Chapter 14: Are You Really A Princess?

"T-then, is there any way for me to help?" Swan asked Lady Jade. 

"Help? You mean, helping to lift off his curse?" Jade asked, and Swan nodded enthusiastically, which surprised her to no end. "Oh my, you are… I don't know how to describe you. Why would you want to help him? You don't even know his curse."

"I-I don't know his curse, but…" Swan paused for a few seconds. She was smart enough not to give her the real answer because it would diminish her value. 

The true reason why she wanted to help was because she was sent to die. She had no worth, and nowhere to go after she became Gale's bride. She thought if she could help, even if it would kill her, then at least she would be useful to one person in her pitiful life. 

At the same time, it would also expose the fact that she was not the princess that held much value in Holy Achate. She was just a prostitute's daughter who happened to have been fathered by the late king.