The Cooking Princess - Chapter 93

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The Princess Who Cooks

Episode 93

Even though they hadn’t yet tasted the cake Chloe Garnet made, the people gathered in the salon were already overwhelmed by the cooking just from the cake’s appearance alone.

‘Well, Shuel, who has good taste, did say that no one would dislike my cake.’

It was understandable since it was a cake guaranteed by none other than the male protagonist.

‘The taste is delicious, but an overwhelming visual is definitely important too.’

The fact that Chloe Garnet’s cooking was delicious was already known to everyone in the Luzhiere Empire.

To continue making the salon members feel ‘special’ in the future.

‘It would be more effective to serve gorgeous food like this that can’t be seen anywhere else.’

Everyone is crazy about things that are ‘special’ and amazing.

Now these nobles would go around talking about the fantastic experience they had at Chloe Garnet’s salon without her having to spread rumors herself.

Because people like to show off what others don’t have.

Chloe Garnet’s prediction was not wrong.

From the very next day, stories about Chloe Garnet’s cooking salon spread widely throughout the Social Circle.

“It was really the first time I felt such… such amazing emotion from just a cake. It was truly a fantastic experience.”

A cynical Duchess who usually had no interest in food at all was telling about her experience at the salon as if enchanted, her eyes sparkling.

“I’m embarrassed to say this, but whenever I heard that Chloe Garnet had amazing cooking skills, I thought it’s just cooking, so how amazing could it be… That’s what I thought.”

Some people mocked the salon attendees for making too much fuss over what was just food to eat.

However, even those who had been cynical couldn’t help but admire the cake design that Chloe Garnet officially announced a few days later.

The nobles who saw the fantastic appearance of the cake couldn’t keep their mouths shut and were busy praising Chloe Garnet’s cake.

“If only I could check and taste such fantastic desserts first, what a fantastic day it would be… I understand why the Noblewomen of the salon are bragging.”

It seemed that various high-class information was also exchanged at Chloe Garnet’s salon, so they were desperate to somehow get included in that circle.

The nobles approached Chloe Garnet, the salon’s owner, more enthusiastically, giving her gifts and trying their best to look good to her.

Naturally, the position of Shuel, Chloe Garnet’s fiancé, also rose along with hers.

The Empress, who learned of this fact a little late, soothed her empty feelings by drinking tea alone in the Imperial Garden.

“How dare that wench hold a salon without me?”

She felt sinister intentions in the fact that it was held completely excluding her, the Empress.

And from then on, she began to suspect Chloe Garnet little by little. Because Chloe Garnet was the biggest beneficiary of the malicious rumors surrounding her.

If Chloe Garnet was behind the bad rumors about her, that girl must have planned it all along.

She would just act surprised when touched, but in the end succeeded in stabbing the Empress in the back.

The trigger was probably when Prince Shuel almost died and she was framed for poisoning.

The atmosphere changed slightly from that point, so it was probably accurate.

‘How dare she try to climb up?’

She couldn’t understand the nobles who claimed to feel emotion over mere food.

She acknowledged that the food Chloe Garnet made was delicious.

But in the end, wasn’t it just food?

She thought the nobles who made a fuss about emotion and such over it were being overly dramatic.

But the Garnet Family’s power was too strong to respond immediately.

And she couldn’t rely on the Emperor either.

If the Emperor had been completely on the Empress’s side, he would have appointed her as Empress by now, and Claude would have become a Prince instead of a Grand Duke.

‘If I frame the Duchess again…’

The Merchant Prince and Saint who protect the Duchess wouldn’t stay still.

Even that cunning blonde Prince was no longer just taking it lying down.

He was currently preparing to find the Empress’s embezzlement ledgers and related matters to put a brake on her extravagance.

‘He’s planning to add substance to the rumors.’

Even though it was an obvious scheme, the fact that she couldn’t respond immediately frustrated the Empress.

‘I should have crushed the bud somehow when she was young.’

If she couldn’t crush the bud, she should have at least arranged her as Claude’s partner.

At that time, she didn’t forcefully push the engagement because she was concerned about her reputation, but now she deeply regretted being so passive then.

And now she couldn’t forcibly separate the Prince from Chloe Garnet either.

Chloe Garnet, who had her debutante ball, had solid connections and her character and abilities were not lacking either.

The Empress slightly regretted checking Chloe Garnet out of immediate pride.

‘She should have been by my son’s side!’

The Empress firmly believed that Shuel was more incompetent than her own son.

Crucially, the naval battle where Shuel achieved merit was an opportunity gained while Chloe Garnet pretended to listen well to the Empress’s opinions.

That wench must have pulled some strings.

Though she was completely barking up the wrong tree, there was no one to correct the Empress’s delusion, so she just bit her thumbnail and pondered deeply.

“How, how should I…”

As the Empress muttered almost obsessively, Claude approached and said,

“Don’t worry, Mother.”

Claude, who spoke in an infinitely gentle tone, sounded like a great filial son just from his voice,

But Claude’s face showed no expression as he embraced his mother and stroked her back.

“You know.”

At Claude’s words hinting at what he possessed, the Empress finally calmed down.

Right.

No matter how much Chloe Garnet and Shuel flew around and crawled, they would eventually fall by her son’s hand.

Legitimacy?

Such things would become useless once she made her son the only heir to the throne.

In reality, people supported Shuel more because of the Empress’s brutality and Claude’s cruelty, but the Empress turned her eyes away from such truth and appealed to her son.

“Right. No matter how great that Prince is, he’ll eventually fall into our son’s hands.”

Grabbing her son’s shoulders and looking directly into Claude’s eyes, the Empress added in a chilling tone,

“That wench too.”

Claude smiled coldly, but didn’t bother to respond to his mother’s words.

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Claude’s movements were suspicious.

Chloe Garnet noticed this not because she was smart or perceptive.

‘In the original, Claude starts a rebellion… surely not already?’

In the original, Claude rebelled after Shuel was appointed Crown Prince, but since the original had changed considerably, she couldn’t be certain of the timing, so Chloe Garnet kept a close watch on Claude’s actions.

Actually, in the ‘original,’ Claude wins over the northern barbarians who were in his battlefield and comes to attack Shuel, the Crown Prince.

‘I hope Claude’s tail gets caught quickly before things become troublesome.’

However, at the salon held the very next day, instead of the long-awaited rumors about Claude,

Chloe Garnet first heard rumors that Shurya might be a ‘fake’ Saint.

The nobles restrained their remarks for Chloe Garnet’s sake since she was acquainted with Shurya, but Chloe Garnet couldn’t miss the ominous atmosphere among them.

She held her throbbing head and barely managed to think.

‘No, wait a minute.’

Shurya being revealed as fake happens in the very end of the original.

But for Shurya to be revealed as fake at this point when Shuel hasn’t even been appointed Crown Prince yet?

‘This is Shurya’s final crisis that appears in the very end of the original.’

But to call it the end, both Claude and the Empress were still going strong…

Most importantly, Shuel hadn’t even been appointed Crown Prince yet.

With a pale face, Chloe Garnet immediately contacted Shurya asking if they could meet.

The answer that came back shortly after was that they couldn’t meet.

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