Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Luke immediately ordered two guards to take Eric to the local authorities.

Terrified, Eric cried out, "Your Highness, please spare me! It wasn't my idea. Lady Jessica instructed me to make these false accounts to deceive Lady Helen!" "What?" Helen was enraged, and smashed a cup. "Jessica used fake accounts to deceive me?"

Carissa pressed Helen's hand to calm her. "If the previous account books were false, then there must be genuine ones."

With the guards holding him, Eric's arms ached as if they might break. Fearing further punishment, he nodded vigorously. "Yes, of course! There are real ones."

Since Carissa was preparing to visit Northwatch Estate, she didn't want to waste more time arguing.

She called Luke in, and instructed, "Please take two people with you and return to The Gilded Tower. Retrieve all the account books from these years and have them verified one by one by the accountants. Confirm on-site whether they are genuine accounts. If they continue to falsify records, there is no need to report back. Send them directly to the Royal Citadel."

Luke responded, "Understood, Your Highness!"

He signaled for the guards to act swiftly. The carriage outside was already prepared, and they departed for The Gilded Tower immediately.

Eric had never faced such a situation before, and trembled in fear. He silently cursed Jessica.

it different now? And facing the Hell Monarch's princess consort

Citadel, he would be lucky

deceived me? How

up the broken

was terribly intimidated by them. If not her, then who would be deceived? Besides, Helen always stayed in the inner palace and never went out. So, it was easy to deceive her without her

can handle this. You had contracts in place, didn't you? When I return from my visit, we can go over them together. Getting angry won't solve anything," Carissa said. Helen felt tears welling up in her eyes, and was almost unable to hold them back. Jessica and Dakota had been in business together for years. Dakota always received profits,

in comparison to

never expected Jessica to deceive her. Jessica

within her, and it took all her strength to

remembered how her daughter-in-law had stood up for her yesterday and retrieved the pearls. Now, Carissa wasn't distancing herself from

it without a fight? There was a good chance they wouldn't even get their hands on the real account books. Going to The Gilded Tower might end up being a wasted

brief comfort of words, Carissa nodded respectfully before

himself in this matter. Today, he had something

the gifts, Rafael insisted on handling them himself, loading the gifts

could he not take