Chapter: 240

“Your Majesty, there is no poison in the teacup.”

“It can’t be!”

The Marchioness did not give up and continued to argue.

If it was not poison, it must be a suspicious drug.

“Whatever it was, she was trying to hurt me.”

“Why are you so sure, Marchioness? Maybe you got it wrong? Does my maid have any reason to hurt you?”

Astelle’s calm rebuttal left the Marchioness speechless.

If Astelle’s handmaiden tried to harm her, of course, it was because of Theor.

‘That sly woman must want revenge on me.’

But she couldn’t say it with her own mouth.

She had solid reasons, but she couldn’t speak, so she was frustrated.

Astelle demanded of her with her light sneer.

“Since you framed my maid with unfounded words, please apologize properly.”

The Marchioness cried out in anger.

“I’m not saying it’s unfounded. I saw that maid sneak out of the castle and come back. Then she apparently dropped a glass bottle of poison—”

“Mother!”

Florin shouted low to her mother to shut her mouth.

The Marchioness belatedly realized her own mistake and bit her lip.

She had now spit it out with her own mouth that she was watching Astelle’s handmaiden.

Kaizen looked back at Hannah and asked, “Is that true?”

Hannah answered calmly, “I just went out to buy the Young Master’s toys at Lady Astelle’s order. I went with the attendant of the annex.”

Kaizen sent someone to the annex to call the attendant Hannah was talking about.

The maid, who had gone under his orders, returned with the attendant.

“We’ve never been to anywhere other than the general store. The shopkeeper will testify,” the attendant said clearly.

“The ring is not poisonous, the teacup is not poisonous, and the maid hasn’t been to a suspicious place.”