The Villainess Wants to Make Her Husband Slim Down

CHAPTER 17

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The daughter of Count Storm, Camilla Storm, is hated.

The villainess who interfered with the destined love between the Second Prince of the Sonnenlicht Kingdom, Julian, and the daughter of a baron called Liselotte, she was an selfish, treasonous and utterly obsessive witch.

Even after she departed from Grenze and returned to the Montchat mansion nearby the duchy's biggest city, things hadn't changed.

The rumours about Camilla continued to swirl, especially amongst the younger servants.

"Hey, did you hear? Apparently, that villainess drove one of the maids in Grenze to tears and even threatened to have her fired!"

"I heard about it. It seemed that the Master managed to stop her being dismissed, but she was still demoted and lost a lot of her pay! I heard that she is assigned to being a scullery maid now."

"Speaking of the Master, it seems that things have been strange with him ever since he came back. It's as if he's eating less food than before... After that woman caused such a scene in Grenze, he must be feeling depressed."

"Ehh, no way... That Master of all people? Ah, I'm worried, it's supposed to be my turn to take care of that woman today..."

"Ah, I feel sorry for you. Although, I actually have a good idea..."

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-Somehow, things are even worse than before...

A few days after returning from Grenze, in the Montchat manor.

Camilla tapped her foot on the ground as she sat, clutching a letter from Therese in her hand.

The cold and distant attitude of the servants hadn't changed at all. Actually, ever since getting back, no one seemed to want to meet Camilla's eyes at all.

It seemed that gossip about everything that had happened in Grenze had managed to find its way back here already. Alois' number of meals had been reduced from eight to seven, but if anything that seemed to just heighten fears about Camilla's growing influence.

The servants had become even more fearful and skittish around Camilla than they had before. They made their excuses and escaped as soon as their work was done even more eagerly than they had in the past.

And it seems that misfortune always flows in torrents, symbolized by the letter from Therese she held in her hand.

Prince Julian and Liselotte's engagement was completed without a hitch. His Royal Majesty and His Highness Prince Eckhart even proclaimed he was happy how 'After not being misled by a worthless woman of poor character, the Prince has found happiness with a wonderful new woman' as he blessed them... Isn't that lovely?

"Worthless woman of poor character", that could only be talking about Camilla.

Back when she was in the capital from what Camilla could gather, the First Prince Eckhart had always been happy about his brother's proposed marriage with the daughter from the family of Count Storm. He was a serious person who was more focused on building the power of the royal family instead of caring about love and romance. He often frowned when he heard the stories about how Prince Julian loved a girl from the relatively low ranked Ende family.

In fact, Prince Eckhart and Prince Julian had been known to clash on this issue. There's no way he really blessed their engagement.

Although she's sure of that, there's no way for Camilla to make sure of it as she is now. There's no way to really tell exactly what's going on in the Royal Court since all the information she had to go on were the letters from Therese and the newspapers full of gossip that cast Camilla as a villainess.