"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

make sense for those assassins to be so certain that

fake funeral, he had seemingly been in a state

trace, making it seem like they were

mind had been all over the place during his investigation, but now that Lucy's identity had been

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

most from Lucy's death, the answer

uncovered the truth with his deduction, but Lucy could not bring herself to

matter how you look at it, she's just a spoiled little girl. How could she have such

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

woman as delicate as a flower

of right now, she was still living in a pristine ivory tower. She was naive enough to believe that

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