Time Travelling: My Love from the Royal Family

As night fell, the guards in the Harmony Palace were doubled. After she took a quick glance at the increasing guards, Harper's attention was caught by something in the yard. Forsythia followed suit but had no idea what Harper was looking at. Somehow, it bothered her that Harper's demeanor was still so calm amid everything that was happening. 'Is she... interested in becoming Rolando's empress?' she thought, scandalized.

"Your Highness, I think we have to try and escape," Forsythia whispered, her spirit not waning despite the urgent situation. "If we don't leave now, tomorrow you'll..."

"Forsythia, you have said that a million times," Harper said emotionlessly without even raising her head. "If you really believe that you can go out of there and leave unscathed, then you can have a try."

"But Your Highness, I don't think it's a good idea if we just stay here and do nothing! We have to try and do something!" Forsythia was slowly becoming manic as Matthew still hadn't sh

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ghts this woman had!

"Can we just get a move on, please? I am sure that once Rolando finishes taking care of whatever he's taking care of, he will surely come here and guard you. If that happened, our slim chances of escaping this place would become even slimmer!" Matthew wrapped his arm around Harper's waist and was about to take her away when she suddenly said,

"Wait!" Harper tapped Matthew's hand as a signal to him to let her go. After he did, she went ahead and hung up an oil lamp using a thread. She then tied the other end of the thread to a chair. The process continued with her lighting a candle which was about four centimeters higher than a certain point along the thread. Matthew looked on curiously, but then he immediately understood what she was doing: The moment candle reached the thread, it would burn it, effectively cutting it, causing the oil lamp to fall to the ground. Once that happened, it would ignite the curtain in the room, burning everything down.