Rose unfurled her fan with a flick. Oh, good. A villainess should have the skill of brandishing a fan.
Lacking in age and development, but she’s prepared with the right items. Keep it up, and trample the female lead, your destined rival, properly.
“Are you disrespecting me because I’m young? What I said might sound like a joke to you, but it’s a serious warning!”
Rose smiled triumphantly.
“Let me tell you something you don’t know. I’m not sure why Lord Darius suddenly changed his mind, but originally, you weren’t even supposed to set foot in this castle. A woman sent from the South, you were supposed to be locked up in a gloomy castle far from here!”
It was a mental attack, implying that she was meant to be abandoned and still holds no significant status.
“How did you know that?”
“I overheard the adults talking… Ah, no! Of course, I knew! I’m important enough to know these things!”
“I knew because Darius told me.”
Just before I met you.
〈I apologize. I sincerely regret deciding to send you elsewhere without meeting you, despite your attempts to escape the Fosche family.〉
〈Alright, I accept your apology. But I hope it’s not just words. I’ll keep it as a debt. Pay me back later.〉
I heard it clearly, an apology for that mistake, right from Darius’s mouth at the castle gate.
If Darius hadn’t told me this, what would I have done now? Would I have had to bite my nails and collapse pitifully, saying, ‘Oh, I trusted only the Duke!’?
‘Even if I really didn’t know, it wouldn’t have come to that.’
“Da, Darius? How dare you call the, the, the Duke by his name!”
Watching Rose’s face turn red and her getting worked up is much more entertaining than me collapsing.
Truth be told, we’re not that close yet, but it’s fun to see her flustered like this. She’s still young, unable to hide her changing expressions.
“Young Lady Temery might not understand yet, but the Duke and I are a married couple, you know? It’s a term of endearment between spouses.”
Rose’s face instantly fell.
“No, my brother wouldn’t…!”
In her childhood, did she go around saying, ‘When I grow up, I’ll marry Brother Darius’?
If that’s the case, Darius really needs a talking-to. After all, the male lead in a romance novel should have proper morals from a young age.
Even if a girl like a younger sister clings to him calling ‘Brother!’, he should have the sense to coldly push her away.
The male lead shouldn’t have past girlfriends or even known younger sisters.
His relationships are dependent on the female lead, and his world should revolve around her.
‘Of course, the female lead can have past flirtations, like a playful childhood marriage promise, a meeting at a festival, or a friend’s brother she’s known for a long time.’
Anyway, Rose Temery’s anger was somewhat justified.
Originally, I should have been locked away in a remote castle, unseen as Darius’s wife.
Consequently, there wouldn’t have been a chance for Rose Temery to see and seethe with jealousy over the wife of the man she secretly loves.
‘It’s surprising, but if she were to say ‘Why are you here when you shouldn’t be!’, it would be magically ‘Your anger is justified’.’
‘After all, she held the title of being the closest woman to her beloved Brother Darius before the female lead appeared.’
She might not realize it, though.
“Lady Temery, it seems foolish for an adult like me to seriously get angry at a young girl who hasn’t even had her debutante ball yet.”
In a way, Rose Temery is similar to the original Anette in the story. She desires a romantic relationship with the male lead but her feelings are unreciprocated.
Additionally, the Temery family is an ally to the male lead and should be kept close.
‘She tries so hard, but ultimately, she’s just a side character who gets coldly rejected by the male lead.’
Thinking about her ending does make me feel sympathetic…
But that doesn’t mean I need to go easy on her, right?
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.”
