To You, So Noble and Vulgar (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 87

You went through quite an ordeal, didn’t you? You must have suffered greatly, Lady Helena. How hard it must have been for you. Just forget it all now—it wasn’t your fault at all.

No one offered her the words she’d hoped to hear.

Not a single person approached Helena, who sat there like an unwelcome guest.

Whenever their eyes occasionally met, they merely exchanged glances among themselves and giggled.

Only then did she realize she shouldn’t have come at all—but she couldn’t just abruptly stand up and leave in the middle of the party. Leaving now would surely make her the subject of gossip for a long time.

Helena cast her gaze toward the young noblewomen she’d once considered close friends.

The daughter of a certain earl who’d always claimed to serve as Helena’s lady-in-waiting, and the daughter of a certain marquis who’d gone around declaring herself Helena’s closest friend.

These young ladies, who normally would have rushed over to link arms and chatter the moment they spotted her, now subtly avoided Helena’s gaze, rolling their eyes away.

‘What’s going on?’

Helena couldn’t believe it.

Despite everything that had happened, she was still the granddaughter of Duke Seoje and the eldest daughter of House Bronte. Yet here she was, treated like this.

Unable to endure it any longer, she was about to leap to her feet—consequences be damned—when Countess Etani, the host of this tea party, finally spoke up.

“Oh, now that I think of it, Lady Helena—you must be exhausted lately with all that’s been going on.”

Hearing words of sympathy for the first time since arriving, Helena lowered her half-raised backside back onto the chair. She let her eyes droop sadly as she replied,

“It is hard. Everyone blames and mocks me for something I didn’t even do. Why do they all enjoy talking about others so much?”

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