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?"

in the imperial palace was to assassinate the king and then pin the blame on you." She looked at me cautiously before lowering her head and clenching her fists. "Because of the relationship you have with Harry, I haven't been able to make

guess I should consider myself lucky to have Harry as my friend, then," I replied. I wasn't surprised or disappointed at that point. Even if someone told me that Noreen was transsexual,

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

signal for you?"

but I didn't find it this time. She took so much effort to raise me and train me to be a killer because she wanted me to kill the king someday. I just don't see it as why she wanted

found out that you wanted to

She looked down and anxiously

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

But

she was good at disguising herself as someone

every single day. That meant the person who poisoned him without being noticed was most likely someone close to

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