TCIWTFY - Chapter 24


Did the Princess put Samon's bracelet wrapped in a handkerchief?

What is certain is that the Princess already knew everything. Even the fact that she betrayed the Princess.

When Marie met the cold green eyes, it felt like she had been doused with ice water.

"Well, Your Highness... Well, I was wrong."

Marieu, who realized her situation, began to panic.

"It's a pity that Marieu forgot her duties and did something like this. But what can she do when it's already happened? She is my maid, so I can't throw her away."

Medea sighed.

"Grandma. Please allow Marieu to connect with Minister Etienne. It seems like the relationship between the two is so deep that they miss their lovers so much."

"No!"

Marieu forgot her identity and screamed hysterically.

"Please save me."

She stuttered towards the Princess.

It felt like she was falling off a black cliff with every step she took. Her eyes were dark.

"Save me? The minister is a good person. He is a high-ranking noble, extremely wealthy, and he even cares about you. Marieu, he is the ideal husband you were hoping for."

'Husband?'

That I, instead of my beloved Samon, would be tied to that old, dirty sodomite for the rest of my life?

The miserable future of the Princess I laughed at all along becomes mine?

'No. Absolutely not. In that case, it would be better to die.'

But can she escape? Can she get out of this ordeal?

"Congratulations. It's a pity to let you go, but isn't it the owner's duty to send you to a better place?"

The congratulations given by the Princess in a soft voice were like funeral rites.

"Oh, no, Your Highness. It was all a lie."

Marieu, who was half out of her mind, muttered.

"The head maid ordered me to do it. She gave me the Minister's handkerchief and told me to hide it in Her Highness's room."

People couldn't believe their ears.

What did the Princess's maid just say?

"Shut up!"

The head maid belatedly tried to silence Marieu, but Marieu was already crying and confessing like a torrent of water.

"She said the Duke of Regent kicked her out because of a fight between Her Highness and the head maid. She said he would replace me with someone else... She came to me because she was angry and made me do this. It was all planned by Mrs. Cuisine. Please trust me!"

"No! Shut up! Don't frame me!"

The head maid was violently trying to rush at Marieu but was stopped.

"She said she would make an example to Her Highness the Princess for daring to beat her. She says if I help her, she will enroll me into a noble family in return. So she can launder my identity."

People were buzzing.

The palace officials present here were people who had become accustomed to palace life. How many times have you experienced large or small plots taking place in the palace?

As they listened to Marieu's words as she continued to vomit out her soul, they were able to understand the full story of the incident.

The head maid, who had been kicked out by the Prince Regent, had a grudge and tried to slander the Princess by hiding a fake token.

People were surprised by the viciousness of the head maid who tried to damage the life of a young girl and were once again surprised that the head maid was a person of the Duke Regent.

"Well, that's why I'm blind, I guess I'm crazy. Marieu was wrong... Hmm..."

Marieu fell down in front of the Princess and prayed frantically as if she couldn't hear anything.

"I will never do this again. Well, please forgive me just this once. Your Highness, please save me."

"..."

"Even though Marieu was foolish, I cared for Your Highness. How many years have I been with you... You're not going to throw me away like this, are you?"

Medea looked down at Marieu who was pleading.

There was one last hope in her trembling eyes.

She had an unshakable belief that the Princess would not abandon her like this. 

In her last life, was this exactly what her face looked like when she was deceived by Marieu and handed over to the rebels?

'You betrayed me for your love. Then and this time too.'

Since you loved your master so passionately that you sold me, shouldn't you now pay the price?

Medea bent down and placed her hand on top of Marieu's.

She looked like a saint pardoning a prisoner.

How kind is she to hold the hand of a cheeky girl who tried to harm her? 

People exclaimed in admiration.

But Marieu trembled.

This was because the Princess's cold hand, covering the back of her hand, was tearing off each of Marieu's fingers that were holding onto the hem of her dress.

"Don't blame me, Marieu."

The Princess whispered lowly.

"So don't blame me."

A familiar word, as if she's heard it somewhere.

'Really, I knew everything..!'

When Marieu raised her head, cold eyes were glaring at her.

She got goosebumps.

"..."

She fainted while sitting down.

The Queen Mother held her throbbing head.

"It's a sight..."

So, this whole four months was the maid's trick? The Princess's maid went along with it?

'Medea was innocent in the first place?'

"You're a woman with a big liver. How dare you try to slander your master, especially Valdina's blood."

At that time, Mrs. Pinatelli spoke first.

Mrs. Pinatelli noticed that the Queen Mother was confused and cleverly mentioned Valdina's blood.

If she had limited this incident to Medea's affair, the Queen Mother would not have been greatly shaken.

However, Valdina's blood is different.

This is an attempt to discredit the heavenly royal family beyond the personal dislike of the unsightly granddaughter.

The Queen Mother's eyes grew cold.

"Take those two unscrupulous women away."

As soon as the words were out, the sturdy maids grabbed both arms of the head maid. Marieu, who had fainted, was lifted up and hung up.

"No! It's a lie! The Princess had her maid do her trick! Catherine! Help me! This is a trap! She's framing me!"

The head maid, who sensed the end, went crazy.

But Catherine was busy biting her lip and looking at the Queen dowager's thoughts.

'Why is that stupid maid suddenly dragging us in!!

Everyone was looking at her with suspicious eyes when they heard that the Prince Regent was trying to change the head maid.

She couldn't even hear Mrs. Cuisine's shout as she was thinking of a way to get out of this situation.

"Ahh! Let go, Princess! You did it! You hit it hard, ugh!"

The head maid struggled and was dragged away with a cloth stuck in her mouth.

"To prevent her from slandering her master again, cut off the tendons in both her hands and hit her until she dies. Lord Cesare, set a good example."

"Yes, I accept your words."

Sissair nodded.

Only after the culprit was dragged away did the noisy atmosphere subside.

It felt like a storm had passed.

Everyone here remembered the Queen Mother harshly reprimanding her granddaughter earlier.

How unfair would it be for the Princess to be falsely accused and even betrayed by someone she trusted? 

People thought that the Queen Mother would at least console her granddaughter.

'Is that possible?'

Medea knew that this matter would not end with condemning the head maid.

As expected, the Queen Mother's eyes were still cold.

"Hmph, when you hold the King's seal and pretend to be the owner, there are people below who look at me in vain."

Even though it was clearly not Medea's fault, the Queen Mother thought it was her granddaughter's fault.

"Even though I was locked up here, Medea, I heard all about your outrageous acts."

"..."

"Do you think the King entrusted the seal to you to install as you please? It is a curse on heaven that Peleus has a sister like you. You are an immature and foolish thing! Who gave you such power! As the Queen Mother, I can no longer sit by and watch you disturb the palace."

The Queen Mother stared coldly at her granddaughter.

"Give me your seal. It's enough to be a foolish fool." 

Medea stood still, motionless.

"What are you doing when I tell you to bring it!"

The Queen Mother raised her voice once more, but there was no response.

They could clearly feel the anger she was feeling in her heavy breathing.

"Mother, fix it. If you get excited, it becomes poisonous."

Catherine stepped forward to protect the Princess.

She stood before Medea. Just like a mother protects her offspring.

"It is unlikely that Her Highness the Princess had any other special intentions. She is still young and doesn't know the complex interests of the palace. It must have been an immature way of caring for her own person. Please be generous and consider Her Highness's pure heart." 

At first glance, Catherine's words seemed to defend Medea.

However, she reaffirms that Medea ignored the palace rules and was self-indulgent.

The Queen Mother's eyes became more harsh.

"What a hit! Even Birna, who is younger than her, is this proud! How long do I have to look at that ugly thing?"

"Your Highness, please beg for forgiveness. If you say you won't do it again, the Queen Mother will let you go."

Catherine made a small gesture to Medea.

But Medea did not move, as if she could not hear.



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