The Beloved Youngest Daughter of the Lord Family - Chapter 10
Three months later.
Thanks to the mana stone’s effects, I no longer suffered from mana exhaustion.
Sione’s magic lessons were progressing smoothly, but another problem arose.
My body, which had been growing steadily, suddenly stopped growing altogether one day.
Every day, I went to measure my height with hopeful eyes, yet the line marked with a pen beside the door stubbornly refused to move upward.
“Hiiiing… I want to grow up faster…”
Sione assured me that my previous rapid growth had been nearly abnormal and urged me to be patient, but honestly, I couldn’t feel at ease.
After all, shouldn’t I settle my revenge against my enemies Karl and Ranian while they’re still alive and well?
Even if vampires live long lives, defeating them when they’re bent-over, wrinkled old men wouldn’t bring me any satisfaction.
If, by any chance, my growth truly halted here, it would severely disrupt my plans for this second life.
“That would really be a problem.”
Judging from my current situation, there seemed to be a strong correlation between my physical growth and the expansion of my mana.
No matter how exceptional my skills might be, who would support a mere child aspiring to become the next Lord?
“Besides, Father might just lock me away in this palace forever.”
Aside from the faint possibility that he gave me my name, there was absolutely no evidence that Father loved me.
He didn’t even seem interested—let alone loving. I’d be lucky if he showed even a hint of concern.
“I won’t stay a good little girl forever anymore.”
For whatever reason, Father had abandoned me and gone off on a military campaign, with no set date for his return.
Until now, I’d tried to behave well, acting like a quiet, obedient daughter in hopes of earning his approval—but now that things had worsened this much, I had no intention of continuing.
Just hearing words like “confinement” or “imprisonment” made me break out in hives—how much longer was I supposed to endure this?
“The moment an opportunity appears, I’ll storm right out of Rose Palace for everyone to see.”
Just as I was inwardly plotting how to show the world the spicy side of a second-chance child,
an unexpected and mysterious ability manifested itself in me.
And what ability was this?
“Mister Soldier Ajji.”
“Ah, yes!! Lady Bella!”
“Can you pwease get me the cookie on the top shelf over dere?”
When I made my request in the sweetest, cutest voice I could manage, the young-looking soldier awkwardly waved his hands.
“That’s not possible. Miss Sione specifically instructed us not to give you any snacks outside set times—she’s worried about your teeth.”
Tch.
Of all times, it had to be the exact moment I craved something sweet.
Pouting with cheeks puffed out, I glared resentfully at the cookie box placed far beyond my reach.
“Maybe this is the perfect moment to test that new ability.”
Confirming that no one else was nearby, I curled my lips into a wicked smile.
“Soldier Grom Ajjoshi, how about this instead?”
“Of course! Just tell me what you’d like!”
“Look into my eyes for a sec.”
Hehe.
With an innocent, bright smile befitting a three-year-old, I gazed up at him—and the soldier chuckled happily as he met my eyes.
Once everything was ready, I boldly pointed at him and declared,
“You, from now on, obey me unconditionally.”
Poof.
As a bright light spread outward, a red gleam flickered in the soldier’s eyes—
proof that my spell had taken hold.
“Master, I am now your loyal servant.”
“Good! Then fetch me the cookies first!”
Arms crossed confidently, I issued my command. The soldier nodded and retrieved the box filled with sweet treats from the shelf.
“Here you go, Lady Bella.”
“Hehe. Dank you.”
After stuffing a handful of cookies into my pockets, I ordered the soldier to return the box to its place and clapped my hands cheerfully.
“Obedience time over. Come to your senses now.”
“Huh…?”
The soldier wobbled slightly, pressing a hand to his forehead as if dizzy.
“Did something happen? My vision suddenly went blurry…”
“Nope! Nuffin’ happened at all!”
I feigned innocence while subtly hiding my bulging pockets.
A moment later, the soldier recovered and returned to his duties.
Left alone, I went back to my room and giggled while eating the cookies I’d stuffed into my pockets.
“This mind-control ability is seriously the best!”
The new power I’d discovered was one of the vampire’s noble abilities—dominance magic—allowing me to control the will of those weaker in mana than myself.
Of course, not just anyone could use it.
It was a rare ability manifested only in certain pureblood nobles or royals, and it was deeply tied to why Lords were revered as absolute sovereigns.
“That means my older brothers must have this ability too.”
I’d discovered my capacity for dominance magic quite by accident.
A few days earlier, after getting ready for bed, I suddenly craved a late-night snack.
I’d called for Rosa, but she flatly refused, saying no snacks at night.
In a desperate bid to obtain those sweet treats, I summoned every ounce of cuteness and charm I possessed—and the moment I made my plea,
Rosa’s eye color shifted, and she complied with my request. That’s when I realized what this power truly was.
“It’s useful—I’d better practice it diligently.”
Nom nom.
After devouring every last crumb of the hidden soft cookie, I flung open the door to search for my next test subject.
“Oh my, Lady Bella—where are you off to?”
Right at the doorway, I ran straight into Rosa, one of the maids, and reflexively brushed off the cookie crumbs on my skirt.
“Jus’… felt stifled, so gonna go to the garden.”
“The garden? May I join you?”
Hmm—didn’t expect to find my next test subject so quickly.
Just as I was about to unleash my dominance magic with a meaningful smile, Rosa tilted her head curiously.
“Lady Bella, did you eat cookies? There seem to be crumbs near your mouth…”
“No way! I didn’t eat nuffin’ at all!!”
Slightly guilty, I answered loudly—and Rosa stared at me with eyes full of adoration.
“…B-but promise you won’t tell Sione, ‘kay?”
“Hehe, I didn’t see anything—don’t worry, Lady Bella.”
Relieved, I took her hand and waddled off toward the garden.
Just as we reached a secluded spot and I prepared to test my dominance magic, Rosa surprised me with unexpected news.
“Lady Bella, did you know Miss Sione’s birthday is coming up soon? We’re planning a small tea party to celebrate.”
“Sione’s birthday? When’s dat?”
“In two days. It happens to fall on the exact day she returns—perfect timing!”
Lately, Sione often left to visit her master,
mainly seeking solutions for my mana depletion—but with little progress, her visits were becoming increasingly frequent.
“We decided to knit her scarves as gifts. Apparently, the snowy mountain where her master resides is quite cold.”
“Huh? You tree made dem?”
“Yes! I actually brought mine along—would you like to see?”
The long, fuzzy lump Rosa shyly held out was, at first glance, impressively disastrous—
more like rags than a scarf.
“It’s my first time knitting! I hope Sione likes it.”
“…She’ll love it. For sure.”
“Really?!”
Watching Rosa proudly unfurl her shabbily knitted scarf while humming cheerfully, I felt a strange emotion well up inside me.
No matter how imperfect the gift, such heartfelt effort surely wouldn’t go unnoticed.
“…I wanna give Sione somethin’ too.”
“Oh, Lady Bella—you’re a gift just by existing! Your presence alone will make her incredibly happy.”
Sione surely would be.
But seeing even those with no craft skills trying so hard to create something meaningful stirred a sudden surge of determination deep within me.
“Now that I think about it, Sione once mentioned that her favorite flower blooms inside the royal palace.”
When I was still a baby, she often read me fairy tales about flower sprites.
The sprite’s name was Dahlia—the spirit of a real flower.
She used to say excitedly that once the lockdown lifted, she’d take me to see a beautiful lake overflowing with purple dahlias.
“That flower would make a perfect gift.”
It’s not that I lacked money—I could easily sell the dazzling jewel toy Luca gave me and buy several townhouses in the capital.
But that wasn’t the point.
Like them, I wanted to give her something simple yet sincere—something she’d remember forever.
“Sione might return earlier than planned. I need to act now.”
Everything moved swiftly after that.
Since I was already outside with Rosa, my guardian, and no one else was around,
I cast my dominance magic on her and gathered the essentials for a brief outing.
“Wait here. I’ll be back quick.”
“I shall follow your orders, Lady Bella.”
“Kay! Be right back!”
Inside the tiny bag Rosa had prepared were a map, a mana stone, and beautifully wrapped special cookies Sione had made for me.
The cookies served as emergency mana replenishment—a standby remedy against sudden mana depletion.
“Mmmnomnom.”
As soon as I unwrapped and swallowed a cookie whole, energy surged through my body.
I took a calm breath and cast an invisibility spell on myself.
Though the lake was close enough for a round trip in thirty minutes even at a child’s pace, I wanted to avoid any unpleasant encounters with patrols.
“Good. Ready to go.”
I’m so excited!
Finally, a little rebellion!
Using magic to scale walls and fences, unfolding the map intermittently as I went alone, I reached the lake in barely ten minutes.
After nearly a year of quiet confinement, it felt almost disappointingly easy.
“If I’d known it’d be this simple, I’d have snuck out ages ago.”
Though I couldn’t disobey Father—the head of our clan—it was baffling how something as simple as climbing a wall had seemed so hard and daunting before.
Walking endlessly down the path, I felt a strange mix of joy, excitement, and a tinge of bitterness as I freely roamed the palace grounds, surrounded by scenery entirely new to me.
And soon, the lake I’d been searching for finally appeared before my eyes.
“Whoa…”
The vast, blue sky above, shimmering waves beneath,
and an endless sea of colorful flowers in full bloom.
Though it was a lake, the massive body of water swayed like ocean waves with the wind—so much so that calling it a small sea wouldn’t have seemed odd at all.
“I’ve never seen anything like this.”
I breathed in the sweet, fragrant scent of flowers carried on the air and sank deeply into the beauty before me.
“I think I understand now why Sione wanted to bring me here.”
Is it true that when you see something wonderful, you want to share it with someone precious?
Experiencing firsthand a feeling I’d only read about in books made my heart tingle strangely.
“Oh right, gotta find the flower.”
However close the lake might be, staying away too long would make everyone suspicious.
Hurrying along the lakeshore on my short legs, I soon spotted the exact purple flower from the picture book.
“Found it!! This is it!”
Thankfully, the flower stood out enough that finding it didn’t take long—but the real problem came next.
It was placed far beyond the reach of a three-year-old like me.
“Grrrnnn…”
Just as I finally managed to grab the flower stem after much struggling,
a low, pleasant boy’s voice suddenly called out from behind me.
“What are you doing here, little one?”
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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Woww, what a great father he is.
Claimed to love the mother, but ignored their own child…. how great.
Oh, what’s happening? My poor baby Bella! I hope someone comes to help her quickly 😭💔