Act 0. Prologue

A biting wind howls.

Amidst the harsh cold, only the sound of a baby crying was clear. Despite the loud noise, the maids merely glanced at each other, hesitant to rush into the room.

The protagonist inside the bedroom was the Duchess of Trisel.

She was the only wife of the Grand Duke they served and was undoubtedly a woman who had committed infidelity.

To betray their master in their own castle. How dare she.

At this moment, the maids were merely looking at each other, hesitant to enter the bedroom. They knew what they would witness if they did.

They would find only a traitor who had committed adultery and an illegitimate child not bearing the blood of the Duke’s family. They cared nothing for a baby whose father was unknown.

…That was until,

Crash! Thud!

Suddenly, loud noises started coming from inside. Perhaps a chair had fallen. Maybe a basin had dropped somewhere.

Unable to resist her curiosity, one maid muttered a curse under her breath and opened the door.

The scene revealed a midwife and a physician collapsed simultaneously. At the sound of the door opening, the physician rushed over and grabbed the maid by the collar.

“The Duchess has committed adultery!”

The maid, bewildered, looked at the physician. She had heard clearly that their master had said he had never once embraced his wife.

But then, why…?

“Look! See for yourself!”

The physician, almost dragging the maid by the collar, pulled her toward the cradle. The maid tried to escape, but she couldn’t break free from the desperate grip. Her intuition screamed. Don’t look. If you see, you’ll witness your own ugliness.

No, I don’t want to see—!

But as soon as she looked at the newborn,

The maid turned pale and collapsed. The baby’s hair color was unmistakably. Unmistakably.

“What is the commotion?”

At the calm voice from behind, the maid turned around in a daze. The man standing at the door had the same hair color as the baby.

“Your Highness…”

Silver hair.

The silver hair that only the Trisel Duke family, said to be blessed by fairies, possessed.

The Duchess had given birth to a silver-haired baby.