“She firmly believes that she is the illegitimate child of Count Pol Heredian. I am so worried about the shock she will receive if she finds out the secret of her birth.”
Teishar’s heart ached at the thought of Lorencia getting hurt.
“But you can’t keep hiding it, Teishar. For the sake of the future, you must show Lady Lorencia the portrait of Lord Cain.”
Magus recalled Baello’s words.
“The marriage between Lady Musilla and Lord Cain was proven long ago. Therefore, Lady Lorencia will become the one and only duchess of the Di Glosten family.”
“Lady Lorencia will become a duchess?”
“Duke Baello, the head of the Di Glosten family, and the Duchess are planning to adopt Lady Lorencia as their daughter.”
“Teishar, I know what you’re worried about. But if she is his daughter, I have no doubt that she will be a person with a strong and firm will.”
Magus had to find out how Musilla had died in the Pol Heredian family. And he also had to find out how they took Musilla from the Pol Heredian family and made her a concubine.
“Even though you know it will be painful, you have to tell the truth.”
Teishar let out a deep sigh. He had no idea how to embrace the great truth that Lorencia would have to fully bear, the sorrow she would have to feel, and the anger.
[This is the timeline separator]Lorencia woke up to a sweet scent in the room. She turned her body and head to the side to check.
“Duke?”
Teishar was sitting loosely against the wall where the bedside table was, gazing intently at her. Lorencia rolled her eyes and looked towards the terrace. The warm morning sunlight was seeping through the curtains.
Surely he hadn’t been looking down at her sleeping face all night in that position?
“Are you awake? Lady Lorencia.”
Teishar approached Lorencia with a slight tilt of his head and a smile.
“I woke up because I smelled cocoa.”
“I was drinking it. I will bring you some cocoa.”
“Yes.”
Lorencia nodded her head and raised her upper body. Teishar immediately went out and came back in. He placed a cocoa with warm steam rising from it on the bedside table. He brought the bedside table with the cocoa cup on it in front of Lorencia.
“Thank you.”
Lorencia parted her lips slightly and slowly drank the warm cocoa, blowing on it. The taste was so sweet that it made her feel good.
“Cocoa tastes good when you drink it after waking up too.”
“I’m glad you like it.”
“But Duke Spencer, didn’t you sleep?”
“I couldn’t sleep well because I was talking with my father.”
Lorencia was puzzled by Teishar’s restless appearance and continued to drink her cocoa.
And she recalled the dream she had last night. In the dream, she saw the amethyst beads again. The amethyst beads showed her the person she missed.
It was her mother and herself when she was young.
Seeing Musilla with a soft and affectionate voice, an indescribable agony gripped her heart. Lorencia shed tears helplessly at the sight of her mother in the dream that she hadn’t seen in a long time.
At the same time as those words, she woke up from the sweet scent. She was glad to have a dream with her mother in it, but she was very curious about who this person named Cain was.
“Lady Lorencia.”
“Yes. Duke Spencer.”
Teishar, who had come to sit next to her at some point, moved his lips with a strained face.
“Today may be a difficult day for you.”
“You say it will be a difficult day for me, so why do you look so distressed, Duke Spencer?”
Lorencia reached out and cupped Teishar’s cheek as he looked at her, and smiled. Teishar closed his eyes as if in agony and rubbed his cheek against her palm.
“Given the choice between the opportunity to learn a painful truth and living happily while leaving the truth behind, which would you choose?”
Teishar’s face asking Lorencia was miserably distorted. The tone of his question also shook with anxiety. She was puzzled as to why he asked such a question, but she answered with a smile to the question Teishar posed.
“Rather than being happy, I would choose to know the truth and move forward even if it is painful. Even if that choice drives me to despair, I will not regret what I have chosen.”
“It seems Lady Lorencia is stronger than I thought.”
When Lorencia spoke casually, Teishar’s furrowed brow relaxed.
“Then how should I act when I have to watch Lady Lorencia suffer from knowing the truth?”
At the sound of Teishar asking again, Lorencia tilted her head as if to say what the problem was.
“Act like you did yesterday.”
“Like yesterday……”
As Teishar recalled holding Lorencia and patting her to sleep, his cheeks turned the color of peaches.
“Is that all it takes?”
“Yes. If you hug me like yesterday, pat my back and comfort me, that’s enough.”
Teishar took a deep breath to soothe his pounding heart and told Lorencia again that he would really hold her. Lorencia nodded, remembering the comfort of Teishar’s embrace.
Teishar exhaled deeply. He calmed his pounding heart.
“Today I will reveal the truth that I couldn’t tell Lady Lorencia. But in return…”
Lorencia tilted her head.
“No matter how painful it is, please don’t try to be alone, and allow me to be by Lady Lorencia’s side.”
“I will do that. Duke Spencer.”
Teishar looked down at Lorencia’s white face upon hearing her answer.
“Lady Lorencia.”
“Yes.”
Teishar’s face got closer and closer to Lorencia’s face. She thought he was going to kiss her, but he passed her cheek and buried his face in the nape of her neck. And he carefully embraced her shoulders. She gently patted the back of Teishar, who was holding her without a word. Her heart inexplicably felt heavy.
“Duke Spencer. Are you in a lot of pain?”
Teishar nodded. He was so distressed that he didn’t know what to say, so he just held Lorencia. When Lorencia patted his back as he was flustered by his own impulsive action, he strangely felt at ease.
“It’s okay.”
“I’m not okay.”
Teishar bit his lower lip hard and forcibly raised his body. And he gazed at Lorencia. Seeing Teishar in front of her eyes looking more pained than herself, Lorencia felt a strange feeling.
“Even if I learn the truth you want and it hurts, I won’t be in too much pain.”
“Lady Lorencia……”
“So I hope you’ll be okay, Duke Spencer.”
When Teishar received back the words he had said to Lorencia yesterday, he felt something welling up and the corners of his mouth lifted.
“Are you comforting me?”
Unable to believe that the young tree had opened her heart to him, Teishar pinched his cheek hard.
“Yes. I’m comforting you.”
Teishar lowered the hand that had pinched his own cheek.
“Even if I hear a terrible truth, I’ll be fine, so please take me to your father.”
“How did you know I was going to take you to my father?”
Lorencia just gave Teishar a bright smile at his question.
[This is the timeline separator]“My father is in the drawing room of the room I am using.”
Teishar led Lorencia.
‘A painful truth.’
Lorencia felt her lips getting dry from the rising tension. Teishar had told her that she would be in pain if she knew the truth. And he was worried about her and distressed that she would learn the truth.
And.
Her mother Musilla’s words that kept coming to mind wouldn’t leave her head.
“Here it is.”
Teishar lightly knocked on the drawing room door and then opened it. Lorencia took a short, deep breath and entered the drawing room.
Magus, the face the amethyst beads had shown her, approached her.
“Nice to meet you for the first time. Lady Lorencia. I am Magus of the Spencer family.”
‘They look alike.’
Upon seeing Magus’s face, Lorencia admired inwardly. With his black hair and deep red eyes, he looked so much like Teishar that it was clear they were father and son. If there was a slight difference, Teishar was a young man with a bright and kind feeling like sunshine, while Magus was a middle-aged man with a solemn and dignified feeling.
“I heard you like cocoa.”
“Duke Spencer just gave me some to drink before I came.”
Upon hearing that, Magus nodded. After paying her respects to Magus, Lorencia was led by Teishar’s hand and sat on the sofa. On the table, she noticed the black jewelry box that the purple crystal had shown and a frame that was flipped over. She didn’t know why the frame was flipped over, but she had a feeling it was related to her.
Sitting in her seat, Lorencia habitually fiddled with her amethyst necklace.
“That’s a pretty amethyst necklace.”
“It’s the only keepsake my mother left me.”
“She took the same one and left it for Lady Lorencia.”
Magus spoke while looking at the amethyst necklace Lorencia was fiddling with. Lorencia’s heart began to pound at Magus’s words, which seemed to know her mother and the amethyst necklace well.
“From the way you speak, do you perhaps know my mother?”
“Of course. I know Lorencia’s mother, Lady Musilla, very well.”
As if he had been waiting for Lorencia’s question, Magus quickly replied. Lorencia was a little surprised at her mother’s name that came out of Magus’s mouth, but she looked at him calmly and waited for his next words.
“And I know Lorencia’s father well too.”
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.”
