Chapter 76

“I am ashamed to say this, Lady Celestine. I thought you were behind all of this. You were the one who benefited the most from this. Isn't it? But after that…… When I saw you again, I realized. That I was wrong.”

Annette explained her position as honestly as possible.In the hope that Celestine will come to terms with this and open up her heart to her.

“I want to find the real culprit with you. I want to find out who pushed my back into a trap and left you with terrible nightmares that will never be erased. To do that, we need your help. So can you trust me? “

This was the end of Annette's persuasion of hers.Celestine was watching Annette with her wary green eyes.The eyesher seemed to be searching Annette's face for her to see if she was lying or if she was hiding something.

Annette wondered what she saw in her own face her her At least, it was best to face Celestine without avoiding her gaze the whole time she was talking If her head her had been clearer, she would have been able to speak much more persuasively than she does now.

Annette regretfully waited for Celestine's next reaction to her.Celestine, who had been silent for a long time, opened her mouth with her heavy face.

“…… When I was first chosen as a candidate for Crown Princess, my parents were very happy. The real one is you anyway, and I was just a candidate for an assortment match. He said it was great just to be selected alongside the famous Bavarian princess. As you know, things in my family are a bit…… Because it wasn't good.”

It was Celestine's family Her Her, the Marquess of Keirs, was once a fairly prosperous family.Of course, that was 200 years ago.

The Keers family owned a fairly large granular. There was a large river running nearby, so I had never worried about irrigating the fields. Thanks to that, the Keirs family has always been on the affluent side.

However, natural disasters were catastrophes that could not be helped by human power. One day, a very large earthquake occurred near their territory. Thanks to this, tremendous loss of life and property damage occurred in the granular of the Marquis Keirs family. Huge loss that it would be difficult to recover even after spending all the budget.

The misfortune was not only that. An extreme tectonic shift caused by the earthquake caused the flow of water to change its direction. In an instant. From then on, the downfall of the Keirs family began step by step.

Thanks to this, it has become a bright apricot now after 200 years. Only the name of the Keirs family was a marquess, and they were a family with less prestige than the average count. That is, until the long-awaited daughter of her , Celestine Keers, was chosen as her crown princess her.

“Ha.”

A deep sighed Celestine's lips as she remembered her family. Even though it was only her bridesmaid position her, the face of her parents her whom she liked came to mind. No one, not even Celestine herself, had ever thought that she would become the 'real' crown princess. But I never thought things would turn out like this.

“I'm not in a position to dare to say this, but… Actually, I don't have a rational crush on Her Highness the Crown Prince. She probably does too. But that doesn't mean I can't bear to say that I'm not interested in becoming Crown Princess. This is a really big opportunity. To me, and to my family.”

Taking her breath away for a moment, Celestine's gaze turned to the ring on the ring finger of her own left hand. Her ring her, set with a large diamond in the center, was precious with edges trimmed with emeralds, rubies and sapphires. Must have been her engagement ring from her royal family. Celestine continued, stroking her diamond surface with her gloved fingertips.

“However, I have no desire to become the crown princess cowardly even to the point of using a wicked scheme behind her back. Although my family is weak compared to Bavaria, I also have the pride of my family. I can swear by the name of the proud Keirs family. I am a pure victim, and I have never staged a self-dramatization!!”

Celestine's voice grew increasingly heated as she spoke. It seemed that the more I spoke, the more I felt remorseful. Annette was a little surprised by the unexpected direction of the conversation.

She actually thought that Celestine had come to question her. To make sure Annette wasn't really the culprit and that she wasn't lying. Instead of interrogating her Annette, Celestine insisted on her own innocence. Apparently Annette felt very unfair when she said the other day, “I thought it was your own kidnapping play.”

Celestine, having finished her words, looked at Annette with her breath panting.It was her gaze, her her, waiting for her, her own reaction, her.Annette, who met her dark green eyes, her her. She responded softly.

“Okay. I understand.”

“… What are you talking about? Do you understand?”

“It literally means I believe in Lady Celestine. In fact, she did think she was a bit odd from the start. I saw you as someone far from such cunning tricks.”

“What kind of person did you see me?”

Celestine didn't lose, holding her horse by the tail and probing Annette's heart her. Confused as to what to believe, she seemed to take an aggressive attitude. If she was a normal person, she could have assimilated Celestine's insecurities her and become hostile with them. But her opponent was Annette. With her anger dysregulation her husband her, she smiled at her familiar serenity her.

“He is a proud man.”

“Yes?”

“I thought the first time I saw Lady Celestine. Oh, she must be a person who is proud of herself. So I thought she was someone who wouldn't do anything to devalue herself. Of course, the look on my face was scary at times, but you're basically an honest person. Is it not?”

“What, what are you talking about…….”

Her Celestine's expression hardened. Of course, it wasn't because I was angry. I don't know if it was intentional, but Annette's words her somehow sounded like compliments. Into an angry one. Looking at Celestine like that, Annette smiled and continued her words.

“So, in fact, when that incident happened… I thought it might be your own play, so I was really disappointed. I thought you weren't that kind of person. But unless Lady Celestine is the culprit…… Because there was nowhere to go. Who the hell would have invented such a thing?”

“That …… Yes. So, of course, Annette, I thought it was your fault her. But I thought it was strange.”

At last Celestine spoke her mind her for the first time Annette opened her eyes wide and listened to her Celestine who lowered her eyes as if embarrassed by that gaze of her continued her words of her

“I mean, you had no reason to do that to me, did you? It was obvious to anyone that you would become the Crown Princess! Why would you do such a risky thing just to get rid of me who has no competitive edge? No matter how you think about it, the loss is far greater than the gain! Aren't you that stupid?”

“Oh, that means… Do you trust me now?”

Annette, who had been listening to Celestine's words her, smiled happily covering her mouth her. Of course she had assumed that Celestine would somehow believe in her own innocence of her, given that she had come this far. Had ever admitted it with her own mouth. The moment she met Annette's smiling face her, Celestine brushed.

“Okay, don't get me wrong! I don't trust you completely yet!!”

Celestine, who swung her face proudly, wanted to take a peek inside her. Her tension she was released, and her usual personality she came out. Sure enough, she had some tears in her Annette's eyes in her, perhaps because she had yelled at her.

'You're crying because of me?!'

Seeing this, Celestine was deeply shocked.

Her heart her sank her, she was just as Celestine was about to say her words of apology her.She said Annette shyly, wiping the tears from her eyelashes her.

“Oh, sorry. This is the first time someone else has believed in my innocence…… Tears came out without me knowing. Thank you so much, Celestine. It really means a lot to me that you believed in me.”

Annette squeezed her reddened eyes and smiled heartily. The moment she saw it, Celestine felt her heart tightened. Until now she had never thought of herself in Annette's shoes her, as she was buried in her own pain her. Further, thinking that Annette might be her culprit her, and she hated her.

When she still closed her eyes, she remembered the horrors of the kidnapping day.The hands of strangers who had her mouth shut and bound her limbs her.Rough breaths and obscenities rained down on her head.But I was suffocated because I thought I would be raped at any moment, depending on their capriciousness. She crouched in the cold darkness and shuddered as she imagined what she would become.

Fortunately, she was rescued without incident, but the nightmare of that day still engulfed Celestine and she did not think of letting go. Even in her sleep her, she woke up several times in disgust and voted into the basin by her bedside her. Not happy to be surrounded by dazzling jewels and silk ahead of her coronation her as crown princess. She couldn't bear it because she hated Annette who left such a trauma on her.

'Have you seen the wedding of the Princess of Bavaria? It was really beautiful! The groom's background is a bit like that, but… That's fine. Marquis Kanesis is a really nice guy. Maybe that's why the gongnyeo looked so happy. If she can live with a man like that even if she does she doesn't have to become the crown princess, well, it wouldn't be bad. After all, she's a smart lady!'

Celestine listened to the gossips of the others as if she were listening to herself. A young lady from a Korean-American family pushed her Annette out of her and took her place her as crown princess. It was a perfect position to receive the jealous eyes of others. Even the culprit, Celestine, was a stubborn woman who was not particularly social. So everyone was impatient to bite Celestine somehow.

'Oops. Only because the future Crown Princess doesn't know how to deal with people like that… It would be much better if Lady Annette had become the crown princess as planned…….'

Lips coated with sweet rouge spat out only terrible words. Celestine, who had not been able to escape the trauma of her kidnapping her, has now developed an phobia of people. When she left home, the whole world was enemies, enemies, enemies. Even her best friend her, Diana McClair, has been implicitly jealous of her rise to status her.

So, the only place Celestine could escape Her was God's arms Her it was the only place where she could lean on her Weary heart Her and feel safe Her Of course, even that trust was shattered a few days ago.

So Celestine came to find Annette. Half of it was coming, and half of it was because of the mindset of 'just in case'. In fact, she said Celestine had some questions about this kidnapping as well.