida into a cold man. Ejected from the society he became a lonely man and started drowning in a pit of despair.

Until one day he was challenged by the Cupid himself. Given trials to test his worth for a chance of love he took the chance and passed all of them. Pleased the Cupid shot his arrow in the sky and told Bulvida to follow it, he instructed that the arrow would only pierce through the heart of the woman he was destined for thus, breaking the curse.

He promised that the arrow would not hurt her and Bulvida’s fate changed forever. News of these trials reached many’s ears and thus the love trials of Bulvida were born.

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They say a King doesn’t need a Queen but a Kingdom to rule, but behind every successful man is a strong woman behind him.

A’dikis, son of King Ulton and Queen Yvona, heir to the Foyton Throne lived his life with this saying as his daily anthem. He would recite it every time his parents got him a beautiful maiden for him to marry, and this drove his father crazy. Ulton was worried about his son and mostly about his throne. He was getting older and he knew he wouldn’t be fit to rule but his stubborn son made everything hard for him.

“Perhaps the young prince is interested in men and not females.” This certain comment made by one of the maids sparked a rumor around the Kingdom and caused distress to the King and Queen but it did nothing to A’dikis, as his reply to the rumors were “Think whatever you want to think. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and a King doesn’t need a Queen but a Kingdom to rule.”

Sometimes his father would wonder as to what he has done to anger the Heavens to have his son be this way. He loves his son unconditionally but sometimes he felt like he might go haywire if he ever spent more than an hour with him.

Left with no choice Ulton and Yvona arranged A’dikis to marry Reina, daughter of King Helton of their neighboring Kingdom Teria. But due to his son’s eccentric personality Reina did not even last a week and she was already losing hair due to the stress that A’dikis was causing her.

“I respect the throne of Foyton but your highness I cannot marry the prince, he drives me mad! He doesn’t mind spending time with me but whenever we are together he always talks about thinks that do not make sense and I think if I ever hear ‘A King doesn’t need a Queen but a Kingdom to rule’ one last time I will run all the way north, in this scorching heat, bare feet, in the snow.”

Upon hearing Reina’s cry they confirmed that she was indeed mad and they had their son to blame. Although the whole Kingdom was in anguish due to A’dikis. His grandfather watched in amusement. He is the one who taught A’dikis the saying that he is so much obsessed with. But, A’dikis does not know the other part of the saying. “A King doesn’t need a Queen but a Kingdom to rule, but behind successful man there is a strong woman behind him. “

He had to tell A’dikis the second part of the saying before he watches his Kingdom becoming catastrophic although this whole thing of A’dikis is overexaggerated because A’dikis could take the throne and find his Queen later on, but he knew of a way that A’dikis could truly find a woman meant for his destiny and that is for A’dikis to undergo the love trials of Bulvida.

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