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.

manageable in the past. Why was it different now? And facing the Hell Monarch's princess consort

at the Royal Citadel, he would be lucky to escape with his life if he didn't face

deceived me? How

to clean up the broken pieces of

would be deceived? Besides, Helen always stayed in the inner palace and never went out. So, it

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

in comparison to the other

expected Jessica to deceive her. Jessica

within her, and it took all

she remembered how her daughter-in-law had stood up for her yesterday and retrieved the pearls. Now, Carissa wasn't distancing herself from this situation either. A small sense of

knew this wouldn't be easy. To be cheated out of so much money-how could they possibly recover 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

words, Carissa nodded respectfully before taking her

this matter. Today, he had

gifts, Rafael insisted on handling them

not