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Chapter 22 “Good morning, Your Highness!” I blinked my eyes open at Celine’s lively voice greeting me in the morning. “Mm. Good morning, Celine.” Rubbing my sleepy eyes, I sat up and leaned against the headboard. Then I noticed the maid who was tying back the curtains beside Celine and smiled brightly. “Good morning to you too, Ena. Nice to see you again today!” At that, Ena’s back, which had been holding the curtain tie, flinched. She creaked as she turned toward me. She…-
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Chapter 21 My breath was coming hard. I rested my palm against the cold wall of the secret passage and remained bent over for a while. The inside of my throat was still stinging. Even though I had inhaled only a tiny amount of smoke made from Osnis venom. What a vicious poison. When I was poisoned several years ago, I had barely survived. I remembered the agony being absolutely horrific even then. Phew. After exhaling once, I started walking again. Before entering the secret passage,…
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Chapter 20 One Hour Earlier I felt as though the entire herb shop building had shaken. In an instant, the man sitting beside me reflexively drew his sword and dashed toward the entrance of the stairs leading to the second floor. “What—what was that sound?!” I asked urgently. But the man merely lowered the tip of his sword toward the floor and stared up the staircase with cold eyes. “Stay still.” It seemed he was suppressing his instinct to leap up the stairs to the second…
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Chapter 19 One Hour Earlier “Sleep well, Celine.” “Yes! You too, Your Highness!” Celine made sure I was settled comfortably before finally leaving the bedroom. The door closed completely, and the sound of Celine’s cute footsteps quickly faded away. After waiting for a moment, I checked the clock on the wall. It was already past midnight. All right. Time to make a move. I jumped out of bed and put on the gray cloak I had prepared beforehand. I pulled on gloves that…
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Chapter 18 I quickly calmed the muscles in my face, straightened my back, and looked directly at the Emperor. Then I politely lowered my head and spoke. “May I dare to say something, Your Majesty?” At my audacious request, the Emperor’s eyes curved with interest. “Speak, Princess.” “First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for Your Majesty’s kindness in showing mercy even to me, who was brought here as a hostage from an enemy nation.” I continued…
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Chapter 17 Varkan and I left the detached palace and headed toward the Imperial Palace, where the luncheon was being held. “Is there anything I should be careful about?” “Your mouth.” “……” His firm answer came without even a second of hesitation, making me grit my molars. “…Not that. I mean etiquette. It might be different from Delmar, you know?” “That mouth of yours certainly is different.” “……I said not my mouth!” Unable to hold it in any longer,…
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Chapter 16 The expression on Varkan's face as he sat on the sofa in the antechamber and looked at me after the door opened was truly magnificent. An unmistakable desire was burning fiercely in his pitch-black eyes. I want to put a leash on this uncontrollable Princess right now and lock her up somewhere! Contrary to his menacing expression, I smiled brightly, my eyes curving gently, and greeted him cheerfully. “Here comes the troublesome Princess, Your Grace!” “……” Perhaps my…
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Chapter 15 Why on earth is he here? I stared blankly at Cain. As far as I remembered, the Western Crown Prince's Palace where Cain stayed was located in the exact opposite direction from the Eastern Detached Palace where I was. In other words, this wasn't somewhere he could have simply wandered into by chance. He had deliberately come all the way to this detached palace garden… Then did he come to meet Varkan? I glanced toward the entrance of the garden. The Grand Ducal knights who…
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Chapter 14 The carriage that had passed through the teleportation gate soon came to a smooth stop on level ground. It was a distance that would have taken a full fifteen days of nonstop travel by carriage from the Grand Duchy in the North to the Imperial Capital. However, thanks to the Imperial Family's exclusive gate, which consumed expensive mana stones, we were able to arrive quickly. The sun had already completely set. Through the rattling carriage window, I could see the enormous spires of…
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Chapter 13 Taking advantage of a brief lull in the blizzard, Varkan and I descended the mountain. It was already well past midnight. The path down the mountain was pitch-black, so I clung to Varkan's forearm like it was a lifeline as we made our way down. Yet the Grand Ducal Residence in the distance was unbelievably bright. It looked almost like a lighthouse spotted in the middle of a stormy sea at night. Despite the late hour, the people of the Grand Ducal Residence were still…
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