Sylvia's POV:

Noreen was too cunning. Until now, I still couldn't figure out her true purpose.

If she didn't hate Ethan, why did she insist on killing him?

My thoughts wandered to all the things that she had done. It didn't seem like she had a clear purpose either.

It seemed like everyone around me had already been Noreen's pawns.

"Actually, there's another thing I haven't told you," Joanna suddenly said.

"What is it?"

before lowering her head and clenching her fists. "Because of the relationship you have with

have Harry as my friend, then," I replied. I wasn't surprised or disappointed at that point. Even

good person. That's why I delayed the task for as long as I could. I actually didn't go there to kill Ethan. I just received a secret signal requiring a meeting. Unexpectedly, he already fainted when I arrived there

for

mother left, she would have also left a totem of the Big Dipper, but I didn't find it this time. She took so much effort to

possibility that Noreen found

I said that. She looked down and anxiously fiddled with

you didn't want to frame me, so she decided to get rid of you," I added. I also hoped it wasn't true, but I just couldn't think of any other possibilities. No matter how I looked at the matter, Noreen still remained our prime suspect. "But if she could easily take action against the king without me, why did she order me to assassinate him?" Joanna asked,

can't understand what her real purpose is. But apart from

the mere thought that Noreen had been with us all this time, since she was good at disguising herself as someone else.

the empire, Ethan would have people test his food every single day. That meant the person who poisoned him

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