(2) Living as the Villainess Queen

Chapter 237

The conversation broke off in the middle as the moving carriage slowed down gradually to a stop. Momentarily, a knock was heard from the outside. Then, through the slightly ajar door, the servant explained.

“Your Majesty, due to the congestion of the road to the Holy City, the carriage had halted for a moment to wait for the road to open up. It shouldn’t take very long.”

“Alright then.”

Darlin went on when the door was closed again.

“There must be many comers and goers today. The last time I came, I never had to wait to pass by.”

Charlotte’s remark then followed. “It’s actually heavily congested most of the time. So the wait is quite unavoidable. Sometimes, it takes a long while before the crowd moves.”

“Is that so? It had been a long time since my last trip to the Holy City…”

“It’s been a while for me as well. I believe my last visit was five years ago….”

Darlin was looking flushed with excitement, along with her voice heightened than usual. And as opposed to Darlin, whose excitement was written all over her face, Charlotte seemed serene from the outside but there clearly was more of a liveliness on Charlotte’s face than usual. Both their faces glowed with a long-awaited anticipation alike.

With a smile on her face, Eugene silently listened to their conversation. She seemed to have used up all her energy in worrying. In her head, she had countlessly pictured her encounter with Sang-je to still her uneasiness throughout the whole journey. But now that they finally arrived, she found herself as still as calm water. She realized she was retting over something which she had not considered before.

‘I wonder what kind of people Jin’s family are.’

Eugene tried to recall the original novel. Despite knowing that this world was quite different from the way it was described in the novel, still of times, she had been using it as some kind of reference. It wasn’t entirely useless.

In the novel, Jin’s family only appeared to give more details about Jin’s character. ‘Jin was born into a renowned family, and she was loved by all for she was the youngest daughter.’ It suggested that the Anika taking the evil route never had to do with her upbringing. It was entirely her own decision.

Aside from that, Jin’s family never made another appearance in the novel thereafter.

‘It doesn’t make sense now that I think of it.’

She couldn’t help but to wonder why Jin’s family had never interfered once for the sake of their endearing daughter. They didn’t even show up at the last moment where Jin met with a tragic end.

‘I guess that means there were a lot of plot holes in the story I’ve written.’

However, it didn’t seem like Jin was on good terms with her family.

For the last three years, there were no traces of her keeping in touch with her family in any sort of way. The very fact that Jin had been asking favor from Charlotte’s maternal family instead of her powerful family was strange as it is.

‘I guess Jin and I are alike in a way as we are both on bad terms with our family.’

Eugene felt identified with Jin for the first time. And they both had a family of five. According to the information she gained from Knight Pides, Jin seemed to have two older brothers.