A sharp-looking girl who appeared to be around 12 years old opened her mouth.
“Come to think of it, I heard that His Majesty is having an audience with Duke Rattliffe today……”
“Uh…… that, that’s……”
The girl in front of him had a face that looked like she was boasting about being of the emperor’s bloodline.
If the emperor was just a handsome appearance with a sharp feeling, the girl was beautiful but had a stronger impression of being coy.
He wasn’t sure if it was because she was still young or because the empress’s blood was mixed in.
Aeli stammered and looked at the child who was watching him.
Even though she was just a young girl, the girl reflected in Aeli’s eyes felt a unique fierceness that was astonishing.
It was not strange for a child who had never seen this kind of person in his life to be overwhelmed.
‘Do all the imperial family members look so majestic?’
Aeli narrowed his brows, trying to recall what the emperor was like when he attended the academy, but soon shook his head.
Not only could he not remember well, but even now, although the emperor felt the unique momentum of a person in power, he did not feel the kind of majesty like this.
The girl looked at the child who was watching her and opened her mouth again.
“I’m sorry if I disturbed you, young master. I momentarily forgot and went for a walk too far.”
“Uh, uh? No…… that’s……”
“If it’s uncomfortable, shall I leave now? I have no intention of making the descendant of the war hero duke uncomfortable.”
Aeli blinked quietly upon hearing the words that came out of the girl’s mouth.
Is that…… Is that the way of speaking that young girl should use?
He couldn’t tell if this was common because he wasn’t an imperial family member.
Aeli approached the child who was fiddling with his hands in confusion without being able to answer the girl’s question properly, and whispered to the child’s ear.
– Adi, the princess is waiting, so you should answer her.
“Ah, uh, yes!”
“…….”
“No, ah! Ah?!”
“…….”
“…….”
Silence fell upon the group.
The child, who was startled by Aeli’s words and answered without knowing, soon realized that he had made a mistake and closed his eyes tightly with his ears turned red.
He seemed embarrassed.
That’s when it happened.
“Kuk…… Ahahaha!”
The girl stared at the child blankly and suddenly burst out laughing, holding her stomach.
Since the child’s height barely reached the girl’s solar plexus, she must have found him cute because she rarely saw young children unless they were playmates.
After all, the playmates of imperial family members were selected according to strict criteria such as status and personality, so even children were often mature.
‘But Adi is…….’
Aeli rolled his eyes and stared at the child.
When the girl laughed so hard that she was holding her stomach, he was now ready to dig a hole in the ground and go inside.
For a moment, Aeli, who was feeling playful, was about to tease the child by saying, ‘If I put a kettle on your head right now, I can boil tea,’ but changed his mind.
He had just managed to appease the child who had been upset from suddenly coming up from the territory, leaving last night and arriving this morning.
‘I can’t repeat that again, right…….’
Aeli, who thought alone and came up with an answer alone, nodded slightly.
In the meantime, the princess, who had stopped laughing, opened her mouth.
“Ah…… I’m sorry. I rarely see someone like you in the palace……”
“Shing……”
“…….”
“……? Ah, gasp. Ah…… no…….”
The child, who had unknowingly acted cute to Aeli and Lutis again and realized it, covered his mouth with both hands.
After a while, the child slowly lowered his hands, bowed his head deeply, and said,
“So-sorry……”
“…….”
“No, I mean…… This is not my home, so I can’t tell you to go, right?”
“Well, that’s true. But if the young master is uncomfortable with me, I’m willing to go back.”
“Uh uh……”
“Hmm, or can you give me some time until the duke finishes his audience with His Majesty? The chef just baked some scones and I was about to go eat them.”
“……!”
At the girl’s words asking if he wanted to go eat snacks together, the child suddenly raised his head. Anyone could see that he was tempted.
Some time ago, when he tried to feed the child something less sweet because he liked only sweet things so much, he had eaten scones with various jams inside.
The child gulped, perhaps unable to forget the taste of the cold jam inside the freshly baked warm scones.
…… In fact, even if it wasn’t scones, he would have liked any snacks.
‘He complained that he could only eat one cookie last night, and even that, he vomited because he took the warp gate…….’
What will you do? The girl asked.
The child glanced at Aeli with eyes asking if he could go eat.
Feeling the child’s gaze, Aeli turned his head slightly and looked at the girl.
Judging from the conversation so far, it was unclear whether the emperor had sent her or not.
It seemed true that the palace was a dangerous place for the child, but he also felt a little bit that he should be careful even with a young child.
‘No……? No, but she’s the empress’s daughter, so we should be a little careful…… But then again, now that we’ve officially entered the palace, what would they do openly…….’
Hmm.
Aeli hummed for a while and finally said to the child.
– …… Shall we do what Adi wants to do? But when you eat something, only follow what the princess eats. Try not to drink the beverages if possible.
“……?”
The child tilted his head as if Aeli’s words were strange.
Then he slowly opened his mouth.
“…… I, I’ll go with you.”
[This is the timeline separator]“Wo, wow……”
“Well…… When I said a guest was coming, the chef seemed to put in a lot of effort. Isn’t the number a bit too much?”
Feel free to take as much as you want. The girl, who had brought the child to her palace, rubbed the back of her neck and spoke awkwardly.
The child couldn’t come to his senses at the feast of desserts stretched out on the table in the spacious and elegant drawing room.
It was unclear why this happened even though he was clearly not starved.
‘…… Ah, that’s not it.’
He said he had been starved before, right. Aeli sighed, holding his brow.
As expected, when he returned to the mansion today, there was not a single servant who had worked in the annex.
It was obvious what had happened to all of them without even looking.
“…… Young master? What are you doing not holding it? Is there nothing you like among these?”
“No, no, that’s not it……”
The child fidgeted his fingers, perhaps hearing Aeli’s sigh.
He seemed to have recalled Aeli’s advice before coming to the princess’s palace when he was about to hold the fork absentmindedly.
The girl blinked her eyes for a moment at the sight of him constantly watching her, then opened her mouth slightly.
“Uh, uh……?!”
“There, that’s better, right? Now eat comfortably. If there is poison, I’m older, so I’ll escort you on the way.”
“…… That’s a bit.”
Immediately, the girl, who took a bite of each snack lined up on the table with a fork, shrugged her shoulders at the child.
At her words, the child made a slightly disgusted face, then slowly pulled the dessert closest to him and took a bite.
“……!”
After that, he was no different from a horse with a loose rein.
“Is it delicious?”
“Mmmmm.”
“…… Speak after you finish eating.”
“Mmmm…… Ah, it, it’s delicious……”
There was cream from the third chocolate cake he had just finished on the corner of the mouth of the child who spoke with flushed cheeks as if he was truly happy.
The cake, topped with various fruits pickled in honey, looked as if you could taste the sweetness in your mouth just by looking at it.
But for the child who originally loved sweets, cakes, and fruits, there was no happier time than this.
‘…… Even so, he’s eating too much.’
He had deliberately limited the amount of snacks for fear of this happening.
Aeli rubbed his own chin at the child who was inhaling the cake as if it was useless.
The girl stared blankly at the cream on the child’s mouth, then took out a handkerchief from her bosom and handed it to him.
It was after pushing the milk tea with a large spoonful of honey melted in it close to the child, whose taste seemed to like sweets.
“Wipe your mouth. If you eat like that, you’ll get indigestion, so drink beverages while eating.”
“Mmm……”
“Have you ever had indigestion, young master? It hurts a lot, so you have to be careful.”
Aeli tilted his head at the girl who was taking care of the child in a familiar manner.
He was sure that the princess was an only child……
‘What is it, that strangely skilled way of taking care of children younger than her.’
Once he found a curious point, another question came to mind.
Come to think of it, the princess was born not long after Aeli had the child.
That means there’s at most a year of age difference.
…… It didn’t look like a year’s difference from any angle.
Aeli blinked rapidly at the height of the girl, which was easily a head and a half taller than the child.
‘…… What do they feed the child in the imperial family? Growth stimulants?’
It was when Aeli was constantly tilting his head.
Pause.
– …… Adi? Why are you suddenly like that?
The child, who had been alternately eating and drinking cake and milk tea, suddenly stopped his actions.
And then he said,
“It, it’s urging…… Where is it here……”
– …… Oh my.
Aeli widened his eyes and looked down at the child.
Eating like that, he finally got sick on the fourth piece of cake.
That’s because one piece of that cake was the size of Aeli’s hand…… Combined, it was more than enough to cover the child’s stomach.
The girl told the maid outside to guide the child to the side room.
– Adi, shall Mom go with you?
…… No no, no no!
Unable to shout out loud because there were too many people, the child, who answered with a pale complexion and a shake of his head, disappeared like the wind.
“…….”
– ……
So in the spacious drawing room.
Aeli silently looked down at the girl, left alone with her.
At that moment, the girl was talking to the maid who had been staying by her side.
“…… You know, can you go out for a bit until the young master comes?”
“Ah, yes. I will.”
– ……?
Aeli was rolling his eyes, not understanding the situation at the maid’s attitude that had become drastically blunt unlike when the child was there, and the girl’s way of speaking that had changed dramatically.
“Well, then……”
After looking around once and making sure no one was there, the girl got up from her seat.
And……
Thud!
– …… Huh?
She knelt on the floor of the drawing room.
It was in the direction where Aeli was standing.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
