Love noises was heard everywhere.

"You disgusting woman, If you weren't beautiful I wouldn't have payed attention to you." The emperor said and stopped.

"Your majesty, please let me go" A woman pleaded.

"How useless. Leave!" The emperor shouted in rage.

Years passed.

My mother, who was forced to **** **** with the emperor gave birth to me, Charlotte winter. My mother was always chased by the Royal knights and was forced to go into hiding.

"Mom, Did the prince and the princess live happily ever after?" Charlotte innocently asked.

"Every story says so. But this is a unique story. The princess left the prince and eloped with her secret lover." My mom smiled.

"Why? The prince loved her though" I said.

"No, The prince forced her to do something she didn't want that's why she ran away." My mom said. There were tears on her eyes.

"So the prince do not deserve the princess?" I asked. I looked up to my mom, searching for an answer.

"No, The princess is the one who did not deserve the prince" Mom said.

I only stared at my mom, confused.

Back then, I didn't understand those words.

The princess is my mom, the prince is my dad and the lover – was me.

"Mom, what if you were secretly a princess?" I asked.

"My daughter, If there would be a princess on one of us, it might be you" My mom chuckled. Her eyes was a bit gloomy but she put on a smiling mask on her.

I always thought it was nothing.

She was always teasing me.

But, all of her words reflects on her life.

I regret it.

If i just realized sooner, I would have saved her.

"Mom! Mom! Looked at this flower crown! Isn't it beautiful?" I asked.

"Of course" My mom smiled.

She looked a bit tense earlier but it seems like she was more relaxed now.

My mom really liked flowers.

"My dream is to have a very, very big garden! This huuuuge!!" I shouted.

"And then, every kind of flowers will be here. so that mom will always smile and I could make flower crowns for you everyday" I smiled.

"My daughter, I love you. If the day comes that I will have to leave this world, Take care of yourself and always remember that I love you" Mom said and smiled.

"Will mom go to another universe?" I said. I know what she meant but I pretended to be innocent.

At a young age I could not bare to hear my mom telling me that.

"Mom, I'll be leaving! I have to go to the forest and get some apples. I noticed mom is having a hard time searching for food" I smiled.

"Be careful" Mom said. She worries a lot.

Perhaps the reason why is because she was always being chased. By the darkness, and by the emperor.

She was always chased.

If I wasn't lost that time, Would I have saved her?

If I wasn't gone for weeks because I was lost and had hurried back home, would I be able to protect her in time?

I came back home. With blood on the floor. My mom lying on the floor full of wounds. And her eyes opened wide without blinking.

she was no longer alive.

I just froze.

Why?

What did I do wrong?

Why am I being punished like this?

Why am I being punished like this?

I dreamt of a big big garden.

The image of my mother, laying dead.

I couldn't move.

This is a dream right?

This is just a dream.

This can't be happening.

I refuse to accept.

I knelt and hugged my mother's body.

I was traumatized.

I couldn't move.

I don't believe this is real.

Perhaps, I'm imagining things again.

Is it because I missed my mother too much?

Is it because of the words she said 'that day'

Should I really keep refusing reality?

I teared.

I heartbrokenly cried.

I can't accept this.

I hate the person who killed mom!

"Is this the prince?" A knight asked.

'Prince?'

"Take her" A man said and turned his back away.

"Yes, your majesty" The knights responded and striked my neck.

I woke up.

Shining jewels, Bright light, extravagant bed.

Where am I?

"You're awake, prince" The maid said with a very serious face.

"Pri-prince? but I'm a girl?" I asked.

What is happening?

Could this be all a dream?

Yeah, its impossible for my mom to die like that.

"From now on, you're not the princess Charlotte but the prince Charles. Stop acting like a child" The maid said and shot off a glare.

I trembled.

This is too real to be a dream.

So my mom is dead?

I trembled.

tears fell into my eyes.

"My mom is....... - dead?" I asked.

I was shaking. I was crying so hard.

"Stop crying!" The maid shouted. she sounds irritated.

She grabbed my arm and pulled me into the emperor's room.

"Oh? Josefina?" The emperor said after seeing her.

"Your majesty! Please teach this stubborn woman!" She shouted.

"Why don't we just have fun?" The emperor said and hugged the maid onto his bed.

Why? he doesn't even feel guilty for killing my mother? He doesn't even care at all?!

"You piece of trash! how could you bear to have fun after killing a person!?" I was eaten up by my anger.

"Person? My dear son, that woman isn't even considered a person. she's just a disgusting piece of shit" The emperor smirked – drunk.

The maid slapped me right on that moment.

"How dare you disrespect his majesty?" The maid shouted. She grabbed my hair and pulled it.

"It hurts!!" I shouted trying to break free.

She pushed me into the wall.

She kicked me many times that I started coughing blood.

"Mom..." I mumbled after the maid left.

Tears trickled down on my face.

'I will never forget this hatred' I thought.

I fainted.

A hazy dream. no, a memory.

"Do you like flowers?"

"No, my mom is the one who liked it"

The child smiled.

"I like-"

"That's the exit!"

"You....."

"Huh? what is it?"

"No, nothing"

Then the child turned his back attempting to extend his hand onto me.

But I saw a knife from behind.

"Don't!" I shouted.

I looked at the ceiling.

"This same dream" I mumbled.

6 years passed. I am 18 now.

"Prince Charles, the emperor is asking for you" The maid bowed respectedly.

"Tell him, I'm not going" Charlotte turned his head away.

"Im afraid I cannot do that, crown prince Charles" The maid answered.

"Why did he call for me?" Charlotte asked.

"An assassin broke in again" The maid responded.

'Has he found out?' Charlotte thought.

"I'll go" Charlotte answered and headed straight to the emperor's throne room.

"The assassin appeared again and killed another brother of yours" The emperor said and no remorse was written on his face.

'How heartless'

"I would like you to find out who that assassin is and quickly kill him" The emperor said.

'Idiot'

I left after that.

That's right.

I am the assassin that killed the crown prince.

"Idiot" I mumbled and laughed.

After walking, I bumped into a very tall man.

"I'm sorry" The man apologized.

"Prince..... - Claude?" I was so shocked. Why is my next target right in front of me?

'Charlotte?' The man thought. He was surprised.

"I give you my apologies. Next time, be careful" I said and passed through him.

"Charlotte!" He turned. But he found me nowhere to be found.

He slumped his head to the couch.

He covered his eyes with his arms.

"Charlotte" Claude kept mumbling.

"Why did you leave me?" He asked. He asked himself. Knowing he won't get any answer.

Evening.

"I need to get rid of all the prince" Charlotte said to herself. She dressed herself with black and jumped out the window.

these whole years, Charlotte trained to be a professional and strong assassin. Now she's the top 1 assassin in the world. Not just that, she's the second strongest magician in the whole world. Her mana, aura and skills are something that no one would ever have. Her massive amount of mana, aura and potential is what made her the strongest.

She jumped to the window.

Charlotte stared.

Why is he sleeping so carefree?

"Prince Claude.... I'm sorry" Charlotte stabbed the knife onto claude's chest. However, he awoke.

His instincts was too strong.

He avoided a fatal blow!

He pushed Charlotte to the bed and pinned her there.

Charlotte's hood loosened.

'No!'

Claude stared, shocked.

"Cr-crown prince?"

Charlotte was surprised.

'He found out! I have to kill him' But, she noticed a very strong bloodlust.

"Charlotte..." Claude mumbled.

Charlotte froze.

She was much more shocked and terrified after hearing that word.

The name she despised the most.

"Keep your mouth shut. Don't talk about this to anyone" Charlotte stood up and left.

Why didn't I kill him?

Meanwhile.....

Claude was frozen.

He can't believe it.

The girl who he thought that abandoned him is The crown prince.

He saw the Birthmark on Charlotte's arm and noticed it straight away.

It's definitely Charlotte.

"Charlotte...... Why did you leave me back then?" Claude wanted to ask Charlotte that.

But he was hesitating. Charlotte's face explained it all. her hatred for him, and for the imperial family.

"Why?" Claude kept asking.