The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 340: The mourning of Lady Jane

For someone whose ball was being whispered about as a beautiful failure in the news, Sigrid had rather a serene smile on her face. Unlike all of her servants and the people around her that were trembling, worried that she would explode at any moment, she was in a great mood.

She was in such a great mood that she ate a lot at breakfast before heading to the Fairfax manor, to call on the family of the late Lady Jane Fairfax.

When their car pulled up outside the gates, bells on the watchtowers of the manor were tolling a mournful peal. A mixture of cars and carriages were waiting in line to enter the gates. Those that could not stand the wait were walking into the gates on foot.

All of the nobles that came had grim looks on their faces. Some of them had not come to morn but rather confirm for themselves the sordid details of her death. The news claimed that she had been stabbed in the heart with a pen by her stepdaughter Emmah Fairfax.

It was such a terrible thing to happen that it clouded all the news on the ball, with the exception of Emmah’s appearance and her scandal. She was more famous than she had ever been before and she would be remembered forever in Eldoria’s history, after all, she was the first noble daughter to stab her mother in the heart.

She was now a fugitive, a wanted woman. Her pictures were in every newspaper and her face was shown on television every after a program.

A handsome reward of one thousand gold had been offered by Lord Derrick Fairfax for any information that led to her successful capture. It was another reason why there were many mourners at the Fairfax estate, all sorts of people were showing up to trade information and collect the bounty.

Sigrid and Roland passed the mourners, exchanging glances and small words of condolence.

"Sorry for your loss." People said to them. "It is a pity." Others said as she tried to shake the hands of the royal couple.

It all confused Roland. He was not count Fairfax or Lady Jane’s husband or son. Why was it his loss?

the briefest of words. "Yes, such a pity. Truly a shame. She

words held no truth as she was not close to Lady Jane and she personally would not miss the woman. Like everyone else there, she was not just armed with

fight with Lady Percival at the Bachelor’s auction

scandalous memories than that, especially those that had known

in the drawing room, Count Fairfax was holding court with a few nobles, talking about the incompetence of the police

she had been discovered thirty minutes after

mages, claiming that if mages worked in hospitals, they would have saved her. But mages were not

had been there, what could he or she have done for the dead Lady Jane? They

Fairfax --stoic, red eyed and stinking of an ale cologne--stood by a window, visibly overwhelmed. But it was not by grief, but

not have birthed a bastard daughter that killed his wife. In fact, there was an even shorter route to the blame. If he had not

for each and sent them off to live on the family property in the village. Those that wished to stay in

hear the whispers about his wife. Everyone had a story to tell about

was a very good drinker." Lady Percival, Jane’s long time frenemy said, flaunting her newest velvet cloak and fake tears. "We were such good friends and we shared a lot of

eyeing the crystal wine bottle she was showing off to everyone. Misty Sherry

time she called Lady Troll-bridge a troll?"

followed was wild. She was not

cannot believe that she is going to miss the second season of the dark rise of Lady Blanche. She