PAST

When Princess Quare was born, her Empress mother was busy suppressing the other princes so that the then Crown Prince Alexander could be established on the throne. In place of receiving the unconditional love and compassion of her birth mother, Princess Quare was trained to be the perfect princess that could one day be send to the other dynasties for establishing better relations and sooner or later was meant to be a sacrificial lamb.

The monarch at that time, King Heun coming to know that he had a new princess was indifferent and cold, there were no emotions of joy rather for him a new chess piece has entered the game. Thus at the age of fifteen, Princess Quare was promised to marry Prince Ragel, the blooded brother of the monarch of Gaerin-King Kyzm, who was 48 at that time to cool down the chaos and war.

It was made a deal that a princess from Gaerin will be married to a prince of Ambrose and similarly Princess Quare would be married to Prince Ragel who was old enough to be her father.

Despite being strongly opposed by the then Empress, King Heun was adamant and did not wished to alter his decision at any cost because the brother of King Kyzm had already offered his fifty thousand troops in exchange making it look as if he favour Princess Quare but in reality it was all a pretense.

Crown Prince Alexander too wished for the young princess to marry as their father wished, for his own good thus at last Empress mother too let go of the matter despite knowing that Prince Ragel was cruel by nature, there were thirteen concubines but no official wife in his residence and the ones entering his household never made out alive.

He did not only tortured his women to play with them but also derived a sick pleasure in giving out his own concubines as prostitutes for his subordinates that made him happy. There were countless that gave birth to children after being raped by his lower subordinates and those were the ones that were drowned while others stoned them to death for being impure.

Princess Quare was better dead than alive if she ever entered in the hellish place thus at last she went to her brother Prince Baez who was considered most aloof and thus what Prince Baez was hoping since long was going to come true.

His imperial mother, the empress favored the current crown prince, his brother and he knew the power of his own mother better than anyone because unknown to his little sister despite the moves that were visible that proved that the Empress was firm and unfeeling to her only daughter, it was far from truth.

So even if he did not helped Quare, she would still be rescued but how come he can leave a way to strengthen his power. Upon watching women in the imperial harem since his birth Baez never regarded women as weak.

His own mother was the only reason that the other princes were not able to secure the throne so this time he would hold the precious daughter in his palm and using her not only manipulate the Empress but also make his little sister his best weapon.

Since that day the princess was taken under the wing of her youngest brother who was consider her savior.

Thus the secretive letter that was send to the golden capital of Gaerin by the Empress of Ambrose at that time was snatched in the middle of the journey before changing some of the contents and even the address from the Imperial Palace of King Kyzm to The Palace of Equinox of the current crown prince.

And that was the time when Lilith was called back from the Northwestern Deserts to her homeland.

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PRESENT

"Please illustrate your words with facts and evidences General lady or the words you have spoken can never be believed." Prime Minister Zhan had beads of sweat forming on his body. If whatever the woman was speaking was true then he might be implicated with his entire family thus it was important to understand what were the true intentions of the Mistress of the Great Lotus Mansion.

"Your beautiful garden that is recently constructed, does it has five layers of soil, black soil mixed with fish's flesh at the bottom to sustain the flowers to bloom for the entire year around?

Did the workers planted chrysanthemums right above the poison bed of underground roots that are although not harmful for the flowers yet would sprout and release toxic air as soon as blood fells on the ground? Is it not a defense system never heard of?"

"H-How...How do you know this?" Azarios looked at his black gold sword kept on the table smiling as if he found the Prime Minister too foolish to compete with him and before Lilith could explain, his own lips parted.

"It is said that the Princess of Daxtrox, Nevix and Emperor Zexzerus were promised to one another in their young age but despite the Emperor taking painstaking efforts for the princess, she was too cold and people said that she loved someone else. Prime Minister Zhan are you aware......those are all lies.

In reality, when Princess Nevix was born, the High Saintess sent an oracle to the Daxtros empire which announced that there will be a life threat to the person she would adore the most ...but ofcorse this one cannot predict if the seer said truth or not.

Today the garden you so blatantly flaunted infront of Princess Nevix was actually constructed by her own self by using the ingredients said by the oracle to ward off the calamity which was to protect her beloved.

You not only stole the blessing of the High Saintess but also performed the practice similarly and according to the only imperial law that all the Empires agree upon, the rituals which are stolen unethically shall be punished by displaying your entire family's heads hanging from the prison tower.

Now tell my dear wife Prime Minister, wasn't it Prince Baez who told you to construct the garden in exchange for marrying your daughter."

Lilith could not even bother with the old minister's pale face as her heart thrummed erratically. Even if he was spying on Nevix and her but it was impossible that he did not know all this from before because Nevix never told her anything about the Oracle....

His connections and power mightier than thunderstorms...who was he?