The cool breeze blew from the mountain in the evening sky. Alluring rose scent emanated from the white nape of a diamond necklace and crystal shoes that reflected the light and shine. I walked down the stairs from my palace and approached my escort.
"You're beautiful." "So are you," I responded. Noah smiled awkwardly with a little kiss on my back hand and raised his head. "It's awkward because it's my first time wearing this," he said. "It suits you perfectly. From now on, dress up often." I smiled. "Shall we go?"
The party already started 30 minutes ago. How unusual, the nobles who heard the news that the 1st Princess had finally participating in the party seemed to have been waiting to see my face. Emily was ordered to wait in the hall, so that traitor had not yet seen my new dress. Maybe she's standing next to the 2nd Princess and waiting for me to appear, all prepared to embarrassed me.
"Is that the new dress?" Noah asked. "Yes. How is it?" I answered. "You are more beautiful than any of women gathered in the hall. Today's main character will definitely to be Her Majesty the 1st Princess," Noah said with a shy smile. "Of course. I can't stand to imagine to wear the same dress with the 2nd Princess. I wonder what kind of expressions they will give." "Are you ready to enter?" Noah asked and I nodded.
A huge door embroidered with the emblem of the Imperial family's Poinsettia just like my name opened with a loud creaking noise. The time had finally come, I could heard my heart beating faster and my hand shook like crazy but I couldn't back down now.
"Her Majesty the 1st Princess has enter!"
The noisy hall froze in an instant, the orchestra who were playing with excitement, the members of the Imperial family holding a toast and the nobles who gave their best regards and laughed out loud were all looking at me, mute and snared. The appearance of the princess who opened the golden poinsettia door that only the royal family of the Empire could enter was not what they imagined. She possessed the same spirit and charisma as those of her ancestors, and the figure of vivid bright rose in the morning when she stepped down the stairs.
I kneeled as I was about to express my regards for the royal Imperial family.
"Hiccup-"
There was a small hiccup sound from the top of the royal seat. I sneered in victory secretly when I noticed it was from the 2nd Princess Lobelia as she was urgently covering her mouth with her hand but she couldn't stop her hiccup. Lobelia's face as red as my dress. She wore a dress depicting the Milky Way embroidered with silver thread on a black background, exactly as I ordered it. No matter how wicked they had, the 2nd Princess was only a 16 years old girl. It was hard to think that a dress with a hollow chest and bare legs would suit her.
"Forgive me for coming late. Greetings to Your Majesty the Empress Dowager. May the Glory of the Empire be with you." I bowed as I greeted. "It's alright. You don't know how happy I am to see the 1st Princess on this important day. Come on." The Empress Dowager smiled. "I will come to pick you up when the dance starts." Noah disappeared after escorting me to join the Schaumberg family. The seat next the Empress Dowager was left empty, because the noblest woman in the empire was me, the 1st Princess. Before I took a seat, I greeted the three blonde brothers and sister sitting side by side in the front row of my seat. "May my brothers and sister also have a glorious night." But neither of the Princes answered my greeting. "I wish my sister full of glory. You look so beautiful tonight," Lobelia gave out her compliment. "Your dress is also very attractive like an adult. I think it's an early design for you," I replied. Lobelia frowned without hiding her facial expression. "I hope you brothers have a good time. It's the front row, so you'll see a wonderful hall," I looked at the Princes. Since the seats of the Empress and I were located one step higher than them, the word front row was a term that underestimated the position that lower than me. The 2nd Prince, Ulrich was about to get up but the 1st Prince Harold stopped him. "I hope the 1st Princess also enjoy the night full of glory," Harold replied.
Harold was the eldest son from the Belladonna Empress, though his father was not an emperor, but since he shared the blood with the Empress, he had his prince title. Although they were called princes, both Harold and Ulrich shared blood with a non royal, so they were in the bottom successor ranking. However, Harold had never given up his desire to become the emperor. Harold had count all the possibilities, Poinsettia the pure royal who was treated as a ghost of the empire, the young 2nd Princess and the incompetent childish Prince Ulrich, he was the only one who had all the excellent qualities.
'The princess has woke up and she changed!' He didn't want to believe the rumor until he saw by his own eyes. The weak Princess, who couldn't even got her own tutors, together with Ulrich put a dead rat under her bed and hundred of ants, fooled her, spitted on her, teasing her as the ugly princess. Since then no servants around her, she couldn't even bathed herself, nor combed her own hair, nor knew how to dress properly, that's how this weak princess became a ghost of the empire. Then Harold thought, when the real Poinsettia died that time, he would be the only successor. But tonight, the 1st Prince watched how the awaken 1st Princess ascended the top seat.
Ulrich left the hall, Lobelia gripped tight her hem dress in anger. It's pointless made out of dress. The dress made to match Poinsettia's voluminous body couldn't cover Lobelia's body properly but only emphasized her poor flat chest. As I sat down, I looked around at the guests on the hall. Then my gaze stopped at a man, and I could recognize who he was without asking anyone. It was the Duke of Oncidium and an interesting idea flashed through my mind. A very good idea to punish the traitor.