No matter what dress she wore or how thickly she applied her makeup, it could not completely hide the deep wound left by the rebels.
“Birna...”
Raju gritted his teeth as if he had been stabbed.
His trembling fingers reached out to touch Birna's crying back.
"Un..Uncle Raju..."
Birna, her emotions heightened, raised her head.
While even her family ignored her, she reached out to Raju, the only one who appeared.
And then Bring burst into tears.
"What do I do now? Ugh, mo, everyone knows. That I have this horrible scar..."
Raju didn't even have time to enjoy the moment when his daughter, who had always avoided and distanced herself from him, came into his arms for the first time.
"Hey, they'll laugh at me and mock me for the rest of my life, sob... How am I going to live now, how am I going to... sob."
It was painful to watch his daughter gasping for breath.
Raju's heart was breaking. She was his own blood relatives, so precious that he couldn't even bring himself to go near them, and could only watch from afar.
Even when he closed his eyes, he could still see her vividly. The image of the girl who was innocent and childlike, even her rude attitude toward him was lovable.
He couldn't even remember when he last saw Birna smiling so brightly.
After the failed rebellion, Birna became gloomy and easily angered.
'Birna, it's all because of that woman, Medea, that my precious daughter has become like this.'
Raju gritted his teeth...
But, in fact, he also knew it unconsciously.
If they really look at the culprit, it is not Medea but Jason who left an indelible scar on Birna.
If he hadn't left Birna among the rebels, Birna wouldn't have been hurt.
But if they place the blame on Jason, Raju himself cannot be free from the guilt.
At that time, the things he had done as Jason's subordinate led to Birna being left alone among the rebels.
Even now, he is still serving Jason.
Thus, Raju freed himself from his guilt by turning his anger towards Medea.
And he grew angry and hated Medea.
Only then could he rationalize that she was not the one who left these deep scars on his daughter.
"Don't worry, Birna..."
Raju's eyes were bloodshot as he patted his sobbing daughter's back.
"Those who did this to you will surely pay the price. They will live a life that doesn't feel like death and a life that doesn't feel like living. I promise you, this master will definitely make it so."
A sinister voice spread as if casting a curse.
Raju swore while looking at Birna's face which was completely wet with tears.
"Ugh, uhhhhhh..."
"This godfather will solve everything. Birna, just trust this godfather..."
He will definitely repay that impudent woman who caused such pain to his precious daughter, who he would never mind putting in his eye.
***
While Birna ran out and Catherine was hanging around with the Valdina nobles, Samon caught the glares of the surrounding nobles.
"How can a whole family be so shameless?"
"Samon Claudio is also of the same race. He barely managed to survive thanks to the Fourth Princess, but he pretended not to know when she left the Katzen Palace."
"Even a beast would know the favor of saving its life, but it clings to the Fourth Princess like a leech and is ungrateful. Well, how fed up must the 4th Princess have been that she left alone without even looking back?"
Samon stood his ground, listening to the accusations of those who seemed unwilling to lower their voices.
There was no wavering in the face that raised his chin as if he could not hear the accusations directed at him. He could even feel the anger in the smiling face.
But, in an unseen place under his sleeve, his fist was clenched so tightly that fingernail marks were left deep.
'You say I'm shameless? How can you say that when you know what kind of monster that woman is?'
Samon recalled his nightmare-like married life with the Fourth Princess.
On their way back to the empire, as planned, the Princess 'lost her child.'
The pregnancy was a lie, concocted by Raju and Samon, and the miscarriage was just a play that had to end before they reached the empire.
But what Samon overlooked was that the 4th Princess Angelique was not a simple object that they could use and discard as they pleased in their play.
"Do you have any idea what I've lost because of this useless, dying brat? Aaaah!'
She was forced to marry Samon because of her pregnancy.
The fourth Princess's anger was justified, as she had lost both the position to discuss succession and the Emperor's trust.
But Samon knew that even if she had a real child, she would still whip him.
Anyway, it was a series of brutal acts of violence on a fictional day.
He thought he was going crazy.
He cleverly left the area above his face untouched, so no one, except his family, knew that he was a husband who got beaten like a dog all day long.
The 4th Princess sometimes swung her whip whenever she felt like it, and when that was too much trouble, she had her knights beat up Samon.
She treated him like a lifelong enemy.
"You can never have another woman in your life besides me. But I will never lift a hand on you again. I will make you end up living your whole life like a living tree, not even being treated like a man."
What Samon felt more humiliated than the pain of being beaten every day was when his wife would roll around with men who sold smiles in front of him.
She even dragged his loyal subordinates, who were as loyal as his life, into a corner.
Angelique took even more brutal revenge on Samon, who had made her pregnant.
"You grew up with me as a wet nurse's son, right? That's good. Then this time, you're going to raise this bastard's seed together."
"My lord, how could I have known that this day would come? You have always looked down on me as a lowborn, and now you are raising that lowborn son as your own flesh and blood."
They say that a place makes a person.
With his master having lost his temper and the favor of the Fourth Princess, Suha quickly forgot his duty and provoked Samon.
"My son will bear your noble surname, my lord, and I will live as Your Highness's husband in your lord's stead. I ask for your good care for the rest of my life."
What could be more humiliating to such a proud and arrogant person than having to raise another man's child, and that of a lowly subordinate, as his own?
Samon couldn't stand it any longer.
'Whether that woman dies or I die, coexistence under the same sky is impossible.'
A few days later, it was a day like any other.
It was also the day that Samon's subordinates attended to the Princess at night.
"Gyaaaah! Get that thing out of the way!"
But the next morning, Su-ha was found dead with his eyes wide open on the bed of the Fourth Princess.
"Your Highness. It seems that he used too much aphrodisiac... I told you that the poison was so strong that I could die a violent death in one night."
"Damn, I drank so much I don't remember..."
The princess's doctor didn't know.
That Samon had been secretly giving his wife medicine and alcohol.
He leisurely walked away from the line of suspicion.
And, contrary to his wife's efforts to cover up her subordinate's death, he secretly spread rumors.
"The dissolute fourth princess is now killing people!"
It was widely known that the Fourth Princess was playing with her subordinates, but their deaths were something else entirely, and the rumors quickly grew out of control.
"Angelique! Are you testing me to see how far can I go in caring after you?!"
At Perdiccas II's scolding, the fourth Princess jumped up like a dragon.
He was already out of favor with the King and was being treated unfairly, and he was also fed up with the changed treatment he received from his brothers and nobles.
There was nothing to be afraid of anymore, even if it was my father.
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