Althea: Should I Take Revenge?

Chapter 1 | Noble woman turned into a commoner. |

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Chapter 1: Noblewoman turned into a commoner

All eyes were on us. Father, mother, and me.

They keep whispering to each other but everybody knows they are whispering the same question.

"How could the duke do that? It's definitely treason!"

"It's a good thing for them, his majesty didn't decide to kill them..."

"The rumors were true then? Lady Althea bullied the crown prince's lover..."

"How could she! And she even attempted to kill her! It's horrifying!"

Those voices she keeps hearing...It irritates me so much. I want to yell and tell them to shut up. I can do that if it was earlier, but now?

The crown prince accused my father of secretly running a slave-trading inside the kingdom. Of course, those shit was fake. I know my father more than anyone. Not even his wife that he loves the most.

And after that, this son of a b*tch accused me of bullying his sweetheart who kept crying in his arms while looking at me because she was "scared".

I could tell with a glance that, that girl is faking it. She's crying because I look scary but she keeps looking at me and sometimes glances at me with mockery.

And that fucking prince who kept telling her to cry looks at me with disgust. He wants me to leave already.

I hate it.

I hate this kind of thing.

I hate it when someone looks down on me. I hate it.

Even more, they don't even have evidence my father was running a slave trade. Like in my case, they all believed that girl's words without even finding evidence...

And you call this kingdom the purest when the people living on it are fucking idiots.

Even then, that girl did "Help" me and asked her lover to reduce my punishment. It was torture and then was replaced by being banished with my parents.

This sucks... I want to slice their throat so badly...

My father might've seen how my long carefully trimmed nails dig through the skin of my right hand because he held it so suddenly and tried to easy up my fingers. After caressing for a few moments, my fingers eased up and it revealed red marks that were formed because of my nails.

I turned my look to my father who was carrying a straight face, he was looking at my hand.

Knowing I was staring at him, he also looked back and said some words that revealed he was worried about the light injury in my hand.

"You should ask the butler for a medical kit and clean the cuts after we return to the mansion.

Me, who was wearing the same mask as my father's just nodded. Seeing my nod, he released the hold of my hand and turned his head to face the crown prince who was now looking at us. I also looked at him with no trace of emotion in my eyes.

All of us, my father, my mother, and I looked at him with no expression.

The prince got scared at the looks he received from us, he felt like three black panthers were ready to eat him any moment now. But thankfully he remembered that he's a person with higher standing than us and was able to straighten his back and lift his chin high.

"Since the duke committed a huge crime, Lord Alois has been stripped of his title. And so because of that." The prince looked at me with mockery. "My and Lady Althea's engagement will be canceled,"