Flashback
The night before the emperor began to spiral into full madness, Johan sent a secret message to Roxanne. And Roxanne passed it to Vivianne, believing she needed to see it.
Inside the letter, Liselotte explained that she no longer felt safe in the Silvaris Palace. She had been locked inside her palace, the Silvaris Palace, for the empress consort. She's being watched day and night, unable to step beyond the doors without permission, because the royal knights keep following her everywhere and giving reports directly to the emperor.
She wrote that she had tried to contact her own brother. She begged him to come for her, to take her back home, to save her from the emperor's sudden temper and strange cruelty.
But her brother, the current count of Rothschild, didn't believe her words. He told her she was overreacting and that she simply needed to obey the emperor and endure. Even her mother had told her to stop complaining.
