But as if honey had been smeared in Uter’s paradise, seeing Carina and Illeon sitting side by side made her blood boil.

Illeon and Carina were destined to be together.

How she had to suffer such emotions looking at this wellmatched couple.

If she could just close her eyes and when she opened them find them married and Illeon the emperor, that would be great.

Then she could return to her original world.

‘Why on earth do they want to meet here?’

Carina had definitely said she had a good conversation with Illeon, but she could not understand why they were sitting in the Duke of Uter’s house as if they had made a promise.

Ah, maybe they did make a promise.

To meet here, away from prying eyes, rather than at the Duke’s mansion or the Harrington Earl’s house. The answer lay in the grumbling whisper.

But today, there was one more unwelcome guest.

“The Duke’s tea is good. I could come every day.”

Saviel lifted his teacup nonchalantly.

‘Ah.’

Elishia sighed inwardly without an answer.

Dealing with Illeon and Carina was hard enough, and now Saviel too.

Especially after such a dream, unlike the vague thought of Saviel driving Elishia to death, she could not even make eye contact with him.

“Last time I didn’t have a proper conversation with Lady Elishia, and now I come to see the Duke here.”

“Saviel. Drink your tea.”

Illeon seemed to have no desire to deal with Saviel’s provocation. And every time Saviel spoke, Carina’s face hardened as much as Elishia’s.

‘What to do with this atmosphere?’

Elishia felt a cold sweat running down her neck. Would she not be able to escape by fainting? She was thinking something drastic.

“Lady Elishia.”

Lorie naturally called her, and Elishia got up in alarm.

“Ah, my mother calls. I’ll be right back. You three have a good conversation.”

Although she said momentarily, Elishia had no intention of returning to her seat as she had done yesterday.

Just… somehow, she did not want to see the two together.

And she found the thought of herself feeling that way strange and uncomfortable.

Moreover, she did not want to be close to the real Saviel she had seen in her terrible dream. Why she had dreamed that, or whether it was something that really happened to Elishia before she fell into the lake, did not seem to matter. It was as the original work portrayed Saviel as one who drove her to death.

Elishia intended to go to her room and crawl into bed. The world outside the bed was too dangerous. The fact that she would have to face Saviel, who was to become her enemy, in her own garden was astounding.

“Oh, it’s far. So far.”

Especially because the dreamland of Mariella, named Uter’s paradise, was so vast that even walking to the mansion felt overwhelming today. She could not complain when thinking of the servants who would have to carry trays laden with tea sets this distance.

Elishia’s steps toward the Duke’s mansion grew more and more weary. She headed under the line of camellia trees she had chosen today.

“Why am I so tired?”

Though it was a dirt floor, she didn’t care. Leaning against a tree and sitting down seemed to revive her a bit.
She was surrounded by red flowers that had fallen all around where she sat. It looked as though a red carpet had been spread out. Elysia stared blankly at it with cloudy eyes. It was today, when the cleanly fallen flower petals looked so pitiful, that she picked up a few.

“What are you doing here?”

The voice of Elleon came from above, and Elysia quickly raised her head in surprise.

“Your Highness the Archduke.”

She hastily rose from her place. Even though she was the only daughter of a Duke, it was embarrassing to be seen sitting on the ground and playing with flowers picked from the dirt floor.

“What brings Your Highness here?”

Karina said something? She left the rest unsaid.

With a light smile playing at the corners of his lips, Elleon looked at her with downcast eyes.

“I was also called by my mother.”

Elysia felt a shock at those words.

‘She’s noticed.’

That she had deliberately left her place yesterday to create an opportunity for Karina and him to talk.

Elysia stumbled over her words, not knowing what to say.

“……Are you angry?”

It was a carefully chosen word. Was she trying not to show that her feelings were hurt? It must mean that she wanted him to know that she was uncomfortable.

“Why do you think I’d be angry?”

“……I don’t know.”

“Ha, you don’t know?”

Elysia’s eyes widened.

“What’s this? Are you really upset?”

Elleon did not respond to her words and began to walk down the row of camellia trees. As he turned his back, for some reason, she felt as though she had done something terribly wrong.

“Lady Karina is beautiful and mature.”

Elysia hurriedly followed him and spoke.

“You said it yourself, Your Highness. That you are looking for someone. That you found her, but only half of her. I thought that she was Lady Karina. I thought you would be pleased if I made time for you to talk…….”

Elleon, who had been walking ahead, suddenly stopped.

“Rona.”

At the sudden call of her name, she felt as if her heart had fallen all the way to her ankles.

Thump, thump, thump.

Her heart pounded like a drum.

As Elleon slowly turned around, his bright red and clear eyes met hers.

The divine blessing seemed to be looking at Elysia, wanting to know exactly what she was thinking.

“That’s the name of the woman I’m looking for.”

Only then did her tension ease.

But what? Rona? Rona?

“That woman you’re looking for, have you found her?”

“Half.”

She had answered strangely that she had found half.

“What kind of person is she, that Your Highness is looking for her like that?”

“The person I will marry.”

He’s going to marry that woman! So she thought that the two who met according to the original work would walk the flower path.

Rona. Rona?

“Let’s go back for today.”

Elleon looked at her with a mysterious, deep gaze and turned away.

“What did I just hear?”

Is he going to marry Rona?

Elysia stood blankly in that spot for a long time.

There were eyes watching them from a few steps away.

Karina muttered as if she couldn’t believe it.

“What on earth are they doing?”

The conversation between Elleon and Elysia was strange.

Just like yesterday, as soon as Elysia left her seat, Elleon followed. She couldn’t let him go first again. She had to have a proper conversation with him.

A man who will chase a woman who does not accept him does not exist forever.

Karina was confident in her charm. In the capital, there were few young men who did not look at her with a fascinated expression, and at the pinnacle of those rare cases was Elleon Clement.

“Why is Lady Elysia acting like she’s not Rona?”

And Elleon seemed to know that Elysia was Rona but deliberately twisted his words.

“What does that mean?”

At Saviel’s voice, Karina frowned.

“Why did you follow me?”

“Answer the question.”

Saviel gritted his teeth.

“Who is Elysia?”