The Earl’s Bad Wife - Chapter 22.1

Dorothea von Saine, Alone (1)

Translator: Lady Black

Editor: EndlessSkyRain

There was a story three years ago.

Her father asked her and her older sisters that lived in the royal capital to attend together in a gathering.

This was the second year since Hermina debuted in society. She couldn’t celebrate her first time since her father would stop her with the talk about having a big party.

This meeting was a secret from Hermina.

That was why she asked why, but he only gave a sour look and didn’t tell her the reason that day.

The day came.

After all, it seemed difficult to gather and there was only six of them there.

Helk the eldest daughter, She the second daughter, Cassandra the fifth daughter, Charlotte the sixth daughter, Alexia and Bianca the tenth daughter.

There was a hidden room in the palace where they gathered.

She was always calm and wouldn’t utter a word, but that time, her eyebrows furrowed.

Her mother’s expression was dark as she sat next to her. She was a little surprised to see her uncle, the king.

After they gathered, he said something that made her father rigid.

This time, they were asked to come together to discuss Hermina.

The solemn tone would let you know that it was a serious matter.

Her sisters had a look on their faces when they heard of it.

Bianca, the second youngest, asked her father.

“Father, what’s wrong without cute Hermina?”

“There’s a big situation going on.”

They all waited for the next words of their father.

Her mother was wiping her tears with her handkerchief.

Then, startling news was announced by their father.

“—that is, there’s no offer of marriage for Hermina.”

She could hear the broken voices of her sisters.

She was surprised and almost dropped the cup that she was holding

Her mother was in tears.

Her uncle had a look that she had never seen before.

Was it true that Hermina wasn’t asked for marriage?

Even though she had just joined the knights and looked like a boy at that time, she had several applications over her social debut years.

She asked in a trembling voice.

“Hermina was the fairest of us all. It was discouraging to think like that.”

Her father immediately denied this and said, “That was not the case.”

An awkward atmosphere filled the air.

Her father said something that she had never thought would happen.

“Do you know why?”

Everyone shook their heads.

Their youngest sister, Hermina was a perfect woman who deserves the words ‘beautiful and talented’.

She didn’t think it was possible for their sister to not get any proposal of marriage.

But her father said there was a problem.

“She was so perfect that no one wanted to accept her as a wife.”

She looked at the reason and thought, ‘Oh my gahd.’

When she asked why this was happening, he told them that she had caused a lot of fuss in the social gathering.

“First, first debut?”