“Where are you hurt? Should I gather the adults?”
“Mind your own business.”
“How can you ignore someone crying right in front of you?”
“What does it matter.”
The words were far from polite now. So Blake responded irritably to the girl.
“Why are you like this? Where are you injured? Why are you crying?”
The girl was truly persistent. She seemed like she wouldn’t step back until she heard an answer from him or until he said he wouldn’t cry anymore.
“I said mind your own business!”
But Blake was just as stubborn. He snapped at the girl.
“Why are you like this? Where are you hurt? Why are you crying?”
The girl was really incredibly tenacious. She seemed like she wouldn’t step back until she heard an answer from him or until he said he wouldn’t cry anymore.
“I said mind your own business!”
But Blake was just as stubborn. He snapped at the girl.
“I’m worried about you, so why are you speaking so rudely?”
“Who asked for your help? And why are you using informal speech?”
Even in the current situation, Blake was bothered by the fact that a girl much smaller than him was calling him “oppa” (older brother).
“Then, am I an older brother?”
“Of course! I’m much taller than you.”
“I’m sitting down, so I can’t tell.”
At those words, Blake abruptly stood up. As expected, the girl was much smaller than him.
“Huh? I’m taller than you? Then, how old are you?”
“12 years old…”
The conversation suddenly took a strange turn.
However, when he realized it, he was already entangled with the girl in front of him.
“How old are you?”
“Huh? I’m… 8 years old.”
“See, I told you. I’m your oppa.”
“Hehe, that’s true.”
The girl smiled at him sweetly, a moment he felt he wanted to keep seeing.
“Sorry, oppa. I’ll apologize.”
“It’s okay.”
“But why were you crying?”
The girl was persistent as usual. It seemed she needed to hear the reason to be satisfied.
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh, you don’t want to talk about it?”
After answering like that, she didn’t ask any more, understanding that he didn’t want to talk about it.
She was a strange girl.
But it was strangely comforting.
“What’s oppa’s name?”
“Blake Warren.”
“Huh? Warren? If it’s Warren, then the lady who passed away today…”
As she said that, the girl suddenly realized something and slapped her forehead.
“Sorry, oppa.”
While doing so, she sincerely apologized to him.
“It’s okay…”
He never wanted an apology in the first place. Instead, he also wanted to know the girl’s name.
“What’s your… name?”
“I’m Herena Rosentia.”
“Herena Rosentia… you’re from the Rosentia aristocratic family.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
The Rosentia aristocratic family and Lady Rosentia were well-known in the capital for their excellent character and harmonious marriage. Seeing a girl with such parents, Blake suddenly felt envious.
‘No.’
My mom was a good person too.
A good person, but…
Thinking of his mom, tears threatened to pour out again.
“Uh, um, oppa…”
Herena, flustered, tried to wipe away Blake’s tears with her sleeve but withdrew again.
Then, she began to gently stroke his hair.
“Our mom used to say, when you want to cry, you shouldn’t hold it in.”
Herena, the girl who told him to cry, was certainly strange.
However, despite that, it was comforting. He sobbed loudly next to Herena.
How much time had passed like this?
After venting some of the sadness, he felt a bit relieved.
Then he felt embarrassed that he had cried next to a girl younger than him.
‘She’ll definitely think I’m a fool.’
However, when he looked at Herena, the girl didn’t see him that way at all.
Instead, she looked at him with a face that said, “You did well.”
That also became a great comfort and gave him courage.
So, at the moment when he was about to express his gratitude to Herena, someone was looking for Blake.
As he flinched and made an anxious expression, Herena asked him.
“Are they looking for oppa?”
Instead of answering, Blake nodded.
“What do you want to do, oppa?”
“I… don’t want to go back.”
He still found it hard to accept the reality that his mother had passed away.
Above all, he wanted more comfort from this girl.
“Not yet…”
In a barely audible voice, Blake whispered.
“Then let’s stay a bit longer.”
Saying that, Herena grabbed his hand and led him further inside, closely pressed together in a space that would be hard to find without concentration.
“Hehe.”
Herena smiled at him again with the mischievous expression from earlier.
At that moment, his heart thumped loudly.
It was the beginning of love towards the young girl.
Blake spent quite a long time with Herena after that.
However, he heard Herena’s parents looking for her, and unavoidably, their time alone came to an end.
Until the moment she left, Herena continued to smile at him.
That smile provided him with the strong motivation to face the sadness of losing his mother and stand up again.
After his mother’s funeral, he resolved to become the true master of Warren Manor.
In order to push away the father who made his mother like that, he constantly drove himself forward.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
