Chapter 13
 

As the door opened, the nanny brought in food and a brush.

 

“Princess, why are you sitting on the cold floor?”

 

“Huh? It’s nothing.”

 

I was eating in a chair using a brush handed over by the nanny. A bouquet of flowers consisting of purple hyacinth caught my eyes.

 

“Nanny?”

 

“What?”

 

“What’s that?”

 

I told you to not receive anything from the villain!

 

Those flowers were clearly a bouquet of flowers held by the villain earlier.

 

“What?”

 

“Why did you bring a bouquet?”

 

“If I don’t get this, I think the Duke will continue to stay there, and the Princess seems to want the Duke to return quickly.”

 

As soon as I heard the nanny’s words, I got up from the chair and ran to the window.

 

There really was no one in the place where the villain was last seen.

 

“Princess. If you put the flowers in a vase, you can…”

 

“Throw it away.”

 

“However…”

 

“Throw it away! I don’t even want to see the Duke of Siegbert have it!”

 

“Yes, then I’ll clean it up.”

 

I didn’t even want to see him. I didn’t want to meet him forever.

 

“I want to be alone.”

 

“Yes.”

 

The nanny left with the utensils.

 

When I opened the window wide with frustration, cold wind blew across my cheek.

 

A bird flying far away caught my vision.

 

“……Huh?”

 

But I had the illusion that the bird was getting closer and closer to this side, and soon I could see that it was not an illusion.

 

The big bird was definitely flying towards me.

 

The bird stopped in front of me. If you looked closely, a paper was tied to its feet.

 

“Paper?”

 

The paper tied to its feel was carefully removed and unfolded.

 

{Sorry, Yulia. I miss you.}

 

I crumpled the note with one hand.

 

“……lies.”

 

I could guess who sent it. There’s only one person who can say this to me.

 

It was clear that the villain sent it. Then is this bird, nurtured by the villain?

 

“You don’t feel sorry at all.”

 

I wrote down words that I didn’t mean on paper.

 

No, it’s a lie, so it was easier for him to write the words than saying it in front of me.

 

It was funny that a person that would never feel sorry sent a note like this.

 

But there’s nothing the bird did wrong. It would be okay if I gave it some water.

 

When I pulled the string, a maid came in.

 

“Bring water for this bird.”

 

“Yes.”

 

As soon as I put the water in front of the bird, it drank it well, perhaps it was thirsty.

 

Come to think of it, a bird from the Duke Siegbert to the Imperial Castle.

 

It’s quite far to fly over.

 

“I don’t like your owner.”

 

I complained to the bird.

 

The owner of this bird is the villain, but he’ll never know I’m gossiping about him here.

 

“He’s not affectionate at all. He is a person who has nothing good left about him except for his face and body.”

 

The kid I’m waiting for must be a sweet and kind person.

 

Because I have a very soft heart.

 

(T/N: Since she has a soft heart, she likes kind and sweet people so the boy must fit in that category.)

 

He was like a puppy who couldn’t easily shed tears even after his parents died.

 

(T/N: He’s comparing him to a dog because dogs don’t cry. Also, “he” is the villain, not the little sweet boy)

 

“…..There’s a person who I’ve been waiting for a long time. I think he might have forgotten about me, so I’m going to give up now.”

 

I wanted to find him, but I couldn’t remember his face because I couldn’t see properly due to the side effects.

 

But I only remembered that he had black hair.

 

And now I’m so tired.

 

So now I want to be with my family who love me.

 

“I wish your owner would give up on marrying me.”

 

The bird flew out of the window.

 

So far, I have never longed for freedom.

 

From the position of a princess who no one can ignore, the overflowing wealth, to the affection of my family. There was nothing lacking.

 

I just longed for love.

 

I hoped to receive affection in my past life, but now I just want to maintain a normal and peaceful daily life.

 

“Nanny.”

 

“Princess?”

 

When I opened the door and looked left, I saw my nanny at the end of the hallway.

 

“Yes….?”

 

Why is a purple hyacinth in a vase that I’ve never seen before?

 

Why does it look the same as the flowers that the villain was holding? I desperately hoped that my eyes were deceiving me.

 

“What’s that flower?”

 

“Ah…. the princess, that……”

 

“No my nanny is, I told you to throw it away.”

 

“Princess……”

 

“Isn’t that what I’m saying? The nanny belongs to the imperial family, not to the duke of Siegbert.”

 

I threw the vase with flowers to the floor.

 

“Princess! You’ll hurt your foot.”

 

“Nanny. Don’t choose the Duke of Siegbert over me.”

 

I was anxious. I was afraid that the nanny I had believed in would actually be the villain’s person, and not mine.

 

“Princess. I’m always on your side.”

 

‘Then why did you put the flowers given by the Duke of Siegbert in the vase? Why do you keep disobeying me? Nanny is on my side, right? Then the nanny should never leave me.”

 

“Yes. I’ll be by your side until I die.”

 

“Don’t break your promise.”

 

I hugged the nanny tightly. Hot tears flowed out of my eyes.

 

I will never lose anything to the villain. I’ll protect everything I have.

 

My family, nanny, and the identity of a princess.

 

“Princess, don’t cry.”

 

Nanny’s sweet voice penetrated my ears.

 

Nanny affectionately patted me on the back to soothe me crying silently.

 

Her arms were so warm. I wanted to keep this warmth.

 

After dinner and taking a bath, I washed up with only a shower gown on. The bird I saw during the day was outside again.

 

The bird came into the room. Looking closely, it had a note tied to its foot again.

 

I was a little scared of what would be in the note, but I still checked its content.

 

Because I was more curious than afraid.

 

“Are you here now?”

 

It didn’t take long to realize what this meant.

 

I saw a black figure swaying from the terrace.

 

Yeah. I thought he wouldn’t come to my room in broad daylight, but I didn’t think he’d come at night.

 

I was convinced that anyone with a conscience would be able to push that face into me.

 

“Why are you here?”

 

A person’s silhouette was seen behind the curtain on the terrace. It’s probably the villain.

 

“I missed you, Yulia.”

 

“You know I don’t want to see you at all.”

 

“Yulia.”

 

“The fact that I don’t want to see you, the Duke himself knows best.”

 

The bird flapped its wings toward the terrace as if to return to its owner.

 

He was seen at a glance through the open door in the wind.

 

Is even his sorry expression an act?

 

“Take the bird. It’s obvious that you’re the owner. And don’t send birds again.”

 

“Yulia.”

 

“And a stranger can’t enter the room of the Princess.”

 

The only people who could enter the Princess’s room without permission were my father, the Emperor, and my brother, the Crown Prince.

 

There was no case of recklessly entering without knocking as the villain.

 

“Duke Chester of Siegbert.”

 

“……”

 

“Let’s end our relationship here.”

 

Please……I want to break it off here.

 

“Because I’m not the one you’re looking for in the first place.”

 

This is the way for each other. No, maybe it’s just for me.

 

I intend to protect my precious family and protect the name of the Empire, unlike in the story.

 

And I won’t love this many foolishly as Yulia in the novel.

 

“……Say it again, Yulia.”

 

“Let’s end it here. Please don’t pretend to know me from now on.”

 

“……”

 

“Because the Duke has been looking for the Marquis of Chloe for a long time……”

 

“Who am I looking for?”

 

Having been sticking to silence, he opened his mouth.

 

A dull voice that makes it difficult to notice the chill in it yet still gives an overwhelming feeling.

 

“No one can know.”

 

It wasn’t wrong. But I knew it.

 

I know that Cecil is the person you were looking for.

 

As a reader of this novel, I was confident that I knew the ending of this novel better than anyone else.

 

I didn’t mean to change the entire flow of the novel.

 

I just wanted to prevent my tragic ending and live a normal and happy life with my family.

 

How did everything go wrong?

 

Because I wanted to change the content of the original? Or because of my greed?

 

“Yulia. I’ll correct what you just said. The person you’re talking about is not the person I’m looking for.”

 

“……”

 

Lies.

 

If not Cecil, who else? Is it some third party I don’t even know about? Then we can go to the third person.

 

Yes. I was relieved that I would no longer have anything to do with the villain.

 

But why do I feel empty, and not happy?

 

“Yulia. I’ll be back tomorrow.”

 

“Don’t come.”

 

“I’ll come to you again and again until you show up to me first.”

 

“Don’t come!”

 

“…Yes. I won’t come to you at night until you approach me first.”

 

The bird flew to the terrace and disappeared with the villain.