At the time the party ended, daichi climb on the carriage first but before I even get to step at the ladder steps someone called out to me.
"Miss Charlotte please wait!" Such an unladylike behavior is being displayed in public eye is not anyone's cup of tea but being the naive and stupid heroine she is, she still did it.
I stopped and turned around to face her, she ran toward me "I hope you enjoyed the party, I hope we get to see each other more often" she said, while she was busy flashing me her brightest smile she can't hear the rude remarks the crowd around us says about her, but I can.
"Likewise second young miss, I shall take my leave for now, I wish you a good night" I said and bowed gracefully before boarding the carriage and the Coachman closing the door..
This time instead of sitting opposite from him I sat beside him with a large distance between us "keep your distance from ellie amrita, madison amrita is not what everyone think" daichi said ,I only stayed in silence while gazing out of the window before pulling the curtain in to block the happy and joyful lights from the street..
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"You useless child! Do you have any idea what you have done!" Another slap hit my cheek but I showed no emotion and continued staring down the floor, my mother heard about the 'relationship' between me and the illegitimate daughter of duke amrita who is a laughing stock of the kingdom right now, currently throwing a tantrum at me as soon as I entered her hall.
"I will not let any of my effort be wasted because of a unruly girl like you!" She pushed me to the ground and called for the guards outside the room, two of them marched in and paid respect to concubine Reese, "take her to the dangeoun hall, 20 whip and don't give her any food or water for 3 days!" She ordered after walking away in anger as if she couldn't bare to be in the same room as me, The guards held each of my arms then dragged me to the lowest room in the basement, The dangerous hall where there is no window or light other than the dim light from a candle, It smell horrible and disgusting..
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Whip!
Whip!
Whip!
Both my hands and ankles where chained up, laying on my stomach while on of the guards continued whipping my back, the dress I wore looked dirty and full of rips and cuts, I have been counting how many times they whipped me, 30 times, no one in this house doesn't give a hell about seraphina--about me, A few extra whip mark and wound doesn't matter since my mother doesn't care about it at all.
I fainted before I knew it...
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Waking up as soon as I felt the shiver coming down my spine, The cold, dirty, and mossy marble floor with it's musky smell distrupted me from my sleep or being unconcious, it seems they finally had enough from whipping all day long, I tried my best to sat up by griping the stoned wall in my side, Hot liquid tickled down my back indicating that my whip wound are still open and bleeding..
I know I could escape from this wretched house but both my mother and the viscount have illegal connection with the black market so if I ran away I'll be track down and be killed in an instant, My mother had a group of shadow guards working under her, their sword skill and strength greatly surpass mine that's why I need to be strong in my sword skill if I want to survive in this world...
The palace internal affair is a novel where it all revolved around the heroine ellie amrita..The heroine was insulted and look down to by everyone in the social circle, She is from a commoner-born mother and also an illegitimate child of duke amrita.The Villainess madison amrita was a scheming, deceiving and villainous person, after living 10 years as the house of amrita's only young miss she won all the favor of every maids, butler and servant in the mansion, even though she never ordered them to bully the heroine and her mother the maids on the other hand made the live of both Mother and daughter pair a living hell, they claim it's for their 'kind-hearted young miss madison'.The novel started with the introduction of the heroine and the villainess coming-of-age ceremony, but the real plot started out inside the castle wall,The empire's have 6th princes who are also capture targets to the heroine, each of the princes fought for the crown prince position, they stab each other in t
*Three years later.It's been three years since the Villainess coming-of-age ceremony, and until now The matter about Ellie Amrita still haven't died down, the whole empire have their eye's on her and ready to criticize her every little mistakes, the prince had their little encounters with the heroine in some way as the plot expected,Since that 'incident' with the heroine that until now my mother still couldn't let go she became more crueler and stricter with me, She supervise my every education from history lesson to mannerisms, she wouldn't let me out of her sight in fear that I might again cause 'trouble' to her, but the only lesson I have that she couldn't get her hand into is my sword skill practice.My body started to grow just like how my hair is growing longer and now reaching my hips, my body became more mature since the day I had my first period and it's very hard during your period days here in this era cause napkins doesn't exist instead their are men.'s pad that they use
Due to exhaustion and the small cuts and wounds in our body, daichi and I sleep for an entire two days, when I woke up I saw the bed beside me empty indicating that my also injured brother is somewhere else, my right arms and leg were covered in bandage Seeing that I'm in a western style private hospital room where everything was made out of wood expect for the bed foam and sheet, the glass window and white curtain, a jar of water was placed on the bed side table with a glass cup, I had trouble sitting up and reaching for it since I'm very thirsty..I closed my eyes and leaned against the headboard, Fresh wind entering the room from the one of the open window, Everything was peaceful and calm until the door opened, A man with black hair as dark as the night sky and red fiery eyes entered, for some reason I thought I was looking at daichi--an older daichi but it wasn't him, a heavy and cold aura resonating from him walked toward me, When he saw I was awake he spoke.."Your awake" his v
The emperor's face darkened even more as the atmosphere in the room became dark and gloomy that happened until the emperor bursted out laughing..The cold and stone faced emperor is currently laughing his face off.... Ironic"You have the same blunt attitude as your father, you really are quite a rare catch" he said before calming himself from laughing, he coughed a little to regain his composure before looking at me again."Then what do you plan to do with your life?" Become an assassin almost flew out of my mouth if it wasn't for my reflexes, I rearranged my thoughts before responding"I want to live a peaceful life, a stable job and maybe even build a family" I said, it was good choice now that my father and mother are gone to shackle me down.." Why would you want that instead of being a princess? Other young ladies will do anything to get the offer I just gave you" he pointed out, that may be true but.."It's because I don't want to be a doll anymore....to be a tool or a stepping
As the emperor true to his words provided me a small two-story house in the seventh street of the capital, it's the safest street in the capital and only a small chance of troubles appearing here, the store and markets are also near from my white painted house with a small front and back yard..It's certainly is a peaceful home but I don't know about the 'stable job' part, I'm still recovering from the regret of accepting the emperor's offer, I mentally faced palmed."Your stuff have been moved inside miss" now that I'm just a normal citizen I no longer need the 'young miss' or 'miss Charlotte' title since I'm no longer a noble, the workers bid farewell after I handed them the payment of helping move my stuff inside the house.By now daichi should be comfortably living in his own place in the castle, We only said a few words to each other before saying goodbye to our sibling relationship forever, his back to his cold and harsh attitude toward me but it lightened up a bit, I'll be seei
"I am haruto, the emperor's personal escort knight, please to make your acquaintance Miss" a silver haired handsome man stood infront of me with his towering figure overshadowing me, though considering that his on his 30's This guy is pretty youthful looking just like the emperor, His empty blue eyes stared down to me which surprisingly gave me goosebumps, a shiver ran down my spine."The pleasure is all mine Master haruto, I am in your care from now on" I tried my best to not stutter, heck the kingdoms best swordman is currently infront of me! I can't afford to mess up now, I secretly calmed myself down in my head as he just nodded and turned his back on me gesturing for me to follow him and I did.Wearing a simple brown pants that reaches my ankle with the end loosened up and a white blouse and black laced up boots, Carrying my sword by the hand as master haruto lead me to the castles back gate, the gate to the knights division quarter where all palace knights sleep and train in..
The day I start my new life is also the day that will either lead me to my doom or a better life(sort of).Damn!, I'm really considering on being an assassin rather than this! Is it too late to back out now?---probably yes."May god protect us all" I silently prayed to the gods as if I'm about to face death right on, but seriously I'm not kidding, I took a deep breath before knocking on the Lillith courtyard located in the west wing of the castle and where the first prince resides."Greetings, you must be knight Charlotte, his highness the first prince new escort knight" a maid greeted me politely and bowed, I only nodded and replied"Yes that is indeed me, please to meet you, I will be in your care from now on" the maid only returned my words by smiling and bowed once more, "his highness have been very excited to meet you" I'm sure he is I sarcastically said in my mind, I followed the maid as she lead me to where the first prince is.Unlike daichi who was the total carbon copy of the
Enjoys peace that is what Benjiro means, if someone hears this they would think of a gentle and loving king that will bring long everlasting peace in the kingdom but instead.."Do whatever you want, just make sure not to bother me while I'm sleeping" your always sleeping! I shouted in my mind but I kept my mouth close instead, his name fit him very well, a lazy prince that only cares about sleeping and finding a quiet place then he just enjoy the peace.I found him sleeping up on a tree in his quiet and empty Rosewood courtyard.all the maids and servants come here only twice a week to clean the courtyard Because the second prince doesn't like crowded places and noisy environment so he only allow them to come here if it's necessary such as cleaning, the guards are stationed outside of the courtyard to avoid disturbing the sleepy prince, When it comes to his meal one, two maid comes in quietly and set up his food on the table trying to not wake him up, then they tiptoed away then come