Margaret took a piece of paper and sat at the table, doodling circles.
"The Cinderella of Favors" is the love story of Charlotte Boston.
At the beginning of the story, Charlotte was claimed by her biological father and smoothly passed the entrance test as a special student at S.T. Academy. At the same time, she received an invitation to attend the birthday ball of the first prince, attracting the attention of Douglas.
In the center of the paper, Margaret wrote Charlotte's name, with related characters beside it.
The Boston family—greedy and opportunistic. Margaret remembered Charlotte's father, who was particularly fond of flattery, often attending various social gatherings and casually playing with women under the guise of his viscount status. According to the information provided in the book, he had deceived an ignorant girl while traveling, resulting in her unmarried pregnancy and the birth of Charlotte. After fifteen or sixteen years, this man finally learned about his illegitimate daughter and brought Charlotte back home.
As for Charlotte's mother, she had passed away several months ago.
The situation of the Boston family was not good. Margaret stared at the surname for a while and asked Damon behind her, "Do you remember that Viscount Boston with a two-pronged mustache? He was quite fat, and his tone was always so excited."
Damon stood a bit far away, watching Margaret's back, his bright red eyes containing an imperceptible softness.
"I remember," he said.
"That person...," Margaret tapped her temple with the tip of her pen, "how many daughters does he have at home?"
"Six," Damon replied in a low voice, "the eldest daughter is already married, and the second and fourth daughters also have engagements. Viscount Boston has no sons, and his title cannot be inherited after his death; it will be revoked."
So, this man treated his daughters as stepping stones to power. He was keen on attending various gatherings, dressing up his daughters beautifully, and encouraging them to flirt with aristocrats of high status.
Charlotte caught Douglas's attention at the palace ball—this fact excited Viscount Boston greatly, and from then on, he constantly urged Charlotte to get close to Douglas, perhaps aiming for a mistress position or something similar.
Margaret took a piece of paper and sat at the table, doodling circles.
"The Cinderella of Favors" is the love story of Charlotte Boston. At the beginning of the story, Charlotte, after passing the entrance test as a special student at S.T. Academy, encountered Mario, the second prince, during a stroll in the capital city, and... Mario fell head over heels for her.
What?
That short-tempered and troublesome Mario, who always seems like a pufferfish with eyes on top of his head, can fall in love at first sight?
This world must be insane.
Margaret drew an enraged pufferfish outline next to Mario's name, then drew an arrow pointing towards Charlotte.
She also drew an arrow between Douglas and Charlotte.
Who else...?
Margaret struggled to organize the information in her mind, adding names to the paper. Gerta, the gentle senior; the adorable junior; classmates; the professor who teaches white magic... Some characters she couldn't recall their names, so she gave them aliases based on their characteristics.
She also listed the supporting characters hostile to Charlotte, only to find they were all female. Most of them were students of S.T. Academy, and their reasons for bullying or provoking Charlotte were mostly out of jealousy.
And Margaret herself was included in that list.
That was quite interesting.
Margaret never thought of herself as someone who would bully the weak. But in this book, as Douglas's fiancée and the daughter of Duke Russell, she held a high position in Grants Academy. Many people wanted to befriend her but had no way in, while the noble ladies she associated with formed a strange little circle.
What were they called... "Miss Margaret's Order of Knights"?
Margaret silently covered her face.
That name was too embarrassing. If it weren't for suddenly finding herself in this book, she wouldn't have known about such a thing.
[Every Wednesday afternoon, they gathered in the sunlit lounge at the top of the library to enjoy a peaceful afternoon tea with Miss Margaret. The attendees were always the same, each girl possessing outstanding talents and prestigious backgrounds.]
[S.T. Academy had its hierarchies. Miss Margaret's Order of Knights held supreme authority among the students, managing the order of the academy and keeping an eye out for anyone who might pose a threat to Miss Margaret.]
[Charlotte caught Douglas's attention at the ball and then proceeded to win the admiration of many admirers in the subsequent campus life. In order to maintain Miss Margaret's reputation as Douglas's fiancée and her position in the academy, as well as due to their disapproval of Charlotte's behavior, they decided to eliminate the threat.]
Then these girls employed a series of intricate schemes reminiscent of a political drama, successfully portraying themselves as antagonists and getting defeated by Charlotte and the male supporting characters. They pinned all their deeds on Margaret.
Douglas grew to utterly despise Margaret, while Prince Mario constantly caused trouble for her.
Later on, Douglas gradually stripped the White family of their power. During a banquet, Duke Russell unexpectedly took a liking to Charlotte and sought to claim her for himself. Douglas timely rescued Charlotte, reaffirming his determination to eradicate the White family.
By then, he had already become the Emperor of the Eastern Holy Land, with no feelings whatsoever for his empress.
He joined forces with other cabinet ministers to pass judgment on the White family. Duke Russell's properties were confiscated, and the extravagant and licentious old-fashioned aristocrat was sent to the guillotine. Other relatives were forced into desperate situations, either stripped of their titles or publicly executed.
As Empress Margaret, confined within the palace, watched her loved ones die one after another, in despair, she chose to poison herself—