Villain Princess.

Count Celeste is not stupid.

And he believed that many other nobles were not that stupid either. They should have noticed that something was wrong, but they chose to follow through with this notion for some reasons.

The reasons he thought would be most believable was naturally because the person who wanted this was someone they could not afford to offend.

How many people in the entire Yellow Kingdom could not be offended by almost everyone?

Count Celeste could count their number with his fingers.

"That’s lies!" Lucy frowned.

She had been staying in the Capital Academy for so long and had never seen Aurora bully anyone. If they said that she bullied people in the past few months, then Lucy would feel that it was even more wrong.

Because in that case, she would have heard about it first before such a ridiculous matter happened.

Yet, it still happened.

"I know," Count Celeste said. "But many people choose to listen to His Highness’s words."

Because he’s a royalty and no one wanted to go against a royalty’s words. Even if he knew the truth might not be like that, he would still follow the royalty’s words for this matter had nothing to do with them.

Unless it interfere with their interest, most nobles would not care about these things.

To be honest, Count Celeste never met with Aurora.

All Count Celeste knew about Aurora came from the news of the people from the Capital City and so on. After all, he couldn’t possibly leave his territory and go to the capital city just to confirm whether the rumors were true or not.

But through the few nobles who lived around him, some of them had made a deal with Aurora and was full of praise of her. They were happy that they could get a lot of money from various trades that she helped them to make.

Each and every single one of them made the lives of the people in their territory become even better.

So Count Celeste knew that Aurora is a capable person.

Since she was also the crown princess, everyone simply thought that she would be the future queen. They were also respectful to her and didn’t dare to offend her.

Not mentioning the fact that she would become the queen in the future, her own background as the duke’s daughter made many people not dare to do anything disrespectful in fear they would be charged with disrespect towards someone of higher nobility.

Thankfully, Aurora was quite approachable and her methods made many people satisfied.

But after some time, the wind changed.

These nobles seemed to see and notice that someone didn’t want Aurora to be famous and kept on making her name.

While they didn’t know the exact details, they knew very well that this voice was getting louder and louder.

There were too many people who didn’t want Aurora to succeed.

Or there was someone so powerful that he or she could mobilize so many people.

Count Celeste knew that his daughter was close to Aurora and Annelie through the letter that Lucy sent back. Out of fear of implication, he asked his daughter to come back first.

Now that the matter in the Capital City had finally passed, Count Celeste sighed at how outrageous it was.

The statement made by Crown Prince Edward was pure nonsense.

A slightly smarter person would be able to notice that what Crown Prince Edward wanted was nothing more than to slander Aurora to the point that it was impossible for Aurora to fight back.

The problem was... this prince’s brain was not so easy to use.

The slander he made was so hard to believe for those who had known Aurora before and had heard of her capabilities. So there were many nobles who were skeptical but didn’t dare to speak, so they stayed silent.

"That’s..." Lucy didn’t know what to say. She looked at her father and seeing his calm expression, she felt more annoyed.

She knew that the nobles were used to hide what they thought and what they actually think. However, she didn’t expect that they would fall so low that they would frame others for what they didn’t do.

She had interacted with Aurora for several years before Aurora had to leave for the negotiation matters. Because of Aurora’s position, she couldn’t even have a normal school life like many other nobles there.

Then again, there were also some noble students who left early because of various matters such as their own home problems or because they have to debut and get married. Lucy herself also didn’t stay until the graduation party but graduated early.

"Is there nothing that can be done?" Lucy asked again.

She wanted to help her friend or do something for them at the very least.

But at this moment, she was so far away and Lucy didn’t know what she could do to help. These people were all far higher than her in terms of nobility ranking.

Count Celeste shrugged. "I don’t know the exact situation, but it’s not really something that other people could meddle about."

Lucy pouted but didn’t refute her father.

She did learn a bit about the situation of the nobles from Aurora during her time in the Capital Academy. From them, she learned that there were some people who would use their power to do what they wanted.

It was not that easy for those of lower power to fight back.

It was just...

Aurora is already a duke’s daughter.

How did she fall so low?

"I know you’re worried, but there’s nothing that you can do. I’m only telling you this to inform you," Count Celeste said.

No matter what, Lucy had some interactions with them in the past. She might also be affected because of what happened to these two people, so she deserved to know.

However, Count Celeste hoped that Lucy would not try to do anything stupid.

"Can I see her?" Lucy asked.