I Should Have Just Died

Alyssa has taken the lead for Juliana and Ophelia with her delicate body, but this time, it was Juliana’s turn to lead. She didn’t want to leave Alyssa exposed in front of that shameless man. She heard that he even drank alcohol.

Juliana knew what to do in situations like this. How many years has she lived as a Cambridge mistress?

Although she was not as good as the royal family, she knew how to use moderately dirty tactics.

“Secretly call the soldiers.”

“Yes, Grand Madam.”

Juliana curled up her lips, seeing the intelligent maid disappearing with quick steps. Ophelia and Alyssa, she knows how to do what they can’t do. Norfe won’t be able to carry his face stiffly anymore.

Knights dressed in plain clothes soon appeared.

Those who received Juliana’s secret orders melted into the darkness.

***

Alyssa couldn’t sleep even a wink. She wanted to know what happened because the people who Juliana ordered were guarding the door of the room. So she ran out of her room as soon as it dawned.

But Sasha was faster than Alyssa. Her attendant was running from the distance, gasping with a glowing red face, shaking the daily newspaper in her hand.

“Madam! Look at this! Hurry!”

Sasha’s face looks bright, so it seems that it has been well resolved.

Alyssa urgently accepted the newspaper.

The headline…

<Prince Norfe loses reproductive function after being attacked by gangsters last night.>

What?

Alyssa’s mouth opened.

“I guess he met some gangsters after he was kicked out of Cambridge yesterday. Madam, we shouldn’t have done this, but I’m delighted!”

Sasha rolled her feet with a smiling face. Alyssa recalled Juliana’s expression yesterday. There was a particular expression of her pushing herself and closing the door firmly.

Alyssa could not erase the idea that Juliana somehow directed this. Strangely, she folded the newspaper, handed it to Sasha, and walked into the bedroom where Juliana would be.

Her heart pounded.

If the royal family knows this, they won’t be able to stand still! Surely Juliana will pay a great price. And that wasn’t what Alyssa wanted.

Alyssa knows best how cruel the Avery royal family can be. She knocked on Juliana’s door with her lips tightly closed.

“Alyssa? Come in.”

It was the soft and calm tone that she expected. She immediately opened the door and went into the bedroom. The gentle expression of Juliana looking at her was not like the one who had gone through it yesterday.

“Mother…”

“Sit down. Tsk. The wound is still not subsiding.”

Juliana clicked her tongue, looking at the wound on Alyssa’s cheek. It was a wound from the things the queen threw.

“I’ll send you good medicine, so apply it. It’ll get better soon.”

“…I saw the daily newspaper.”

Alyssa quickly opened her mouth as if that wasn’t important.

“The queen wouldn’t stand still…”

“So?”

Juliana gently bent her eyes.

“It’s just that I couldn’t take it anymore. But, Alyssa.”

“Yes, mother.”

“Did they talk about the identity of the men in the paper?”

Alyssa shook her head.

“This is Cambridge. No matter how much we have suffered from the royal family, Cambridge has a power comparable to that of the royal family. So, naturally, I have that kind of connection. Neither the Ministry of Justice nor the guards will properly investigate this matter, and the identity of those men will not be revealed until the end.”

Juliana smiled lightly. It was something Alyssa had never done. Alyssa didn’t have that much power, and when she harmed the royal family, she was more likely to get it back. Her eyes heated up.

“Alyssa. It’s the power you’ll have now.”

It was because of the word Juliana gave her.

The power that Alyssa will have. The roof called Cambridge, where Alyssa will live.

That comfort covered Alyssa’s hellish heart.

“The royal family has been humiliated, and for some time, the newspaper will be suppressed, but will Count Bordeaux remain still?”

“Why is Count Bordeaux…”

“Ever since Count Bordeaux’s great-grandfather started publishing newspapers for the first time. The power of Bordeaux’s name in newspapers is tremendous.”

She had never been under the protection of such power.

She was always the target of those attacks.