On the way back to my dwelling.
Having alighted from the carriage, I was trudging along the road.
‘My soul feels utterly drained.’
The events I had experienced during the day felt like nothing but a dream.
‘A very terrifying nightmare, at that.’
The crafty schemes of that insolent young man were enough to completely take my soul away.
I kicked the stone caught on my foot.
‘Give me time to think.’
Though I had succeeded in postponing my answer, I doubted I could delay it for long.
I let out a quiet sigh.
‘Me, become Kashar’s lover?’
And that too, for the ridiculous reason that he liked my food.
On top of that, he said he liked me because I was a humorous woman.
‘Am I some kind of comedienne?’
I was beginning to feel a flutter because he said the food was delicious, but then he immediately threw cold water on it.
I really wasn’t sure whether I should be happy or upset about this.
‘On top of that, this is not in the original script.’
I had no intention of causing problems in the original work because of me.
But upon careful thought, it didn’t necessarily have to be that way.
‘Come to think of it, it’s already changing, isn’t it?’
Raising the twins properly was itself equivalent to eliminating the dark plot of this story.
‘But will this be a problem?’
Elsius’s awakening as a saint was inevitable, and in the end, it was a happy ending only with the male protagonist.
As long as the two were connected, it wouldn’t matter, would it?
Thinking thus, I suddenly stopped in my tracks.
‘Why do I keep thinking in that direction!’
I was horrified by the fact that I had unconsciously gone with the flow, thinking it might be okay.
‘I should probably refuse.’
He was supposed to come for an answer a week later, but my answer was already settled.
If he takes offense at my refusal.
‘Cooking a little more should do it.’
I was sure he liked the food I made.
Getting involved any further wouldn’t be beneficial.
I hastened my steps.
‘I must hurry and prepare dinner.’
This was the first time I had been away from the twins for more than half a day.
That’s why I missed them more than usual.
I could see the cold palace in the distance, but the entrance was obscured by people.
“What’s going on?”
By now, the unloading of the gifts sent by Kashar should have been over.
Those gathered were palace maids.
Emma was dealing with the person at the forefront.
‘Why all of a sudden? Was the gift too conspicuous?’
I almost ran to the entrance.
Emma, the first to notice me, looked relieved as if I had come back to life.
“Aileen, ma’am!”
“Yeah, I’m here.”
I reassured Emma and stepped forward.
“I am the maid in charge of the palace. What’s going on?”
I asked without even catching my breath, and the visitors turned their heads towards me.
A middleaged woman who had been talking to Emma opened her mouth.
“We have come to see the princes.”
“Speak to me.”
During our conversation, I confirmed their appearance.
Seeing no palace insignia, I knew they were not palace maids, making it even stranger.
‘Why are the noble family’s maids at the cold palace?’
It wasn’t like they were coming to taunt the abandoned princes.
My firm stance made the maid chuckle.
“Well, alright. Madame Romang Lebrang has invited the princes to the Olojé party.”
“……What?”
I was taken aback, and chills ran down my spine.
I had just remembered content I had forgotten.
‘Why did I forget this?’
It wasn’t just Aileen who had traumatized the twins.
Tuberosa Romang Lebrang, the Countess, was a socialite and a businesswoman leading the empire’s culinary culture.
The problem was that she was close to the Empress and would stop at nothing to curry favor with her.
‘Olojé party.’
It was a special party held only once a year, where each family presented alcohol or refreshments made with a special secret method.
The original twins were invited to the party.
It was not a mere sympathy from the Countess, but a planned accident.
“There was a problem at the party.”
A drunken noble suddenly swung a decorative sword, causing an incident, and Eban, who tried to protect Louis, was hit in the leg with a blade.
“It wasn’t an accident.”
Queen Waieno despised all the royals except the crown prince.
Knowing her nature, the Countess deliberately summoned the princes to cause trouble.
As evidence, that day’s accident was disguised as a fight between the twins.
The Countess was rewarded with land where rare plants grow.
All these events were summarized in just three lines in the original, and Aileen continued to abuse them afterwards.
But it was strange.
“It happened in the spring when the twins were 8 years old.”
Since it was March now, it was something that should happen only ten months later.
The original had changed.
Could it be.
“…because I met Kashar?”
Suddenly, the invitation from the Countess was in my hand.
“I eagerly await your attendance.”
There was a bone in the maid’s words.
No one did not know that Countess Tubevirosha was the Empress’s person.
How many childless royals has Queen Waieno brought down so far?
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.”
