Fake Cinderella

"Your Highness, Your Highness has invited me to a tea party."

What was offered was a card on a silver basin. The royal crest of a double-headed dragon is embossed.

Wow, how are you making it? Very detailed and impressive.

".................. trouble. I don't remember manners or anything."

"What do you and His Royal Highness Prince Wang say every morning about having tea with you? If there is a problem, Your Highness will pay close attention. His Royal Highness Prince Wang is tough, you know."

"'Cause a woman would be finer"

The enemy of a woman is a woman, Lilia.

"You can't refuse. Your Majesty's invitation is an order."

"Yes."

Heavy. Uh, let's think about something fun.

"Oh, yeah, Lilia, 'cause I'm not taking dinner here today"

"What's wrong?

"His Royal Highness Prince Wang once in a while said we should have dinner together."

It was my first invitation to dinner.

I'm a little happy.

Morning tea is good, but it feels intimate to have dinner with you.

"Well... good for you"

"Yeah. I was wondering if dinner would taste good with His Highness?

"I don't think your Highness will eat anything bad."

"That's right."

I'm looking forward to it. I wonder what I can eat.

Since stewed dishes are basic for dinner, I don't think there's much worse to eat.

"So, the escape is over. It's the Queen's tea party."

"... yeah"

Lilia, no mercy.

Hi, I think I've been in a weaker position lately.

"It will be the afternoon after tomorrow. The costumes have been tailored the other day."

"... sleeves, it's not a lace bulwark, is it?

"It's okay. It's designed to not lace your sleeves into your tea by mistake."

"Thanks"

It's not funny. Racing is popular in the Dardinian courtroom.

Because it's enough to wear sleeves with plenty of lace on purpose. Even men are lace pretentious.

"... Your Highness and I are not alone, are we?"

"No. We invite all the women of the backyard."

"Good."

That just makes me feel a little easier.

"Are you not comfortable with Her Royal Highness?

"........................ yeah. Actually."

No, His Royal Highness Prince Wang was also terrified at first.

I never thought I could do this type. But now it's nothing, so I'm sorry to think that way.

But, oh, you can't... or think you're not good at it, can you? Because I don't think so with reason.

"Her Royal Highness... grew up between the ages of four and nine at Her Royal Highness's disposal..."

You don't remember, for that matter, Lilia laughs bitterly.

"Yeah.... eh. So the palace here was empty?

"Yes, a little over a year after it was built... when Her Royal Highness was four, there was an example of a poison incident that was supposed to crush the kitchen. Her Royal Highness was taken by the Queen of the Back Palace."

"............................................. sorry, I don't even remember the shards"

Her Royal Highness the First Queen Euria... the biological mother of His Royal Highness the Prince. I mean, who to me is my mother-in-law and adoptive mother.

Yet there is nothing at all to come back to.

It's rare that I don't remember it so beautifully. For the most part, I remember something for you.

"The Queen left Her Majesty's hand and returned to us because she told Her Royal Highness the Queen's wife."

"It's normal for you to have a story like that."

Age is age, too.

"But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince refused to do so… I greeted Her Royal Highness by saying that I would be able to talk about it because my Queen will always be in the main palace."

"So, in less than a week, he was attacked by a thief and his nanny died."

".................. Yes"

How do you know that? and Lilia asks.

"His Highness told me a lot. People would hide things like that, but they might step in danger because they don't remember."

He gave me the details of the case in that pale tone.

His Royal Highness's gaze is very objective, and the story is coherent and understandable.

The subject here these days is more or less what His Highness knows about my past.

"……………… is not the right topic for tea time, right?"

"It's no use telling His Highness Nadir that."

"Right."

There, it is convinced that His Royal Highness Prince Wang is the one person (to be one).

"The killer was three men and one woman hired by the Tilasa family. I heard the woman was a newly hired maid to open this palace."

"That's right. The Tileisa family was the home of the beloved concubine Liliana, then known as His Majesty's Ladyship."

"The nanny, Lady Maraine, was wrongly murdered that night as Her Royal Highness the Queen, who was supposed to be staying in this palace..."

"Yes.... Her Royal Highness was here till dinner, but she came back to the main palace with a cold and said she shouldn't lie to Her Royal Highness in case"

I'm not too sure what it means to stay in my palace, where Her Royal Highness is my stepdaughter.

Were we close enough not to want to leave?

"My queen and I were close?

"Come on... very few people know what happened here... and I came here shortly after the incident."

Well, that's right. All my maids are young.

"By the time I saw you, Your Highness had shown little interest in your surroundings."

Yes. Was I already a puppet princess by then... Next time, I'll ask Your Highness. Since when have you become a doll?

"What happened to the Raiders?

"The thief was immediately seized and, after the trial, sentenced to death. … the disposition of this case has become quite significant"

"Why?"

"Because His Royal Highness's involvement has enraged His Majesty the King. As a result, the main family of the Dilasa family ordered the raid was territorial. Family name disconnected. Our Lord and His Son have given death. Master Liliana was sent to the monastery and forbidden to leave it for life. Also, the house that leads to Dilasa has been removed from the House of Lords roster"

To be removed from the House of Lords roster means to cease to be a nobleman.

Teng himself deserved it, but many people were involved who didn't know how far he knew.

(But...)

Maybe that's what I want from the killer who killed El Lucia.

"Your Majesty the King is warm, but as far as Her Royal Highness is concerned, that does not apply. Your Majesty's concern for Her Highness is not overwhelming."

"... a little too far, isn't it?"

What am I talking about?

That's all, Your Majesty, I guess my regret for my mother is strong.

"Right. … but there have always been many cases where the perpetrator of the incident against Her Highness, if caught, is the death penalty, and the mastermind is patterned after the house is cut off."

It's a disgusting patterning.

"After the incident His Majesty ordered His Royal Highness to return to the rear palace, but His Royal Highness Prince Wang stopped it. You said," Altilier is not a woman in the backhouse, she is my queen. "

"His Royal Highness Prince Wang said the rear palace is not very nice. 'Cause it's troublesome to get caught up in women's crap feuds or blow in extras in the backyard."

"I think there's something more I can say..."

His Highness doesn't adorn words at all when he talks to me.

You always look grumpy, and the tone that doesn't sound like it sometimes seems like an illusion that you're pissed off.

But without that empty makeup laugh from the first time I saw it, I wouldn't be able to talk to you with a sweet voice.

... me, that's fine. Yeah. I like that.

"But that's His Highness..."

"We seem to have gotten along very well, and as a lady of Her Highness, I am delighted."

"... Lilia, don't make fun of me"

"I'm not making fun of you. Until I tell you the truth."

I'm just lying. I'm definitely teasing you.

You'll be aware when they say that. It's not like that.