Odette’s mother caught the emperor’s eye while working as a maid for Katarina.
But that was it.
“You’re never going to be his wife, so why are you eyeing someone else’s man? Don’t you know how your mother died? Have you learned nothing? They say daughters resemble their mothers, and you’re just as stupid.”
Odette’s mother never became the emperor’s wife and gave birth to Odette on her own.
It wasn’t uncommon for a palace maid to have a child out of wedlock with a noble, but the fact that the child happened to resemble the emperor caused quite a stir in the palace, a story that Odette knew all too well.
Her nanny who raised her always told her that story and said to live as though she were dead.
[Dash]You’re not welcome in this royal family. So whatever they say, just ignore it. Where else could you enjoy such luxury as a princess?No, thinking about it, the nanny usually said that after Odette had been insulted as a bastard.
For example, after arguing with Lizeina and Blake.
The nanny always said that Odette had to endure, after Odette came back home, bravely resisting the insult.
The nanny’s advice was cold but wise.
And Odette had followed that advice ever since she was a young girl.
She lived in the palace as if she weren’t there, without any social activities.
Even when Lizeina slapped her with unreasonable force or when Blake tried to scratch her soul with bitter words, she smiled and called them ‘sister, brother’.
Like now.
‘There’s no point in getting angry in a situation like this.’
I know it in my head.
If I get angry here, all the time I’ve spent bowing and hiding would be in vain.
The more I do that, the further away I get from the quiet future outside the palace that Odette has been dreaming of.
‘Besides, I still have the letter that Eli will send to Count Clovis.’
If I make a fuss here, it’ll be harder for Eli to deliver the letter.
Lizeina tapped Odette’s clenched jaw with her fan, saying mockingly,
“You should be grateful to be called a princess, you bastard. It’s a disgrace to share the same name with someone as shameless as you. Understand? Never approach Duke Ertman again. Behave yourself.”
At that insulting remark, from behind Odette, Eli’s voice was faintly heard, “How can she say such a thing…!”
Anyone would have been unable to contain their anger, but Odette had to.
She was just a weed in the palace with no backing.
“…Yes, I’ll do that. I won’t get involved with Duke Ertman again.”
So Odette smiled, as she always did.
If she smiled, at least she wouldn’t get slapped.
‘Endure. I only have to endure until I receive a reply from Count Clovis.’
Things got a little twisted when Balter suddenly appeared and interfered, but the situation wasn’t hopeless.
Above all, thanks to Lizeina’s fuss, it became clear that Balter’s interference was not the work of Katarina or Lizeina.
‘Then I don’t know how Duke Ertman knew about my plan…’
Anyway, it’s hopeful enough that the plan didn’t leak to the Empress’s side.
After Lizeina left, throwing her weight around, and Eli left to deliver the letter,
Odette looked down at the blank paper, calming her churning heart.
‘There’s still plenty of opportunity.’
A response will be made to the Count of Clovis.
Meeting him will resolve everything.
[This is a time separator.]…or so I thought.
Odette’s misfortune seemed not yet over.
“Count Clovis… is ill and not receiving guests?”
“Yes. Since the day he returned from the victory celebration, he suddenly fell ill, and he’s not in a situation to meet anyone…”
So all I could do was leave a letter with the butler, according to Ellie’s words. Odette wore a confused expression.
“Since the day he returned from the victory celebration? I saw Count Clovis looking well that day.”
“But it didn’t seem like a lie. Because no one was at Count Clovis’s mansion, I had to go all the way down to the townhouse.”
If each noble’s mansion was the official place to receive people, the townhouse was a private space.
A place created for longterm rest and rarely accepting guests.
So the fact that Louis went down to the townhouse meant he was really very sick.
“Moreover, at both the mansion and the townhouse, there were no signs of people coming and going. It was all quiet.”
With such certain circumstantial evidence, there was a high possibility that Louis being sick was true.
The timing was just too cunning.
‘He looked fine until I gave him a note to meet, but as soon as the party ended, he fell ill and lay down?’
It was too cunning even to be a coincidence.
It seemed as if the whole situation was rolling to trouble her, like a plan woven against her.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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