The Archduke’s Flower is in Jeopardy - Chapter 140
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Episode 140 Real artificial flower (造花)
2024.02.01.
“Extra! “Extra-extra!”
Newspaper delivery men were constantly delivering morning and evening papers all over the streets. Headlines that shocked the people of the empire adorned the front pages of newspapers.
⌜The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess come back to life!⌟
⌜The Emperor’s wedding in a bloody court!⌟
⌜The ugly bare face of the late Emperor’s mistress, Marchioness Katrina!⌟
⌜The Empress-to-be wears handcuffs instead of imperial crowns!⌟
Throughout the Jupiter Empire, so-called ‘Katrina’ News of this incident, dubbed ‘scandal’, was spreading quickly. Whenever more than two people got together, they were always busy talking about this incident.
‘Really, she is a rare temptress! Who would have thought that Marquis Katrina was the one who assassinated Her Majesty the Sun Empress?’
‘Isn’t it true that they even tried to target His Highness the Archduke’s life in the same way? Moreover, Her Highness the Grand Duchess and Her Majesty the Younger in the boat are all together!’
Ugly atrocities such as the assassination of Empress Sun and the attempted assassination of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess by Katrina, the late Emperor’s mistress, became known. The crimes of the future empress Roselline and the imperialist nobles who sympathized with him were also revealed through repeated investigations.
‘The empress-to-be, Roseline Fluere, and her imperial faction’s nobles also conspired in the unpleasant incidents that occurred in the Grand Duke’s family!’
‘In addition, I heard there is a huge amount of corruption that has been uncovered, including tax evasion, bribery, and slave trading! It is said that His Highness the Grand Duke has been conducting research over the past ten years since he stepped down from his position as Crown Prince.’
The imperialist aristocratic families, including Count Ripenser and Viscount Dessen, who had been influential in the House of Lords following Katrina, were also expelled one after another. This was because the corruption of those whom Caeron had been investigating for a long time was fully revealed.
‘Now all that remains is for His Highness the Archduke and the Archduchess to ascend the throne!’
‘Your Majesty the Grand Duke, who is said to be the incarnation of the first Emperor Jupiter, is ascending to the throne! Moreover, Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess, who is worthy of the position of Empress, is by her side… … From now on, there will be no worries about our Jupiter’s future!’
‘Moreover, isn’t there a heir conceived by His Majesty Rain? I wonder whether it will be delivered to the prince or the princess!’
The coronation ceremony of the emperor and empress was scheduled to be held in a month from now. The expressions on the faces of the people waiting for the new imperial family were both relief and excitement.
* * *
Meanwhile, in social circles, another news was spreading at an alarming speed through the mouths of wealthy people.
‘Did you hear the news? News from the Count de Fleur!’
‘You mean the news that Count Fleuer divorced?’
‘that’s right. ‘Do you even know why he got divorced?
It was the news of the divorce of Count Fleur and Countess. The exact reason for their divorce was not known to the outside world, leading to many speculations.
‘Isn’t it because of Lady Roselyn? Even if she did not directly participate in the assassination, it is true that she confronted and harmed her older sister, the Archduchess.’
‘That’s actually… … ‘It’s because of Lady Roselyn’s birth!’
The most powerful reason among them was the secret of Roselyn’s hidden birth. It turned out that Roseline was the daughter of the Countess Fleuer from her affair with another man.
The wealthy people were busy talking about how Count Fleur, who found out about this fact belatedly, not only committed infidelity, but also kicked Countess Fleur, who had been abusing Eidel for a long time, from the family.
Even though she was his illegitimate daughter, Count Fleuer, who still had affection for Roseline, whom he had raised, erased only his countess from his family register. Roseline was still a member of the Fleur family, but her position would never be the same.
There was no way that rumors from outside could not be heard that it was inside the prison. When Roselyn heard the sad news in an anxious state because her punishment had not been decided, the sight before her was as dark as the future she had imagined in her head.
“Sigh… … .”
Roselyn was curled up in the corner of her cell, trying to swallow her tears.
At that time, she heard the sound of someone walking towards her in her ear. Roseline, who thought she was the prison guard in charge, buried her head deeper and bit her lip.
“Lady Roseline.”
“… … !”
At the sound of the man’s voice, which was unfamiliar to her, Roselyn flinched and raised her head from between her knees. Roseline’s eyelids fluttered as she spotted the image of a familiar man beyond the bars of her prison cell. Her red, sunken eyes began to water again.
“lung… … under… … .”
Pascal’s face was revealed under the dim gas lights that illuminated the prison. It was the first time I had seen her since her wedding day.
Unlike Katrina, whose death sentence was confirmed through summary judgment, Roselyn was imprisoned and under investigation. An intense investigation continued for several days, and Roselyn’s sentence was scheduled to be confirmed at the final trial tomorrow.
“… … “Are you here to see me?”
Roselyn’s voice was filled with joy and anticipation that could not be hidden. However, instead of her answer, Pascal’s words flew into Roseline’s heart like a cool dagger.
“… … It was true. “There is no scent.”
“… … !”
The tears that had formed between Roselyn’s wide-open eyelids fell freely. She felt devastated, having been stripped of everything in front of the person she most wanted to be unnoticed. Her mood, which went back and forth between heaven and hell in an instant, fell into the abyss as if she had fallen into an abyss of despair.
“that… … “Are you here to check?”
Roselyn’s voice, growing louder as if overcome by evil, echoed throughout the prison.
“What do you think? Do you think it looks good?”
Rosaline’s appearance, without her grooming, was noticeably different from that of her wedding. Instead of her gorgeous appearance, only her scruffy and shabby appearance remained.
There was no way that the perfume that Roselyn used in her daily bath and the perfume she frequently sprayed would be in her prison. At the same time, the strong scent of roses that always emanated from Roseline’s side suddenly disappeared.
The first to notice this fact was Count Fleur, who came to visit.
– father… … !
– Roselyn… … . His face was very damaged.
– Sobbing! sorry. father… … . I am reflecting on everything that blinded me in her greed to become empress and put her older sister in danger. I will atone for the rest of my life… … Please let me avoid a big punishment… … !
– You can’t make up for the sins you committed. You must pay for your sins. However, I will also work hard to ensure that he receives reasonable and appropriate punishment. Don’t worry too much because it won’t be as extreme as Katrina.
Count Fleuère looked with a distraught expression on her face at Roseline, who was holding her own hand and wailing through her bars. Even though she committed an indelible sin, she was his daughter.
Just as he was trying to comfort Zeline, he reached out through her bars and hugged her body. At that moment, Count Fleur opened his eyes wide as if he realized something.
– Roselyn… … you… … .
– yes… … ?
Count Fleuer’s pupils trembled slightly as he took her body away from Roseline. Without even the faint scent of roses, only the stench of prison permeated her body. Recognizing that fact, Count Fleur returned silently with a dark look on his face.
Not long after, news of the divorce of Count Fleur and Countess came. Roselyn, who heard the news through the sarcasm of her prison guard, was convinced that she had finally realized everything about her.
Why did her father, Count Fleury, look at her like that during her last meeting? … . From her childhood, her mother, the Countess Fleur, asked her why she forced herself to wear her balms and perfumes every day… … .
The real artificial flower of the Fleur family is… … .
“Yes, it was me! “The unclean seed of the family was not her sister, but me!”
Tears flowed ceaselessly from Roseline’s eyes as she revealed the secret of her birth, which she had vaguely noticed but had thoroughly rejected herself. At the same time, the sight of her laughing loudly looked somewhat bizarre and pitiful.
“Did you know from the beginning? “About your birth?”
“… … .”
Her giggles and Zelin’s laughter stopped for a moment. Pascal, looking at Roseline speechless with her mouth tightly shut, continued her words.
“I knew it. That is why she and the Countess had persecuted the Grand Duchess so much since her childhood. “To hide their denial.”
“… … Did your Majesty know everything from the beginning? “So you completely used me and abandoned me?”
Roseline’s endless anger was directed at Pascal. cried Roselyn, filled with indignation, as she recalled the day she had first received her invitation from Pascal.
After the news about the prospective Grand Duchess became known, Pascal, who invited Eidel and Caeron to a dinner party, invited Roselyn to the event as well. Then, as if he knew nothing, he asked her about her Fleur family, her family, and her circumstances.
“I will not deny that I investigated the secrets and inside circumstances of the Fleur family while learning about the Grand Duchess.”
From then on, Pascal already knew the scent of the birth flower that descendants of the Fleur family were born with. He knew everything about the Grand Duchess who was born without that scent, and about the Countess Fleur and Roseline who persecuted the Grand Duchess.
“But, I didn’t know about your birth.”
Pascal also thought that Roselline was the child of Count Fleuer’s remarriage, but he had no idea that the Countess had the child from her affair with another man.
After Idel’s biological mother, the former Countess, passed away, Count Fleur decided to remarry a woman chosen by the family elders to protect her daughter.
She, too, had to remarry Count Fleur, following her family’s sudden decision. Even though she had another man with whom she shared her affections at the time. The woman who became Countess Fleuère, carrying the man’s child in her womb, was Varro Zelin’s biological mother.
She has been deceiving everyone by raising Roseline, her illegitimate daughter from another man, as if she were Count Fleuer’s child. She thoroughly obscures her own denial by using the presence of her child, Del.
“Now that you know everything, you will feel even more relieved! From the beginning, His Majesty probably had no intention of having me as a companion… … ! Now, I am a sinner and an illegitimate child whose birth was dirty… no longer… … .”
There is no reason left to stay by your side… … .
Roselyn couldn’t bring herself to talk about what was hidden in her heart and buried her head between her knees again.
“… … I guess we have nothing to see each other about. “If you’ve seen my funny side, please go back now.”
Pascal, who had been looking at Roseline in silence for a while, slowly opened her mouth.
“The final trial is tomorrow.”
“… … .”
“I plan to watch your last moments until the end.”
“… … !”
Zeline’s shoulders flinched and trembled slightly as she crouched down and tightly wrapped her arms around her. Pascal seemed determined to see to her miserable end.
“… … “Let’s take a look again.”
After saying those words, the sound of her footsteps grew further and further away. Roselline’s face was distorted with sadness as she raised her head and looked at Pascal’s retreating back.
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