When she imagined herself being next to the head of words, Dracoup, her anger suddenly erupted.

Despite knowing that Dracoup needed her like mustard after a meal.

The news that made Regina even more sensitive was at the hastily gathered tea party before the debutante ball.

“The Crown Prince and Princess are attending this debutante ball, right?”

“Yes. Didn’t you hear, Lady Regina?”

How ardently Dracoup Treloni desired Regina.
A gathering to inform the weak-hearted Regina about the circumstances of how she ultimately allowed the enduring and principled Dracoup to escort her to the mansion.

A gathering of young ladies who were relatively close to avoid the ridicule of everyone on the day of the debutante ball.

Right there, Regina heard the news that Yuan and her monster husband would attend the debutante ball at the palace.

Daringly.

Now, not the young countess of Pellece.

Without any title, as the wife of a monster. A debutante ball at the palace? Regina, who had been muttering that she could endure as long as Yuan wore clean and decent clothes for the past ten years, felt extremely upset with just the news of Yuan’s attendance.

“No. I already knew. I must have had a momentary delusion.”

But she couldn’t show that.

Regina’s busy head eventually came up with a plausible story.

“In fact, I have something to hide. I will be going to this debutante ball with Dracoup Treloni.”

“What?!”

“What did you say?”

“Because of my cousin.”

Dozens of curious eyes turned to Regina.

Regina’s downturned mouth suddenly rose.

The young ladies gathered here were women from minor families who, although staying around the capital, could not ascend to the ranks of high nobility.

Regina, who had captured the heart of the prince, even though she was in a similar situation, was the cause of envy for these women who could only dream of such situations.

For them, Regina’s excuse became a piece of information that only close associates could hear and was bound to spread little by little.

“Yuan… I mean, I heard that my cousin, the ‘monster’ Crown Prince, and his debutante ball. My heart was so hurt. How embarrassing and shameful must it be?”

Regina lowered her voice, gathering her eyebrows.

She carefully infused a deeply sympathetic expression between her tender voice.

“Disregarding my cousin’s situation, how would it look if I, with the beautiful First Prince, went as partners? How much would my cousin’s heart crumble?”

“Goodness. Did you even think about such details?”

“Even Lady Regina’s subtle considerations should be recognized!”

“Exactly how deeply did you think about Lady Regina’s feelings?”

“At that time, Dracoup Treloni begged me with tears, and to prevent my cousin’s misfortune from being emphasized for nothing, I specifically spoke to the First Prince.”

“Good heavens. How disappointed must the First Prince have been?”

“Lady Regina’s appearance with him on the day must have been eagerly anticipated by the First Prince.”

“But he surely understood. As I mentioned before, the Crown Prince is in such a gruesome state that he can’t even step outside.”

Regina thought of the Crown Prince, who had never taken off the mask that covered half of his face, and stuck out her tongue.
To the girls who curiously and eagerly wondered about someone’s misfortune with eyes full of curiosity and interest, Regina gladly poured out stories that allowed them to sympathize to their hearts’ content and feel a sense of equal superiority.

How pitiful Yuan Pellecese was, how unfortunate her marriage was, and how gruesome and disgusting the appearance of her masked husband hidden beneath the mask.

At the same time, she pampered herself.

Enduring gazes filled with sympathy and disdain, Regina thought that her situation was much better than Yuan’s, who roamed the ball and the half-faced monster.

Thus, the day of the debutante ball that Regina and her mother, Priscilla, had eagerly anticipated approached.

On the day of the palace debutante ball.

Regina, riding in a carriage with her parents, stared out of the window with suppressed excitement.

From the entrance to the imperial palace gate, there were brilliantly shining four-wheeled carriages that looked strong enough to turn heads.

“It’s fortunate that you seem to have regained your senses, Regina.”

Regina, who recalled the appearance of the carriage, which received support from the Clade family and Felt as an external family, equally exerted power as the carriages outside, listened attentively to the voice that suddenly approached as she passed through the entrance.

“You decided on Dracoup Treloni as your partner, right? Well done.”

Well done, my foot. Regina, whose heart was further hurt by the rare praise from her father, Garrett Pellecese, turned her gaze back to the window.

And even from a distance, she distinctly confirmed a face and furrowed her brows.

As soon as Dracoup Treloni saw Pellecese’s carriage, he began waving his hand enthusiastically.