The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress
Chapter 180: Breaking down a conspiracy....[3]

Chapter 180: Breaking down a conspiracy....[3]

In the courtroom, Mr. Bertram was asked to step down and another witness was called, Olive Ye’s closest friend, Lord Ashton Vanger.

Lord Dresden immediately started the questioning. "Are you Lord Oliver Ye’s closest friend?"

Lord Ashton Vanger nodded and responded "Yes" in a hesitant voice. His face was not all smiles like Mr. Bertram’s had been, he was more solemn. Lord Ashton was not too pleased to be associated with Lord Oliver Ye under the current circumstances.

"What do you know of his malice towards the crown princess?" Lord Dresden asked.

Lord Ashton briefly looked at Oliver Ye, saw the plea in his friends eyes and then went on to betray him. "Oli...Lord Oliver I mean was very proud of the fact that his wife to be was coming from the Thorin family. It is one of the noblest families in the kingdom, at the time they held a lot of military power and a monopoly over the salt trade.

As the only daughter of Lord Paxton Thorin, she was pampered by her the duke and duchess. Her brothers dotted on her endlessly. Her pedigree is spotless and her dowry was rumored to be a thing of celestial wonder.

Most of the unmarried noble lords and a few married ones that had an open position of secondary or main wife were interested in her but over the years she had been guarded tightly by her family. They did it to keep away men with less than noble intentions.

Oliver had less than noble intentions but to the outside world he was very clean. For three years, he acted like the perfect gentleman in public while preparing to take down the crown princess. It worked because when the duke looked into him, he found no dark marks against Oliver. It was why the betrothal was agreed upon quickly. Unfortunately for Oliver, it fell apart at the last moment and three years of planning went down the drain."

Lord Dresden smiled like a vampire that had found a ripe human blood bag. "How did Lord Oliver Ye take it?"

"Furious." Lord Ashton shook his head, "He had been bragging for days about how he would soon control the Thorin army, salt mines and the port. He said there were only two women worthy of him in the kingdom, the crown princess or the princess Thalassa. A few of us...his friends..." he grimaced before continuing, "We made fun of him when the decree of marriage between the crown princess and crown prince was publicized.

Even though we were just bantering, Oliver took things seriously, he said that no woman humiliated him and he would make the crown princess pay the price." He looked in the direction of the camera and quickly said, "He was drunk when he said those words so we never thought much of it. If we had known that he was seriously considering revenge, we would have informed the necessary parties immediately.

We also had no idea about what he was doing to those maids, like I said, Oliver cleaned up his image in the last three years. He never shared his dirty deeds with any of us."

Lord Ashton was sent down in the midst of murmurs, and the second last witness was called, Blythe Ye’s maid. She testified that the vial of Oblivion poison which the crown princess had been poisoned with belonged to Blythe.

The maid also talked about Blythe Ye’s hatred and envy for the crown princess because Blythe wanted to be the crown princess. The queen had been approached about making the union possible and promised to consider it seriously. They had been told that the position of secondary consort was the most they could hope for.

Before the final decision was made, Blythe told her closest friends all about how she was going to be the wife of the crown prince. Two weeks later, Sigrid married the crown prince and the king decreed that he would have no secondary consort.

Since then, Blythe Ye was trying hard to prove that she was better than Sigrid in everything. It is why she had thrown the tea party and why she had worn a dress similar to the one Sigrid wore at the bachelor’s auction ball.

The story came together perfectly, woven smoothly by the prosecutor Lord Dresden who was very good at what he was doing. Everyone saw clearly the picture that he was drawing, a tale of jealously, envy, greed and revenge.

The final witness was Sigrid’s own maid Lanai who testified to what had happened on the second floor of the Ye family castle. She cried when she talked about the blood all over the white petals.

"It was just a child, an innocent child and you killed him." she stared venomously at Oliver.

Lords Dresden asked Lanai to remain calm and sent her down. Then, he turned to the crowd and held his hands out while making his concluding statement.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard from all of the witnesses and seen the evidence. I am sure that from this, you can draw your own conclusions but you are probably on the same page as me." he whirled and faced the Ye’s. "Guilty, they are guilty of conspiring against the crown princess and prince. They are guilty of harming the foundation of our kingdom. They deserve nothing but death for their treachery."

The courtroom went wild, chants of death to them filled the air. Blood was boiling in the Eldorians, they wanted justice for the innocent baby and the crown princess that had been plotted against over and over.

Outside, Eldorians gathered in the streets, marching towards the castle and they were also chanting ’death to the treacherous Ye’s.’

Watching as the crowd increased in size, Cosmos finally understood why Sigrid had not chosen to terminate the pregnancy in secret. He also understood why she had told the Thorin’s to watch Rosalind closely through the months and make sure she did not harm herself.

He also understood why she had kissed all those babies and told the king to fund an orphanage to which she donated very publicly.

All that charity work she had done and told the papers to feature her as much as possible doing good deeds that involved women, children, the sick and elderly. She had positioned herself as the people’s princess, a princess they would be willing to go to war for.

She had anticipated this day coming and it had always been her plan to use the masses to take down the Ye family. In a way, the baby had been a bonus to her plan.

Inside her newly opened dress shop, Emmah was also watching the trial and she saw the commoners as they passed by her shop on their way to demand justice for the crown princess.

"My Lady, will you join the march?" her maid asked.

She shook her head, "Why should I? It’s not my baby that died. She knew the Ye’s didn’t like her and she still went to that tea party. Who waltzes into enemy territory expecting to come out unscathed? That crown princess is stupid."

Above her head, the halo dimmed a little more. Emmah touched her chest as a minor ache stabbed her heart. She couldn’t help feeling as if she had lost something but she couldn’t tell what it

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