Chapter 45
'After all, today is the prom.'
Annette sat in front of the dressing table and stared blankly into the mirror. Tina's dress in her, prepared in one corner of the room, was reflected through the clean mirror surface. It was a dress with a gorgeous robe embroidered with sparkling silver threads on a pure white background and a blue-violet colored bodice. The diamond necklace that was to fill her apron her, cut enough to show her collarbone her, also shone like snowflakes next to it. They were gorgeous and beautiful objects that would make any woman's heart beat.
However, Annette sat in front of the dressing table with a pale face like a doll and was dressed up by the maids. Through their hands her, the woman's face in the mirror became brighter and more beautiful. .
'Lapel is probably… I'm not going with you.'
They didn't reconcile in the end. Annette made no effort to repair the relationship this time. He didn't smile at Rafel as if nothing had happened, and he didn't talk to him first. A futile effort.
When he himself held out his hand, Lapel did not shake it off. But that was it. He never took Annette's outstretched hand her, nor did he offer hers first. Away again with a cold face. As if the distance allowed to you is just this far.
'It's okay. I can go to the prom by myself.'
Annette closed his eyes and held his heart her. For the first time in his life his, his heart his fluttered at the thought of entering the ball together with Lapel. Wasn't going to the prom. After all, this prom was a must-attend event, regardless of whether Rafel went with her or not.
Annette intended to meet Celestine Keers here. And he planned to find out if she was the one who framed him. In fact, considering Annette's purpose for her, it seemed that she would rather go alone than with Lapel. To achieve his purpose.
Just in time, the maids who finished Annette's lips with a light rose-colored rouge gave them friendly compliments.
“You are very beautiful, madam.”
“The madam is probably the most beautiful at the party.”
“Thank you.”
Annette looked at her face in his mirror and smiled. A woman with big eyes, ruddy cheeks, and moist lips in her small face, she was beautiful even in her own eyes. She was here with a familiar smile, and her woman's face even Looked happy at first glance.
So it's okay to be alone. Because it's always been like that anyway.
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The garden party of the Marquis Elroque was still beautiful this year. Beautiful lights were lit all over the gloomy darkness of the garden. Butterfly-shaped lanterns on the branches, and colorful lotus-shaped lanterns above the pond and basin, each gave off a soft light. Here, the delicate scent of roses in full bloom in the garden adds to the atmosphere of the night.
“Lady Annette! No, she is now the Marquis of Kanesis. The wedding went well. It was so beautiful! Welcome to the married world.”
The Marquis of Elroque welcomed Annette as if she were the host of the party. Fifteen years older than Annette, her face was very gentle. Annette thanked them for the invitation and politely complimented them on how great the party was. Even so, Annette's eyes She carefully examined the complex of the Marquis Elroque.
Congratulations for her, the face of the Marquis of El Roque, who was talking to her, shown no sign of rejection Seeing this, Annette felt relieved and wiped her chest.
'As expected, people don't know my false name. 'Shut up' was really thorough.'
Well, it was a joint silence between the Duke of Bavaria and the royal family.Here, even her victim of her, Celestine Keers, agreed in unison to defend her own honor of her.So the silence had to be perfect.Both Annette and Celestine would be hurt.
Annette's response here was also excellent. It was a wise choice for her to act like she was smitten with Raffel at her wedding. I couldn't do that in my previous life, so people whispered all the time. The most perfect candidate for crown princess, suddenly marry Rapel? Maybe she had some flaws? Thanks to her, various rumors such as Annette's infertility and her promiscuous personal life she followed.
But she could understand it if Annette had fallen in love with another man and she hadn't become crown princess. There was nothing particularly problematic about the social world. Unless Crown Prince Ludwig did not publicly express his dissatisfaction on this point to this. Annette can confidently come to Celestine's party.
She said, 'It would have been nice if Lapel had come too.'
Annette swallowed a bitter laugh as she recalled the outfit she had put together in Tina's dressing room in her. The lapel she knew mostly wore her cold, dark colors. She was all about dark cobalt blue, navy, black, and dark burgundy. Had worn the white frock coat she had tailored this time, her sculpturally beautiful face would have literally dazzled.
But now, this feeling was useless. Annette looked around the party, trying to get Lapel's thoughts out of her head. Afraid that Celestine might avoid herself, she deliberately waited until the end before making the declaration that she was attending. 'T escape herself.
The dress Celestine decided to wear today was a refreshing yellow color like a lemon. So, if she arrived at her party, she would be very visible in the deep green garden.
'It looks like he's coming a little late.'
The higher a lady was, the later she showed up at the party. Although Celestine was still only the 'Daughter of the Marquis of Keirs', she was a bit special in this case. Now she was treated as her marquise and crown princess, somewhere in between. Therefore, there was a high probability that she would enter a little late.
Annette walked around the party slowly, trying not to show that she was waiting for Celestine as much as possible. And she greeted the familiar faces. Fortunately, most nobles were favorable to Annette. Annette had made and the reason for the arranged marriage.
They could get her rumors about Annette behind her back. Instead, they congratulated her on her wedding her with her big smile her. He praised how perfect her wedding was and how beautiful the bride and groom were. So far so good, but there is one more question that always follows.
“By the way, who is your husband? Didn't you come with me today?”
Their curious eyes shone darkly towards Annette, who appeared alone.In response, Annette smiled brightly and casually accepted her question of her.
“Ah yes. Originally, I was thinking of coming with you…… Something must have happened to the mines. As you know, his mining business is very busy these days. I wish I could have attended the prom, but it's a pity.”
At times like these, I had to respond in a natural way, I should n't have given the curious audience the food they wanted, Fortunately, Annette's treatment of her was effective this time as well, with expressions of half disappointed and Half convinced.
It was the moment when Annette, who had passed the crisis smoothly, was about to leave Suddenly, from afar, someone shouted her her name her loudly Because of this, the eyes of her people Her rumbled back to her .
“Oh my God, the Marquis of Kanesis! See you a few days ago, see you again today!! Very nice to meet you!!!”
It was Diana McClair who summoned Annette. She is a close friend of Celestine Kiers, and the daughter of Count McClair, who owns a fairly large merchant family. She had a history of running into her on the street the other day, when Annette was coming back from eating pig barbecue with Lapel. Maybe that's why Diana, who drew her attention to her and approached as if everyone was listening, felt the will to fight for revenge.
Annette stopped her her steps her and waited in her dignified manner for Diana to approach Now, once again, I was not afraid of Diana In fact, Annette even had this thought in her mind her her.
'She sees that Diana was in, so I'm sure Celestine Keers will be at this party too.'
Well, on the day of the ship, it was rare for her to change whether or not to attend.Because it was an insult to the party host.Perhaps because of this, Diana's face her glowed with a special elation when she spoke to Annette.
“Looking at you at this party, you must have heard that my best friend, Lady Celestine, is coming! How could you have come to congratulate her on her crown princess coronation her in advance? How generous you are! Once competed for the same position as Celestine.”
Annette's eyes moved slightly at her provocative words. Diana seemed to believe that Annette had a lingering attachment to her princess. No, she must have wanted to believe that. Even though she showed me the lapel and flirtation of her in front of her the other day, she came out like that.
But Annette seemed to know why Diana kept coming out to him like this. Annette's eyes looked at Diana with a little sympathy.
'Actually, it seems that Celestine is envious of her.'
Diana was quick to fall for men she didn't even know. By that, she meant that Diana was just as rich in her dreams and sensitivity to her. She said that it was not really her men her own that she liked, but her her own fantasies. In the eyes of Diana, who had so many dreams, what a charming position her crown princess would seem.
Ludwig was a beautiful handsome man with long silver hair. So, to Diana, he must have looked like the prince of her dreams. In fact, rumors spread that Diana wrote a love letter to Ludwig when she was younger than now.
Perhaps she was very jealous of her own best friend of her, who would become her soon-to-be crown princess.However, it was morally unacceptable to be jealous and envious of one's best friend her.
'That's why he's trying to protect his conscience by projecting himself onto me and attacking me.'
In a word, what Diana was now hostile to was herself, who was jealous of her friends. She tried to assuage her guilt by attacking her teeth her, after putting an image of herself on her Annette her. To be hurt by Diana's childish hostility to her. Well, it was n't like he could n't understand Diana's heart her.
But Annette was not willing to play the punching bag she never wanted.
