"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."

ever since he learned about

always protected and concealed Lucy well, so it did not make sense for those assassins to be so certain that

to mention, after holding Lucy's fake funeral, he had seemingly been in a state of desolation for a long

advantage of his vulnerability, the assassins disappeared without a trace, making it seem

now that Lucy's

king and queen found out that you were their little princess, some people didn't want you to return to the palace. That's why they sent

who would benefit most from Lucy's death, the

deduction,

me? How could that be? No matter how you look at it, she's just a

be a princess. It wouldn't be worth taking such a big risk to go after

unable to believe that a woman as

living in a pristine ivory tower. She was naive enough to believe that

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