The reason her insides were boiling was clear because she was unilaterally teased by Zed’s nonsense.
It wasn’t because the role of the brat’s older brother was stolen.
“Derkeadion. You really won’t say? Why did you drive him away?”
Robenhaf impatiently came to the sofa where Deon was leaning and begged for an explanation.
Deon pushed Robenhaf’s face, which was leaning on him, away with an indifferent palm and continued his thoughts.
‘Playing the big brother?’
At any rate, the current big brother was me.
Hadn’t Zed ever heard himself called ‘big brother’? He had heard it dozens of times.
Thinking so, his mind seemed to calm down a bit.
Deon’s lips twitched without showing.
(This is a time marker.)
“What are you doing? Hurry up or I’ll leave you behind.”
Anna stood on the street, speaking towards the open carriage door.
In her arms, Riche, who had just gotten off the carriage, was snuggled.
Zed, brushing his ear, jumped out of the carriage.
“I’m sorry, Miss. My ear suddenly itched.”
“You don’t have to apologize…”
Looking flustered, Riche shook her head, and the python transformed into a squirrel yawned on her palm.
He had not long awakened from sleep, so he was still drowsy.
“It’s okay. Miss, don’t spare Zed Treang. He will keep crawling.”
Riche and the Treang siblings had arrived in the bustling city of the Lodwick family’s territory.
The carriage they had ridden was luxurious but an ordinary carriage without the family’s crest, to avoid the eyes of potential enemies.
“You know? Don’t mention the castle. The Miss’s name is not known, but the word has spread that the Duke has taken in an adopted daughter.”
Listening to Zed’s quiet instructions, Riche nodded.
Riche’s party entered the clothing store in front of the stopped carriage.
As a store specializing in noble clothing, the inside was luxurious, and Riche’s eyes widened.
When Zed spoke a familiar name, an employee from inside guided them to the VIP room.
Shortly after sitting down, a flamboyant designer came in.
As soon as she saw Riche sitting on the sofa, she exclaimed.
“Oh my! You two, who have you brought? A perfect being born without a single impurity! Oh, this trappet, it seems like I’ve lived for this day.”
Pythons, looking at the designer who was swaying, touching her forehead and calling him a ‘trappet,’ spoke.
Thanks to the effect of the contract, Pythons and Riche could converse without speaking out loud.
What he just said could not be heard by anyone except Riche.
“Cute, right? It’s our Miss.”
Sitting next to Riche, Anna proudly spoke to the trappet.
“It’s not like she’s a cute lady, why are you so proud?”
Zed’s nagging caused Anna to poke his side with a smiling face.
Ugh, Zed bent his upper body. The pumpkincolored eyes of Trapet, who had heard the conversation between the two, stared through Liche.
‘……?’
Liche tilted her head at her incomprehensible behavior.
Trapet, indeed, said and coolly raised her redpainted lips.
“It’s only fitting that the Duke would take her as a daughter.”
‘The Duke?’
Surprised by her words, Liche looked at Zed sitting next to her.
He definitely said that being discovered would be a big problem. That person seemed to already know my identity.
“Don’t worry. Trapet is from Ludwick.”
“Ludwick’s origin?”
“Didn’t I tell you on the first day that many people in Ludwick have new names? Our Duke’s hobby is picking up people. Trapet was picked up as a child and lived in the Duke’s estate in Ludwick for about 3 years.”
Picking up people as a hobby.
……So was that why he picked me up too? Liche recalled Blake’s face. It was still impossible to know what he was thinking.
Trapet clasped her hands together at Zed’s words.
“That’s right. I received a name from the Duke. And I realized my dazzling talent while sewing in the ducal estate!”
But all she could do to bloom her talent, being a mere maid of the Duke’s family, was to mend clothes.
In front of her status, the frustrated Trapet had Blake’s helping hand.
“The Duke wrote a recommendation for the academy. Thanks to him, I was able to study design.”
Trapet poured her passion into design day and night. Her efforts and talents shone, sweeping various competitions, and the nobles’ reservations came flooding in.
Living the life of a successful designer, she suddenly closed all her businesses and opened a costume shop in the southern outskirts.
It was a small town within Ludwick’s Duke’s jurisdiction.
“With this skill, I thought I could make clothes for the Duke’s family of Ludwick. There were lots of designs I wanted to do for the Madam…”
Trapet couldn’t continue her words, wiping her eyes.
Sob.
Liche turned her head at the sudden sound.
It was Anna, whose eyes had reddened listening to Trapet’s story. It seemed to be because of the word “Madam.”
[Madam?]‘She’s talking about the Duchess of Ludwick, Deon’s mother. She passed away 7 years ago.’
Liche answered Python’s question in her head.
Such a kind person that people would shed tears, she must have been.
Liche tried to imagine the gracious Duchess, but it was impossible.
“You insectlike thing! You should never have been born!”
The word “mother” only existed as a single image to Liche.
“Let’s leave the past behind [dash]!”
Trapet lightly clapped her hands to change the atmosphere.
She looked at Liche and smiled confidently.
“My top priority customer is the Duke of Ludwick and his family. Hearing that Miss received a name, I was so eager, I had to wait. Wait a moment. I will bring the clothes.”
Soon, the clothes that Trapet made arrived, lined up in the guest room.
The problem was that each one seemed perfectly suited to Liche.
“I met my muse here.”
“Miss! Miss! Can’t you try on the dresses displayed downstairs?!”
“Uh, uh…….”
“……Wow.”
Unable to contain their admiration and excitement, Trapet and Anna brought all the children’s dresses from the costume shop.
Liche couldn’t resist and changed into each dress given.
Zed was pressed by the two’s momentum and took on the role of clapping every time Liche came out in a new dress.
“Zed Treang. Where’s your soul? Clap with more heart.”
“How about you two calm down now? Miss looks very tired.”
Eventually, Zed, tired of the repetitive situation, spoke.
As he said, Liche, who seemed quiet and okay, looked out of sorts, her cheeks flushed.
“Gasp. Miss.”
“My goodness. Shall we stop here? Then we’ll have to choose the clothes to send to the castle.”
Trapet entered her workshop connected to the guest room with Anna.
Richie and Zed, who were exhausted, sat side by side on the guest room’s sofa.
Richie drank the cool orange juice a staff member had brought. It seemed to cool her down a bit.
Zed fanned Richie with a hand fan and spoke to her.
“Have you become friendly with the young master?”
“I don’t know.”
Phew, Richie, who gulped down more orange juice and lowered her cup, shook her head.
After the picture book incident, Deon was confined to the annex again, so there was no chance to become close, having never seen his face since.
“Ah, that’s right.”
Richie looked up at Zed.
There was an intention to speak in her round eyes.
Cute. Zed thought so and calmly continued to fan.
“You don’t like humans, brother. Why is that?”
“Ah, did you say that to you too, Miss? Our young master is really. That’s what it means[Dash].”
“Scream!”
It was then. A scream was heard from Trapet’s workshop.
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.”
