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𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙚

chapter twenty-nine: “unpleasant memories.”

(n/a: I don't love this book.)

— (FLASHBACK)

     “YOU STILL DARE TO LOVE HIM DESPITE KNOWING YOU'RE BEING MANIPULATED BY HIS DELUSIONS?”

HER GRANDMOTHER questioned, tapping her fingers on the shoulders of the young Princess. (Name) was sitting before a mirror, showing the gentle (crazed) smile written on her grandmother's facade while her face was ruined by her judgment...

     "I don't know what you're saying..."

     The older fae chuckled, "Don't act like a stupid child, my dear granddaughter. He truly influenced you to be an ignorant fool, so he could you manipulate you," she sighed. "Love sure blinds people, but I couldn't blame them. I was once blinded by that greedy emotion," she shared.

     The younger fae's hold on her skirt tightened, and tears threatened to fall, "Don't narrate his attitude because of my deception. I'm the one you should be blaming because he, too, was blinded by the—"

     "Tut, tut! That's it, (Name). You are to blame because you fall in love with someone who can also deceive you," her grandmother tittered. She shrugged before wiping her granddaughter's cheeks, "Now... Don't blame me for divorcing you with your... So-called husband. He was the one responsible for why you're in a bad shape during your stay—"

     "Are you proving that he cheated?"

     The grandmother clapped her hands, "My granddaughter is very wise, just as I expected her to be. Indeed, Morax always has another woman behind your back," she chuckled while seeing the hazy gaze of her successor. "She, who lives in Guili Plains, has caught the eyes of your husband. She, who is also an Archon, seduced Morax. She, who goes by the title the Dust Archon, is named Guizhong."

(Name), weak and powerless against her grandmother, could defend her husband no longer. She knew her grandmother's scope of intelligence is far beyond human understanding, beyond her understanding. No one couldn't underestimate the power of a Celestial ruler after all...

     "You stopped talking, (Name). What happened to your sharp tongue?" The elderly mocked, tilting her head to stare at the writhing princess beneath her. "I have told you this before, but since you need to hear this again. Mere feelings won't help you grow into the desired Queen of Thorns."

     "No... No! No!" The naive and helpless Princess covered her ears, shaking her head. "You're lying! Stop telling me lies! I don't want to hear it!" She sobbed, her mind still telling her to continue having faith in her husband.