An uneasy feeling arose. Adopted into the Di Glosten family, she is the only beloved lady of the household. If by chance she were to attend the tea party and experience something unpleasant, surely the Di Glosten family would not leave her be.

Still, with the thought of having to drink potions constantly, she somehow approached Lorencia, and fortunately, she accepted her invitation to the tea party.

“Please order me to do anything. I beg you, Lady Fellena.”

Fellena smiled as she looked at Ania.

“Countess Ania.”

“Yes, Lady Fellena.”

“Can you kill Teishar Spencer, Lady Lorencia’s fiancé, today?”

“Pardon?”

Ania was startled.

“If you kill that man, I can let you drink potions to your heart’s content.”

Ania’s face turned pale. A flash of conflict crossed her worried expression.

“It would be difficult to overpower him physically.”

“Of course it would be difficult.”

Fellena took out a small black glass bottle from her bosom and handed it to Ania.

“If you feed this poison to Teishar Spencer, you can kill him.”

“Poison?”

“Yes. This is the venom of a certain snake. Make Teishar Spencer consume this somehow.”

“The venom of a certain snake…”

Ania received the black glass bottle Fellena handed her with trembling hands.

“I understand. I will kill him. So… please keep your promise to let me drink the potions to my heart’s content.”

“Of course, Countess Ania.”

Fellena looked at the trembling Ania with a cunning smile spread across her face.

The man escorting to the tea party is guided to a room where only they gather, following the servant’s instructions.

The room Teishar was guided to by the servant was not the reception room for welcoming guests.

It was a clean bedroom with a large bed.

The men who escorted the women to the tea party venue gather in the reception room and spend time chatting or playing cards until the tea party ends.

However, now Teishar was guided to a room with red wallpaper and a bed adorned with a pinkish lace canopy. Moreover, it was a dark bedroom completely enclosed without even a terrace or windows.

It was a rather bewildering situation.

“Did Countess Ania instruct to guide me to such a place?”

Teishar asked the guiding servant in a stiff voice.

“Yes, that’s correct. The mistress requested a private conversation with young lord Spencer.”

The servant answered while lighting several candles on the table.

“A private conversation?”

The red wallpaper was already unsettling, and lighting the candles on the table made the room’s atmosphere even stranger. Teishar’s brow furrowed involuntarily at the odd atmosphere. He felt like he shouldn’t be in this room. The atmosphere suggested something was bound to happen.

“Please wait here for a moment, young lord Spencer.”

“I am engaged. So I don’t want to talk with Countess Ania, a woman, in such a bedroom.”

Teishar said, grabbing the servant who was about to leave. He had no intention of deliberately falling into such an obvious trap.

“Tell Countess Ania. If she has something to say, send a formal letter to the Spencer mansion to make an appointment.”

“But it’s a secret… so…”

“A secret conversation in such a strange atmosphere-filled bedroom, not even an ordinary reception room? How should I take this?”

Teishar glared at the servant, his temple twitching.

“If you wait just a moment, the mistress will arrive. The conversation will end quickly.”

The servant raised his voice at Teishar’s stern attitude.

“It would be better to guide me to the reception room where people are.”

“Please… stay here for a moment.”

It was frustrating to keep getting the same answer. There was no need to listen to the servant anymore. And above all, there was something that bothered Teishar.

It was the candles lit by the servant. He smelled a strange scent from the smoke as the candles burned down. Feeling drowsy after smelling that scent, Teishar held his breath and approached to open the door, but the servant blocked the doorway.

“What are you doing?”

“You must not leave. Just die here with me, young lord Teishar Spencer!”

“What are you saying? There’s no way you could kill me.”

Teishar said, scanning the servant’s body up and down sharply. However, the servant raised the corners of his mouth. Then, with anxious eyes, he met Teishar’s gaze and pointed to the candles he had lit.

“It’s a poisoned candle. From the moment it was lit, you were already poisoned, so you and I are both dead men.”

“Didn’t you receive an antidote?”

“They said it’s the venom of a certain snake without an antidote. With this, my daughter and wife will be safe…”

The servant, who was continuing to speak, stopped and began to writhe on the floor in agony.

“Cough.”

Bloody foam flowed from his mouth, and he convulsed like someone struck by lightning before going limp like a marionette with cut strings.

The unfocused eyes and motionless body, the servant fallen on the floor was clearly dead to anyone who saw.

Teishar looked down at the collapsed dead servant, tilted his head, then looked at the candles flickering with flames. He then looked at his palm and exhaled the breath he had been holding. A sweet scent pricked his nostrils.

The man’s words who died before his eyes were clearly not lies, so why hadn’t he died?

Ania had tried to kill him. Of course, she would pretend it was the servant acting alone, but it couldn’t be easily overlooked. However, Teishar couldn’t think for long.

He felt frightened and scared at the thought that Ania might do something to Lorencia, more than the assassination attempt. He knew it was a trap when he entered, but he didn’t expect it to be shown so blatantly.

“Damn. I feel like I’ve walked into a snake’s mouth.”

Teishar muttered in a low voice. Then he carefully opened the door and quietly slipped out of the room.

Lorencia sat in her seat, waiting for the tea party to begin. But it didn’t start. Servants came in one by one and whispered to the ladies and young ladies sitting in their seats. They all left their seats with bright expressions.

Eventually, Lorencia was left alone at the tea party venue.

“If something happens outside, Kate will come in and report, but just in case, should I go out and check, Lady Blondie?”

“Owenna, there’s no need to go out. Our job is to protect Lady Lorencia with our lives.”

It was when Blondie was giving instructions to Owenna with a solemn face. The quiet tea party hall door swung open, and the click-clack of heels pierced Lorencia’s ears.

“My lady. Someone is coming in.”

“Yes.”

A woman with a splendid appearance entered through the open door, smiling. Her emerald green eyes sparkled like reflections of the lighting with her confident attitude and graceful walk.

Her platinum blonde hair was glossy, and the red dress she wore gave a magnificent feeling as if watching rose petals scatter in the wind with each step.

It was almost as if the queen of roses herself was walking in.

But as much as her enchanting beauty, there was an indescribable feeling that she was hiding something.

It was a face she had seen somewhere before, but she couldn’t remember.

‘Strange. Why is this happening?’

One step, two steps, as the woman gradually approached her, her heart began to beat faster.

As her heartbeat quickened, her body began to tremble slightly. She felt a strange confusion.

It felt as if her whole body, her whole mind was screaming to avoid the approaching woman.

Her head began to throb with pain. As Lorencia’s brow naturally furrowed, Blondie began to examine her complexion.

“My lady. Are you alright?”

“Yes. I’m fine.”

And Lorencia realized where the strange confusion was coming from.

“Blondie.”

“Yes, Lady Lorencia.”

“I don’t think I’m okay.”

“What do you mean?”

“I can’t hear the fairies’ voices.”

Lorencia raised her hand to stroke her ear and looked around with her eyes.

“I can’t see the fairies.”

As if they had never existed from the beginning.

“My lady. Please tell me anytime if you want to leave this place.”

“Alright, Blondie.”

Her gaze met the green eyes of the woman who had now come close. The large green eyes seemed to be trying to read her mind. No, they seemed to be looking down at her as if they were going to devour her.

“This is Lady Lorencia of the Di Glosten ducal family. Who are you to approach so closely without introduction?”

As Blondie stepped in to point out the woman’s lack of etiquette, the woman smiled broadly, unlike the delicate smile she had worn until just now.

“Would you understand if I said Fellena von Isuter?”

Lorencia’s whole body bristled at her gentle voice and relaxed expression, which didn’t match the tense atmosphere. She rubbed her goosebump-covered arms as she looked at the woman. She swallowed unconsciously.

“My lady.”

The urgency to escape this place was evident in Blondie’s voice. Lorencia held back Blondie and Owenna. Then she looked at Fellena with an eerie feeling she had never experienced before.

“Your complexion has improved a lot since our Ruans had an honor duel with the late Lorirolls. You’ve become so pretty that even if we brought the Great Saint before him, our Ruans would have no choice but to be indifferent…”

Fellena said, leaning close to Lorencia.

The story Titania had told her came to mind spontaneously.

Lorencia’s heart pounded. Who would have thought Fellena’s true identity was the white snake.

She really hadn’t expected it. Cold sweat ran down her back. She had anticipated that the white snake would appear, but she didn’t expect it to suddenly appear before her eyes like this.

The inside of Countess Ania’s mouth was black like Daniel’s. The Fairy Queen Titania had said that if she met someone with a black mouth and tongue like Daniel, they were likely to be someone who had contracted with the white snake, and told her to come find her.

Titania had plucked several leaves from the Tree of Life and handed them to Lorencia.

When Titania broke off a small branch from the Tree of Life, Lorencia’s eyes widened in surprise. It was the same for Teishar.

Titania said as she handed the broken branch of the Tree of Life to Lorencia.