When she called the name, the crying grew louder. The echoing bathroom was filled with the sound, and it seemed to reverberate in her head.
Covering her ears and stepping further inside, she saw Olivia standing in front of the sink, unable to straighten her waist, as if her tempting platinum hair had been caught in the sewer grate. It was clear that her head would have been stuck in the sink if she had been a little later.
“Olivia!”
“Help me!”
As Olivia struggled, another handful of hair was sucked in.
“Stay still, don’t move.”
Upon closer inspection, it appeared that the magic that operated the water had malfunctioned and turned into a spell that sucked everything into the sewer. She quickly pressed a button to stop the magic, but there was no response.
“I’ll have to cut it with scissors……”
As she muttered, Olivia began to wail even louder.
“No! Absolutely not! Whaaa.”
Reaching the limit of her patience, she deliberately put on a terrifying voice.
“Choose one. Your hair or your life.”
“No! My hair……!”
Ignoring Olivia’s crying, she went into the guest room to look for something to cut her hair with. Just as she found a letter opener.
“Kyaaak!”
A terrible scream cut through the air.
“Olivia!”
Kicking open the bathroom door, she was met with a cry so loud it felt like her ears would fall off.
“Whaaaa! Noooo!”
Olivia was sprawled on the bathroom floor, wailing, thrashing around in either a tantrum or pain.
Beside her stood Kirian, holding a handful of long, tempting platinum hair, foxtaillike.
“My hair!”
Kirian looked at me and slowly opened his hand. The hair fell to the floor.
“I saved Olivia, who Newna likes.”
And he smiled radiantly.
Kirian, who didn’t laugh much for his age, had often wondered what his beautiful face would look like when he smiled.
But this smile was both close to and yet the most alien of his imagination.
It seemed she had done something very wrong.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“Kirian found our Olivia.”
As Count Humphrey reached to pat Kirian’s head, Kirian quickly drew back.
“Newna found her. I only removed the hair lock.”
Certainly, here is the translation as per your guidelines:
“Sob! Kirian, you fool! You’ve cut all of my hair.”
Olivia, whose hair had been cut shorter than Kirian’s, was still sobbing while eating dinner.
Indeed, Kirian had cut more hair than necessary. He could have at least preserved it to medium length.
“Why did you go to the bathroom Kirian told you not to? We looked for you for so long.”
The Viscountess rebuked Olivia with tears in her red eyes.
“How can you go to the commoners’ bathroom!”
Olivia chewed the meat with an annoyed face,
“The commoners’ bathroom…?”
Even the Viscountess, who also disliked the commoners’ bathroom, couldn’t rebuke Olivia any longer.
But among them, no one was blaming Kirian.
This too must have been Kirian’s plan.
Glancing to the side, Kirian was seen skillfully carving his steak with pudgy fists holding the knife, without a shred of guilt in his concentration on the steak.
“Our Reina is really special. Without Reina, we wouldn’t have found Olivia, right?”
The Duchess raised her voice and stroked my head,
“Yes, we all need to thank Reina.”
The Duke joined in, looking at the Viscount and Viscountess,
“…Thank you.”
The Viscount reluctantly opened his mouth,
“Don’t mention it. I just did what I should have done.”
If the daughter of the house disturbs my dreamland every night, I would rather refuse.
But the Viscount’s brows furrowed slightly at my answer. Just then, the Viscountess clapped her hands in the awkward atmosphere.
“I almost forgot the children’s gifts.”
A servant brought a large box and placed it next to Kirian. The Viscount tried to stroke Kirian again with a hearty laugh but failed again. The Viscount’s awkward hand tapped the box as if he had meant to do so.
“It’s a monster model crafted by the most popular toy craftsman in the capital. From giant crows to dragons, there’s nothing missing.”
“Thank you.”
Kirian bowed, and the Viscount laughed loudly again, pulling out his wallet.
“You’ve lived diligently all year, so here’s some allowance.”
A gold coin popped out, and my eyes were involuntarily drawn.
Such a large sum as an allowance, it even tempted me.
When the Duke and Duchess gave Olivia an intricate doll and allowance, it was my turn.
The gold coin was still flickering in front of my eyes, so I looked at the Viscount and Viscountess with an expectant expression.
“Where’s the gift for our Reina?”
The Duchess’s voice was gentle, but the end was somewhat sharp.
The Viscountess wiped her mouth with a napkin and coughed lightly.
“Ahem, we didn’t know we needed one and failed to prepare.”
It was obvious that the Viscount and his wife had deliberately not brought a gift because of my commoner status. But it didn’t hurt much. I had anticipated the discrimination I would receive for being a commoner the moment I set foot in an aristocratic house.
My dream was to be a wealthy, idle commoner, not a princess ruling over noble society.
So I had no interest in the gifts. The age to play with dolls had long passed, and my interest was solely in the gold coin clutched in Kirian’s pudgy fist.
“Um, can I get an allowance too?”
Somehow awkward, but in the end, I had to be the one to ask. I couldn’t just give up here if I was saving for my independence fund,
But what came back to my question was not a gold coin but cold silence.
“What a child, already so greedy.”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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