So, that didn’t mean Yuri Hsien trusted Heathcliff entirely. It didn’t suit Yuri Hsien’s disposition. Constantly thinking, creating several paths. That suited Yuri Hsien’s temperament.

Some people referred to Yuri Hsien’s disposition as tedious and sensitive. Just as sharp as her appearance looked, there were those who scorned her for being fastidious and annoying.

But just as the public’s judgment of her appearance, Yuri Hsien did not care at all about the public’s judgment of her disposition. As an isolated example, Yuri Hsien found out about Eulgen’s life or death, thanks to such a disposition.

“Father…….”

When she thought about the missing Eulgen, Yuri Hsien’s heart hurt as if it was being squeezed. To Yuri Hsien, Eulgen was a very large and also solid existence.

In fact, it was not yet common in the Solzeleon Empire for a woman to become the head of a family. Still, Eulgen wanted to pass on the name of the “Great Windsor,” a family called, to her rather than to Yuri Hsien’s husband.

[What you need to be careful about is putting yourself first in all respects. If someone’s words are sweet, swallow them, if they are bitter, spit them out. It’s not that, Yuri. If words hurt you, don’t accept them at once.] [But Dad, what if the words that hurt me are right? Then what? What if I don’t want to be hurt, so I don’t try to listen to other people’s words? I don’t want to be like that….] [Oh, Yuri. You already know the answer. You said you didn’t want to be like that. Then you won’t be. Truly arrogant and stupid people can’t even think that they don’t want to be.]

Eulgen continued, holding his daughter who was already afraid that she might become conceited.

[I’m very happy and proud that you think again and again, trying to figure out right from wrong and wanting to be humble. But you have a tendency to censor yourself too much. Like now. But Yuri, it’s okay. Daddy’s always by your side. If you ever feel uncertain, if you ever feel uneasy, come find Daddy.]

Yuri Hsien never forgot the embrace of Eulgen she felt at that time. It was thanks to that memory that she could keep her mind straight even now, after falling into the hands of her stepmother since Eulgen went missing.

‘Sometime, father told me. The Great Windsor may be great, but it is not perfect.’

The meaning of the words she could not comprehend at that time, now she knows for sure.

Everyone praises and looks up to the name “Great Windsor,” but it is never almighty. Rather, it was the opposite.

A place where there must be no slightest disorder, mistakes, or gaps. Great as it might be, it is not perfect, a place where a slight flaw can lead to immediate attack and downfall.

To Eulgen, “Great Windsor” was such a precarious place. And lately, Yuri Hsien strongly empathized with Eulgen’s thoughts.

‘Everyone was just waiting for me to fall.’

Right after Eulgen’s disappearance, when Kendali openly showed his movement to take Windsor, only a very few people reached out to help her. Even though she was hailed and praised as the princess of the great Windsor, in the end, they said she was not the head of the family.

‘I have to find my father.’

Now that she had confirmed whether he was alive or dead, all that was left was to bring him back.

“Yuri Hsien! Yuri Hsien! Come down right now!”

“Sis, Mom’s looking for you!”

Yuri Hsien, who had come up to the attic for a moment, couldn’t endure the impatience, and Kendali and Rapine became irritated.

“She needs to get hit again to come to her senses.”

“Yuri Hsien always does well and then causes trouble and gets unnecessarily hit!”

“Who doesn’t know that? You have to admit that she’s stupid and lazy like her father.”

“It’s fortunate that you met Mom now, isn’t it?”

“Ugh, how does our pretty daughter speak so beautifully? I don’t know!”

Kendali and Rapine’s giggling laughter, delighted with each other, was heard.
The indignation of daring to insult Elugen made her tremble with anger, but she held it back, thinking that she wouldn’t have to see that state much longer. She was tired of getting angry and consuming emotions every time as it was routine to insult and provoke.

“Yuri Hsien, can’t you hear me?! Yuri Hsien!”

Yuri Hsien took a deep breath, hearing the sharp cry of Kendali, as if she would immediately draw her sword.

‘Lower yourself, Yuri Hsien. Hold your breath and look for a chance, Yuri Hsien.’

A tamed beast is still a beast after all.

‘Let’s not forget that, Yuri Hsien.’

When she opened her eyes, which she unknowingly closed, a determined sparkle shone in her rubylike pupils.

Yuri Hsien put her hand to her lips and shouted.

“Yes, I’m going right now!”

(This is a time divider.)

The same day, evening.

“The lady said to eat dinner and come in early.”

The coachman, who had taken Yuri Hsien to the rendezvous, spoke. At first hearing, it was a polite tone, but his glance at Yuri Hsien was nothing but impertinent. His sticky and dirty gaze lingered on her exposed white collarbone for quite a while.

‘Disgusting.’