The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 124

“Miss, is there something in that ring?”

Dora, ever observant despite her origins in Yayan, seemed to grasp something from Neris’s behavior—fingering the ring since morning.

“Would you like to see?”

In the next moment after Neris’s finger brushed the ring, its lid clicked open.

A flat, tiny space had been crafted between the ring’s pearl and its band. Ordinarily, such an inconspicuous mechanism might have held nothing more than a miniature portrait.

Yet clearly etched in the center of that space was a deep groove and the unmistakable trace of a viscous liquid—now dried with age but once thick and potent.

Neris had never personally possessed such an object. To manipulate others, she had always preferred different means. Still, having moved within upper-class society, she was well acquainted with rumors of its existence.

Dora stood beside Neris with a grave expression, peering intently into the ring.

“Is it poison?”

“Most likely.”

It was probably meant to be administered to the previous Grand Duke. But when the Former Grand Duchess fell in love with him, the plan changed—and the ring remained untouched in this drawer.

It now made perfect sense why the Former Grand Duchess disliked anyone meddling with her drawers. A concubine-born duchess possessing such an item would find it utterly bizarre if she’d let her maids handle her belongings at will.

Still, the fact that she’d kept the ring in the drawer, rather than disposing of it despite the risk of discovery, seemed significant.

“Could it be evidence?”

Dora agreed with Neris’s abbreviated question.

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