Don't Obsess Over A Married Woman - Chapter 48
“……”
But that was enough. I immediately understood what he wanted to say.
However, there was one thing I couldn’t comprehend.
“I have a question, Lord Joseph.”
“Please speak.”
“Until now, you seemed to only vaguely guess about what would happen and when, but today is different.”
How can you be so certain about today?
That’s what I asked.
And Lord Joseph’s following words left me speechless.
“Actually, I just came back from rewinding time.”
[This is the timeline separator]Chersion completed the task Ernestine had given him in just a few days. It was even before the week he had initially mentioned had passed.
She had told him to choose one thing he liked and write enough to fill an empty page.
And this angelic youngest young master decided to write about his wicked stepmother of all things. Ernestine was very puzzled.
What on earth was he trying to say?
‘It would be good if he wrote about any facts of being mistreated.’
If that were the case, Chersion’s assignment could become a statement.
If she reported it to the Baroness Baden right away, her job would be finished earlier than expected.
Thus, Ernestine spent several days with subtle expectations and subtle worries.
Until Chersion finally submitted his assignment.
At the time, Ernestine had jokingly said not to fill the pages with drawings.
However, making those words meaningless, the assignment Chersion submitted was considerable in volume even though it was filled only with dense text.
Not one or two pages, but close to ten pages…
But what mattered wasn’t just how many pages of assignment Chersion had written.
“What is this……”
As Ernestine read through the record, her eyes were already swollen red.
She had to forcibly rub her eyes and swallow her emotions.
Chersion’s assignment.
It was indeed a record about the person Chersion said he liked the most. The Duchess Daiern, Lieselotte Karin.
However, given the nature of the topic, there was content that had to be explained in Chersion’s assignment.
It was the reason why Chersion came to like her.
In other words, the process of how the relationship between Chersion and Lieselotte was formed.
That is, Chersion’s experiences and memories.
But the child’s memories contained in the assignment were terrible, even devastating.
From the death of his birth mother to his father’s abuse, to the violence of his tutors.
This assignment, which recorded Chersion’s memories from when he was born for a full 11 years…
It was rather a pitiful survival story.
“Is, is this true, Young Master…? If you made this up for my assignment…”
“No, it’s all true! My memory is really, really good! I even have memories from when I was very, very young. Mr. Rogier also said that my memory is exceptionally good!”
“Then the former Duke… I mean, your father really hit and tormented you young masters and young lady…?”
“Yes…”
“Hah……”
I had already known that Chersion had a good memory. He never forgot a melody once he heard it.
But even so, this is a bit…
“Miss El?”
Ernestine, who was trying hard to hide the emotions that seemed about to burst out of her throat, stood up abruptly.
“Pl, please wait here for a moment, Young Master. I’ll call the nanny right away…”
“Where are you going?”
“I, I’m going to see Mr. Rogier and Mr. Jepetto. No, to the Duchess Daiern as well!”
“Why, why? Did I do my homework wrong?”
Tears seemed about to fall from Chersion’s worried eyes. But the same was true for Ernestine.
“It’s not that, kuhup…! The Duchess Daiern is truly the most excellent and excellent… hic.”
“Don’t, don’t cry. I’ll wait here quietly. Really!”
If this was true, then her mistake, and Mr. Jepetto’s mistake, had been grave. Even if it was a misunderstanding!
She could have almost destroyed this beautiful family with her own hands. Just the thought made her head spin.
‘Baron Baden, Baroness Baden. You wretches!’
Ernestine thought.
No matter how desperate for money she was, no matter how much her sick and struggling family depended on her alone, there were things a human shouldn’t do.
In her hands as she left the study room was a record of the Daiern family’s years stained with tears of blood, written by one boy.
[This is the timeline separator]And it really was today.
“Hueeeng…!”
When Mr. Ernestine came to find me.
“Stop crying.”
“No, how… could this happen…! I was truly wrong, Duchess…!”
I helped him up from kneeling and sobbing in my office and had him sit on the sofa.
At first, he was pressing his head to the floor, saying he deserved punishment, but as time passed, he seemed to lose strength and finally sat down.
“Mr. Jepetto, come sit here too.”
“……”
There was actually one more person kneeling beside Mr. Ernestine.
If Lord Joseph hadn’t mentioned this to me in advance, I would have been very flustered.
That’s how Lord Joseph’s words began when he came to see me this morning.
I tried to remember his words as calmly as possible.
“Is this the assignment Chelsie brought?”
“Yes, Duchess… hic…”
“Mr. Jepetto must have seen it.”
“Yes……”
“Mr. Rogier. Have you seen it too?”
“I saw it earlier as well.”
Mr. Rogier was also sitting on the sofa.
As it turned out, it seems Mr. Ernestine had called Mr. Jepetto and together they went to find Mr. Rogier. With Chersion’s assignment in hand.
By the way, Kardiel’s lesson was reportedly canceled.
Lord Joseph had already agreed to look after Euphemina due to Baroness Baden’s absence, but somehow he ended up taking care of all three children.
In any case.
I opened Chersion’s assignment, which was stained with someone’s tears, causing the ink to smudge in places.
The handwriting was cute, not entirely neat but showing effort to keep the lines straight. And……
“……”
After reading Chersion’s assignment spanning several pages, I couldn’t help but shed tears.
However, I was also puzzled at the same time.
How on earth could this child remember all of this?
[This is the timeline separator]“Lord Joseph!”
Since Mr. Ernestine had left in the middle of the lesson, Chersion had to guard the study room alone.
But not long after Mr. Ernestine left, someone knocked on the door of the study room. It was Lord Joseph.
Lord Joseph always had a kind and smiling face. That’s why Chersion liked Lord Joseph from the beginning.
“Are you not bored being alone?”
He wasn’t bored yet, but he was about to be. Chersion nodded.
“Yes. But I promised Miss El I would wait here.”
“Is that so? The Duchess asked me to look after you, thinking you might be bored.”
“Ah!”
That changed things. Chersion jumped up from his chair.
But even after standing up, he couldn’t follow right away.
He remembered what Lieselotte had told him during breakfast this morning. About Baroness Baden’s absence.
“But what about sister Euphi?”
“She’s in the greenhouse for now. The young duke will be heading there soon too. I came to escort you, Young Master Chersion.”
“Ah!”
Right. Miss El said she would meet Mr. Jep too.
So today, everyone would play together with Lord Joseph.
Thinking this, Chersion approached Lord Joseph with light steps.
A large hand extended kindly towards Chersion. Smiling brightly, Chersion grasped that hand tightly.
“By the way, Lord Joseph. You can call me Chelsie instead of Chersion.”
“Would that be alright, Young Master Chelsie?”
“Yes! I want to call Lord Joseph by a nickname too!”
Chersion was already calling Ernestine and Mr. Jepetto by nicknames with his characteristic friendliness.
This time, his target was Joseph.
But Joseph gave an unexpected answer.
“I don’t have a nickname, so Young Master Chelsie can give me one.”
Chersion’s amber eyes widened.
“You don’t have a nickname? I heard mothers and fathers give them when you’re little……”
“Then I suppose Young Master Chelsie’s nickname was given by your mother or father?”
“Uh……”
For a moment, Chersion couldn’t help but hesitate to answer.
Come to think of it, the person who gave him his nickname wasn’t his birth mother or father either.
But if asked whether that meant she wasn’t his mother, that was absolutely not the case!
‘Mother is my current mother!’
The reason why Chersion likes Lieselotte.
The first reason was that she was the one who gave Chersion his name.
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.”
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