It Was Me, Not You

the Grand Duke’s clothes also forgot their specialty and meaning for Madame to make herself.

As soon as I saw the clothes, I thought of Diana’s words that she didn’t have any clothes, so I couldn’t care about other things.

‘No, you didn’t care.’

I can’t believe that I almost humiliated my only daughter because I care about Diana.

Looking at Rowoon’s expression as he was speaking, the Grand Duke glanced unreservedly from the colorful clothes the maids were holding.

“I made a slip of the tongue.
Haron, move those clothes to Seia’s room.
And buy some of Diana’s clothes at the salon on the estate.”

“Yes, sir, sir.”

Only then did the butler’s face and the maids’ faces change, but the duke still couldn’t untie his stiff face and left the lobby.

***

“The weather is nice.”

The winter wind was still fierce, but today the wind was dying down and the sun was out.

The trail was full of warmth from the sun rather than the coldness of winter because the sunlight was pouring out without any shade.

Feeling better, I smiled and stepped forward.

“How I wish I could be so peaceful until I leave here.”

I wasn’t sure how long I could stay here.

I don’t know what he’s thinking now, but no one knows when his mind will change.

It would not be strange if the order was issued tomorrow.

Even if the Grand Duke’s mind did not change, there was Seia in the Grand Duke’s house.

Seia hates me.

Even if Seia’s defeat was tolerable, Seia would grow up with Diana, who was year-old, but she could not keep Diana here forever.

But I wish I could live in the Great duchy until I’m 15.

The coming-of-age ceremony was 16 years old, but 15 was still old enough to save small things even if they went out.

You may be kicked out of this place at any time, so you have to learn more than now to go out to live alone.

Diana was ten years old, but she didn’t know anything about the empire, about this grand duchy.

“But to do that, I need to be able to read a book…”

Diana doesn’t know how to read.

I had to read books to learn and know whether it was an empire or something, but I couldn’t even start because I didn’t know how to write.

Diana narrowed her brows in a huge difficulty that she encountered before she even started.

“How do you learn to write?”

It was impossible to learn to write alone.
It might be possible if you were a genius, but you’re not a genius.

However, I couldn’t ask the Grand Duke to add a teacher because I wanted to learn how to write.
Just in case you think I’m being bold.

“First of all… let’s see if there’s a book to learn how to write on your own.”

I wondered if it was possible to learn writing while reading a book alone, but I decided to try anything for now.

The butler said I could go around the Grand Duchy at will.
There would be a study, so it would be better to look for books there.

“But can I go into the study?”

The study could have been the personal space of the Grand Duke.
Whenever she tried to do something, Diana sighed a little at the problems that were blocked.

If I were a little older, I would have gone out and found the library.

However, it was dangerous for a child like Diana to leave the castle recklessly.

Even so, I don’t know have any close servants within the Grand Duchy, and now that Kunta has gone down to her hometown, there is no one to ask for help.

“Ah… Shall I ask Edwin a favor?”

If it was Edwin, she would be able to learn a lot because he knew a lot about writing.

Diana, whose expression brightened for a moment, remembered that he was a knight of the Grand Duke.

If he can teach me how to write, we will have to see each other often, but it wouldn’t be a good idea to spread the word about Edwin and I being close in the castle.

‘Not Edwin.’

When I was looking at my small hand and thinking about what to do, a noisy sound came from somewhere.

“What is it?”

Diana stepped cautiously towards the sound.

As I left the trail and went to the back of the thick forest, I could hear the humming voice clearly.

“Where are you staring straight at when you’re stealing my stuff?”

“I can’t believe how such a bad girl came into the Grand Duchy, when I thought she was a thief who stole Marie’s stuff.”

“Let’s  talk to the butler.
She’ll be beaten and kicked out.
“

What do you mean?

Diana looked hard at the maid’s back.
And when I turned my eyes slightly, I saw a scarlet-haired maid sitting in front of the maids.

The scarlet-haired maid, who looked young, seemed to have been pushed down by someone.

The little maid looked at the maids and shouted, glaring at the scarlet eyes that were identical to my hair.

“I didn’t steal it! I’ve never even seen Marie’s necklace! And all of a sudden, it’s a necklace that you guys searched for and found!”

“What’s the point of that? It’s important that my necklace came out of your bag!”

“It was a bag I had never opened since I entered the castle.
Ask Harin, who is sharing the room with me, because I didn’t even touch the bag!”

“My, why do I have to ask?  After all, my necklace came out of your bag, so I’m done!  Before you get beaten by the butler for nothing, you know how to get out of the castle!”

I could feel the voice of a maid named Marie trembling slightly.

She could barely hear it, but she could tell that the circumstances of the theft claimed by that maid, Marie, were quite clumsy.