How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 108

"What did you do?"

Kaizen looked at the girl standing in front of him with an absurd expression as if he had never heard such ridiculous words before.

The others had similarly absurd expressions.

Naen repeated the hastily prepared lines.

Florin wrote down these lines and asked her to memorize them.

"I-I have committed a sin, Your Majesty. I-I beg your forgiveness......"

Naen diligently confessed that she had been spying on the duke's family.

And she got the secret letter while spying on the duke's family.

As soon as she saw it, she was so surprised and sent it to the imperial palace without telling her father.

The reason for spying on the duke's family in the first place was that she had a grudge against the empress over the affairs of her mother and oldest sister.

Her second sister and father were completely ignorant of it.

And she never thought the secret letter was fake.

That's what all Naen said.

Even though Naen spoke earnestly, the listeners didn't seem to believe her.

Some derided her openly, and some looked bewildered.

The bewildered people were astonished by Marquis Croychen's act of using his youngest daughter as a shield.

No one will believe a middle-aged Minister of State when he says he made a false accusation by mistake.

However, if a seventeen-year-old young lady, who had not yet reached adulthood, accidentally got a fake secret letter and sent it to the imperial palace, it could be argued that it was the behavior of an immature teenage girl.

Of course, none of the nobles in this position would seriously believe this nonsense.

"Miss Naen."

Astelle took everyone's attention and stepped forward.

Naen looked at Astelle with frightened eyes.

"Then, were you the first to open the envelope with the secret letter?"

"Yes? Yes, yes, of course."

At the sudden question, Naen stuttered in dismay and answered clearly again, "Yes, Your Majesty the Empress. I opened it myself."

"Then you must have read the secret letter, right?"

"Yes, I did."

Before coming to the palace, Florin told her everything about the secret letter.

Naen desperately recalled what her older sister had told.

Whatever the empress will ask, Naen is confident that she can answer all of them.

"I see."

Astelle asked in a calm tone, "Then do you remember how the letter was folded?"

"Yes......?"

"It was folded in a pretty unique way, don't you remember?"

In the empire, specifically among the socialite ladies, there were many different ways of folding letters.

Just as each small gesture of folding and unfolding a fan gives meaning to each other, each method of folding a letter had a different meaning.

Naen was perplexed.