Many, many years ago.
There is a kind and intelligent princess in the Stuart Kingdom.
She cares about all the servants around her, and her every move conforms to the teachings of royal etiquette. As the youngest daughter, she is favored by the king.
——Her future husband will definitely be a very outstanding talent.
People around me were saying this.
Lambert, a member of the royal family's bodyguard, thinks so too.
Even if he is always involuntarily attracted by the cheerful figure of Her Royal Highness, even if he is always involuntarily thinking of her appearance, Lambert still believes that Her Royal Highness deserves to stay with the best, her favorite boy.
However, the princess did not wait for such a person.
All she was waiting for was a marriage contract that she had to fulfill with the crown prince of a neighboring country.
The princess's own opinion is irrelevant, and the so-called favor is just a beautiful illusion. The princess, who was unable to disobey the order, was turned away by the king and cried in despair because she could not be received.
Under the eaves on the other side, Lambert watched silently for a long time.
He heard the unwilling accusation: "I don't want to marry a prince I've never met, and I don't want to leave my own country!"
Every word was like a sharp blade, piercing Lambert's heart until blood dripped from it.
——Did you hear that? She said she didn't want to.
However, the king never gave any answer, and the princess could only leave silently after she was tired of crying.
Out of some unknown mood, Lambert followed the much thinner figure.
Under a tree in the courtyard, the lonely princess sat on a stone chair in a daze. After hesitating for a moment, Lambert stepped forward silently.
"It's you, Lambert." Seeing the familiar guard and friend, she smiled dimly.
"You said...if you send your daughter abroad, your father won't feel reluctant at all?" Her voice was very soft, as if it only needed a breeze to blow it away.
If she marries into his royal family far away, she may never have the chance to come back in the future.
Lambert closed his eyes.
He hates these people in power who only know calculations and interests, and hates this country that cannot tolerate pure souls.
"My father told me that this is the duty that I, as the Stuart princess, must fulfill..." Her clear eyes no longer looked at Lambert, but she regarded him who happened to appear at this moment as a He found the only tree hole where he could listen to his heart, and said many words that he could not usually express to outsiders.
"He also said that the responsibility of maintaining the friendship between the two countries will be entrusted to me from now on."
--not like this.
"It's so ridiculous...the so-called friendship between countries," said the princess.
Lambert was heartbroken.
After regaining her composure, the princess stood up and apologized to him: "I'm sorry...I told you a lot of useless nonsense, please don't take it to heart."
"No! It's not useless nonsense." Lambert denied excitedly.
"I...I will go to His Majesty the King and ask him to cancel this order."
This was the only solution he could think of.
However, the princess shook her head.
"useless."
"The covenant between the two countries has been established a long time ago. Everyone has gotten what they want and can no longer go back on it... Perhaps this is the reason why my father has favored me so much over the years and why he doesn't want to see me again now."
Seeing the expression on the guard's face that he was about to cry, the princess' eyes softened.
He was a very good person, and once upon a time, she had been moved by his thoughtfulness.
It's a pity that he and I are not close to each other after all.
"Lambert," she said.
"——I will remember you, please live a good life."
In the end, the princess hid her grief, and in a grand ceremony surrounded by thousands of people, she married the then only prince of the Kingdom of St. Lornes.
It is said that her dowry items alone filled ninety-nine carriages. For more than ten years, every girl dreamed of having such a beautiful wedding.
But that princess who was envied by outsiders, did she really achieve happiness?
Lambert knew she wouldn't be happy.
What really took away her happiness was what she wanted to maintain.
…
The queen's body was trembling, and she no longer knew how to respond.
She didn't even quite understand why the situation suddenly became like this.
But on the other side, His Majesty the King had high morale and a brisk tone.
"How dare the queen collude with foreign assassins and intend to assassinate me... How can such a vicious woman deserve to sit in a distinguished position again?!"
He gave the order, and the guards who had been scattered at a certain distance rushed up again, preparing to detain the woman in the center of everyone's attention.
After witnessing this scene, Simon was the most excited among everyone present. Seeing the queen being pushed to her knees by the guards, he struggled wildly: "Let her go! This matter has nothing to do with the queen!"
Simon had never regretted his decision to kill the king in front of everyone as much as he did now.
He could have had many chances to strike.
——But he was unwilling to do so.
He didn't want his nearly twenty years of [revenge] to go into obscurity. He wanted to be caught off guard and dragged into hell by the resentment he had accumulated for many years when this man was surrounded by everyone and when he was the most eye-catching.
Therefore, he carefully prepared and waited for this moment.
At the gorgeous and grand banquet, his subjects, his wife and children all gathered together. What a good opportunity for him to bury himself here!
Unexpectedly, he had already noticed it and had been deceiving himself in turn.
Simon finally realized that maybe...this man was not as incompetent as he seemed.
Realizing that the king's cold eyes had not changed at all, Richard, who was standing next to him, also became anxious and excused the queen again: "Father, maybe there are other hidden reasons behind this matter. We can investigate first and then-"
"Hidden secret?" The king sneered coldly: "The hidden secret is that your mother had an affair with her old lover and murdered me in advance so that you could ascend to the throne!"
The queen seemed to be stimulated by this accusation and suddenly came to her senses. "I don't!"
"I have never done anything with Lambert!" she said eagerly, "He used to be one of my close guards, and we were very good friends."
Richard could not help but frown tightly when his father revealed his mother's secrets in public without mercy.
He felt at a loss.
"Humph, you said you don't have it, so you don't have it?"
The king raised his head and scolded the guards: "Drag her down immediately!"
"No one is allowed to move!" Richard suddenly shouted and protected the queen with all his strength.
He couldn't just let his mother be convicted, and he didn't believe that his mother would do those things. If she was taken away in public like this, the scandal would spread throughout the capital the next day.
