The day of Ariadne’s debutante ball was a late summer day with a high sky, and wispy clouds hanging over the western end.

Usually, in such weather, the debutante would wait in front of her dressing table in her room, so her carefully applied makeup wouldn’t run down in sweat. However, Ariadne was directing nearly 40 servants from the crack of dawn to decorate the hall and the firstfloor entrance of the Cardinal de Mare’s residence, which would serve as the ballroom.

“Over there! Those of you carrying trees, make sure to lift them so they don’t scrape the floor and place them at the designated spots!”

If Ariadne was a little lacking in her sense of fashion, decoration, and all things beautiful, it was incredibly compensated by San Cha.

When Ariadne shared her ideas about interior design to be more precise, an honest description or explanation about the interior she had seen in her previous life San Cha was able to implement it in the real world just by listening to her description.

“Please tie the fresh flower bouquets in the predesignated spots, and move the tree decorations to the center!”

Ariadne had completely removed the ‘tapestries that tell a story,’ the core of any typical ball. Instead of having new tablecloths, railing covers, and chair covers made, she controlled additional expenses by unifying everything with white, a staple in any house.

Instead, she had people sent to the forests in the Bergamo estate to cut down a large quantity of White Belong Trees. White Belong Tree is a type of shrub that doesn’t grow very tall, but in late summer, it blooms with clouds of white flowers.

They cut the flowering branches and divided them into artificially created pots and vases, creating a forest indoors. It was a fantastic interior that made the partygoers feel as if they had stepped into a forest.

The only thing that made the indoor space feel like an indoor space in the first floor hall of the Cardinal de Mare’s residence, which was used as a party venue, was the coat of arms of the De Mare family hanging on the wall. There was a slight dissonance between the dolphin symbol in purple and the branches of the White Belong Tree, but it couldn’t be helped.

‘I have to meet the intentions of the person who provided the money.’

The reason the Cardinal de Mare allowed this ball to be held was not because he loved his intelligent second daughter, but to show off and flaunt the De Mare family, which was growing in power in San Carlo.

Now that the new ‘product’ ‘Ariadne de Mare’ has been added to the De Mare family, everyone should come and see it.

Just as a brand cannot be left out when promoting a product, the De Mare family’s purple dolphin coat of arms could not be left out of today’s debutante ball.

“Miss, it’s really unique and luxurious, just as you said!”

San Cha exclaimed. The railings were decorated with bouquets of lilies bought separately from a florist, adding a touch of brightness.

“The interior decoration is all white flowers, but the family coat of arms looks too out of place.”

As Ariadne, it was difficult to discuss which color combinations were good or bad, but if San Cha said so, it was.

“It would have been more harmonious if there were more blue flowers⋯⋯.”

“Can’t we get some now?”

“I’ve looked all around the city’s florists, but there’s nowhere that can supply blue flowers in large quantities. This is the best we can do right now.”

San Cha added a word while observing the discouraged miss.

“But emphasizing the pure white debutante ball is pretty. It’s fresh and fantastic. Don’t worry too much.”

Just as San Cha said, the sweet scent of fresh flowers and the forest from the freshly cut trees enveloped the entire Cardinal de Mare’s residence.

This style would become a sensational trend in the spring of 1123, the following year, which ironically, was originally a trend led by Isabella in the past.

1123 was the year when Ariadne held her engagement ceremony with Count Cesare de Como in her previous life.

For Isabella, who always had to be better than Ariadne to be satisfied, this became a time when she could not outdo Ariadne in terms of money.

So, when Isabella couldn’t hold a ball as extravagant as the one her fiancé was throwing, she used her head.

To highlight her fairylike appearance, she had pestered her father to cut down numerous flowering trees from their Bergamo territory and used them as decorations for the ball, effectively changing the trend.

But this trend did not last long.

Nobles were deforesting their territories for ball decorations, so much so that the small shrubs were almost completely wiped out, and with winter approaching, firewood for the people became scarce due to the extravagant luxury of the nobles, resulting in a prohibition order from the palace.

Even after the use of fresh flowers and live trees was banned, the trend continued in a precarious way by making artificial flowers and trees out of silk, but it was unable to capture the scent and vitality and soon the trend changed.