"I'm sure she feels like I stole her parents away from her. Of course, she doesn't like me.

"Now that we're both our parents' daughters, they love both of us equally. If we were to have a falling out, who would our parents side with? They would surely be very upset.

"If she doesn't like me, so be it. I'll just avoid her and accommodate her."

Lucy was sharp-witted. How could she not notice that Charlotte did not like her?

She just kept quiet all this time because she did not want to upset her parents.

As Lucy spoke with a heavy heart, Matthew embraced her tenderly, feeling a pang of sympathy. "My dear Lulu, you don't have to put up with her, you know? Besides, even if you accommodate her, there's no guarantee that she'll be nicer to you. I bet she'll even hope for your demise..."

Before Matthew could finish, Lucy was shaken to her core. She looked at him with alarm and asked, "Matt, w-what do you mean by that?"

Matthew sighed, caressing Lucy's cheek. "I think we were wrong before. None of us knew your true identity back then, so we assumed that you were targeted because they wanted to come after me. But now, it seems like that might not be the case."

this ever since he learned about Lucy's true

and concealed Lucy well, so it did not make sense for

he had seemingly been

trace, making it seem like they were only

but now that

their little princess, some people didn't want you to return to the palace. That's why they

most from Lucy's death, the answer was obvious. Charlotte's

uncovered the truth with his deduction, but Lucy could not

to kill me? How could that be? No matter how you look at it, she's just a spoiled little girl. How

to the palace, she'd still be a princess. It wouldn't be worth taking such a big risk to go after me,

a woman as delicate as a flower would want

tower. She was naive enough to believe that there

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