That left only two: the Crown Princess, and the fourth princess, a child born of a servant, barely acknowledged by the court. A sense of urgency gripped me, and I retreated to my room to piece together the fragments of this gruesome puzzle.
In my frantic search, I discovered a key—an unsettling detail that connected all the deaths. The fourth princess had been married only a month ago, and it was around that same time that the deaths began. It wasn't one of the princesses who was orchestrating this horror; it was someone else—someone with the means to infiltrate the palace and manipulate events from the shadows. The truth hit me like a thunderclap. The mastermind behind these murders was none other than the consort who had recently entered the palace. But why? And how?
