THE HIDDEN BEAUTY OF THE GREAT QUEEN (ENGLISH VERSION)

CHAPTER I: UGLY GIRL

An orange tinge adorned the sky, which was still a little dark because the sunlight was just starting to show its smile behind the hill. Faintly heard a rooster crowing, it was a sign that the milky-skinned girl who slept on her little bed had to wake up from her deep sleep. Slowly her eyelids opened, showing her jet-black irises that were so clear like an angel. She started blinking and spread her hands apart, straightened her back and then got out of the small bed that only fit one person. The soles of her feet touched the icy floor. She turned her head, looked at the clock on the table near the bed, which showed at 5:15 a.m.

The girl who was 165 cm tall walked to the window and opened it. The breeze touched her face so that it gave a very cool sensation. She stretched out her hands while closing her eyes, which were overgrown with curled eyelashes to enjoy the coolness in the morning.

“Good morning world, may my days be much more beautiful and happier.” The slender girl shouted a little excited.

Then she smiled, staring at the view outside her window, which was filled with shady trees. A very soothing sight for a girl named Zabrina Grethania Alisya, a name that had a very beautiful meaning, namely the extraordinarily beautiful and noble queen.

Zabrina started walking towards the bathroom. While waiting for the bath-tub full of water, she washed her face and brushed her teeth. A few minutes of waiting, bath-tub was fully loaded. She poured soap on the scent of her favorite lavender flowers and began soaking her whole body. A few moments later, the bathing was over. She wore a white dress with sleeves that were only above the elbows and the length of the dress up to her ankles. There were creeping light purple flowers on the waist of the elegant dress.

Zabrina began the daily routine of cooking and preparing all of Beta Luke's equipments, Mrs. Alya and her cousin Anastasya. Beta Luke said that she had lived with them since her parents died when she was a baby. Zabrina never saw what her parents looked like. Sometimes, she missed her parents very much, but it's just a dream that would never come true. Fate was so cruel to her that she did not have time to get the affection of her parents.

To repay Beta Luke and his family who had nurtured her since birth, Zabrina helped them to take care of their housework, as Alya never hired a housekeeper in the house. Zabrina never minded doing all the houseworks, as it was proof that she loved the family that cared for her. Although Alya and Anastasya often scolded her and the worse, they sometimes hit her if Zabrina did something that was not according to their wishes. However, Zabrina never retaliated, which led to her only crying when their treatment was out of bounds.

A few hours later, all the food was neatly arranged on the table. It was the time for her to call Beta Luke, Alya, and Anastasia.

Knock … knock … knock

Zabrina knocked on Alya's door several times, "uncle ... auntie the food is ready," she said politely.

“Yes. Yes. You wake Ana too,” said Alya with a loud tone in her room. She never spoke softly to Zabrina. But Zabrina never cared about it, maybe it was her fate to get auntie like the wicked witch.

Knock … knock … knock

“Ana ... are you awake?” There was no reply from within. Zabrina knocked on Ana’s door repeatedly. However, just like before, no reply was heard from within the room.

Should I just go in? She thought.

Zabrina opened the doorknob of the white room slowly. When the door was opened, she directed her gaze to a white queen-size bed that matched with bed cover. But she didn’t see Ana in her bed. Zabrina walked deeper into the spacious room with the white shades. The rooms were so elegant, with complete and certainly classy items. She turned her gaze around the room. But still, she didn’t find Ana’s whereabouts.

"Where's Ana?" she murmured.

Suddenly she heard the sound of gurgling water from the bathroom accompanied by the sound of humming girl.

Hm.. she's in the bathroom. She thought.

Zabrina approached the bathroom and had not had time to knock on the bathroom door, suddenly Ana was out and tiptoeing with her blazing eyes looking at Zabrina.

"Why did you get into my room, huh?" She shouted angrily towards the girl with dark wavy hair. Her scream made Zabrina's ears hurt. The scream was like a horse in pain from stepping on dozens of spikes.

"I..I have knocked on your door a few times. bu..but, because there is no answer. I just walk in, I'm afraid something happens to you," she said with a hint of stammer.

"I already warned you. Don't ever enter my room without my permission. Don't you understand my words, huh? Now you get out here. You just ruined my morning with your bad face.”Ana shouted to Zabrina and her last words made the soft girl's heart a little sore.

Zabrina nodded and turned to leave the room and ran towards her room. Ana realized something, tears fell from her beautiful eyes. Quickly, she wiped the tears with the back of her right hand.

***

Anastasya Swam, she was the only child of Beta Luke Swam and Alya Margareth Swam. Ana had white skin, light brown shoulder-length hair, brown eye beads, small pink lips and pointed nose. Ideal body with a height of about 162 cm, her height differed only a few centimeters from Zabrina’s. She was one of the noblewomen who became prima donnas in the territory of the werewolves.

"Good morning, Dad, Mom," said Ana as she walked to the dining table and pulled one of the chairs to sit there.

"Good morning," replied Beta Luke and Alya together with a smile towards the only daughter they had.

"Where's Zabrina? Didn't she come to you in your room?" asked Beta Luke as he looked at Ana and put half-cooked meat in his mouth.

“Dad ... if she’s hungry, she will come too. Don’t pay too much attention to her,” said Ana, answering her beloved father’s question in a curt tone.

Not long after, Zabrina approached all of them who were eating their food.

“Good morning,” said Zabrina in a soft tone, greeting everyone at the dining table. Zabrina was indeed a gentle, kind girl.

“Morning,” said Beta Luke replying to a greeting from Zabrina. Well, of course the one who replied to her greeting was just Beta Luke, and it made Zabrina a little awkward.

“Have a seat, sweety.” Luke continued and smiled kindly at the girl who had been raised for 19 years. Zabrina was 19 years old and Ana was two years older than her. Beta Luke told Alya that Zabrina was the niece of a distant family. Luke looked at Zabrina and imagined how he got to raise the girl.

19 years ago

In early morning, Beta Luke went to the highest kingdom of the immortal world, the world called Dreoxiaroth World. He wanted to attend an important meeting to accompany the werewolf king from the Blue Moon Pack; he was King Demian or so-called Alpha Demian. He had to accompany his king because the meeting must be attended by several important officials from all kingdoms in the world to discuss the extraordinary incident that had happened to that world a day ago. The incident that took the lives of various people even Lord Arnold, the king of all the kings of the world and his queen, Queen Caitlin and the one who killed Lord Arnold must be a person who had extraordinary strength, a power above average beyond Lord Arnold and that person was his own son, Prince Aaric, who was 11 years old at the time.

Also presiding over the important meeting was Prince Aaric, who had been appointed Lord, king of all the kings of the world at a very young age. No one knew the real cause of Lord Aaric killing his own father and no one knew that the one who killed Lord Arnold was his own son. For sure, there was a reason behind it and no one else dared to bring up the incident after the meeting was over. Everyone closed their eyes, ears, and mouths about the incident because the fear of the new Lord of the world.

Before leaving for the highest kingdom, Beta Luke said goodbye to his wife to attend this important meeting, because it was still early in the morning, Alya did not take her husband to the front door because at that time, Alya was also unwell. When he opened the door to his house, Beta Luke gasped. He saw a baby in a basket made of woven bamboo that was placed in front of his door. A baby girl was covered with a thick cloth embroidered with gold flowers on the edge of the baby blanket and a picture in the middle of the blanket that was made of gold.

Beta Luke was carrying the baby girl and when he took the bassinet to be brought into his house. He saw a piece of paper inked in gold inscribed with the background of the baby girl who was in his arms. At the end of the words of the letter, the letter writer asked to keep secret about the baby's background and gave her the name Zabrina Grethania Alisya. She was a baby girl whose beauty was extraordinary but could not be seen by others since she was brought by someone to that house.

Finally, Beta Luke took care of the baby with a great affection, despite being challenged by his wife, but Beta Luke was adamant about taking care of her and told Alya that the baby girl was the niece of his distant family, and until now Beta Luke kept secrets about Zabrina's background, and kept the blanket, letter and the bassinet in a place that no one knew about.

"Dad, why are you daydreaming?" Ana asked when she saw Luke didn't continue eating.

"Ah, nothing, sweety." Luke blinked and continued eating, which had been delayed because he remembered the incident 19 years ago.

A few minutes later, their breakfast activity was over. Zabrina tidied and cleaned the tableware that had been used, and after that, Zabrina rushed to the room to get ready for the flower field to pick the flowers she would arrange later.

Zabrina took her horse behind the house. She had to ride a horse. The trip from the house to the flower field was quite far because the flower field was in the middle of the forest on the border between the werewolf and the witch clans. Actually, in that world there were many flower fields but the flower field on the border of the werewolf and witch clans was the destination of Zabrina because the distance was not too far from her house compared to other flower fields.

During the trip, she had to pass through a forest where the trees were about 40 M high. A gust of wind hit her face and made her beautiful wavy black hair moving to follow the direction of the wind. She continued to pull the horse rope to speed up its footsteps.

"I am free," shouted Zabrina, stretching out her hands and chuckling softly.

She really liked to say that when no one else was around. Somehow, she really liked to say those words when in the middle of the forest, maybe because her voice sounded so loud and made her feel calm to let go of all the burdens of her life by screaming like that.

***

It was a very bright and beautiful day. Zabrina picked a variety of flowers in a very large flower field. This was a daily activity after completing all the houseworks. She had to collect beautiful flowers and arranged them with the skill of her tapering fingers into a very dazzling flower arrangement.

Every morning, Zabrina had to come to that flower field and returned when the sun began to head overhead. She was a flower arranging girl and would sell her flower arrangements at a large and well-known flower shop in the market. The florist is one of the biggest florists in the area because the owner was also a famous witch king that was handsome, cool, and very kind. His name was King Harry Andelson. Sometimes Zabrina was surprised, he was the only person in the area who wanted to employ her, which other people did not want because they felt disgusted by Zabrina's physical form.

Even though Zabrina’s family was a Beta from the Blue Moon Pack, it was one of the strongest werewolf clans in the immortal world. However, she did not depend much on those who were actually rich and respected in that place. Well, the world called Dreoxiaroth World. A world inhabited by several immortal creatures such as demons, witches, werewolves, vampires, fairies, elves, mermaids, dracula, orcs, dwarves and humans. Every clan had its own kingdom and strength. The strongest and unmatched power belonged to the demon clan and the supreme ruler of that world was the descendant of demons.

It's not that Zabrina did not want to depend on her family but they never paid attention to her and they never even thought of her as her family. They had a reason why Zabrina was not considered in her own family. Even Beta Luke, who had always cared of her before, now, he preferred to be indifferent. Maybe, it was because he didn't want to fight with his wife, Alya.

They were ashamed to have a niece like Zabrina who had an ugly face. No, not only those who said that Zabrina was an ugly girl, but everyone who had seen her said that. But according to Zabrina, there was something wrong with the word ‘ugly’, because she didn’t feel that way. Zabrina felt she was very beautiful.

Zabrina was very beautiful, but other people saw her as an ugly girl. It's not that Zabrina was overly confident, but it was just like that.

At this time, she had done all her works of picking flowers, arranging them beautifully, and delivering them to the flower shop in the market.

"Hey!" A beautiful girl greeted Zabrina while she was still in the market and headed for her way back home. Zabrina turned her head around because she felt someone had reprimanded her. Judging from her characteristics, Zabrina made sure that she was from the werewolf clan and it was true that she was a werewolf and even Zabrina really recognized the girl who reprimanded her.

"Tch .. you are really a shameless girl. If I were you, I won't wander around with that ugly face. What a shame!! No wonder Prince Ellard is embarrassed when he finds out you are his mate.”

“Huh ... not just an ugly face, but your shewolf never shows herself either. That means you don't have any strength and you dream to be with my brother? Hey, that's not gonna happen. You are a very pitiful woman,” pouted a beautiful girl at length who was none other than Prince Ellard's younger sister.

"So what? I'm fine with that either. The beauty of a person is not seen from the physical form but here." Zabrina holding her chest shows that true beauty comes from a good and noble heart, not from the physical. She answered with a face as flat as possible and full of emphasis in every word, even though in her heart was very hurt because she mentioned Prince Ellard who was embarrassed because he had a mate like her, but that was okay for her.

The girl felt offended by Zabrina's words.

"Stop acting like you’re all nice. You are so fake." She then left Zabrina who froze and saw the girl's departure.

Sigh. “Weird girl, she doesn't know that her treatment reflects that she is a bad person,” muttered Zabrina and continued on her way.

***

At this time, Zabrina was in the room with a face that was still sad because she remembered the girl's words, which broke her heart. She felt so hurt to hear that the person she loved was embarrassed to have a mate like her. No, she didn't know exactly how she felt about Prince Ellard, did she love him or did she just like him? But she felt sad when Princess Regina insulted her. Drops of water fell in the corner of her eyes. She laid her face on her knees and wept over her unfortunate fate.

Already satisfied crying, Zabrina stood in front of the mirror next to her bed. Every day she stood in front of the mirror and looked very well at her face.

“Why do people who see me always say I'm ugly? But in fact, when I look in the mirror my face is really beautiful. Have their eyes been damaged? Or is the definition of beautiful for them different?" Zabrina spoke in front of the mirror herself, if other people saw her. They would think she was crazy.

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