Lance opened his mouth to say something but in the end, he didn't. For the next moments, he kept silent. What had happened in
the past couldn't be changed no matter how hard he tried, and he couldn't choose to change anything even if he were able to do
so. Perhaps, the position of the Holy Maiden shouldn't have existed at all.
"You don't have anything to say?" From Catherine's perspective, the silence of Lance was acquiescence to what she was
accusing him of. Instead of having any sort of satisfaction, she became even more furious. "Now that you're feeling guilty with
what you did to me, there's one thing you can do to try and make it up to me. Write an imperial edict to appoint me as the heir to
the throne. I want the throne of the South Kingdom."
"You don't know how to rule a country."
"I never said I want to rule the South Kingdom. What I need is merely the position of Queen. He has a very prominent status. If I
marry him as a queen with our entire territory as my dowry, he'll definitely be willing to marry me," Catherine said in a low voice.
"He? Who are you talking about?" Lance asked, very much confused with Catherine's statement.
"Prince Matthew Jun."
Lance looked at Catherine in total disbelief. He had never expected that the man Catherine fell in love with was Matthew. He was
well aware of what kind of person Matthew was. Even if Catherine was the empress of the Bright Dynasty, Matthew wouldn't
even look at her for a brief second, let alone if she was the queen of the South Kingdom. Matthew was no less arrogant than an

emperor. And so far, there had been only one woman who got the chance to be by his side, and that was Harper.
"He has a wife!"
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten that Harper entered the Labyrinth Swamp, together with Sister Diana?" Catherine said while

for you to compensate me." Instead of writing the imperial edict, Lance calmly stated, "Even if you give him the entire territory of the South Kingdom as a gift, Matthew wouldn't even take a look at you. Don't you know that Matthew and his wife love each other very much?" "Do you think I'm stupid? I know that. That's why Harper needed to die. Otherwise, why do you think she was taken by the library for no reason? In addition to her own spiritual energy, I was responsible for the other half of it," Catherine said with a

it, just so her plot against Harper could come to fruition. "The collapse of the library had nothing to do with me, but it happened just as I expected. My original plan was to lock Harper in the library so I can use the mechanism inside to kill her. After all, a lot of people who had trespassed into the library had been killed. I thought that Prince Matthew would destroy the library out

"Then, why did Harper take Diana into the Labyrinth Swamp?" Lance asked, still confused with the revelations.
"Because I tried to kill Diana. Perhaps, Harper didn't want to be accused of killing her. Or perhaps, she thought it would be
helpful to her if she took Diana as a hostage or as a bargaining chip. Anyway, if she didn't take Diana away, I would have still
killed her. What Harper did was unnecessary, to be honest," Catherine said while shrugging, as if she was talking about a trivial
matter.
Lance thought that the whole world had just been thrown upside down. He felt dejected, defeated, and distressed. He had

become so cruel?" With a deep-rooted hatred bursting out of her eyes, Catherine responded, "From the moment you sent me to the Starry Palace. Do you know what kind of life I had in there? I have been forced to practice my poison skills every single day. Whenever I hurt myself, I had to endure it all alone. When I'm afraid, I had to endure it. When I feel lonely, I still had to endure

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