Chapter: 172

“Hey, Lady Astelle!”

The Marchioness did not try to hide the hostility towards Astelle.

“As you know, my husband, the Marquis of Croychen is the Minister of State. My daughter, Florin is His Majesty’s fiancee, and she will soon become the empress. You don’t seem to know anything about what happened in the capital.”

‘This is the first time I’ve heard of the emperor’s engagement here.’

“You must be proud of having a wonderful husband and daughter.”

Although her daughter, Florin wasn’t engaged yet, the behavior of the Marchioness was absurd.

Come to think of it, Marianne’s behavior looked like this woman.

At Astelle’s sarcastic remarks, the Marchioness raised her voice even more.

“My daughter is getting engaged soon—”

“Marchioness.”

Astelle cut off her words in a cold tone.

“Lady Marianne was trying to put poison in my medicine box and she was caught. I’m not sure why I have to save Lady Marianne. In my common sense, shouldn’t I be asking that Lady Marianne be punished more severely?”

If Marianne’s evil plan succeeded, Astelle would have been in a much more difficult position than the present Marianne.

The fact that the deposed empress hid poison and came to meet the emperor would seem like an attempt to poison him.

If things went wrong, not only Astelle, but Theor and her grandfather, and maybe even her father and brother in the capital, were involved.

Rather, if Marianne was caught stealing Astelle’s belongings or trying to physically harm her, she might have been tempted to understand a little bit under the premise that she would regret it.

But her behavior was hardly forgivable.

At that, the Marchioness kept her mouth closed.

She just stared at Astelle with a grudge-filled gaze.

She seemed to be angry because Astelle did not comply with her request, but it was useless anger.

Kaizen will handle whatever Astelle says.

“His Majesty was not very angry, so there is nothing to worry about. He was just offended that something like that happened during the journey.”

Kaizen was not angry with Marianne.

He was just upset.

He must have thought it was annoying because he had a needless problem.