Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 243: A Disappointed Mother

Aria raised her brow provocatively, "What did I do? I don’t know, you tell me. Maybe those villagers are so hungry that they start eating poisoned herbs in the forest. Or maybe they are just a bunch of idiots who accidentally drink a well full of feces, that’s why they get dysentery. They are peasants after all. They are dumb and meant to be harvested."

"You know well that’s not what happened!" Anastasia raised her voice to her daughter. She didn’t want to yell at Aria, but she knew her daughter must’ve done something to those innocent villagers. "I know that it’s YOU who killed them, Aria!"

"And how’d you know?"

"Because of that damned floating book next to you!"

"Oh, well, darn. I’ve been caught," Aria chuckled. "Yes. I poisoned them. Do you know the chicken soup that I’ve prepared for the banquet? I poured a lot of poison into it, and it will take effect after three days. The poison was made with the help of a poison master of course."

Aria pointed at Jade, who was still rubbing her hurting nose after getting slammed with the door, "That woman is not actually Meredith. I put the soul of someone you know inside her. She is the one who has been helping me with the poison."

Anastasia turned her head towards Meredith in disbelief and asked, "Y-you, who are you?"

"Isn’t it obvious? The infamous poison master and herbologist, Lady Jade Stormfront," Jade introduced herself as she stood up. She patted her dress and added, "I should say, Lady Anastasia, your daughter has a talent. She is smart, ruthless, and an actual witch. I would be a very proud mother if I were you."

Anastasia was too speechless to even stutter right now. She kept staring at Jade inside Meredith’s body until she muttered, "You. You are the one who poisoned my daughter’s mind!"

Anastasia lunged towards Jade and started attacking her by trying to claw her face and pull her hair.

"Aw! Ouch! Urgh, let go, you crazy bitch! I didn’t do anything to your daughter! It was all her ideas!" Jade yelled as she tried to resist the attack. "If you don’t believe me, ask her! Who plans the entire thing!"

"Yes, it was all my idea, Mom."

Only then did Anastasia stop attacking Jade. She turned her head towards her daughter. Tears welled up in her eyes as her heart ached.

She knew betrayal was just one game that most royals played, but to be betrayed by your own blood made it ten times worse.

"I thought we had it good here, Aria. We have everything we need, and we will be in peace forever..." Anastasia murmured. "Why do you have to ruin everything?"

"Because this is not the life I want," Aria stated coldly. "You and your little pathetic life in this pathetic mansion in whatever mountain is not what I want, Mom. I want to be Gale’s wife! I want to be Queen and I want to have all the glory in this world for myself while Swan deserves to suffer!"

"Swan. Swan. Swan! Why do you keep thinking about Swan? That woman is already out of your league! You know you have no chance against her!" Anastasia yelled. "Just let your grudge go, Aria. This is not worth it. Gale is not worth it, and none of it matters in the end, because we both know that you will NEVER beat Swan!"

"SHUT UP, MOM!" Aria cast a spell towards her mother, and Anastasia became mute instantly. "I don’t care whatever you say about me. I WILL get what I want, no matter the amount of sacrifices I have to make!"

Aria used her finger to control Jade and her mother’s bodies with invisible hands and kicked them out of her room, "Don’t disturb me. I have to meet with the Great Witch in my dream! I need to somehow win against Swan!"

Anastasia could only stare at her daughter in disappointment. Just when she thought that Aria finally had a change of heart, Aria showed her true color and destroyed all Anastasia’s hopes.

Jade combed her red hair with her fingers and asked, "Why are you against her anyway? Your daughter is the perfect ruthless woman. She would’ve made a fine queen."

Anastasia didn’t even have the energy to refute Jade’s words.

Even if she could speak right now, she still had no way to refute what Jade said.

What Jade said was true. Aria had become what Anastasia wanted when she was still a queen.

She wanted her daughter to be wilful, smart, cunning, and ruthless. She wanted her to know that everything and everyone was just a pawn as long as she could get what she wanted.

The previous Anastasia would’ve been very proud of her daughter, but not now...

’I have turned my daughter into a monster...’

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Aria might act cold in front of her mother, but she was actually really upset by her words just now. Aria has never changed since she was young. She had always been ruthless, cunning, and full of ideas.

"I don’t understand you, Mom. You should’ve been happy to have a daughter like me. Why did you change? Why can’t you just be the same mother I’ve known since I was young?"

Unfortunately, not even Aria knew what to do with her mother. She knew that she’d sacrifice Anastasia eventually. She just disliked how her mother didn’t worship the ground she walked in like before.

In the end, Aria simply laid on her bed, hugging Necronomicon, her true friend, wishing to meet the Great Witch, Madam Harsetti in her dream.

’I am all alone now. Nobody truly liked me when I was a princess, and now even my mother doesn’t like me anymore,’ Aria told herself as she clutched her witchcraft book harder. ’Please, Necronomicon, show me the way to become the ultimate witch, so everyone in this world will bow down to my rule, and they will understand how great I am!’