From that day on, Catherine no longer played heartlessly. She began to carefully observe the people in the palace and learn to observe their words and expressions.

She would also follow Lina to her home and to the village where she lives.

Lina's parents were both simple farmers and were very enthusiastic about hospitality, but the table of vegetarian dishes made her unable to swallow, and the dilapidated houses in the village made her unbelievable.

Catherine grew up and became more and more involved in people and things in the palace.

The more she came into contact with her, the less she dared to tell Lina about her identity. Her original thoughts were gone, and she was filled with disappointment and coldness.

Lina and the others were right, and the nobles were indeed hypocritical.

The demeanor and etiquette at ordinary royal banquets are just a matter of doing.

The true faces of those people are all hidden behind false smiles, and no one can imagine what they are like.

Catherine saw the elegant noble lady whip and insult the accompanying knight in the uninhabited backyard; she also saw the elegant gentleman running to the kitchen to maid; she witnessed several polite and well-behaved noble masters torture a puppy in the garden until they died...

Some people look like humans on the surface, but don’t know what they are in their hearts.

Catherine heard that the one with the hooked nose often made the female slave naked. She hung up for him to dance and bathed with a large group of female slaves. She also heard that some noble ladies would let the slaves do all kinds of dangerous things to make them enjoy...

These things are disgusting just when she heard of them, but they are common in the aristocratic circle. At least as her social scope becomes wider, she knows more and more.

What made her feel heartbroken about her father was another thing.

At a banquet that day, Catherine accidentally heard that the Grand Duke James invited his father to hunt with several other noble men. The father happily agreed and asked her and her mother to return to the palace first.

However, Catherine keenly noticed a problem. The place for royal hunting should be in the east yard, but the place they agreed on was contrary to each other. Haven’t you ever heard of mountains and forests there?

So she wanted to explore it curiously, so she found a reason to ask her mother to go back first, and she quietly came to the place agreed by her father and others.

Then she saw a scene that would never be forgotten for life...

The hunting location was indeed not the forest, but the manor of the Grand Duke of James. The nobles who participated in the hunting were all riding horses, holding bows and arrows, preparing on the vast lawns in the manor.

And the target they were hunting was not animals, but people!

Rows of slaves locked in iron chains looked at the well-equipped nobles in horror. They were already decent and pale and thin, and now they could only tremble when facing the fat and strong hunters.

As the whistle sounded when the hunting began, the guards opened the iron chains and the slaves began to flee in panic.

The nobles riding on the tall horse raised their bows and arrows in their hands, galloping on the horse, and shooting towards the fleeing slaves.

This is not hunting at all, but unilateral massacre!

Can those slaves pass the horse faster even if they run?

No matter how flexible you are, you cannot escape this pasture.

Blood splattered everywhere, screaming constantly, slaves were shot and fell to the ground, and some were trampled by horse hooves.

But the slaughterers were laughing happily, admiring the purgatory they created on earth.

Katherine hid outside the fence and covered her mouth and watched it all, her whole body trembling.

She couldn't believe and could not understand that those people were so bad.

And there is her father among them!

Judging from their appearance, it was not the first time they participated in it. This activity has probably existed for a long time.

How many innocent lives are that?

Catherine slowly retreated, and she felt dizzy. Her father, who was so gentle in her heart... and those beasts wearing luxurious clothes, were birds of feathers.

Is this a reality that I have never seen?

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, a disgusting voice rang out from behind: "Isn't this Princess Howard? You actually sneaked to our mansion to play today? It's such a great honor."

Catherine turned around and looked at the fat man behind her in disgust. This guy was the son of the owner of the manor, the young master of the Grand Duke James's family, and the one who once whipped Lina a few horse whips.

Because of that incident, this fat man was teased by Catherine a lot, but he didn't expect to catch him here.

The fat man looked at her pale face and mocked: "Your Highness the princess's face is not very good. I guess he saw something? That is our men's entertainment project. It is better to take less delicate ladies like you."

The two of them had a rift, and the fat man had a weak background. After all, Catherine was not the king's daughter, so the fat man would not be polite in his words.

"Entertainment? That's obviously a murder!" Catherine said angrily: "You guys are proud of such disgusting things?!"

"Kill someone?" The fat man seemed to hear some joke and sneered, "Your Highness the Princess is really joking. Just killing a few beasts. Isn't this normal?"

"Beast..." Catherine was completely stunned.

"Those slaves are beasts, no matter how much they die, no one will care about it, otherwise what will your princess think?" The fat man said disdainfully: "Is Your princess going to stand up for those dirty guys? That's really bad. If someone spreads some palace secrets, your suitors will not die of sadness..."

Seeing that he was talking more and more, Catherine was furious: "What did you say?!"

The fat man was about to speak again, but suddenly screamed: "Oh! It hurts!"

It turned out that Adrick had arrived behind him at some point and was ruthlessly folding one of his fat hands behind his back.

When Adrick heard that this bastard actually insulted his princess, of course he couldn't bear it and instantly took action from the hidden place.

The fat man's pain attracted the guards in the manor. Adrick let go and retreated to Catherine. His first priority was to protect the princess.

"You dare to attack me! Take this little slave for me!" The fat man's face was ferocious and shouted in anger.

"Dare you scold Airy?!" Catherine's blue eyes were full of anger, and she clenched her fists tightly, "I see who dares to touch him, I will not let you go!"

While the two sides were confronting each other, a majestic female voice came: "Get back."

The guards and Adrick immediately saluted respectfully and retreated.

The people who came were Queen Howard and Duchess James, that is, the mothers of both sides.

The two graceful ladies seemed to know roughly what was going on, and they didn't say much. The queen just said to her daughter: "Catherine, go back with me."

So Catherine followed her mother, Adrick followed Catherine, and the three of them and the Howard's guards left the manor, and no one dared to stop her.
Chapter completed!