“To impersonate a dead person, you must be up to something.”
The Butler shouted low and glared at Lena.
“Butler, it’s me.”
“Look! Who the hell is this? Why, for money?”
“Are you really, really not aware?”
Lena’s eyes shook. No way.
Six years was definitely a long time. However, it’s not enough to forget about the people we lived with. Moreover, Lena’s face remained in her childhood. It’s weird not to be recognized.
“Don’t you really know me?”
“Stop it….!”
“Then, remember this? Staircase carpet next to my room.”
When the Butler sighed, Lena grudged.
“When I was seven, I fell down on the stairs all the time. So you laid two more carpets on the side. Even if I fall, I’m not hurt. But the stair jaw is high, so I fell more and also others.”
Lena’s mouth, who was stuttering her memory, had a sad smile.
“But the Butler kept putting the carpet on. Because of me, so I don’t get hurt. Don’t you remember this?”
“Where else did you hear that story?”
“Butler…”
“Please stop. I don’t know where you heard that story, but our Miss has died. If you knew how sad our Master was then, you wouldn’t dare to do this!”
When Lena proved herself with a warm memory, the Butler shouted with a resentful voice. Lena’s affection for him gradually subsided.
At that time.
With a knock, the palace servant opened the door of the reception room. The servant was holding tea and refreshments on a tray.
“Thank you, please leave.”
The Butler got up and took the tray. Then he hurried the servants back. Until then, it was an ordinary act of a hard-working butler. But the following was different.
‘Poor lady….’
He sighed at Lena. Then, he took a watch out of his arms. It was a pocket watch commonly used by old men and women of that age.
He pretended to check the time. Then the water flowed from the watch’s main hole and dropped into the teacup.
It was a gentle poison. A comfortable poison that took your breath away as if you drunk it.
‘Why did you come back?’
The Butler swallowed his saliva.
In fact, he also recognized Lena at first sight. She was once a pretty girl since she was born.
When Lena uncovered the carpet story, his heart seemed to break.
She still didn’t know. The carpet didn’t make the servants fall along, but they pretended to fall for the girl who fell and was embarrassed. They all played for a clumsy and cute girl.
It was painful to remember those days, but the Butler resolved.
‘Forgive me, Young Lady. Otherwise, everyone dies.’
The Butler apologized inward and turned away. Lena was depressedly sitting and waiting.
The Butler felt hurt again, but he hid his feeling and brought out the poisoned teacup. Lena gladly received the teacup. Then she looked into the dark black tea and said.
“I think it’s useless to say anything now.”
A hushed whisper touched the Butler’s heart.
“I won’t ask you to believe me. Just tell my father I said, ‘Hello. You’ve been doing great.'”
He couldn’t answer. Meanwhile, Lena lifted the teacup. Butler’s breath slowed. Lena blew her breath, cool it down, and took her lips to the teacup.
It’s over. The moment the Butler thought so, the teacup stopped tilting.
“By the way, Butler.”
Lena, who was about to drink the tea, suddenly stopped. Then she said with the teacup on her chin.
“What if I was found dead tomorrow?”
Butler’s heart sank. At the same time, an eerie cold swept over.
When his face turned pale, Lena burst out into laughter.
“I just think about it.”
Lena grinned and drunk the tea. Then, she flipped the teacup, faced the floor.
Lena laughed with her wet lips which had swallowed the poison.1
“Nice to meet you. Then, see you again.”
Lena left the reception room after saying goodbye. The butler, who was left alone, was frozen for a long time and gasped.
‘Did she notice? No, no way….’
He swept his forehead with a trembling hand. A cold sweat broke out. He shivered. Then, he threw the teacup Lena used.
🍃🍃🍃
At the sound of the door opening, Yuni popped his head out of the closet.
“You’re here already? Earlier than I thought….”
When Lena returned to her room, she passed by Yuni. Then, she opened the bathroom door and hung on the sink.
“Euuuhp!”
As soon as he heard the sound of nausea, Yuni ran in surprise.
“Miss, are you okay?”
Lena was throwing up. Yuni tapped Lena on her back without knowing the circumstances. Somehow, Lena threw up a small amount of water.
“What, what’s wrong?”
Yuni asked with her frightened eyes, and Lena replied exhausted.
“Could you help me up? It’s like a kind of neurotoxin. My toes are sore.”
“What?”
Yuni was surprised and looked at Lena. Lena’s complexion was paler than usual. Yuni was astonished at the appearance and supported Lena.
“No, how long has it been since you drink the poison and come here?”
“A nice person gave me, of course, I have to drink it.”2
Lena came out to the living room with the help of Yuni. As she sat on the sofa and checked her own condition, she felt numbness from her toes. There was no pain. It was a little tingling.
Quiet and strong poison. Perhaps if she left alone, the paralysis would rise and she would quietly die.
“Pfft.”
Lena, who observed her condition, suddenly laughed. She grabbed her dress and started laughing.
“Are you out of your mind….?”
Yuni murmured at Lena’s strange behavior. Lena laughed and looked at her hands.
“Oh, that’s funny. Really, so funny.”
What’s so funny about someone who almost poisoned? Yuni asked inward and asked back with a trembling look.
“Have you met your father?”
“No, I met my butler instead.”
Lena said by handing a sheet of paper.
“He didn’t come out when I was looking for him, and only sent me a note?”
“So?”
“I was thrilled.”
Yuni received the paper with a puzzled face and unfolded it.
—Don’t use a father’s wound. I’ll give you my advice this time, but not next.
Yuni glanced back at the contents and asked.
“Thrilled?”
“There, he told me not to use his wound.”
“I think this is the point of anger, Miss.”
“Think again. A wound left means you’re hurt. It means it hurts, and it also means to regret it.”
Lena whispered in a pure voice.
“So I just wanted him to say sorry for me.”
“Don’t tell me you believe all of that.”
“It’s not like that, but there is one thing. So I was confused, but the butler was poisoning the tea. It’s so funny.”
Actually, she was a little surprised when the servant brought the tea and refreshments over. They treated a person as a fraud and served her tea.
She thought it was strange, so she looked carefully. At that time, there was a slight sound of water and after that, the drop of water went down into the teacup with the expected action. She didn’t expect that until then. When she took the teacup and saw the pale face of the butler.
As a result, Lena, who was convinced, drank the tea. For her father. Yuni, who heard the story, frowned and murmured.
“But what if you drink the poison?”
“I wanted to try, so I drank it. I won’t die.”
“Even if you don’t die…”
It hurts.
Yuni was trying to say this, but he swallowed it back. Then, she changed her face and sighed again.
“Well, that’s funny but weird. Your father is great, too. How did he get the poison right away?”
“He’s a person who has excellent determination.”
Lena replied with a bright face. She seemed happy to know her father’s true intention. Yuni stared at her self-righteous figure and sat next to Lena. It was similar to the way cats swipe to comfort people. The little servant replied sullenly.
“He’ll come by tomorrow to check on Miss’ life.”
“So I’d like to visit first and say hello.”
“That’s a good idea. Then the assassin will come next time, right?”
“He will.”
“Then I have to write it on the bed before he came. Lena Rubel’s bed, Yuni’s bed.”1
“You mean you’re going to sleep alone?”
“I’m still young.”
Yuni betrayed the young lady without any remorse. Then she stared at her with cat-like eyes. Lena laughed and got drunk on the sweetness of the poison.
***
That night, Lena rarely slept.
‘It’s hot.’
She felt like charcoal rolling in her stomach. Perhaps because of her weakness, the burning sensation within her body changed its volume from time to time and began to spread throughout her body.
Lena stumbled over the heat and finally got out of bed. A cry came from the darkness. She went out to the balcony, held the railing so that she wouldn’t break down. Then, she inhaled deeply.
“Heuu…”
The early spring night air was cold. Thanks to this, she could cool down a little.
A strange scene from the Imperial Palace came into her sight. It was after midnight, but there were some bright windows. Young aristocrats seemed to enjoy socializing and playing until dawn.
‘They look happy.’
Lena leaned against the railing and watched the twinkling lights and the shadows coming and going. The sound of music was heard in the wind.
‘If only I could be there.’
If only, if only her father didn’t sell her. Lena waited for the day to debut in the social world. She wanted to greet the Emperor with her most beautiful appearance, congratulate other people, and dance with a wonderful gentleman.
Was that so greedy?
No, it was a natural
If only.1
“If only…”
Lena, who lost in her words, moved her eyes. She could see a quiet lake under the twinkling lights.
She suddenly wanted to take a walk, so at first, she looked around and jumped gently from the balcony on the second floor.
‘It’s dark.’
When she came down, the garden was darker than she expected.
‘Could the late-night garden be a meeting place?’
She remembered a verse from a novel she secretly saw as a child. Now, she couldn’t remember in detail, but for some tragic reason, it was a story of a man and woman unable to love, secretly making love in a late-night garden.
Lena walked through the dark garden, brooding over the old memories.
It was then, a mysterious feeling was felt behind her. At the same time, Yuni’s voice was saying an assassin was coming into her mind.
‘It’s here already?’
Lena turned back reflexively and hit her opponent with her elbow.
TAK!
However, Lena’s elbow stopped in the air with a slight drag. Lena, whose arm was held, pulled herself by biting it.
Then the suspect said.
“Calm down.”
It was an ordinary kind of voice. Lena opened her eyes by the familiar voice.
“Sir Lynn?”1
She’s right.
At Lena’s call, a young man who had been attacked as an unidentified man nodded.
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gosh, they wanted to kill her 🙁 i feel her, its so sad, she’s sold by her beloved father, and when she came back, her father wanted to get rid of her, by any means :((( i wanted to cry
this storyline is so amazing and unpredictable