"..."

"Your Highness, today is Sunday."

"..."

Sitting in her study, Isabella looked out the beautiful stained-glass window at the gloomy weather and simply replied to Marilla, "I know, Lady Marilla... the weather today is really not good."

The sky was overcast, so dark it was hard to breathe; it was the kind of weather where it wouldn't be surprising if it rained at any moment.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Silently looking at her book, Isabel sighed and closed it. She really couldn't concentrate on reading today... Although that's what she said, her reading progress had actually slowed down a lot since she left the Empire.

The main reason is that work has become much busier, so naturally, the time for self-improvement has become much shorter.

Moreover, when Yinla used to read books with me in her spare time, I could ask her any questions I didn't understand. Although she would ramble on and on, making it hard to understand, if I remembered it and could comprehend it, it was indeed very beneficial.

"Except for Lord Marilla, all of you may leave..."

Unconcerned, Isabella displayed her regal authority. As she watched the guards and maids respectfully depart, she said casually, "You all know the atmosphere in the capital right now. Anyone with ulterior motives... go back to your masters."

Upon hearing this, many of the maids stiffened slightly...

The number was greater than Isabella had imagined, and most of them were spies of the nobility... The Yinla faction didn't need to plant spies, after all, Yinla was once the biggest spy.

At that time, there was no need for the two sides to divide things so meticulously...

"Four months..."

Isabella spoke ramblingly, seemingly without any context, and instead looked out the window, saying, "It's just winter, and the weather hasn't even started to warm up yet..."

Although these words were meant to be completely incomprehensible to unrelated people, Marilla understood them immediately. She corrected her, saying, "Your Majesty... it's actually five months, three days short."

Oh, then there's not much difference.

Seeing Isabella lost in thought, Marilla, with a calm expression, asked the young queen before her, "Excuse my presumption, but what is Your Highness thinking about right now?"

On this point, Isabella had nothing to hide. She rested her chin on her hand, a helpless smile on her face, and said, "I was thinking, I cleared out the nobles in five months... does that count as being more capable than Isabella?"

The helpless smile was exactly like Yinla's... and surprisingly, it really was true. Yinla had spent a long time trying to eliminate the nobles from the empire, but it seemed that this phase would be completed on this day.

However, it's fine for Isabella to bring up this topic herself, but if someone else brings up topics like "Ira is better than Her Majesty the Queen" or "Her Majesty the Queen is better than Isabella"... Isabella will immediately explode.

What a troublesome emperor...

"Perhaps? However, Your Highness, you are not in charge."

To Marilla's words, Isabella, seemingly unconcerned, waved her hand and said with the composure of a true queen, "It doesn't matter. How do you know... that all of this wasn't under my guidance?"

Indeed, if everything is under Isabella's guidance and control, then it can be said that she has sacrificed all her authority and willingly become a puppet... in order to mold the empire into what Isabella likes.

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But Marilla wouldn't be fooled; she was absolutely certain... Isabella was extremely passive; she didn't even have a backup plan to ensure her own safety, not since birth.

"Your Highness Isabella...do you know what this means? Do you know what Ur...is planning to do?"

Marilla couldn't help but say this.

This topic is extremely cruel for a normal King of Glory player...

"..."

"I know that this means... everything will remain the same."

As she said this, Isabella chuckled softly, pointed towards the door, and said, "Sir Marilla saw it too, didn't she? Those people planted around me—it was because of them that there was that fake imperial edict, that things came to this..."

That's indeed the case when you trace it back to the source, but if you disregard Isabella's own desire to "prove herself," it's a bit too clean to deny it... To put it bluntly, it's still about not personally apologizing to Isabella immediately.

Caused by willfulness... Caused by weakness...

"After that, the people around me changed from one group to another... even people who were familiar with Minister Yinla. I felt more at ease, just like Minister Maryla, right?"

As Isabella spoke, she looked at Marilla, who was shaking her head. Marilla shook her head with a wry smile and said, "That's why I said 'everything as usual.' For me... I'm still me, nothing has changed much."

As always, she was still the queen who was like a puppet but not quite a puppet... She certainly had authority and enough face to drive politics, but she lacked the power to enforce anything and was often coerced into doing things.

For example, being entangled by Yinla's rambling... and so on.

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