"My lady, I apologize to disturb your reading time but the Emperor wishes to have a royal dinner for every member of the Royal Family." sabi ni Olivia at marahan pinagmasdan ang malamyang tingin ni Chandria.
"I thought he said, I am not her daughter as he's marriage to my mother is void." maikling sabi ni Chandria at binaba ang librong binabasa niya.
Chandria sat at her vanity mirror, while Olivia is taking care of her. She finds it unsual na hindi nagsasalita si Olivia during this time kaya naman tinignan niya ito mula sa salamin and Olivia got the meaning of it.
"My lady, may I ask something?" sabi ni Olivia habang inaayos ang buhok nito.
"Go on." maikling sabi ni Chandria at tumitig sa salamin.
"Do you despise the Emperor?" Olivia asked.
Natigalan si Chandria. "Do I despise him?" madiing sabi nito. "No."
"But I wish for his death, I wish for him to acknowledge the fact what kind of father he is to me." Chandria said with pained showed in her eyes.
"The only thing I remember from the moment my mother die, I hear my father whispering to my ear, words how he justify what he did to my beheaded mother. Why I don't deserve to be his child nor do I deserve to be part of this family." Chandria said while looking at Olivia.
"Despise is not the right term for what I felt everytime I see the Emperor. The pain, hatred and anger causes me to suffer like this and do you think I have a choice?" Chandria painfully said while holding her mothers amulet, the only thing that was left for her.
"Unlike every child he had, I was the only one who was left alone. I was the only one who doesn't have anyone to protect herself. I was a child Olivia. I was, and he knows it." Mahigpit na hinawakan ni Chandria ang amulet ng ina, kitang kita sa mata nito ang galit at lungkot.
"He called her names such as wench, slut and mistress, even accused her of incest and adultery when in fact it was the Emperor, having an affair with the Third Empress. Making her marriage void and make her child an illegitimate princess when infact my mother was crowned as an Empress." Olivia felt needles in her heart, hindi niya alam kung anong dapat niyang sabihin.
"So don't ask me that question ever again because I will behead you, I'll avenge my mother until my death even if its cost the entire Empire to fall." sabi ni Chandria at sinuot ang amulet ng kanyang ina.
Olivia never expect that because of that traumatizing event for Chandria, she becomes cold, distant and calculative. She suffered bullying from the Empress Dowager, and neglect from her Father, she suffers from everything that she didn't even deserve.
Mas kumirot pa sa puso ni Olivia na mapagtanto na Chandria is also alone, no one will support her. Maski ang Household ng kanyang ina ay hindi siya pwedeng protektahan because the Emperor forbids it.
Now I know, why she's been quiet all the time. They will soon realize what kind of monster they build and I, Olivia is willing to lay down my neck for her to raise to the top.
"Illegitimate Princess Chandria Akane Hasira has entered the grand hall." The butler announce.
Every member of the royal family watch Chandria entered the grand hall, wearing her mother's signature color purple and wearing her mother's amulet.
Chandria quietly walk and sit at the farthest possible seat to the Emperor. Aside from their other relatives, most of the direct lineage of the Royal Family has not arrived yet.
"The Empress Dowager Maribeth Rosily Von Hayes-Quaniea, Mother of the Emperor and First Princess Clevia Elise Saxon Von Quaniea with the Second Princess Clarity Eliza Saxon Von Quaniea, daughter of the former First Empress Saxon." paganunsyo ng Butler ay agad na pumasok ang Empress Dowager.
