Chapter: 66
Astelle muttered bitterly, “It was the same everywhere.”
For the power of the family, he raises his daughter into a doll and throws her into the imperial palace, like throwing a gambling ball.
The whole family rejoiced if they profited from his daughter, but if she failed, the worn-out daughter was cruelly abandoned.
It was the same in any family.
Even if the game of imperial power changed, nothing much changed.
Just the name of the family with power has changed.
“Anyway, I just want you to be careful because Lady Florin is a girl who doesn’t act like her older sister, Lady Marianne.”
‘Well, although Lady Astelle is smart too.’
He didn’t know her very well, but the former empress was smart in many ways.
He expected that the former empress have a timid and passive personality when he heard that she packed up and went out a day after she became the empress.
It was completely wrong.
But why did she retreat from the empress’ seat so easily?
‘Did this person have any feelings toward His Majesty the Emperor?’
As far as Vellian knows, Kaizen had long thought of purging Duke Reston as soon as he became emperor.
Astelle, who was standing silently, said with a slight smile, “The second daughter of the Croychen family seems to love her older sister very much.”
“Pardon……?”
“Doesn’t that mean Lady Florin will feel bad for what her sister did? Otherwise, why should I be careful?”
Astelle understood what Vellian’s meant, but Astelle laughed as if she had not understood anything.
She spoke firmly to Vellian in a confused tone, “I will leave the capital as soon as the matter of the will of Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is resolved. She will be the new Empress, and she has nothing to do with me. I don’t want to be involved.”
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Astelle sat by the window and looked out at the garden. The rain still hasn’t let up.
Lilac leaves were scattered right outside the window.
Light purple petals scattered here and there in the rain and wind.
The glass windows look like gray watercolors painted against a foggy sky background.
Astelle looked at the serene and beautiful sight and thought, ‘How long will this rain last?’