The Villainess Next Life (COMPLETED)

Chapter 20

But his power plummeted quickly when the newly assigned Empress Regnant slowly gained power. She was smart, pretty, and cunning if needed. The perfect Empress Regnant.

That's when the Marquess pressures Charlotte. But because she never really slept with the Emperor she cannot have a child with him. And she can never sleep with someone who she considered as his brother.

That's when Alarice propose the idea of having a child with her knight guard and pinning it as the emperor's child for a while then letting her leave with her knight the pretense if the First Concubine wants a private life for her child.

It was a dangerous idea but the most plausible one. They all agreed with the plan . However, when Charlotte finally became pregnant that's where the Empress Consort and Second Concubine's harassment became apparent.

Alarice cannot help her fully. She doesn't have the power to manage the harem as it was  the Empress Consort's job as per their contract. She can only be a shadow that watches and so her best to protect her on the side. In addition, she was very busy with her tasks about the improvement of the health and hygiene of the slums.

The emperor was also busy keeping the nobles in check while preventing of having a civil war. From all their works, they both failed to see fully how the First Concubine suffered while pregnant.

On her 8th month of pregnancy, she heard someone invade her small palace. There were thugs that are raiding her. But because her palace is located near the forest where his knight guard resides in a small cabin she was very far away from the main palaces. She only has few trusted guard and maids as she always wanted a low-key lifestyle.

But she was wrong in thinking that she can have that in this cruel world. She was about to die. She saw how a bulky man with rusty sword came suddenly into her room. She screamed for help but no one came to her aid.

She tried to escape through the window and run to the forest where his knight resides and shouted for help.

The brave knight without legs can only do little. He tried to save his woman and child but failed. The three of them died holding each other.

The next morning Alarice's world almost collapse when she heard of the incident. She blamed herself for not being able to protect her friend. It was also her idea that led all these things from happening.

The prime suspect was the empress consort but she never got punished. Nicholas stupidly forgive her when she begged for his mercy and for Mael.

That was when Alarice first-handed realize the true horror of this world. How can they do all that just for power? The killed an innocent child!

But she can never blame the Empress consort now the Second concubine from harassing and eventually killing the  first concubine.

In the back of her mind, it was all due to their traumas and f*cked up system of bringing other people down just to gain power. It was all due to the Empress Consort's father's way of teaching and abusing Qashanna that she too became an abuser.

It was all due to the second concubine's father that spoiled his daughter rotten that she thought everything she wants will be hers.

She wanted to change all if this. If only they were given the chance to properly be educated about the right morals then maybe this will never happen. But what is the right moral anyway??

Charlotte was buried in the forest with her knight. Her child was never registered as a royal which makes the Marquess' reputation plummeted even more. It was their final gift to Charlotte, to let those three live as they are.

On her funeral day, Alarice promise herself never to have  a child for the purpose of gaining power.  That this will be the first and last mistake as an Empress.

But now she's doing it again. Because she doesn't want to have a child she's passing the responsibility to the other like what she did to Charlotte.

That's the only solution she can think of. She feels so terrible.

But one thing is for certain. She will never have a child from a man who can't protect her properly. She doesn't want to be like Charlotte. She can never have her child suffer.

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