I Became the Wife of a Monstrous Crown Prince (PART 2)

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We looked around the square again. Many new stalls were built for the festival, but existing stores were also busy preparing for the festival, decorating their storefronts and setting up special events.

We went into the bookstore.

Unlike other places, the bookstore was relatively quiet. Since I wasn’t used to reading yet, my attention was naturally drawn to the fairy tale books.

I picked up a fairy tale book that was closest to me.

It was titled “Blessed Princess.”

I opened the book, and quickly regretted it.

On the first page was a picture of a blonde girl and a boy with the face of the beast, on their wedding day.

—Once upon a time, a blessed princess and the monstrous prince of a neighbouring country had gotten married.

This was a fairy tale about me and Blake. I tried to put back the book, but I happened to see the last page by mistake.

The prince, freed from the curse, became a handsome man. But in return, the blessed princess lost her life. The fairy tale ended with a scene in which the prince was left all alone as tears streamed down his face.

The image of the boy crying alone was so much like Blake that I was heartbroken.

“What book are you reading?”

I hurriedly shook my head and hid the book.

‘It’s nothing. Let’s get out.’

Other fairy tales also showed many titles like Blessed or Monster. They were all about us.

“Yes, let’s get out.”

We left the bookstore. After walking silently for a while, Blake pointed at someplace.

“Shall we go over there?”

The place that Blake pointed at was a well-known jewelry store that handled the most expensive jewelry in the empire.

I shook my head in a hurry. When I came to the palace, Blake had given me lots of clothes and jewelry.

I tried to refuse him back then, but I had no choice but to accept it since he had already paid for all of them.

‘I told you before. I don’t need jewelry.’

I was going to leave anyway, and jewelry was a burden. I didn’t want to leave any traces of me behind. I only wanted to quietly disappear.

“Let’s just look.”

‘No.’

That was a lie. As soon as we got in, he would try to buy me anything he could.

“I wanted to buy a present. Help me choose.”

‘Present?’

“Yes. A present for a woman.”

The maids said the rumors of Blake and Diana’s marriage were false.

Blake had always been with me ever since we returned to the palace. He stayed with me, except for when he had to help the Emperor with his affairs.

If that was true, there would be a lot to prepare for the wedding announcement, but there had been no such thing.

So I made a vague assumption that it might really be a false rumor like the maids said.

I was sure it was a false rumor when I came to the square with him today, but when I heard that he was giving a present to another woman, I thought that I might’ve misjudged it.