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?"

king and then pin the blame on you." She looked at me cautiously before lowering her head and clenching her fists.

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

were a 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

the secret signal for you?" I asked

"I thought it was her, but I denied it after careful consideration. If it was a secret signal that my adoptive 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 raise me and train me to be a killer because she wanted me to kill the king someday. I

possibility that Noreen found out

I said that. She looked down

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?"

But apart from Noreen, I can't think of anyone else who wants

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

would have people test his food every single day. That meant the person who poisoned him without being noticed was most

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