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After sending them all back to the Duke of Siegbert, I was able to return to my room and rest.
My head was throbbing and my mind was confused, this was probably because of the flu.
I really didn’t understand. Why did he send such presents for everyone to see?
Was he warning me?
“Nanny, bring me some notepaper and a pen.”
Maybe the purpose of the gifts is for me to decide a date and send it to him quickly.
“Yes, and His Majesty said you should have lunch together with him.”
“Father? Then I think I’ll have to change my clothes.”
Although the dress I’m wearing is comfortable, I couldn’t wear this dress when meeting my father and brother.
Because the traces of the villain still haven’t disappeared yet!
I had to wear a very stuffy-looking dress that would cover me from my neck to my ankles.
“Then what about brother? Will it be father only?
“His highness the crown prince will attend too.”
“Okay. Let’s write a letter first.”
How can I delay this as much as possible? Why was it so difficult to think of a plausible excuse for me to write?
Although I would meet him, I had to postpone the date as much as possible but wrote that the villain would be fully responsible for it.
So I made a perfect lie.
“Nanny. Send this to the Duke of Siegbert.”
“Yes.”
I’ve finished one big problem today.
Now, all I had to do was drink tea, and play after eating lunch.
As expected, I liked being reborn as a princess because the lifestyle was amazing.
I was very happy with this kind of life. Where I was loved by my family and lived as a wealthy person without doing anything.
My dream in my past life was to be so rich I could live unemployed, and the dream came true in this life.
“Dad!”
It’s sad that I don’t have a mother anymore, but I had a nanny, father, and brother who loved me very much so my mother’s absence was not felt.
My dad’s expression looked very serious.
“Dad, what’s going on today?”
I didn’t think anything big would happen, so I just sat in my usual seat.
“Yulia, I heard that the Duke of Siegbert sent you a present today.”
I started sweating and didn’t know what to say.
I thought of anything to say because I had to make excuses.
“I sent them all back!”
“Yulia, it’s very strange though. The Duke of Siegbert would never have seen you.”
Oh sh*t. Officially, I’ve never met the villain.
If we haven’t officially met, then I’ll just say we have.
“……It was Cecil’s birthday last time, so he might have attended the birthday party. I think I might have saw him for a while.”
“Hm….”
“As you know, I’m very pretty!”
To be honest, this beauty was uncommon. The more I stare into the mirror, the more I wonder how the villain in the novel was so cold to such a beautiful woman.
It didn’t make sense.
If such a beauty, who is also a princess, pursues you, shouldn’t it be worth paying attention too?
“Yeah you are. You look a lot like your mother.”
The immediate crisis seemed to have been avoided.
I smiled when my dad mentioned my mom.
In the past, he used to be in a lot of pain.
“Yulia, it seems that you’ve received a gift, but this father already has a suitor.”
“……what?”
“The Duke of Siegbert looked like a man who would marry you even if it cost his life.”
“No!”
There’s nothing good about being tied to a villain.
Even now, I’m caught in a weak spot so I can’t blatantly refuse him. Who dares think about marriage?
Anyway, he’s going to be obsessed with the heroine once he runs into her!
In the original, there was a phrase he said the moment he saw the heroine.
-Young lady, have we met before? For example, when I was young.
At first, I didn’t know that he was the villian, since I read the book from the female lead’s perspective. In fact I read this because I liked sub male leads more than the male lead.
I was rooting for the villain.
I had a disease that made me like sub male leads, so I cheered for him until it was revealed that he was a villain.
Above all, the reason I liked him the most was that he didn’t bat an eyelid and only looked at the female lead, even though the pretty princess followed him around and kept saying how much she liked him.
-We can understand each other. You and I know the pain of losing someone precious.
I felt so sad when I heard that. I was cheering until it was revealed that he was a villain.
Even when the scene of killing all her family members and taking the throne appeared in front of Princess Yulia, all I thought was, “wow he was a villain.”
I had no idea the seriousness of the action.
Until I was reborn as Princess Yulia.
“……Dad, you don’t want me to marry soon, do you?”
“If you don’t like it, I can’t help it, but I don’t think there’s a better son-in-law than the Duke of Siegbert.”
“The Duke of Blair.”
“Well, Duke Blair is not a bad son-in-law.”
Then I heard the door open, maybe my brother came.
“Didn’t you say I was the most handsome person in the past?”
“Brother!”
In fact, my favorite character in the novel was Yulia’s brother.
He was a typical older brother who loved his younger sister very much and did not stop her from chasing the villain, whom she liked.
So he was as popular as the villain, but in the end, he was an unfortunate extra who ended up with his neck cut off by the villain.
“When did you change your taste?”
“Of course, you’re still the most handsome!”
“Yeah. Don’t ever get married. I’ll live with you forever.”
Such a harmonious family was destroyed when Yulia met the villain.
Because Yulia liked the villain, she found it okay to follow him.
Finding his daughter’s behavior lovely, the Emperor decided to marry her with the villain.
However, the action caused tragedy.
So, I just didn’t have to like the villain. I could protect my family if I wasn’t obsessed with him and followed him around.
While receiving such overwhelming love from my family, I could marry someone who did not appear in the original story.
Or I could just not marry anyone.
It’s a little risky to have a one night stand with the villain, but he’ll probably stop paying attention to me the moment he meets Cecil.
“But when will you get married?”
Now that I think about it, my brother didn’t have a fiancé even though he was the Crown Prince.
And even after a few years of adulthood, there was still no fiancée. It was strange.
“Shouldn’t you be treated like a Crown Prince? Dad! When are you going to get brother married?”
“Yulia says that, but shouldn’t you get married now?”
He’s the crown prince, so shouldn’t he get married now? What if he dies without getting married with that beautiful face?
“Brother. If you don’t get married, I think the Imperial family will end in our generation.”
“Yulia.”
“I don’t want to get married, but my brother should still get married. And since you’re the crown prince, shouldn’t you fulfill this duty?”
“…Yulia, do you want me to get married?”
No! Stay as my brother forever!
I can’t give it to anyone! That perfect appearance! His friendly personality! He’s a perfect older brother that can’t be given to anyone.
Sigh. I was both happy and sad to be reincarnated as my favorite character’s younger sister.
“No, I don’t want you to get married.”
“Father. I’m not getting married.”
“No! That’s not what I meant!”
“Haha, I understand, Yulia. Sooner or later, I will find out if there is a girl who is suitable for the Crown Prince.”
I was a little sad, but the fact he’s my older brother would not change.
And the time has come for him to get married.
“Dad, can I go out?”
“I don’t think I’ve ever said no.”
He never said no, but when I said I was going to attend Cecil’s birthday party, he tried to stop me! Don’t pretend you’re not reluctant!
“Then can I go out?”
“Alone?”
“I’ll take the escort with me, it’s not like I’m sneaking out anyway…”
“Yeah, be sure to take an escort when you go out. That’s all. Losing one precious person is enough.”
In the original book, I knew to some extent the biggest reason why Yulia was loved.
Living as Yulia, I understood the reason why she was not restrained no matter what she did, and why she was rude and her personality was arbitrary.
It was true that my father and brother loved me.
But they didn’t just see myself completely, they also saw my mother.
The three of us have the same silver hair and purple eyes, but my father and brother resemble each other strongly as if they were copied and pasted. My features however, were the same as my mother.
Perhaps Yulia in the original story, who learned about it, began to change her personality slightly.
But I’m satisfied with my life now.
Even if I projected my dead mother, their love for me remained unchanged, so I didn’t hate it.
“I’m not going out today, but later!”
“Okay.”
It was almost the end of the meal.
Then the butler came and said something to my dad, he started staring at me with a very troubled expression.
Why are you looking at me like that?
“Yulia. The Duke of Sigebert is waiting for you in the drawing room.”
(T/N: A drawing room is a room where visitors are received and entertained. Although similar to a living room, a living room is generally for everyday whereas a drawing room is specifically for guests)
“…What?”
I desperately hoped that I heard it wrong.
“You’d better go to the drawing room right now.”
“…Dad!”
“Even if this father is an emperor, it’s not easy to just send him back because he’s a person who has made a lot of contributions in the war.”
“……”
“I think it’ll work best if you refuse him yourself, or get engaged to someone similar to the Duke of Siegbert.”
“…I’ll get going.”
My head was already pounding. I had forgotten for a moment, but before being a villian, he was also a hero.
A bouquet of flowers appeared as soon as the door to the drawing room, where the villain was located, was opened.
“…What is this?”
“Shouldn’t you have these items when you visit the person you’re going to marry?”
As soon as he handed the bouquet, it slipped from my hands and fell on the floor. The incident was fantastic but then I accidentally stepped on the flowers.
It was clear that the biggest mistake of my life wasn’t having a one night stand with the villain, but this very moment.
And am I going to die like this? It was a short but good life.