Chapter 5 (1/2)

And they felt more emboldened to do so because there weren’t any more women coming to the Ruby Palace, or Claude’s Harem.

At first it was hard to tell, but then it became so obvious that if you couldn’t notice, you were most likely blind. They even started taking the decorations and jewels on the wall.

Wow, these people. I guess they felt invincible since Claude hasn’t been killin anyone these days.

I noticed before Lili that things were disappearing from my room.

Because everyday, I observed my room, looking for things to steal away. But my plate was slowly becoming smaller and smaller.

I wanted to tell on them to the Emperor, but it wasn’t like I could go up to him and say ‘Daddy! They looked down on me!’ and he would ask ‘Who looked down on my precious daughter?’

Rather he would’ve been like, ‘You were still alive?’, and take my life right there.

O-of course, this could all just be in my head. But I didn’t want to gamble on my life, because I matter!

So I had to do nothing and watch my gold disappearing. All I could do as the maid unnies came into my room and slip something like a gold plate into their apron was vehemently wail.

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But once Lili noticed, she became wildly enraged and went to the Head Maid herself to fix the problem.

I could slightly tell from the fact that the other maids used honorifics when Lili was around and that she brought me the gold ball, but Lili was probably the most powerful person in the Ruby Palace, even including me.

So those maids were kicked out of the palace. They were supposed to return what they stole, but I never got any of it back.

I was suspicious of the Head Maid, but there wasn’t anything I could do except cry, so I couldn’t do much. I could tell something was off about her from when she said she couldn’t get me a mere rattle because we didn’t have enough money.

If there was a silver lining, it was that there were so many missing things that no one noticed when I took a few more.

Uh no, let me rephrase that, since technically this is my palace. I was just keeping it safe. Yeah, I’m safekeeping my precious jewels and gold!

But there were limits to that too. Because it seemed like Lili was carefully looking around the palace these days. Even I could tell the palace looked emptier than usual.

Did I gather too much? If Lili saw the incident from 3 years ago was repeating itself and searched the palace….I’’ have to stop for a while.

“Princess, where are you going?”

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“Hehet. I’m going to see Lili!”

“Hoho. Before that, we better wipe your mouth. Was the chocolate good?”

Then, the passing maids wiped my mouth with their handkerchief. On the handkerchief, there were clearly visible chocolate stains. I guess I ate it in a hurry to finish them all before Lili came.

The maids chuckled, but I became embarrassed. I can’t believe I did something like that considering my mental age.

“It’s a secret that Ati ate chocowet!”

“Of course, Princess.”

But I was more scared of being scolded by Lili then being embarrassed. I waved to the unnies and quickly fled from the scene.

Geez, the chocolate was even on my hands. I was gonna wipe it on my dress but held back because the dress was white.

It’s ok. There were places I could wash my hands, like a fountain. Of course…it wasn’t in a good condition but…

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I passed a few more maids before I got to the fountain. The naked statue on the fountain was so seductive that it was more of a coquette than an angel.

But all the statues in the palace were like this. Was it because this was where the concubines lived? It wasn’t a good place for kids. Of course, I got to see eye candy everyday so it was good for me.

*splash*

I washed my chocolate covered hands in the fountain. I couldn’t go down to the lake in this body, so I had to settle with standing on my tip toes in front of the fountain.

But when I leaned over, I must’ve been careless because I almost fell in. I fumbled because I was surprised, but I saw a clear reflection of myself in the water.

I stopped moving and dazedly looked at myself.

“Prettyy.”

It sounds like narcissism, but I was a little bit too beautiful. Wow. I can’t believe this cute and pretty baby was me!

If this child was in front of me, I would want to bite their cheeks because it was so cute. My fist sized face had the perfect pinchable cheeks.

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My naturally curly hair was soft without being too frizzy, and I had big eyes and even longer eyelashes. It was a face that would’ve succeeded as a child actor or model.

My hair and overall features resembled Diana, but my eyes were from Claude. I lost track of time looking into my eyes.

“Hehe.”

I was definitely a beautiful baby, but my eyes were on a different level.