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00:00Ahead of my lavish nubitals to Lucien, heir apporned of the marcastit, I tried on the crimson gold thread consecrated
00:06bridal cloak.
00:07The garment stirred up fond wedding memories for his sister-in-law, who wept her eyes ret soon after.
00:13Lucien then had my consecrated bridal cloak and sun hazo crown it, changed to rose-colored overnight.
00:20The next day, he turned up at my estate with sanctonious pretensions to persuade me.
00:24Celestine, no matter what you wear for the wedding, you will still be the future Margare.
00:28Why must you upset my sister-in-law?
00:30Ever since she was titled a consecrated widow, crimson has never again appeared in the Marginga's castle.
00:35Although a bride blessed by the church must wear crimson, rose pink still counts as red, does it not?
00:39I will still acknowledge you as my legitimate, orthodox spouse.
00:42You are the true blood daughter of the Duke of Valamont. You ought to possess noble magnemity.
00:46Rose pink is also a shade of red?
00:48By that flawed reasoning, anyone across the Marcus ship could lay claim to House Thornfield's lawful heirship.
00:53Being the house's heir-a-priot Lucien is bound to uphold the noble virtue of mercy.
00:58Lucien opened the chest. The consecrated bridal cloak kept the original design.
01:02Its color was changed to rose-pink fabric.
01:04This color is only for lesser consorts. The scene stunned everyone present.
01:08Ladies who came for the dower covered their mouth could be seen clearly.
01:11Celestine, I had this bridal wear stitched in an all-night rush just for you. Would you try it on?
01:16Lucien looked at me with a face full of tendness.
01:18I pointed at that ridiculous chest of rose and asked,
01:22This is my bridal gown? A rose-colored secondary bridal gown?
01:26The customs of your house, Thornfield, are utterly absurd.
01:29You had my crimson gold thread consecrated bridal cloak taken away yesterday just to replace it with this.
01:35Why?
01:36Lucien looked somewhat troubled, but slowly spoke.
01:40Celestine, when you were trying on the bridal gown that day, my sister-in-law saw it.
01:44She went back and cried all night.
01:46It reminded her of the day she was married, and she was deeply heartbroken.
01:49My elder brother has passed away, and she is a consecrated widow anointed by the church.
01:54Now the sight has stirred her grief.
01:56You know she has not had it easy, so why must you wear a crimson gown and cause her such
02:00sorrow?
02:01No matter what you wear to marry into the Margarians' castle, I will acknowledge it.
02:05You will still be my future Margesine.
02:07Why must you be so stubborn?
02:09My sister-in-law has suffered much. Just bear with it and yield to her.
02:14Alright?
02:17I almost laughed out of sheer anger.
02:20Elwyn had known the two Thornwood brothers since childhood, back when she married into the Margar's castle.
02:25Less than a year after the wedding, Lucien's elder brother died in battle, at the edge of the magical beast
02:30front.
02:31At that time, Elevin threatened to jump off the tower and smash her head against the coffin, set the whole
02:36town chattering with scandal.
02:37The Arpa ship and the Queen were moved by this, and personally titled her, a consecrated widow.
02:44Two years had passed, and she had not missed a single social ball in the royal capital,
02:48surrounded by admirers like the moon surrounded by stars every single time.
02:52One could hear everyone praising her, lauding her chastity and her deep devotion.
02:57How is it that she can revel in banquets and balls outside without a care in the world,
03:01yet when it comes to my wedding, she suddenly plays the part of one overwhelmed by painful memories?
03:07She cannot bear to see Crimson?
03:10Could it be just be because her husband died, awed in entire the noble kingdom, must play the widow alongside
03:16her?
03:16One of the noble ladies could cannot stand it anymore, and spoke up for justice.
03:20Lord Eyre, a noble woman's vows at the High Chapel are everything.
03:24The Crimson Cloak, the Sun Halo Coronat, that's what makes it real.
03:28A true wife isn't some secondary contort who'd marry a real bride in rose.
03:32The Lord Eyre is marrying a lady of the house, not some shameful mistress.
03:36How dare you humiliate Celeste with a rose-colored gown?
03:39Exactly.
03:40Does Alonwit know what an Orthic consecrated bridal cloak symbolizes?
03:44Having it changed to rose-colored, she must have done it on purpose.
03:46Is your lordship taking a wife, or taking a secondary consort?
03:50Celeste is already suffering such grievances before even entering the castle.
03:53What will happen once she marries in?
03:55Elendin cannot bear to see red. Why do I find that so hard to believe?
03:58At the last royal banquet, it wasn't she and she is the only one allowed to wear it, while others
04:01are forbidden.
04:03The group of noble ladies voiced their indignation, on my behalf.
04:07Besides, it was unheard of for a rightful marchiest to be wed in rose-pink bridal wear.
04:12I slammed the trunk shut with a resounding crash and looked at Lucien.
04:15Your lordship, please take this bridal gown back.
04:18Forgive Selamine, but I cannot wear it.
04:20Lucien anxiously defended himself.
04:22I did not mean to humiliate you, Celestian.
04:24My sister-in-law is truly heartbroken.
04:26Why must you pierce her heart like this?
04:29Rose-pink is also a shade of red.
04:31Using a rose-colored gown for a grand wedding,
04:34I truly had not heard such a brazen distortion of right and wrong in a long time.
04:38Just as I was about to lash out, a maid led a woman inside.
04:42My lady, the lady of the Thornweald Magus Castle, is here to visit.
04:45It was Elwyn.
04:47She was clad in somber funeral weeds, typical of a widow's garb, standing at the doorway.
04:53At this moment, she looked at Lucien with red eyes, hurried forward to his side, and said with urgency and
04:57heartache,
04:58How could you do this?
04:59If this royal betrothed is ruined because of me, how am I to explain this to the marjerk and his
05:02lady?
05:03Then, Elwyn looked at me cautiously.
05:05Sister, do not blame Lucien.
05:07He simply aches for me as his sister-in-law.
05:09He did not do it on purpose.
05:11For my sake, please forgive him this once.
05:13Yes, Lucien said anxiously.
05:15Your eyes are swollen from crying.
05:16Why did you come here?
05:17Their back and forth exchange of mutual concern caused the noble ladies nearby to start whispering among themselves.
05:24I laughed mockingly.
05:26I am truly unaware of what the rules of House Thornfield are like.
05:29A woman calling her late husband's brother by his given name and so intimately.
05:33If word of this gets out, what might other people think?
05:36After all, a younger brother aching for his widowed sister-in-law so much that he makes his unwed fiancé
05:42wear a rose-colored secondary bridal gown.
05:44I have never heard of such a thing.
05:47As soon as my words fell, the murmurs among the crowd grew louder.
05:51As a widow consecrated by the church, didn't Elwyn always claim the past that she wouldn't speak a single word
05:57to other men?
05:57She calls out to Lucien more intimately than even his own fiancé does.
06:02Who would believe they are entirely innocent?
06:04No wonder Lucien would wrong Celestine for Elwyn's sake.
06:08Celestine is truly unlucky to be marrying into such a family.
06:11What will become of her in the future?
06:14Hearing the gossip, Elowen feels very awkward.
06:18It's not like that.
06:20Enough!
06:21The surroundings fell silent.
06:23Lucien glared at me with ferocious eyes.
06:26Celestine, is this your scheme?
06:28Let these people humiliate Elowen here just to show your displeasure?
06:32To think she was worried about you feeling wronged and came expressly to reason with me.
06:36And you?
06:37You had people humiliate her here.
06:39Your petty small-minded streak.
06:42Makes me wonder how you'd treat her once installed at the castle.
06:46I laughed out of sheer fury.
06:48It wasn't enough for you to come to my door alone.
06:51You had to bring Elogen to play the victim.
06:54Could it be that whoever's husband dies becomes invincible and can do whatever they please?
07:00Lucien retorted in exasperation.
07:02Celestine, my sister-in-law is a consecrated widow anointed by the church.
07:06Can you not just take a step back and yield?
07:07You are marrying into Louthornhield and will face each other every day in the future.
07:11If you make things this ridge and unyielding, it will do you no good.
07:14Elowen entered the Marjory's castle before you, and she is the most revered person of our entire family.
07:20Even when you become the lady of the house in the future, it will still be so.
07:23My mind is made up.
07:24Three days from now, at the vows in the High Chapel, you can only enter wearing this gown.
07:29A wife ought to obey her husband.
07:32That is the very doctrine set down in the canon of the Holy Maidens.
07:36And as the true-blood daughter of a duken house, it is high time you studied it.
07:41Properly.
07:42Elwyn, standing to the side, said carefully and tendedly.
07:46Sister-in-law, Lucien is only showing consideration for me as his sister-in-law.
07:51After all, as long as one weds the one they love, does the color of the bridal cloak truly matter?
07:56Sister-in-law?
07:57After speaking, she trailed behind Lucien with practiced fragility as Lucien left the gates of the ducal estate.
08:04Several noble ladies swarmed around me.
08:06Celeste, you absolutely cannot marry in a rose-colored gown.
08:10It signifies a secondary union.
08:13You cannot willingly lower your status and go from an orthodox lady to a mistress.
08:18Exactly.
08:19I think Lucien and Elwyn came here intentionally to humiliate you.
08:22Elwyn did it on purpose, wanting you to be reduced to a secondary consort the moment you enter the castle.
08:28Who knows what she is plotting?
08:30His Majesty the King had bestowed the royal betrothal upon Lucien and me.
08:35After my father passed away, though the Valamont-Ducery estate still possessed deep foundations, both my parents were gone.
08:42Lucien was relying on the fact that my parents were gone, and no one was there to back me up.
08:47That was why he dared to marry me into his house in such a manner.
08:50I looked at that unbearably offensive chest of rose-colored gowns and smiled mockingly.
08:55Rose pink is also red?
08:56Wants me to have noble magnuity?
08:58I certainly possess the magnuity to tolerate others.
09:00It's just that while I have it, I wonder if Lucien does.
09:06Subsequently, I ordered the elite shadow wardens left to me by my father to carry out a certain task.
09:14Then, I rode a carriage overnight to seek an audience in the royal palace with Queen Seraphine.
09:19The queen was my maternal aunt.
09:21Since my parents were unable to make it back to the royal capital, it was only right for my aunt
09:27to preside over my marriage.
09:28Three days later, the Valamont-Ducery estate was marrying off its daughter, and the house of the Thornfield-Marshaw was
09:35receiving the bride.
09:35It was the most auspicious of days, and all the nobles in the city were watching the spectacle.
09:42However, early that morning at the Margarek's castle...
09:44Your lordship, this is bad!
09:46Our lady seems to have caught a severe chill.
09:48Her body is burning hot right now.
09:50Please go and see her!
09:51Lucien did not even have time to button his groom's main ceremonial assuring before he rushed anxiously to Elowen's courtyard.
09:57Elowen was burning up.
09:58Her face flushed crimson as she deliriously called out...
10:02Lucius...
10:03Lucien's face changed with panic.
10:05Quick, fetch the royal healers!
10:08Your lordship, the auspicious hour is almost upon us.
10:11You should head to the high chamber to receive the bride.
10:13Lucien rebuked him angrily.
10:15The first lady is this severely ill.
10:16Is her life more important or is the wedding?
10:18Do I need to teach you?
10:19Anyway, this marriage is a royal betrothal.
10:21Selethion has to marry him no matter what.
10:23Go to my Lunger brother's Yernian.
10:25He just led the night order back to capital.
10:27Have him receive the bride in my stead.
10:28Everyone was dumbfounded.
10:30Normally, unless it was a matter of life and death,
10:33what groom would not personally go to the high chapel to receive his bride?
10:37But seeing Lucien merely clipping Elowen's hand,
10:41entirely deaf to another word,
10:43the manservant had no choice but to go to the courtyard of the second son, Garrick.
10:47There, the second son of the family,
10:50Warden General of the North Garrick emerged,
10:51already dressed in the groom's crimson noble main ceremonial attire,
10:55followed by a retrain of escorting knights.
10:59The manservant thought to himself,
11:02Lord Garrick is truly a good brother.
11:04The heir is too busy to attend,
11:06so he immediately stepped out to receive the bride in his stead.
11:09Meanwhile, under Lucien's care,
11:11he drank a magic potion and woke up.
11:13Hearing the ceremonial outside and looking at his unbuttoned main ceremonial ossure,
11:17illays well enough in her eyes.
11:18Lucien, today is your joyous day.
11:20Hurry and go. My illness is no mater-ness,
11:22and you must marry her eventually anyway.
11:24After speaking, tears fell down her face,
11:27poking pity in anyone who saw her.
11:29The bride's carriage has arrived!
11:31Elowen gripped Lucien's velvet cuff tightly,
11:33reluctant to let go, yet still said,
11:36You should go.
11:37How could Lucia bear to leave her?
11:39He jointly hugged her, hugged Ritley housed.
11:43Elowen, if only I could marry you openly and honorably,
11:45I could take care of you forever.
11:48Elowen let out a low sob.
11:50After tonight, you will be someone else's husband,
11:53and we will have no further ties.
11:57Lucien.
11:58Lucien gritted his teeth.
12:00Wait for me.
12:01She enters the castle in a rose-colored gown,
12:03and will certainly be the subject of boss of Sip in noble circles.
12:07When the time comes, I will claim it is only a secondary union.
12:10She will absolutely not outrank you in the family.
12:15I will go out only after the ostrich hour has passed.
12:18Once she enters the Margank's castle,
12:21I will have to teach her the rules.
12:23The bells outside rang continuously.
12:26Lucien timed it perfectly.
12:27Once the auspicious hour had passed.
12:30Thank you all for waiting.
12:32At that moment, the Archbishop of the High Chapel proclaimed loudly,
12:35The sacred nuptial rules are concluded.
12:37The newlyweds may now proceed to the Great Hall.
12:48General Garrick just led his army back to the capital yesterday,
12:51and today he forges a brilliant match.
12:53Truly, good things come in pairs.
12:55The general brings home a beauty today.
12:57What tremendous fortune.
12:59What a wonderful blessing indeed.
13:01Lucien's face had changed color.
13:03He only asked Garrick to help receive the bride.
13:06When did he ever ask him to help take the vows?
13:10Hold on!
13:12He shouted loudly, his face turning ashing.
13:15Everyone looked over to see him striding into the High Chapel,
13:19suddenly blocking the path before Garrick and me.
13:22Seeing me in an orthodox crimson gold thread, consecrated bridal cloak.
13:26Celestane!
13:27How dare you!
13:28Make sacred vows with another man!
13:32Where is the bridal gown I sent yesterday?
13:34How did it turn into orthodox crimson?
13:37I told you, to marry into Laos Thornfield,
13:39you can only wear the rose-colored secondary bridal gown I sent.
13:42If you do not follow my orders, how could you ever be fit to enter our family?
13:46Garrick slapped his hand away.
13:48Brother, today is the day your younger brother takes a wife.
13:51For you the elder brother to dictate what your sister-in-law wears to her wedding?
13:54Lucien stared at him.
13:56It is obviously my wedding today.
13:58What does it have to do with you?
14:00I was the one who went to receive her.
14:02The vows before the Holy Divine were proclaimed by her and me.
14:06Why would it not be my business?
14:09Even the Queen's Privy Warrant has my name written on it.
14:13How is it not my business?
14:15I took Garrick's arm and looked at Lucien with sheer bewilderment.
14:19My dear, why is your elder brother trying to stop our wedding?
14:23Lord Lucien, could it be that caring for your widowed sister-in-law is not enough?
14:27And you must also care for your younger brother's wife?
14:30You claim you are marrying me.
14:32But why is it that the one receiving the bride at the High Chapel today is...
14:36The Warden General of the North?
14:40Lucien was momentarily speechless, then hurriedly explained.
14:44My sister-in-law fell ill today.
14:46I was taking care of her while the royal healers examined her, and I truly couldn't step away.
14:50As soon as she took her potion, she told me to come receive you.
14:53I burst out laughing.
14:55Oh, are all the servants in the Margic's castle made of stone?
14:59The First Lady falls ill-sill and needs a royal healer who couldn't attend to that?
15:03Why must it be the Lord Hare, who claims to be getting married today, running about doing
15:08the chores, so busy he doesn't even have time to receive his bride?
15:12Aside from you and Elwyn, look at the Lord's present and see if any of them believe that.
15:16Humiliated and enraged, Lucien shouted,
15:18Celestina, just because I asked you to wear a rose-colored gown, you deliberately set a trap
15:22for me like this. You venomous woman. You haggle over every detail and possess not a single drop
15:27of noble magnivity. How can you be fit to be the future lady of the Marjikers' estate?
15:33The way everyone looked at him changed.
15:36Exactly. A widowed sister-in-law falls ill, and a grown man stays by her side like that.
15:41What kind of propriancy is that?
15:43I heard that for the sake of this widowed sister-in-law, he repeatedly demanded the bride
15:47bow her head to him.
15:49Could it be that he and that consecrated widow share some unspeakable secret that violates the
15:55church's dogma?
15:56I pulled out a pageant scroll sealed with the royal wax crest. Whether I am fit to be the lady
16:00of the
16:00house is not for you to decide. I can certainly tolerate that sister-in-law of yours, and I can
16:05also tolerate the gown you sent. Speaking of this noble grace and magnansomity, I only wonder if
16:09your lordship possesses it.
16:11A queen's privy warrant, Lucien, heir to Thornweald, has disrespected royal dogma by humiliating a
16:16betrothal with a secondary union. For this blasphemy against the king's grace, he is stripped of his
16:22inheritance rights to the moccastit. The family's inheritance rights shall be succeeded by the
16:26second run, Warden General of the North, Garrick. The betrothal is transferred to Garrick. He shall
16:32wed Celestine of House Valamont on the original date. So it is decreed.
16:37As my words fell, Lucien's face and he stumbled backward again and again. I smiled radiantly.
16:43This noble magnanimity of brotherly harmony. I do wonder, Lord Lucien, whether you possess even a
16:50trace of it. Lucien stared at the warrant sealed with wax, fell to the ground, and screamed.
16:55How is this possible? Just because of one trivial matter, the queen strips me of my heir title?
17:01I don't believe it. I demand to enter the palace. I will appeal to the royal tribunal.
17:06At that moment, an official dressed in a court warm stepped forward in the chapel. It was the royal
17:11chamberlain of the queen's inner court, recognized by all the nobles present. Lord Lucien, Lady Sallelt,
17:15an audience in the palace overnight to request this warrant, and she presented that gown
17:19symboling a mistress directly for her queen. His majesty the king was also there at the time.
17:23His majesty flew into a rage the moment he laid eyes on it, and swore he would never stand for
17:27such conduct of a hypocrite bullying the duke's legitimate daughter. The verdict was not decided
17:31by anyone else. It was the king who gave his personal seal and full authorization for this
17:35warrant. How is it possible? This is an alliance between two great houses. How could it be treated so
17:40casually? I am the statutory heir of the marcher! The nobles finally realized that he had used a rose-colored
17:46secondary bridal ground to humiliate me, and they all looked at him with disdain.
17:51Now that the sacred sacrament is successfully completed, I must return to the palace to report
17:55back to his majesty and her majesty. Still on the floor, Lucien mumbled,
18:00How is it possible? A royal betrothal! How can it be changed just like that? It's just the color
18:05of a bridal gown! Right at that moment, a maid showed from the west wool suits came howling into
18:10the high chapel and threw herself to her knees. Your lordship, please hurry and see the first lady!
18:15She is bleeding from the womb, and the royal healers say she might be having a miscarriage!
18:23All the guests in the chapel turned pale with shock. Elan mismeasuring, she was a consecrated
18:29widow anointed by the church. Widowed for two years, dressing plainly and rarely going out,
18:35strictly adhering to dogma, and never involved with any men, outside the family. How could she be
18:42pregnant, and even mismeasuring? The news was world-shattering. The nobles, casting aside their
18:47etiquette, rose and surged toward the west-wing suites, all wanting to witness this inconceivable,
18:53heretical scandal with their own eyes. I held Garak's arm, walking slowly behind the crowd.
18:59It's chaotic with so many people, be careful. I nodded lightly, a trace of understanding flashing
19:06in my eyes. The intelligence brought back by the shadow warders had proven true. Inside the west-wing
19:12suite, the heavy stench of blood mixed with the smell of magic potions assaulted our senses.
19:20The woman lying on the bed was indeed the normally dignified, composed, gentle, and graceful Elowan.
19:26Only now, her face flushed with an unnatural redness, her forehead covered in cold sweat.
19:32Her usually clear and gentle eyes were filled with agony, hiding a panic she could not quite
19:38conceal. Lucien rushed in as well. He threw himself at the bedside, tightly clapping the woman's hand,
19:45his tone urgent and tinged with a subtle panic.
19:48Elowan, how are you? You were fine. How could you suddenly miss Kate? Did someone plot against you?
19:54The woman opened her eyes weakly, looking at Lucien as tears streamed down her face.
20:00Her voice was faint and full of grievance.
20:03Lucien, it hurts so much. I don't know what happened suddenly. The abdominal pain was unbearable.
20:09I am innocent. I am a consecrated widow. How could I possibly be with child? The healers must have
20:16made a mistake. Her defense triggered a chorus of whispers among the lords and ladies filling the
20:23room, their faces etched with shock and suspicion. A consecrated wid widow pregnant? This is an absolute
20:28joke. Widowed for two years and blessed by the church. How could she possibly be with child?
20:34Could it be that the royal healers lack magical proficiency and misdiagnosed if this is true?
20:39First Lady Elwyn's reputation for chastity is completely ruined.
20:42Seeing her so chast and composed in the past, strictly adhering to the maiden's canon in her
20:46every word and deleter, she does not seem like a fallen heretic. But the royal healers all confirm
20:51a miscarriage. They couldn't just fabricate it out of thin air, could they? There must be an enormous
20:57mystery behind this. Amid the murmurs, the chief royal healer stepped out from the inner chamber,
21:03carrying an enchanted medicine box. He placed a hand over his chest, bowing to the surrounding
21:09nobles, and stated with absolute certainty. My lords and ladies, I have practiced medicine for
21:13over 40 years. I would never miss diagnosis. The lady on the bed was indeed over two months
21:18pregnant. However, her overwhelming grief and anguish disrupted the fetus' vital pulse,
21:22resulting in a miscarriage.
21:26Two months pregnant? As the words of confirmation fell, the room erupted in uproar. The gazes directed at
21:33the woman on the bed, shifted from initial sympathy to scrutiny, disdain, and even profound
21:39abhormony. A consecrated widow losing her trastity was a felony, punishable by burning at the stake,
21:46under church law. The woman on the bed?
21:49No, I didn't. I am being framed. I am truly innocent.
21:54Her defense was pale and powerless. Everyone merely assumed she was too ashamed to admit it,
22:00showing expressions of contempt. Just then, I stepped forward slowly, my gaze falling calmly
22:05on her face. My voice was not loud, but it perked clearly throughout the entire room.
22:09Elevin is a consecrated widow anointed by the church and maintained her chastice years. Naturally,
22:13she would not be pregnant. But you? Are you truly Elevin?
22:19That single sentence was like a thunder clasp from a clear sky. The noisy room instantly fell into
22:24deathly silence. Everyone's gazes simultaneously focused on me, then violently shifted to the
22:30woman on the bed, their faces full of shock and disbelief. The woman's body stiffened abruptly,
22:36as if pricked by a needle. All color instantly drained from her face, turning ashen as paper.
22:41The panic in her eyes could no longer be concealed. She looked up at me fiercely, her voice trembling,
22:47laced with a hollow bravado. What nonsense are you spewing? If I am not Elwyn, who am I?
22:54I am the true-blood daughter of the Chancellor's house, the first lady of the Margarg's castle,
22:59the consecrated widow anointed by the church. Cease your wicked lies and stop slanding me!
23:04Slander? A faint jockeying smile touched the corners of my lips. The real Elwyn has a scar at the
23:09tail of her left eyebrow, left from a fall while riding in her youth. Since childhood, she was tutored
23:14by a royal scribe, and her noble rude hand is elegant and profoundly graceful. Do you possess
23:18either of these two things? The new rings of Salkaintia sivir the dorside of her lairth.
23:24The yenda darted in the way, she her mape awakes to her who steens fake the throust.
23:28I... There was a fall in my youth, and the scar as long as it'd been healed and faded by
23:32magic.
23:33Enter my handwriting I have written up for a long time. Naturally I've grown rusty.
23:37Faded? Grown rusty? I scoffed coldly, turning to look at Lucian, who stood nearby,
23:42his face ashen, his entire body tense. Lucian, you and Elwyn have known each other since childhood,
23:47growing up together in aristocratic circles. Her scar and her unique rune hand? Could you
23:51possibly be unaware of them? Lucian shuddered. His face instantly. His eyes darted away,
23:57unable to meet mine. Fine cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and his lips trembled,
24:02but he couldn't utter a single word for the longest time. Seeing this, how could the crowd not
24:07realize there was treachery afoot? The gazes cast upon the woman on the bed and Lucian were instantly
24:14filled with suspicion and scrutiny. I stopped looking at the panic-strucken pair, and raised
24:18my hand to signal. Two cloaked shadow wardens stepped forward from behind me. One held a yellowed
24:24paper-print scroll, a formal complaint, while the other held a purple sandalwood brodge box.
24:31I took the scroll of parchment, held it high, and spoke clearly and powerfully. As early as the day
24:36Lucian sent the bridal gown, I sensed something was in spress. Lucian and this Elwyn interacted
24:43inappropriately, and this Elwyn had manners, knowledge, and an aura completely different
24:47from before she became a consecrated widow. I'd spatched the shadow wardens to investigate in
24:52secret, and now, the truth is fully revealed. I paused, slowly recounting the shocking secret that
24:57had buried for two years. Her husband died fighting on the magical beast frontier. She refused to
25:02believe he had fallen, shutting herself inside the house to grieve endlessly. He spotted her deep
25:06sorrow and resolved to exploit her vulnerability. He told her he could track down evidence and reveal
25:10the full truth of her husband's death. Elwyn believed Lucian's lies. She boarded the carriage with
25:15him, filled with sincere gratitude. The woman who accompanied them on that trip, is this impostery here?
25:21The crowd listened, dumbfounded, turning to the woman on the bed in sheer disbelief.
25:29I continued. The day they left the territory, halfway at a post station,
25:33Mira offered Elwyn a bowl of potion. She knew full well that Elwyn was severely allergic to a
25:37certain powder since childhood, so she secretly added the allergen nuth and drank it. Moments
25:41later, she burned up, her face swelling rapidly, until her features were indistinguishable,
25:45and she quickly lost consciousness. Right then Lucian and Mira declared publicly that
25:49base-born daughter, Mila, had encountered bandits on the road, had her face disfigured,
25:53and was too ashamed to face her parents. So Mira volunteered to enter a border monastery for a
25:58life of purification. House Sashcrossed had never valued her, so they didn't probe further. Then
26:03Lucian and Mira sent Elwyn, under the name Mira, to a hidden appy in the southern borders,
26:08dispatching guards to watch her, utterly erasing her existence from the outside world.
26:12From that day on, Mira became the Elwyn.
26:18So that is what happened. No wonder this First Lady's aura is completely different from the
26:22rumors. They aren't the same person at all. Lucian and this Mira are absolutely insane.
26:27Daring to commit such monumental fraud, usurping the identity of a true-blood daughter,
26:31and impersonating a consecrated widow, it's sheer lawlessness! The Chancellor's house is far
26:35too foolish. Their true-blood daughter was swapped, and they remained oblivious for two years,
26:40simply believing Mira went into reclusive due to disfigurement. How absurd!
26:44I looked at the pale, teetering Lucian, my tone icy. Over the past two years, Lucian relied on the
26:50reputation to win the unanimous greed will of the entire Margetith. He built up his nightly
26:54renown, cleared away obstacles step by step, and secured his position as heir. Meanwhile,
26:58he and Mira, using this facade, remained together in secret, with no one daring to suspect a thing.
27:03Originally, their plan was flawless. It was indeed I to marry into House Thornweald.
27:08I am the true-blood daughter of Duke Valamont, and once I married into the castle and took charge
27:14of the internal affairs, their facade would eventually be pierced by me.
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