Episode 1

"GET OUT!"  Veronica  shouted at the new maid who was dressing her. Betty accidentally popped the

pimple on her lady's face while applying makeup

"I-I'm" Betty stuttered, taken aback by Veronica's hot temper. Angered by the noticeable smear on her

porcelain face Veronica slapped Betty and poured the hot tea on her head.

"Kyahhh!!"

"I'll ruin your face just as you destroyed mine. We're even"

Tonight is the banquet for celebrating the return of the crown prince after coming back as a war hero. Her

country, Veranos successfully conquered the kingdom of Phalos after two yearsof battle. She wanted this day to be perfect, as banquets were the best occasions to find a suitable husband. Veronica is the  adopted daughter of

a Marquis, a status she gained when her mother remarried a powerful man. As a foreigner in a new land, she had black eyes and black hair which she hated because it is the mark of a slave, which was her former self. To hide the color of her eyes, she wears expensive contact lenses through a magician she sponsored. Her black hair was covered with a blond wig she ordered oversees.

Of course, non of the maids working knew her real face, before the maids come in her room in the morning to wake

her up she already wears her fake eye color to hide her black eyes. She loved the feeling of power, and  her superior looks  made it possible to lift herself up in the pedestal among the servants and lower nobility. Her

mother--Elonora had black eyes and brown hair which Veronica did not inherit.  Veronica look a lot like her biological father who was a handsome swindler who tricked her mother in giving up her small coffeehouse and

sold them to  slavery. The Marquis took a liking to her beautiful mother and  bought her as a slave when she was twelve. Over the time he married her and both their status were elevated.

 As former slave to a daughter of a Marquis, the servants belittled their origins and treated them poorly. Gossiping how their master bought two bossy clowns in their household to ruin the family image. And the Marquis tolerated their behavior and never had the mind to correct it until her mother gave birth to a successor two years later. Her blood related brother Damian was a real blessing and when he was born, the attendants served them with respect.

The marquis had a daughter of his own, Lorraine who is just a year younger than the 17 year old Veronica. And at once glance you could tell who was the devil and who is the angel. And of course, everyone pointed out that Veronica was the evil one. But in reality, Veronica's attitude just depended on how people treated her, her evil acts just justified the mistreatment of this household  of both she and her mother.

She looked at herself in the mirror one last time, checking to see if she covered the mess the ugly Betty made. Satisfied by her make up, she  entered the carriage towards the royal palace.

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