In response to Count Yoter’s words, Sien smiled brightly and replied.
“Can I return those words to you in full?”
“What?”
“Just kidding. Well then, let’s go!”
It was an irritating attitude, as if she knew everything in a bizarre way.
Count Yoter glared at Sien with a furrowed brow.
However, Sien continued to maintain her cheerful expression.
The trick to push me into a trial was intricately planned from the beginning.
First and foremost, the charge was ‘Noble Impersonation.’ It was claimed that I had bought a maid, and testimonies poured in that I was a fake daughter.
The core of the trial was the declaration that they would directly punish me in the imperial palace for daring to impersonate a noble and disturb the order of the empire.
As if boasting about something so easily, the trial progressed rapidly.
I was dragged into the trial room. Without any courtesy for a noble lady, my pink hair was completely tangled.
Sitting hunched over in the defendant’s seat, I surveyed the entire courtroom.
Then, I looked at the courtroom, and next to it, I stared at the arrogant Crown Prince.
‘That person is the male protagonist of .’
When I first met him, I thought he looked like a knight with blond hair and a square jaw. But now, he just looked despicable.
‘So, do they really think they’ll be safe if they mess with me?’
I didn’t know they would be so foolish. It seemed that the Crown Prince was truly incredibly foolish.
‘None of our family members are here. Even though they said they would punish the fake.’
But it didn’t matter.
I looked at the people in the courtroom again. I intentionally put on a softer smile while looking at Count Yoter sitting in the witness stand.
“I’ll make an unusual statement.”
Count Yoter, who opened his mouth, had a shameless expression as if he held everything in his hands.
I looked at Count Yoter and tilted my head. It was an expression with something remarkable. What could it be?
“The Sien Mirmod here is a fake.”
“Me, a fake?”
“Yes.”
While receiving Count Yoter’s heated gaze, I pounded my fist against my chest. After this, he would definitely say, ‘We can prove it in our Yoter upper ranks,’ right?
“We can prove it in our Yoter upper ranks.”
Of course. It seemed I had to spread out my mat.
At that moment, the sound of the door opening at the back was heard. And then, the sound of someone walking from the door. It was a movement as small as a bird, but everyone’s attention was drawn to the situation.
“This child is the ‘real’ Mirmod!”
It was the little girl who had been beaten around from place to place. I looked at her and quietly bit my lip.
‘Really cliché.’
But unlike me, who felt dejected, everyone else remained silent. In this situation and atmosphere, only two were relaxed.
The Crown Prince and I, who had been designated as the fake daughter.
I sat quietly in a wooden chair, breathing and thinking. Now the Crown Prince and his cronies were starting to catch the wind.
“Is there anything else to see? Yoter’s technical skills are the best in the empire.”
As if on cue, the middle-aged man standing beside the Crown Prince, who looked like a henchman, spoke.
In this situation, what else could I do?
I, who was like a guilty criminal, spoke like a roaring villain.
“Bu-but, what I mean is. Can His Highness the Crown Prince really vouch for the Yoter upper ranks? Count Yoter might be lying, you know?”
When I said that, Count Yoter suddenly began to rage.
“What? What nonsense is this? Feeling unfairly accused after being accused as a fake?”
Seeing their unpleasant attitudes, I realized something.
‘The way they come out with such unpleasant attitudes suggests that they have some solid evidence, doesn’t it?’
He seemed to have an attitude as if preparing a hidden move. Eventually, with a smirk, he whispered towards me.
“I intervened. Of course, that doesn’t mean I guarantee everything in Yoter Upper Ranks.”
“…….”
“But the affairs of Yoter Upper Ranks have been guaranteed by generations of palace administrators.”
I stared at the Crown Prince. I disliked everything about him—the flushed face, the seemingly joyful tone. But what irritated me the most was…
‘That XX, trying to cunningly escape? It won’t work with reverse psychology, right?’
It was a snake-like tone, as if confidently asserting that he would never fall for reverse psychology.
When I heard the unlucky words attempting to slip away subtly, claiming that it was the palace administrators, not him, who guaranteed it, I felt thoroughly annoyed.
I decided to add a few more words.
“Then shouldn’t we hear Mirmod’s perspective first?”
The Crown Prince, with a nonchalant expression, didn’t seem to have any intention of reacting to my words.
“Why go all the way to Mirmod? Just pull out that fake immediately and inform Mirmod, that’s enough.”
Reading impatience in his words, I momentarily felt puzzled.
‘Why is he in such a hurry? What did I say?’
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!