Blackening the Affectionate Male Lead (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 54

“You bought dye?”

It was unexpected news. She hadn’t anticipated anything, yet a letter had arrived from the informant.

The purchase had occurred just a week ago.

‘Was it for attending the banquet?’

Recalling Melissa’s hair a few days prior, it did seem unusually red. She tapped the table lightly, lost in thought.

They’d bought up all the dye—paying several times the usual price. It seemed they’d been buying it every time a new batch arrived. Unless there was a critical reason they couldn’t run out, such excessive purchasing made no sense.

They likely needed it to conceal their true identities. Red was indeed the ideal shade for naturally covering dark brown hair.

‘I suppose I’ll have to go to Heartfeil.’

There, she might gather information about Marquis Western. Speaking directly with the locals there could yield more than what the informant had provided.

Her mother and Louise Ann needed concrete proof; hair dye alone wouldn’t suffice for conclusive evidence.

‘The shopkeeper said they kept the receipt and ledger, so that’s settled…’

It would be ideal if she could expel both of them from the family and hand them over to the guards—ensuring they’d never set foot in the capital again.

She first wrote a letter to inform her aunt. The secret royal correspondence method proved quite useful to her.

It amazed her that a bird could deliver messages, and she felt relieved knowing no one else could read her letter.

[To my dear Aunt,

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