“Are you really going to meet them?”
Lucas, who had heard the news that ‘Rosette’s birth parents have appeared and might take her away’, came to Rosette’s room and asked anxiously.
Rosette was just as anxious. She sighed as she braided her hair with Joan’s help.
“I’m not sure.”
“But your father said he’d respect your opinion. If you say you don’t want to, he’ll just send them away. Just say you don’t want to.”
“But……”
“They’re the parents who abandoned you! You said you’ve never even seen them, so you’ve never missed them!”
“I did say that.”
“What? So you’ve changed your mind now?”
“……”
Rosette pressed her lips tightly and looked in the mirror. Her expression in the reflection looked gloomy.
‘I thought I didn’t miss them.’
But it seems that was just self-hypnosis. Since she knew they wouldn’t come anyway, she must have comforted herself like that.
For children in orphanages, having birth parents come to find them was like a miracle. They would hug the child while crying, saying they were sorry and that they could be together now. It was a miracle that Rosette didn’t have in her past life.
Even when she went to the Dallas family, she only thought about wanting to become family with them, never expecting that the family who abandoned her might come looking for her.
But now that she could actually meet her parents, her feelings were strange.
“I just wanted to see them once, I guess.”
“So you’re just going to see them? You’ll stay here, right?”
“……”
“Little one.”
“I will.”
After some thought, Rosette spoke quite firmly.
“This is my home.”
Last night, Rosette heard from Duke Adrian that the people who came looking for her were likely her real parents. He said the mana in their hair matched very strongly when compared.
He also said that her birth parents wanted to take Rosette with them. They were going to leave for the Kingdom of Evelyn, so if she went with them, it would be hard to see the people of Adrian again.
Rosette was a bit unsettled at first. But her conclusion was one.
“Adrian is my family.”
Her family wasn’t the parents who gave birth to her, nor the Marquis Dallas family who had taken her in the past.
Adrian. That was where she belonged.
But since she was curious about what kind of people her parents were, she decided to meet them. It seemed okay to just see what kind of people they were, just once.
“Little one.”
Lucas sniffled and hugged Rosette.
Rosette barely managed to detach him and headed to the reception room.
As she entered, a rather well-dressed couple stood up. They looked to be in their late 20s or early 30s.
“Rose.”
A woman with hair color identical to Rosette’s took her hand and choked up.
“You’ve grown up so beautifully. Really beautifully.”
“Yes.”
“Do you remember your mother?”
“…No.”
“I see, you were so young then.”
“……”
Next, the man who was supposed to be her father greeted her. He had ordinary brown hair and blue eyes.
“This father has missed you so much too. You look just like your mother.”
Well. Rosette tilted her head as she looked at the woman.
Objectively speaking, Rosette couldn’t find any resemblance to her except for the hair color.
Besides.
‘It’s awkward.’
She had once imagined her birth parents coming to find her. It was the night when mischievous Will’s birth parents came to the orphanage.
At that time, Rosette imagined parents hugging her tightly and felt a lump in her throat. She thought she would cry a lot when she met them.
But no tears came. She didn’t feel particularly happy either.
It was just awkward.
Her parents were so happy to see her, but why didn’t she feel anything?
‘I miss Dad and elder sister and elder brother.’
She wanted these people to leave quickly so she could have a delicious dinner with her family. Throughout dinner, there would be silly stories going back and forth at the table. It would still be an enjoyable time.
Rosette spent time just going along with what her parents said.
Then, the woman suggested.
“How about going on a little outing with Mom and Dad?”
“An outing?”
This time the man chimed in.
“Yes. I heard there’s a lake near the capital, let’s go boating there.”
“Well……”
Still, she couldn’t bring herself to refuse her parents’ suggestion. Rosette mumbled vaguely.
“I need Dad’s permission.”
The man burst out laughing.
“Dad is right here, what permission do you need?”
“I mean the current Dad, Duke Adrian’s permission.”
“Ah.”
The two were taken aback but soon nodded in agreement.
“Right, after all, the Duke is your current guardian, so we should get his permission.”
Rosette thought that if she went to Duke Adrian, he would just casually refuse.
However, after examining Rosette’s face, he nodded.
“Alright. It would be good for you to spend time with your parents too.”
“But……”
Rosette only managed to open and close her mouth before getting into the carriage with the couple.
Duke Adrian offered to provide a carriage from the ducal family, but the couple declined. So they rode in the carriage they had come in.
“Since we’re out, let’s have lunch together too. What do you like?”
“I like everything. Except shrimp.”
“I see. There’s a delicious steak restaurant nearby, so we can go there.”
“Okay.”
Even now in the carriage, the couple did most of the talking, and Rosette just listened quietly.
Then, as Rosette was absentmindedly looking out the window, she noticed something strange.
‘Where is this?’
She hadn’t been to many places in the capital. But from what she had heard, the road to the lake was well-paved because many nobles went there.
But the road they were on now was narrow and bumpy. The carriage they were riding in wasn’t very good, so it bounced a lot.
Rosette looked outside and asked a bit quizzically.
“We are going to the lake, right?”
“Of course. Why do you suddenly ask that?”
“It’s nothing.”
Rosette just fidgeted with her fingers. She couldn’t help thinking that she wanted to finish sightseeing at the lake quickly and go home.
‘I’m tired.’
As she thought this, letting the woman’s words go in one ear and out the other, the woman closed the window and asked.
“Do you know what your name means? The name Rosette.”
Rosette perked up her ears.
“My name?”
“Yes. Even before you were born, we decided to name you Rosette if you were a pink-haired girl like me.”
“…?”
“You really did have pink hair, and we named you Rosette.”
At that moment, the woman’s smile looked eerie to Rosette.
[This is the timeline separator]Duke Adrian looked at the documents with a troubled mind. But he couldn’t focus on work at all.
His mind was filled only with thoughts of Rosette.
‘I wonder if she’ll be shy.’
Although she had become much brighter and more sociable than when they first met, Rosette was still uncomfortable with people she met for the first time. Even if they were her birth parents, she would be uncomfortable.
‘Maybe I should have gone with her, even if it seemed strange.’
As he was regretting a little, the door burst open without a knock and his aide rushed in.
“My lord!”
“What is it? Without even knocking……”
“We just compared the hair of the man claiming to be the young lady’s father with the young lady’s hair. Lady Cellinne said the match rate between the mother’s and the young lady’s hair was too high.”
“And?”
“They are not family.”
Duke Adrian jumped up from his chair.
“What?”
“They are complete strangers with no blood relation. Lady Cellinne re-examined the mother’s hair and says it seems to have been artificially created using the young lady’s hair.”
“Why on earth would they do such a thing……”
After pondering for a moment, Duke Adrian hurriedly left his office.
“Tell them to prepare the horses. Quickly!”
[This is the timeline separator]“…What did you just say?”
“Your hair color resembles a rose, so Rosette. That’s why your nickname is Rose too.”
“……”
“We put a note with ‘Rosette’ written on it in your clothes. Fortunately, it seems they named you based on that.”
“Ah……”
At that moment, Rosette realized.
‘These people are fake.’
Rosette’s name was given by the orphanage people. They all proudly said that.
Rosette never doubted that they might have lied. If Rosette’s name had been given by her parents, they would have said so.
These people seemed to be spouting nonsense based on some incorrect information.
‘Of course, it could be a lie made up by my real parents wanting to get close to me, but……’
It didn’t feel right.
If these people were fake, why did they come looking for Rosette and put on this act? For what purpose?
It didn’t seem like money was the goal, so were they trying to kidnap her to do something?
The reason didn’t matter. For now, the priority was to escape from this carriage and go back.
Rosette tried to speak calmly, pretending not to have noticed everything.
“I see. I’ve always wondered why my name is Rosette, and now I know for sure. I had only guessed it was after a rose.”
Rosette inched towards the door.
“By the way, I’m feeling carsick, so could we stop the carriage for a moment?”
“Oh my. That’s troublesome.”
The woman grinned. Rosette sensed that she had realized everything and tried to open the carriage door.
However, the handle wouldn’t turn.
‘Why is this……’
She tried to open the door with magic, but magic didn’t work. Rosette belatedly realized.
‘The carriage has nullification magic on it.’
It seemed they had prepared thoroughly. Judging by the high level of the nullification magic.
‘Of course, I could break it if I tried. But I can’t guarantee what happens after that.’
If they were this meticulous, they would have prepared for Rosette’s escape attempt too.
What should I do, what should I do.
As Rosette chewed her lips anxiously, the woman, who had dropped her act, said coldly.
“It’s better not to try any tricks. Unless you want to see something unpleasant.”
“What are you trying to do with me?”
“Well. Should I keep it a secret, or not?”
The woman cackled as she looked at her long nails.
“There’s an eccentric noble in another kingdom. I hear it’s his hobby to collect children with magical abilities, and we could make quite a profit selling you to that noble. You’re a genius, aren’t you?”
“What is that noble going to do with me?”
The woman shrugged.
“How would I know?”
Rosette clenched her fists tightly. She couldn’t just sit still like this.
‘Pipi.’
At Rosette’s call, Pipi, who was hiding in her pocket, wriggled.
‘I’ll open the window with magic, so go and call Dad. Understand?’
Instead of answering, Pipi pecked her thigh with its beak.
Rosette tapped her pocket with her palm, giving a signal.
One, two, three.
“Now!”
Rosette gathered mana and shattered the window. Pipi leaped out of her pocket and flew vigorously out the window.
______
In This Life, I Won’t Be Foolish To Lose You Again (Female-dominant)
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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