00:06What are you doing?
00:09I am the one who angered Lady Cordelia.
00:12I do not wish for you to be punished unjustly.
00:17You love playing the hero.
00:19Then I shall grant your wish today.
00:26Enough, Cordelia.
00:27I warn you not to go too far or else you still dare speak in such a tone, wretched servant.
00:35Today I will teach you proper manners in Her Highness' stead.
00:39Cordelia!
00:44Do you know who it is you are about to strike?
00:48Your Majesty.
00:51Your Highness.
00:52Your Highness.
00:54Your Highness!
00:55Your Highness!
00:57How could she be the King's mother?
01:02This cannot be.
01:03Her Highness was testing you all.
01:06Never did I imagine you would be so arrogant as to dare mistreat the King's mother herself.
01:12Your Highness, I beg forgiveness.
01:14I fail to recognize Your Highness as the Queen Dua.
01:17I beg your pardon.
01:19And I beg your majesty for mercy.
01:21Your majesty?
01:23The King?
01:30This matter is of great gravity and concerns the Queen Dowager's dignity.
01:34I beg your majesty to pass fair judgment.
01:37Indeed.
01:39Indeed.
01:39How dare you offend the Queen Dowager?
01:45Repent at once!
01:47I acknowledge my sins, Your Highness.
01:52It was this maid.
01:53She misled me, telling me Allura had seduced his majesty.
01:57That is why I lost my senses.
02:00Lady Cordelia, it was all you!
02:02Silence!
02:03If you had not incited me, I would never have dared act insolently before the Queen Dowager.
02:07Maid Lila spreads false rumors and violates palace laws.
02:11Drag her away and sell her into servitude at once.
02:17I beg your highness for forgiveness.
02:19I did not spread lies.
02:21I truly saw Allura exchanging improper glances with the guard.
02:25I humbly beg your highness for forgiveness!
02:29You are the elder daughter of House Vosk!
02:33Presumptuous Cordelia.
02:34I thought you kind, but you are cruel, disrespectful to your superiors, and deluded enough to covet the Queen's throne.
02:40I sentence you to one year in the Royal Penitentiary to repent.
02:43The Royal Penitentiary?
02:46I repent!
02:48I repent!
02:50I beg your grace to spare me!
02:53I do not wish to go there!
02:55I have something to ask you.
03:00You remain here.
03:02Summon the Royal Physician at once to heal Allura's wounds and tend to her carefully.
03:07Yes, Your Highness.
03:15Kale, come with me.
03:17Kale, come with me.
03:35Sian, has Her Highness punished you?
03:44Sian, has Her Highness punished you?
03:48Sian, has Her Highness.
03:50Ointment has been applied.
03:51The pain has faded.
03:53Do not worry.
03:55How could I not worry seeing you like this?
03:57Allura, I am sorry I failed to protect you in time.
04:02It is all in the past.
04:04As long as you are unharmed.
04:06Well, I will never let you suffer such agony again, Allura.
04:12Allura has passed the trial.
04:14I shall confess my identity to her at once, and name her my queen.
04:18The coronation can wait.
04:20Next month is the Royal Spring Garden Party.
04:24And the ceremony court is already preparing the coronation ceremony with limited manpower.
04:29Besides, this is far too sudden.
04:31I fear the ministers will object.
04:33Mother,
04:34why not entrust Allura with organizing this banquet?
04:37If she succeeds,
04:38she will prove her capability,
04:40and persuade everyone to accept her as queen.
04:43Her Highness has tasked you with organizing next month's Royal Spring Garden Party.
04:48I... but I know nothing of such matters.
04:50Do not fear.
04:51With your ability,
04:52you will succeed.
04:53I will also assist you in secret.
04:57Very well.
05:04All of you move quickly!
05:07Anyone who slacks off will taste my whip!
05:14Worthless wretch!
05:17Do you still fancy yourself a noble lady,
05:20once inside the royal penitentiary?
05:22No one is allowed to be lazy.
05:24No one is allowed to be lazy.
05:32Damn it!
05:34This is all your fault!
05:41Don't touch me!
05:44I am the daughter of the Duke of Clifton.
05:47Show me proper respect.
05:50Daughter of the Duke of Clifton?
05:51In my past life,
05:53Lucien was promoted by the Queen Dalmager at the Spring Banquet.
05:57If I can escape this place,
05:59and get Lucien to appear at the banquet,
06:01I will surely turn my fortunes around.
06:13What a wretched place!
06:16I am expected to wash clothes here!
06:22Where did this lowly maid come from?
06:24Sister, I have an urgent favour to ask of you.
06:27Why would I help you?
06:30Were I not fallen from grace,
06:32you would not even be worthy of speaking to me.
06:36My sister Alara trapped me here.
06:39If you help me escape,
06:41I will serve you faithfully for the rest of my life in repayment.
06:49Alara?
06:52Excellent.
06:53The banquet procedures are well organised.
06:57It is clear you put great effort into this.
06:59I am confident entrusting this to you.
07:02Thank you, Your Highness.
07:05Your Highness!
07:08Disaster!
07:10A fire has broken out at the Royal Penitentiary!
07:13What?
07:18Sir, what is the situation inside?
07:21The fire has engulfed the entire backyard.
07:25Nearly half the occupants not escaped.
07:29Could Cordelia have perished?
07:37Your Highness!
07:40Your Highness!
07:44I know my sins.
07:46I beg you to revoke my punishment.
07:48I cannot endure even one more day in the Royal Penitentiary.
07:51It is a relief you survived.
07:53I must also give an account to your father.
07:56Never mind.
07:58With your temperament,
07:59staying in the institution will do you no good.
08:01You shall be sent north for a marital alliance
08:04with the Northern Diagis next month.
08:06A marriage alliance?
08:08Refuse,
08:08and you return to the Royal Penitentiary.
08:10No!
08:16I shall obey Your Highness' decree.
08:20I will depart for the Alliance next month.
08:25Yet I have one request.
08:27I survived this disaster
08:28solely because Miss Serafina of House Vos
08:31risked her life to save me.
08:32I beg Your Highness to release her
08:34from the Royal Penitentiary.
08:36Your Highness.
08:40I recall Serafina as your sister.
08:42In your opinion,
08:43how shall I reward her?
08:47Your Highness.
08:49Serafina and I have been distant since childhood
08:51and share little affection.
08:52It is entirely up to Your Highness to decide.
08:56Since you have agreed to the marital alliance,
08:59I shall grant your wish.
09:02Return to the palace.
09:05I humbly thank Your Highness.
09:09Allura,
09:10I thought you had climbed high to become a noble,
09:13yet you remain nothing but a lowly bird.
09:16You ruined our parents' house thorn
09:18and made me suffer endlessly in the Royal Penitentiary.
09:22I will settle this debt with you.
09:33Brother, let me out.
09:34If I stay locked up any longer,
09:35I will go mad.
09:37How dare you speak.
09:38If you and Serafina had not acted foolishly,
09:41I would not have offended the king
09:42and lost my position.
09:43It is all that bitch Aliva's fault!
09:46My lord!
09:47Why have you returned?
09:48The Queen Dowger has hardened my crimes.
09:50I no longer have to stay in the Royal Penitentiary.
09:53You ruined all of us,
09:55yet you still have the nerve to come back?
09:57Brother, Allura is the one who truly wronged you.
10:00Instead of blaming each other,
10:01we should find a way to destroy her.
10:03Allura?
10:04She is the king's woman now.
10:06How are we supposed to take her down?
10:09I saw her in the Institute.
10:11She still wears a maid's uniform.
10:13She is not favored at all.
10:14Could the king's affection for her
10:16be only a fleeting insacuation?
10:17Of course.
10:18If the king truly loved her,
10:20why would he keep her as a maid?
10:22The Royal Spring Garden Party is next month,
10:25and all nobles will attend the palace.
10:27It is our perfect opportunity.
10:29House Thorn is invited to the Spring Banquet!
10:31I will be able to go too!
10:34What scheme are you planning now?
10:37Rest assured, brother,
10:39I will shine at the banquet,
10:41win Her Highness's favor,
10:43and restore House Thorn to glory.
10:50All nobles and dignitaries attend to days of Anquint.
10:55Check everything carefully.
10:58Not a single mistake is allowed.
11:00Do not worry.
11:02You have double-checked every procedure.
11:05Nothing will go wrong.
11:07I hope so.
11:11Allura, you love these pastries.
11:13I had extra prepared for you.
11:27Kale!
11:30So many people at the palace feast,
11:32yet I can only watch you from afar.
11:33I can no longer restrain myself.
11:37Wait me here after the banquet.
11:39I have something vital to tell you.
11:42I...
11:43I will wait you here.
11:51Kale, this is the garden.
11:53Someone might come.
11:54No one dares come here.
11:56The only one I want is you.
11:59Right now.
12:00Allura,
12:01do you know how much I crave you?
12:03Every night,
12:04I dream of holding you beneath me,
12:06of hearing you gasp and beg for me.
12:08No!
12:08Not here.
12:10No one is around.
12:11You can scream as loud as you like.
12:13I want to hear you cry for me.
12:15Your body is so warm.
12:18Allura,
12:19tell me you crave me too.
12:21Kale,
12:22I am scared,
12:23but I miss you so much.
12:31My lord,
12:32look.
12:37Allura is with a guard.
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