Avoid The Lead! [[COMPLETED]]

27. Counterattack 2

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After Celia returned to her room the previous night, the servant Novia had planned with suddenly found himself immersed in thick ice, leaving only his mouth free.

"Miss Scarlett! Please pardon me!" He begged, as Celia strolled into the room. He was the same servant who had bowed to her when she first returned home, and she scoffed.

"Pardon you?" She calmly asked, as the ice thickened, nearly shattering his limbs. "Who gave you the audacity?"

"Please please!!" He wailed. "It was the elder Miss and her mother who instructed me to do this!" The servant begged for his life as he explained the whole plan, pointing out not just Novia, but Lady Garrett as well.

"Oh?" Celia had smiled down at the begging man. "Then I'll give you another chance to atone!"

And this led to both Novia and her mother being found in compromising positions!

The wingless rumours flew faster than winged birds, dousing the capital in the Scarlett family's scandal!

But before noon, before the Scarlett family's name was bathed in mud, a few letters from Celia's little tin box, had wound their way to interesting places.

Three landed in Lord Scarlett's study, proving that Novia wasn't a Scarlett at all, and how Lady Garrett had murdered an innocent innkeeper to bury the truth.

Two landed on King Vien's desk, one proving Lady Garrett's crimes, and the other from Novia's real father!

He had never wanted Novia, but Celia had written directly to his mother, who had always wanted a granddaughter. The elderly lady had bullied her son into accepting Novia, and he had sent in the letter, which was begging King Vien to let Novia return to her real family.

The Capital was efficiently turned on its ear, but Celia graciously breezed through it all, expressing pain and regret that she was losing a sister, and that the favourite Prince and her sister had done such a thing under the Scarlett roof.

Before nightfall, the dear citizens of Blixia were all consoling the Scarlett family instead of pointing fingers at them, and as the shadows of night fell, Celia sipped from a glass of fruit wine, a satisfied smiled on her face...

With these carefully planned scandals, Celia had taken care of Vitav's unwanted attention, and had eliminated Novia and her mother.

And none of it would tie back to the Scarlett family!

She sighed peacefully, but started when she felt Taze's aura.

She hurried to the window and let out a gleeful laugh when her eyes spotted a long line of Taze's burly clones, all performing a funny series of bows and salutes.

~"My Love! You've been busy!"~ His voice sailed to her, and she beamed at the clones, enjoying the show...

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By the next day...

Vitav's reputation had been ruined by Novia, and he had slapped her right in front of Lord Scarlett.

"You cruel woman! You poisoned me?!"

Novia had denied it, but who would listen at a time like that?

Almost everyone knew Prince Vitav visited the Scarlett Estate for Celia's hand, so why was Novia suddenly in his bed?!

Meanwhile, Lady Garrett was in a lot more trouble.

Apart from being found with a servant half her age, there was a living witness to the murder of the Innkeeper.