“Do not send me to the young lady.”
Brodie looked earnestly at Rayna’s reaction.
“That’s not what I mean…”
Rayna started to explain to Brodie, but stopped herself, thinking that she shouldn’t say why Marina’s makeup was needed.
In essence, both Brodie and Marina now understand the situation where Christina and I are changing places. They seem to have received some sort of command, but….
Honestly, wouldn’t it be safer not to know too much about such things?
Rayna carefully lowered her voice.
“That’s not it. Just today, there’s a reason why Marina is needed for makeup…”
However, Brodie, who already looked aggrieved, looked even more miserable.
“……You’re trying to replace me, aren’t you?”
What?
Rayna was taken aback.
Replace? Why would that be?
After all, I don’t have the choice, do I?
If Miss Christina chooses Brodie, then Marina comes to me, and if Miss Christina chooses Marina, then Brodie comes to me, right?
Just because I asked Marina for a favor and called her briefly, it doesn’t mean that the maid who serves Christina would be replaced because Christina wants Marina.
But it seemed like Brodie, who apparently really didn’t want to go to the young lady, had already lost his rational judgment.
Rayna hurriedly stopped Brodie, who was on the verge of tears.
“No, on second thought, we don’t necessarily need Marina. Can you just make my makeup look a little more like the young lady’s, more glamorous? So that I look more like Christina…”
Brodie’s eyes sparkled, and he nodded eagerly.
“Yes, I can do that!”
It really doesn’t seem like his business at all…
Rayna smiled apologetically at Brodie.
“Thank you, I’ll be counting on you…”
…Well. After delivering the note, the Duchess will find a way, somehow.
What good would it do me to worry about makeup and make a fuss…
I’ve already shown my face to His Highness the Crown Prince several times, quite up close…
Unless the Crown Prince is blind, it’s impossible to reverse the situation now, no matter how marvelous the makeup.
I’m just trying to reduce the risk as much as I can.
It was just a desperate struggle, whether it made sense or not.
Rayna’s life was not actually dependent on her efforts.
Hoping that the Duke and Sir Arthur would conclude their conversation peacefully was the only realistic way for Rayna to return safely to her grandmother.
“…….”
Wouldn’t there be a situation later on where everyone involved is beheaded for a problem, and the palace is turned upside down by the royal family trying to find the maid who committed fraud by getting married to Sir Arthur…?
I could somehow manage if I was alone,
But it’s too hard to run away with my grandmother…
“…….”
Even if that happens…
Wouldn’t Sir Arthur…
Wouldn’t he be merciful… at least sparing my life?
“…….”
Rayna stood still for a moment, then closed her eyes, struck by her own audacity.
…How shameless.
With a gloomy expression on her face, Rayna sighed, thinking about the note she had hidden under the bed to be delivered to the Duchess.
[This is the time separator]Rayna, dressed comfortably and sitting on the bed, saw Dr. Lorenson approach her with his dressing tools.
It was time to disinfect the wound on her forehead and apply medicine.
Over the past week, the wound on Rayna’s forehead had faded.
There was no longer the slight pain when peeling off the gauze with tweezers.
As she calmly received the doctor’s treatment, Rayna glanced at Sir Lionel standing by the door, and thought about the note she had hidden in the head of the bed.
From her current position, sitting sideways on the bed, all it took was a slight lean and reaching under the cushion to retrieve the hidden note.
“…….”
When Dr. Lorenson stood in front of her to look at her wound, Rayna was hidden enough from Sir Lionel’s view to move without him noticing.
Now…. now is the time.
“…….”
Rayna couldn’t move, her sight went dark.
I wrote quite a lot about Sir Arthur.
But the guilt is paralyzing me as I’m about to secretly do something like this.
That I met the Crown Prince….
That I was invited.
That the Crown Prince has seen my face and knows me as Christina.
I have to tell her. I have to tell her but….
“…….”
I can’t move.
Then, Dr. Lorenson, who was examining Rayna’s wound, opened his mouth with a ‘hmm’.
“The wound on your forehead has healed completely. It healed well, leaving no scar. We can stop dressing it now.”
“…….”
The routine comment momentarily opened Reyna’s breath.
Reyna responded after a brief interval.
“Thank you, Mr. Lorenson.”
Mr. Lorenson, sensing Reyna’s stiff expression today, felt a little sorry for her.
Today, Mr. Lorenson came with the order from the Duchess to tease Reyna’s side and put pressure on her.
Feeling sorry and regretful, Mr. Lorenson lightened the atmosphere with a light remark.
“……Be careful not to hurt yourself. Isn’t Miss’s face a treasure of the Empire?”
“…….”
It didn’t seem to have had much effect.
After all, Reyna forced a smile with her still stiff face.
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.”
