Given what happened previously, her situation was bad in every sense of the word.
‘I knew why I came here in the first place!’
Lady Bennet gnashed her teeth.
The only reason she came here was to make her mark on the Empress and the Empress Dowager and score some points.
However, instead of scoring points, she lost, and to add salt to injury, even the Crown Prince was hanging around Charlize.
At this rate, I’ll go back to being an idle nobody without any income to boot.
‘I can’t do that, I have to recover my reputation somehow, even if it’s a bit!’
Thinking so, Lady Bennet looked around.
Just in time, children playing in the garden near the rose bushes caught my eye.
Lady Bennet’s eyes sparkled.
‘I’m only taking care of kids, what could go wrong? I can do this!’
She strode toward the children.
“Beautiful fairy, are you all right?”
“Hey, you’re the carpenter who saved me!”
The children burst into laughter as they played with their dolls.
They were reenacting the scenes from the puppet show she had seen earlier.
“Really, that Lady Bennet scolded me. She’s so loud and mean and has that ugly frown.”
“What is that? “What is that squishy doll you’re holding?”
“…who are you, Miss?”
The children were wide-eyed and looked up at Lady Bennet.
Either way, Lady Bennet reached out.
“Give me that doll.”
“Um, I don’t want to.”
The frightened child held the doll tightly in her arms.
Lady Bennet’s face twisted grimly.
“I, a noblewoman, will be playing with you commoners. Why do you insist on being so finicky?”
“But…”
“Don’t talk nonsense, give me the doll!”
Lady Bennet viciously tried to snatch the child’s doll.
At that moment, a scream erupted from the top of the child’s lungs.
It was because Lady Bennett’s long fingernails scratched the back of the child’s hand as she pulled on the doll.
Drops of blood began to trickle.
“Owie, uh, b-blood…”
“What should we do!”
“Are you okay, Ellen?!”
The children bowed their heads as they looked at their own hands with worried expressions; that they could be next.
At the same time, the girl started sniffling.
*Sniffles*
“Blood..”
Embarrassment crept over Lady Bennet’s face.
But after a brief moment.
“What are you crying about? Don’t cry!”
Lady Bennet sharply threatened the children.
The children were frightened to the core and cowered in place.
“Don’t whimper because of a minor graze, what insolence are you showing in front of all these prestigious people?!”
“Waaaaa!”
The girl rubbed her eyes with her uninjured hand to stop crying, but it wasn’t enough.
Tears keep coming.
‘What if she gets even angrier?’
Just as the child raised her shoulders to cover herself-
“What’s this commotion about?”
A sharp voice interrupted the conversation.
It was Charlize.
Looking at Charlize’s face, which was rarely etched with anger, Lady Bennet involuntarily flinched for a second.
However.
‘No, am I seriously going to get discouraged by this girl?’
Lady Bennet, who became infuriated at the possibility, started to vent her frustrations openly.
“What kind of child is so spoiled and stubborn?!”
“What are you going on about?”
“I, a noblewoman, offered to play with those lowly children! I can’t believe they didn’t appreciate me!”
“Lady Bennet,” Charlize said chillingly.
Lady Bennet bit her lip.
Up until now, Charlize’s voice had been mild, now it was colder than ice.
“Are you really saying what I think you’re saying?”
“My! You think I’m in the wrong here? It’s appropriate to scold such a child who is unwilling to listen!”
Lady Bennet, raised her voice, glaring at the child.
“It’s just a little blood. She only needs to apply a bit of medicine, she doesn’t need to act out over nothing.”
You can’t be pushed back any longer.
You can’t, you mustn’t be held back by a commoner girl.
So, you need a head start…
“Waa, waa, waa…”
Just then, a child who was busy holding back her tears came into view.
Lady Bennet’s eyes lit up.
“Why are you crying so loudly?! Pipe down!”
Smack!
Lady Bennet struck the child’s cheek.
For a moment, the atmosphere was deafeningly silent.
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