After Matthew left, Harper slowly walked into the hall. As soon as she heard the footsteps, Catherine wiped her tears and
pretended nothing had happened. She turned around and discovered it was Harper. "Did you see everything?" she asked.
"No, I was worried, so I decided to check up on you. I know how wayward Princess Diana is," Harper said as she approached.
"Your Grace, did you cry?"
"No, I didn't. I just had something in my eyes," Catherine said, her voice as gentle as ever. Her tone didn't give away any of her
feelings. There was no trace of sadness on her face now.
"Your Grace, do you want to hear a story?" Harper turned around, sat down on the stairs, and looked at the scenery outside.
When Catherine didn't move, she patted the place beside her. "You've told me so many stories about the South Kingdom today.
Now let me tell you a story."
Catherine walked gracefully to Harper and sat down next to her as Harper started telling her story. "I remember when I first came
to the Starry Palace, I enjoyed sitting on stairs like this and looking outside. I wondered when my family would come and visit.
However, as the days turned to years, they never showed up. Later, when I realized that they would never visit me, I stopped
sitting here and waiting for them," Catherine said sadly.
"Your Grace, once upon a time, there was a little girl just like you. She spent years hoping that her father could pay more

attention to her. That girl did a lot of things in hopes of that happening. Instead, her father ended up hating her more and more.
Things escalated to the extent that he'd even wanted her to die," "What happened to that girl then?"

the little girl. When she explained how the father didn't hesitate to take the girl's life for the promising future of his concubine's daughter, Catherine's face turned grim. "That damn father!" "Yes, such a father really deserved nothing but death," Harper intoned. "It is said that even a vicious tiger would never eat its cubs. He was worse than a beast. He tried his

said forcefully. "He deserved it. He toyed with his own child's life to pave the path for another man's children. It had to be karma." "That's precisely how I feel. God is always watching what humans do. Evil people will eventually pay for their deeds, and it's only

"Is this your personal story?"
"No, of course not. It's someone else's story," Harper said gravely. "By the way, your performance of the worship dance was
absolutely incredible. I heard that envoys from different countries would come all the way here to watch the ceremony. Why were
the Bright Dynasty's envoys the only ones present?"
"Today's worship was merely the opening. The actual Worship Ceremony will take place in five days. I guess the envoys from the
other two countries will be arriving in a couple of days."

claiming that the Worship Ceremony would be held in five days. Harper wondered why they were given different dates. "I thought that was today. My husband and I had decided on leaving the South Kingdom capital as soon as we saw the Worship Ceremony

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