LOGINOn Alaric's wedding day, I brought a gift to the wedding feast. I had barely taken my seat when someone swung straight at my face. Alaric's bride, a transmigrator who called herself an expert in noble-household intrigue, glared at me in her wedding gown. "So you're the prince's former betrothed? How does a defeated rival still have the nerve to show up at the wedding feast? Have you no shame?" A palace maid caught her hand before the slap landed, and I studied her with a dark expression. Before I could speak, Lydia of House Leicester mocked me again. "What? Are you going to say you only came to offer your blessings? I grew up watching period dramas. Don't think I don't know what filthy thoughts a medieval woman like you is hiding. "You came here pretending to congratulate us while planning to ruin the wedding feast and make the prince change his mind, didn't you? Too bad Alaric promised me that I would be his only wife for life. Even if you were to strip naked and stand in front of him, he wouldn't touch you!" Then she raised her brow at the women behind her. The noblewomen and ladies who were friendly with her surrounded me, scorn on their faces. Then they reached out to slap me. "Exactly, you wench! How dare you provoke Princess Lydia? We'll make you pay for it today!" The courtyard fell into chaos. Insults and jeers came one after another. Just as the women were about to grab my hair, the chief steward Edwin quickly stood in front of me and shouted, "Enough! I would like to see who dares to show disrespect to the Grand Princess of this realm, Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia!"
View MoreAs I looked at Alaric kneeling there in such a miserable state, I felt as if I were seeing that thin little boy from the past. The same boy who had to please everyone just to eat.Victor and I were blood siblings. When our mother brought him to us as our younger brother, I did not feel much affection for him. All I felt was that it was pitiful for a prince to be bullied by the royal servants.Over time, we grew close. As the three of us grew older together, the bond between siblings grew with us.Alaric had no desire to fight for the throne. Instead, when the other younger princes cursed Victor behind his back while he was still Crown Prince, Alaric stood up for him and fought them. Every time Alaric returned from the Royal Academy, he was covered in wounds. Victor, who had always been gentle on the outside yet cold within, would treat his wounds. As for me, because our father's favor had drawn the other princesses' displeasure, Alaric would speak up in my defense too. Eventually,
The Royal Guard had completely surrounded Alaric's estate so tightly no one could get in or out as everyone could only watch what was happening.Victor walked over, motioned for the royal physician to examine Queen Mother Maria. Then, he sent someone to take me away so I could change into fresh clothes. Only then did he look with a faint smile at Alaric, who stood frozen in place.Victor said, "A married man truly is different. You even dare challenge our mother and sister now. Alaric, I wonder if there are still sides of you I have yet to see."The inner courtyard was deathly silent, with only gulping could be heard. Alaric's reply finally came as his voice trembled, "My king, I... I didn't mean it that way..."Only despair and fear remained in Alaric's mind and none of his bravado from earlier remained. Back during the conflict for the throne, he had seen his usually gentle elder brother kill without any hesitation.Now, looking at that same sinister smile from that day on the k
Alaric nodded, his resentful gaze landing on me. "This is Sophia's fault too. When Lydia mistook you for someone else, you should have proven your innocence. Why did you provoke her and make her keep making the same mistake?"His words made me laugh from sheer anger. I raised my hand and pointed at the damaged royal signet on the ground, then looked at the two of them as I gritted my teeth. "I showed my signet from the very beginning, but what did she do? She refused to believe it and even smashed the signet Father gave me."Alaric, is that what you call not proving my innocence? She refused to believe me and decided I was seducing you on purpose. Since when has this become the victim's fault?"Alaric frowned. Then, he looked at me coldly even as Lydia sobbed. "Lydia is usually very gentle. If you had not deliberately used Sylvia's identity to provoke her, why would she have done such things?"After saying that, he looked at my mother before kicking the royal attendant holding Lydi
"My precious Sophia!"My mother, Queen Mother Maria, staggered forward and slapped Alaric across the face with all her strength when she saw what happened to me. Then, she walked over and wrapped me tightly in her cloak, her face filled with endless disappointment and anger."Edwin managed to send someone to inform me you were helping an outsider humiliate your own sister… I did not believe it at first, but now that I have seen it with my own eyes… Alaric! Do you even know what crimes you have committed today?!"Alaric's face became deathly pale. He was just about to speak when Lydia stormed forward in anger and tried to strike my mother. A sharp-eyed royal attendant immediately stepped in and stopped her at once, only to receive a vicious slap."Do you really want Sylvia to marry into Alaric's household that badly? First, you lend her your people and let her use Princess Sophia's identity to enter the estate and get into his bed. Now that it has been exposed, you came in person to






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