Well, that is all.
If you get jealous of trivial things, you can’t say it in public.
I tried to suppress a hearty laugh and shouted.
“Teacher! I will leave early.”
It’s good to watch the two of them fight for love right beside me, but I have to escape and survive.
Because the jealousy that is only cute now will kill me later.
As I returned home from leaving early, I headed to the garden of the Marquis’ residence.
Filled with forget-me-not flowers, which were considered the symbol of the Heather family, this was the perfect place to organize your thoughts.
“There are so many mountains to climb…. I cant see any signs of a solution.”
First of all, the serious thing right now is the prince’s jealousy.
This is the ultimate reason for my death.
In order to get rid of the prince’s jealousy, who behaves like he did just by seeing me talking to Vin, I clearly shouldn’t have any business with Vin at all.
But even that is not easy.
While at the academy, I have no choice but to stick with Vin. It is the same at home too.
Why? Because we are engaged!
As long as we’re engaged, no matter how much I’d try to avoid it, I will have no choice but to run into Vin in the end.
“Ah, I really want to break off my engagement.”
I ran a simulation in my head
‘Mother! Father! I want to break off my engagement with Vin.’ ‘What? Why?’ ‘It’s because I don’t like Vin anymore.’ ‘Yes……. Let’s calm down and talk to Dr. Saint’
Well….. Also it will never happen.
Damn! I can’t break off the engagement, I can’t make Sith enter the art contest!
I will be killed!
“Should I just run away and hide in a mountain somewhere?”
I can’t really see another way, so for now, this seems to be the most likely solution.
Now, why don’t I just stop doing nonsense and collect some money to escape?
It was when I thought so, I heard a familiar voice.
“I’m going to the Konkuk International Art Contest.”
A soft voice that hadn’t gone through puberty yet, it belongs to Sith.
What is this housekeeper, who is always stuck in his room all day doing in the garden?
No, more than that, what did you just say?
Are you going to the Konkuk International Art Contest? But you said no when I asked.
Scha, scha. The sound of stepping on low grass was not one.
There was one more sound, a little lighter.
I quickly hid behind a large tree and listened.
“If I win the prize money, there is a place I want to use it”
“Where will you use it?”
The face of the other person I saw through the branches was strangely familiar.
She was the lady-in-waiting at Sith’s side.
The look on Sith’s face as he faced her was as comfortable as ever.
I didn’t see the usual hostility.
“I want to use it to cure you’re mother’s illness. They said they couldn’t treat her because the cost of her treatment was exorbitant.”
“What? Why don’t you spend that much money on me……I heard it’s 3 million gold. With that money, I could buy a huge house.”
3 million gold!
In the novel, it seems that the amount of money that Vin and the crown prince took as travel funds was exactly that much.
Wouldn’t that amount of money be enough for me to run away alone?
“When I hurt by my family, Anna, you took care of me. I also want to help you.”
“Ah, Master……!”
The lady-in-waiting cried as if she was moved, and opened her mouth.
“Young master, I-I know I shouldn’t dare feel this way, but I like you. The young master’s benevolent heart and mature side that was not befitting his age stole my heart.”
“Anna…sorry. I can’t like you. I…”
Oh, I think I know what will follow,
Sith Heather is the sub of <The Crown Prince’s Lover>, and that means… he’s gay.
“I like men.”
But as far as I know, the timing for those words to come out of Sith’s mouth is not now.
It is only falling in love with Vin, at the age of 21, that Sith realizes his sexual orientation.
Something strange is going on.
Was there a setting that Sith hand been confessed to by a handmaid?
I don’t know, but it could be an omitted setting.
However, the age of realizing his sexual orientation was certainly not omitted.
The phrase of the moment Sith fell in love with Vin is still in my head.
Have I ever felt this trembling in my heart before? No, I had never felt this. It was the first time in my 21 years of living that I felt this. I am not embarrassed by my feelings. Also it is my first time, I’m able to understand right away. I’m in love with Vin Ortega. I guess this was the reason I had no interest in women
What the hell happened?! Did something influence Sith without my knowledge…?
I couldn’t even breathe in the confusion.
It was then.
“Miss Irillin! Where are you!”
My maid Wendy shouted in a loud voice. She was about to bring the whole garden down.
Hey! I’m hiding right now…
Ahh…I’ve been caught.
“Irillin?”
Sith looked around for me.
His blue eyes, lost and wandering in search of my location, eventually found its destination thanks to his lady-in-waiting who reached right next to me.
I smiled shyly and walked out of the tree I was hiding behind.
“Ha ha ha……. Wendy….”
“Oh….I’m sorry miss! I didn’t know. I’m sorry miss. Please forgive me.”
“Okay, can you tell me what you found me for.”
Sith’s stared at me with contempt so stinging that I gestured for Wendy to speak quickly.
She said with a face as if she had just come back from the dead.
“The Little Duke of Ortega has arrived! He wants to see you.”
“What? Vin? Me? Why?”
Unless it was between families, Vin never came to the Marquis Heather’s house first.
But if he insisted on finding me, that means it’s not a matter between families.
What happened to the Vin who was busy avoiding Irillin like she was a nasty bug?
This also seems to be something I didn’t see in the novel…
“Irillin.”
Sith, with a much more gloomy expression than usual, walked towards me.
“You heard us.”
It was a low and plain voice, but thick hostility emanated from him, as if he was holding a knife.
It was a blatant attitude, as if he had no intention of hiding it.
‘Your Majesty, Please kill Irillin’
The words of Sith I had read in the novel seemed to be stuck in my head.
Tis is dangerous, I could die right now even before everything else.
There was no basis for this though, but my instincts said so.
“How much have you heard?”
“…Everything.”
I answered honestly.
I knew that I would not be able to fool Sith with a clumsy lie that would get exposed anyway.
“You heard all of it.”
Sith muttered in a weak voice and lowered his head.
His hand gripping his pants were shaking.
…Are you afraid?
What are you afraid of?
The fact that his secret was revealed to the one he hates? Or, do you think I’m going to spread his secret everywhere?
Either way, I’ll get rid of his concerns.
That way he’ll put his worries to rest.
“I just want you to know. About what I just heard…”
“Let people leave first.”
Sith glanced at Wendy and said.
“Anna. I’ll come back later.”
“Yes.. young master.”
I spoke to Wendy who was behind me.
‘I’ll tell the Little Duke to wait for a while!’ Wendy quickly ran away and we sat on the bench.
A heavy tension flowed.
Sith was the first to speak.
“……..Why don’t you say anything?”
“What do you want me to say?”
“No… I knew you would mock me.”
” Don’t say that “
“You’ll say it in front of everyone and you’ll tell our parents everything”
An unknown emotion in his eyes became more intense.
There was something I understood from that.
What he fears the most is being more ostracized from his parents.
“Don’t speak, or I’ll go around telling them right now.”
He kept quiet.
“Look, it’s perfectly natural for people to like people. And men are people, Are they not?”
I watched my sister suffer at my side when our father found out about the novel.
Even so, I couldn’t even say a word of consolation to her.
Just because it was unfamiliar.
Even if we were always fighting and bickering. She would hold my hand. I regretted not doing what I could but by that time my sister had already gone missing.
Since then, there is something I always keep in my heart to say if I ever see my unnie 1(Older sister or sister) again.
“I know you’re not wrong. If our parents say you’re wrong, it’s our parents fault.”
This may mean nothing to him, but my sister must have wanted to hear this so much.
I would have wanted to be sure that there was someone who supported me. I’d would have liked to be safe.
I, who couldn’t do anything felt a bit relieved through Sith.
“……If you think so, keep your word.”
After saying that, Sith stood up from the bench and turned away from me.
The face of the guy who stood in the shade of the tree, didn’t show the same hatred as before.
‘Are you consoled…’
T/N: This chapter gave me the feels. Not really
