Lilian Lou did not look at the mirror. There was no reason to look because the child who lives in the dark forest didnât need such external elements like cleanliness or beauty.
Denise said that Lilian was a beautiful child, but Lilian thought Denise was a worse liar than herself. Or maybe her eyes were bad because she was sick.
âWhy do you keep staring at people? Donât look at me like that with your eyes wide open? What do you know?â
âWhat are you talking about, suddenly?â
âDonât look at me. I donât want you to! You take everything you receive and donât listen to a word.â
So, when Kal suddenly got angry at her and told her not to look at him, she thought he hated ugly kids.
âThen itâs okay just to open my eyes and stare?â
ââŚNo. just donât look and donât laugh.â
Lilian put her hand on Kalâs forehead with an unusual face.
A little over a week after being imprisoned, people will begin to behave more unusually. Several people have committed suicide. Has Kal finally settled?
âWhat are you doing?â
âIn any case, does it hurt anywhere? Let me see.â
âWho are you treating like a madman!â
His ears were red again.
Perhaps Lilian is Kalâs taste⌠She doubted, but she soon laughed at her speculation. She was on her way to see her faceâs reflection in the water.
Gender taste can vary, but she, who is only dirty, canât be anyoneâs taste. Lilian Lou was a kid who knew that subject well, and she was pretty proud of it.
âYou are saying that I am dirty and ugly? Anyway, good-looking things like youâŚâ
âHey, when did I ever say that⌠Why are you making things up.â
âIâm thinking of kids like you. Itâs obvious, well. But I donât care. I know, Iâm uglyâŚâ
âOh, no! Your eyes are pretty!â
She thought it was a curse, not a compliment because he was so angry.
Lilian stared at Karloi, who said the exact opposite, with the tone of âYes, youâre ugly!â It was because she took a long time to accept the content of his words.
Karloi yelled without knowing and was avoiding her gaze as if regretting.
Lilian, who finally understood, turned around, and there was a moment of silence. As the tail of Lilianâs mouth gently raised, Kal suddenly muttered bluntly.
âGive me something to eat! Iâm going to die from starvation.â
Lilian smiled and went into the kitchen.
Kal has a cute side, too. She knows that heâll be humiliated by saying that. Or, are my eyes pretty?
Lilian took out the brooch that Kal gave her from her waist. It was a brooch that Lilian kept in her pocket because she doesnât want to sell it yet.
She put her eyes on the back of the transparent, shining brooch, and saw sparkling green eyes. âI think itâs okay.â
A hum came from the kitchen, and the tied boy still has red ears.
There were such days. Itâs been a while.
***
âLady Chief! Lady Chief!
Lady Ansen, the lady in waiting, hastily visited Mary Ann. Mary Ann was talked about a lot in the palace. The main reason is that she was a commoner who became the lady-in-waiting.
The only reason Yvonne enlisted Mary Ann as the lady-in-waiting, was because she had served Yvonne from her days with the Duke.
âWhatâs going on?â
âHer Majesty, the Empress is suddenly acting strange!â
The ladies who used to be from the aristocracy hated Mary Ann, but in the end, they came to acknowledge her.
Because Yvonne, who was especially cold to them, was too generous to Mary Anne, and the only one to understand Yvonne well was Mary Ann.
That is why she was urgently looking for Mary Ann.
Mary Ann didnât ask twice, but just got up from her seat and she ran to the Empressâs bedroom. It was dark, so she couldnât see anything.
She heard a shrill sound from the inside when Mary Ann tried to turn on the light, the maid next to her trembling.
âDonât turn on the lights⌠If you turn it on, sheâll throw and break the mirror.â
âDid the Empress drink alcohol?â
When Mary Ann asked sharply, Lady Ansen nodded carefully. While nodding her head, she wondered how Mary Anne knew.
Lady Anssen sniffs her nose. Did she smell alcohol in the bedroom?
Mary Ann sighed and carefully approached Yvonne. Yvonne did not like the dark. However, when she saw this, it was clear that Yvonne was drunk and must have lost her mind.
âYour Majesty, how can you do this.â
A bottle of liquor rolled around on the bed. There were broken mirror pieces all over the floor, and Yvonne sat on the bed as if she was one of them.
She glanced and could see how much Yvonne had been broken down.
âRemove all the mirrors. I donât want to look at it.â
âYouâve already broken it all, so thereâs nothing left.â
âGet rid of everything that reflects my face. I told you not to use glass.â
She seemed to be talking to Mary Anne and also to herself. There is no child to look at in the mirror.
Yvonne would often do this whenever she remembered the Duke and how her face resembled his.
She was the Duchessâs daughter, and it was ironic to Mary Anne, who remembers the real Yvonne.
âIâm going crazy. I want to die every time I see it. I want to stab him in the face.â
Yvonne murmured like a madman.
The Duchessâ daughter didnât resemble the Duke at all, but Yvonne seemed to have inherited the physical characteristics of the Duke because of her lack of appearance.
The Duke was sensitive to only two things so that he couldnât get close to them, the peaches and the Rituna flowers. Even in that case, Yvonne is very similar.
In Croisen, a country famous for its flowers, if you were to pick only one flower as the King of flowers, everyone would say rituna.
Among the rituna flowers, the white flower was said to be the most gorgeous on all continents.
It was not an exaggeration to say that only the royalty and nobles can see rituna fresh flowers in full bloom with hundreds of petals in one flower, as it was challenging to grow them until they bloomed.
Because of its beauty, people often decorate with imitation ones, but royals and high-ranking nobles used to decorate their house with real flowers.
However, it has not been used for decoration since thirty years ago at official banquets at the Imperial Palace, because the Duke of Delois has a sensitive reaction to the scent of fresh rituna flowers.
So, there were a lot of flowers in the Dukeâs residence, but rituna was not one of them.
It was a flower that wasnât even in the Duchy, so Yvonne didnât know it herself until she entered the Imperial Palace.
Yvonne found out after she entered the Imperial Palace and she walked through a garden full of rituna flowers.
On that day, Yvonne drank like she was now and fell asleep crying.
Though it was a long time ago. Yvonne hadnât done this for a while as she had become accustomed to life in the Imperial Palace.
âWhatâs wrong, Your Majesty. Tell me whatâs wrong.â
âI donât know, Mary Ann? Are you asking me because you donât really know what the problem is?â
Mary Ann turned her gaze, burdened by the suddenly raised head, angry eyes, and sharp voice attack. The guilt pierced through Mary Anneâs chest.
Mary Ann was the only one who cared about Yvonne among the Dukeâs many employees. The Duke was well aware of that fact.
ă If I tightened the leash, she may go crazy. Donât forget that Mary Ann, you are the one who loosens the collar, but you should never let go. Whatever she does. ă
Is it worth doing this? She was still a human being, even if she used it. As she recalled the order from the Duke that day, Mary Ann got goosebumps and stroked her arm. Yvonne, who looked at it, covered her face.
âMary Ann, Iâm sorry. Please go somewhere where I canât see you. I donât want to shout at you because itâs not your fault.â
Mary Ann nodded and settled away. Yvonne canât see her, but she can see Yvonne.
Yvonne seemed to have lost her reason when the Emperor and the peacock were in a riot at the same time.
Yes, the problem was the Queenâs coronation ceremony.
The Emperor asked Yvonne to prepare for her coronation ceremony, but Mary Ann knew that he was waiting to find fault. And it was already her fault that it had been delayed like this.
It wasnât enough to ask the attendant and staff, so when the Emperor saw Yvonne, he would scold her himself.
ă Are you doing this on purpose? Even if you do this, Keana will become Queen anyway. ă
The Emperorâs words were so cold that even if her voice was gone, Mary Ann wanted to say something to him.
On the other hand, the Duke screamed at Yvonne, saying she should not accept the Queen. He said that the coronation ceremony should not be done at any cost.
After the Emperor criticized her for what she was doing, the Duke came and verbally abused her repeatedly.
Yvonne was at a loss between them. She understood that Yvonne must be going crazy because of that.
Mary Anne tried to wait calmly because she was drunk. She would feel better after falling asleep and waking up.
Until Karloi suddenly struck, obviously.
From the time Karloi came upon Mary Anne, her heart was full and nervous that she could not remain still.
Yvonne didnât look sane to anyone. Since the Emperor saw all of this with his own eyes, she did not know what kind of criticism she would get.
The power of the Duke and the reputation of the Empress were different stories. She could not know what the Duke would do to Yvonne if rumors spread that the Empress had lost her mind.
âMary Ann! Mary Ann, I told youâŚ!â
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Yvonne shouted nervously in her bedroom, which was suddenly lit up.
She pledged not to be angry with Mary Ann, but when she thought Mary Ann wouldnât listen to her, anger and despair overwhelmed Yvonne.
Yvonne was plagued by the urge to stab both the Duke and Karloi with a glass.
No, itâs a lie. Not the Duke and Karloi. It was an impulse to want to end herself with glass. She didnât know if Yvonne would really do that in a bright place.
Though it was not Mary Anne but Karloi who saw her desperate eyes, Karloi made an unknown look as he stood in front of her.