Chapter 21 (1/2)

Thus, his words could be interpreted as I’ll make you into an Empress.

The Fromandi Household sold off Carden to the Capital at the chance for wealth, fame, and authority that had walked in. They had brainwashed her that if she became the Empress, she could raise the status of the household.

After she had entered society by force, she went through all different eventful days and had been named the Flower of Society by the Emperor as Duke Biron had promised.

Lady of Lilies.

It was the nomination that Vivian had also recently heard. Since everyone had called her Lily instead of her given name – she hadn’t even thought that Carden would be the Lady of Lilies.

However, if the story ended there, it could be seen as a happy ending. Wasn’t it the want of aristocratic ladies to become the Flower of Society who command all the men of the Capital with a twitch of a finger?

However, unfortunately, this was not a story, but reality. Carden was being tortured in between the Emperor and Duke Biron in the present progressive case.

She was stuck in between the man she truly loved and the man she had to marry to raise the reputation of her household.

Carden was the kind of person who was unable to express herself to the point of frustration of others. She smiled when she liked it, disliked it, or was in a difficult position. Her inherent kindness, she was stuck in between this man and that man, and unable to reject either of them. Her ambiguity had finally earned the hatred of the Duke she loved.

Of course, that didn’t mean that Carden was the only one at first. How was it her fault that only authoritative and selfish men appeared at her side?

Both the Emperor and the Duke strongly believed that their love was to be accepted and no matter how strongly the other party rejected them, neither had the capacity to listen to them and acted out violently.