Kneel Before The Villain

Chapter 15

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I was a little perplexed.

At first I thought I heard wrong, but I didn't.

There's a saying that you can see the country's evil in places you don't see, but that's when it didn't take long.

In this world where there was a clear disparity in status, the mere fact that they mocked me by putting my name on their lips was enough to punish them immediately. We can ask them about their disrespect and whip them, torture them, or or hit them with profanity until I feel better. That was just as my knights were about to do.

They were bad-mouthing me in a bar where anyone could come and go, even though doing so might cost them their lives.

This meant that my face had fallen to the ground. On one hand, I felt really bad, but on the other hand, I was a little surprised.

Of course, they didn't know that they were in the same space as me, so they were doing that, but it was really amazing that they could just make so much noise without worrying about their surroundings, probably because they were drunk. Should I admire their courage or my story becomes a mockery.

I wondered if I should be saddened by the fact that people were talking about me. Then I heard words that I just couldn't let pass.

"She has a lot of guts. I heard that she had a secret meeting with another man at the Imperial Palace behind the Crown Prince's back, but accidentally fell from the third floor terrace. So that's why she hasn't woken up yet."

"..."

I was drinking some cold water to calm my anger and almost spit out the water in my mouth.

What's that?

Roxana only had the Crown Prince.

There was no way she was going to cheat on her fiancé.

Moreover, I was the one on the terrace that day, and I was the one who crashed, not Roxana. By the way, a secret meeting?

There was a part of me that couldn't just dismiss it as a baseless rumor from the start. Originally, rumors go through the mouth, so they are slightly altered and exaggerated, but because of that, the details of the rumors were too detailed.

Moreover, it was strange that the general public knew so much about what had happened in the banquet hall of the Imperial Palace.

Since there were more than one or two suspicious aspects, I had to assume that someone had intentionally spread rumors about me. It was a common practice in social circles to deliberately spread malicious rumors to damage someone's honor and reputation.

'Third floor terrace, secret meetings, other men besides the Crown Prince...'

Suddenly, a face popped up in my mind.

It was the man who had tried to save me from falling down the terrace. With a serious face, I tried to remember the details of his face. It was often different, but rumors generally arise from the flesh based on facts.

I don't know how he managed to open the terrace I was on and come in, but I fell in shortly after he did, which may have looked strange to other people.

'But a secret meeting...?'

Does he know there's a strange rumor going around between me and him? If I could meet him again, I wanted to ask him why he tried to help me that day and thank him.

However, if he also knew that such false rumors were circulating, it could be a nuisance to approach him and talk to him.

In reality, I was the Crown Prince's fiancée, so whether he liked my presence in the royal family or not, he would not have been pleased if I met another man with him around.