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“Princess.”

Hearing a calm voice behind her, Rieta Liz quickly looked back.

There was a beautiful boy with a very displeased expression.

Noel Mayer.

He had great features, extraordinary intelligence, and a great family, but he didn’t get the position of ‘male lead.’

He was the second male lead of this world.

“In the etiquette of the Mekidia Empire, there’s something such as ‘We consider the feelings of our opponent.’ I never expected the princess to know such common sense like that.”

Oh, that’s right.

Rieta thought of something else he lacked.

It must be a ‘good personality.’

Noel Mayer was successful in maintaining his “ill-tempered” personality ever since he was 10 years old, which was the first time when he first met her.

“I have that much formula, too.” (She misspelled it from 상식 to 산식)

Noel immediately pointed out the error in her answer.

“It’s not formula, it’s common sense.”

“Formula.”

“The flat pronunciation of the kingdom has no signs of improving after several years? What you’re talking about is formula, and the correct pronunciation is common sense.”

“Yes, Four Kings.” (And now what she said became 사왕시익)

Rieta followed him perfectly, but with a more rounded pronunciation.

Of course, Noel didn’t seem to think so.

It was clear when she saw his slightly crooked smile.

“Come here, Princess.”

As Rieta approached him, he turned the chair and faced her face to face.

“Try it again.”

“Formula.”

He looked at Rieta’s lips carefully and asked her to try again.

Slowly this time.

“For—”

“When you say that, here.”

His hand touched Rieta’s lips.

He pushed carefully to the center.

“Back to here.”

“Common sense.”

It seemed he finally liked her pronunciation now.

There was a nice smile on the boy’s face because she finally pronounced it correctly.

“Say it one more time.”

Rieta repeated the same word, leaving her face to him.

He smiled as if it wasn’t bad this time again.

“Good job.”

She wished that he would look like this on a normal day.

No, she didn’t want that.

At least, she hoped he wouldn’t just stab people with sharp words before the afterglow of that shiny face faded away.

“But I think you learn more slowly than others.”

“…..”

He took his hand off Rieta’s face and turned to his original business.

So, that was the reason why he called Rietta, who was planning to turn around and go out, to stop.

“I’d like you to stop leaving this lump of sugar on my desk in the morning.”

What Noel referred to as ‘a lump of sugar’ was actually a ‘macaron’.

“Noel, you don’t like this, do you?”

“Yes, I don’t like it.”

As he frowned, but Rieta replied with a bright smile.

“Yes, so eat it.”

“…..”

Noel answered with his facial expression instead of speaking.

In other words, that meant his face was very wrinkled.

However, Rieta didn’t back down.

He needed to get used to sweets from now on.

The future male lead would have learned to give the female lead’s favorite sweets to her by the time the party was held.

The male lead didn’t mind going to all the trouble of choosing the most delicious food by himself to give to the female lead.

It may look trivial, but these things allowed the relationship between the female and male to lead to progress.

Rieta picked up a macaron.

He improved her pronunciation, so she was thinking of improving his appetite in return.

Noel looked at the small macaron near his mouth. He smiled strangely and asked.

“Do you want to feed me that much?”

When Rieta nodded with a natural expression on her face, the boy took a bite of the macaron, acting as if he was being generous toward her.

It would be hard to finish one, so let’s stop here for today.

Rieta put the limited edition macaron that was already bitten by him, into her mouth.

Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside! She was pleased with the pleasant texture and the gentle sweetness she tasted from the macaron.

As expected, sweet things were the best.

Rieta, who was savoring the last bits of the macaron, realized that Noel was looking at her strangely.

Was it because macarons didn’t suit his palate?

“…Noel?”

When she called him carefully, Noel sighed deeply, trying not to say something.

It was an expression with a lot to point out.

Was there something wrong with my pronunciation? Or was vocabulary the problem?

Rieta looked at him curiously for a long time, but Noel still gave no answer.

*****

Rieta Liz was the princess of a small kingdom.

Even if it was small, it was a good place for wheat and barley to grow well, so if ‘the king had been a good man’, it would never have had financial problems.

However, it was a shame that Rieta’s father, King Liz, was not a very good person.

His first order as king had been to select and bring in the beauties of each region.

Perhaps it was a desire to enjoy pleasure as well as luxury.

Thanks to this, the people of the kingdom always had to be anxious.

Especially because of the king’s reckless sleeping around, it was safe to say that there wouldn’t be a future for the kingdom if a war of successors took place in the future.

But she didn’t know if she could go that far to heaven.

Fortunately, few children were born in the royal family.

The firstborn Rieta, and her two brothers. The three were everything.

Since then, there were no children born, and only then, the king, who realized that pregnancy was difficult, ate an abundance of things that were good for the body without knowing about the subject.

But nothing changed.

Probably, the king did not have much ability to create successors.

“That’s Father’s only strength.”

One day, five-year-old Rieta said that, drawing anger and hatred from her father.

However, she really didn’t want to be loved by him, so she didn’t take it to her heart.

Of course, she wouldn’t have thought so if she were a normal five-year-old.

Rieta Liz was different from a normal child.

She was born with her previous life’s record.

There was a good reason to say ‘record’ here, and not ‘memory’ of her previous life.

Memories are ambiguous, tending to become blurred over time.

Moreover, the rate of forgetting was even faster in life after the environment and life changed.

She easily forgot in her past life, but some things were different.

The book she read, , and the appreciation she wrote about it.

She couldn’t get rid of it even if she didn’t care.

Just as if someone forcibly put it in her head.

And a while later, she also learned the name from “How to Survive as the Ordinary Lady” actually existed in the Empire.

That means, here.

Was the world of the novel?

Rieta was very curious about it, but there was no way to verify it.

There was nothing that mentioned the Liz Kingdom in the book.

Anyway, in an environment full of only wrong enjoyment, it was good to have the record of ‘How to survive as the ordinary lady’.

And then, one day.

Something difficult happened to her kingdom. Of course, it was a matter of money.

Her father said, ‘Let’s ask the Empire of Mekidia. They have a lot of money,’ deciding to send Rieta to a rich empire.

“You look like your mother, so your appearance will be useful.”

She left for the Empire without saying much, although it was embarrassing to do the same diplomacy with his nine-year-old daughter’s face as a weapon.

And it wasn’t for her father’s sake.

It was only for the kind people of the kingdom.

The journey of the princess, who did not have enough travel expenses, was very poor.

If the people of the kingdom who felt sorry for her had not given her rye bread and cheese, she would have starved to death before she could borrow money.

After all, through various twists and turns, Rieta was able to stand before the Emperor of Mekidia.

She might not have known, but her journey left a great impression on the subjects of the empire.

A person called the princess of a country wore clothes and shoes that did not match her size, her stomach rumbling.

The emperor must have felt sorry at first glance, thinking, ‘If I don’t help that child quickly, she will starve to death soon.’

Seeing that he was willing to lend the amount she requested, King Liz was pleased to hear that.

「I’d like to offer my daughter as a token of my gratitude. It would be nice to have her beauty.」

No, he doesn’t need it.

The emperor thought so, but he found no reason to refuse it.

Above all, he was reluctant to return that little child to the stupid king who gestured to his daughter and said ‘it would be nice to have her beauty.’

Eventually, the emperor decided to take charge of Rieta.

But there was a problem here as well.

The residency of the little princess.

The Kingdom of Liz was too small to be entrusted directly to the royal family, and the reputation of being a lady of the palace was too low to be considered a regular noble.

The Emperor discussed this with his brother, Duke Mayer.

The iron-hearted, bloody Duke, known as one who would not bleed a single drop of blood even if he was stabbed, was the emperor’s most trusted advisor.

“It can’t be helped.”

The Duke slightly wrinkled his sharply angled eyes.

“I’ll take care of the Princess.”

He was the younger brother that the emperor cherished like his own self, and was in the most suitable position to serve an ambiguous princess.

Thus, Rieta lived in the mansion of Duke Mayer.

The first day, on her arrival at the Duke’s mansion.

The nine-year-old girl politely bowed her head and said this in her poor imperial language.

Thank you. I will repay you with all due respect.

The duke looked down at the child without saying anything.

It was also because he had no expectations in the first place.

He just hoped she wouldn’t get caught up in any trouble.

But Rieta was sincere.

She thought it was right to repay the favor to those who fed and give her place to sleep.

“Nice to meet you, Princess. I’m Noel Mayer.”

In addition, after greeting Noel, the Duke’s second son, she was able to decide how to repay his kindness.

Noel Mayer.

The second male lead of \, whom she has never forgotten.

The protagonist of melancholic love who could never be happy forever.

Every time she looked back on his record, Rieta had to wet her pillow with tears.

She made up her mind again.

She would help Noel and dedicate herself to repay the Mayer family’s kindness.

As a result, if he got involved with the female lead.

She will make sure he is happy.

Rieta smiles while looking at Noel.

But he turned his head away quickly.

At a very fast speed.

Did he hate living together with an unfamiliar person from another kingdom?

At that moment, Rieta thought she should get along with Noel.

Even it’s just a little bit better.

*****

The first thing that came to mind when 9-year-old Rieta arrived at the Duke’s mansion.

‘Why was my father like that?’

He sent his little daughter to the empire and abandoned her, thinking that what he had done could be done by giving way a hundred times.

She knew her father’s mind didn’t work quite normally.

However, it would have been better if he had shown common sense in that he should have had ‘proper education for the princess’ before that.

Teaching about the culture and history of each country.

If he had done that, this heavy feeling she was experiencing now would have been reduced by quite a bit.

‘..Phew.’

Of course, Rieta used to feel the need to study multiple times.

She thought she would be an incompetent royal just like her father.

At one point, she searched for difficult history books and scoured her father’s side.

「Well, it’s difficult. I wish I had a teacher to teach me.」

She didn’t forget to mutter so he could hear it.

Then, King Liz heard her words and began to laugh.

Laughter is a good sign, right?

Perhaps he would praise her for her will to learn.

King Liz, who had been laughing for a long time, managed to calm down and patted her on the shoulder.

「Rieta, I read that book when I was five years old. But you’re still having a hard time? Haha, I’m dying of laughter.」

「……」

It wasn’t.

In addition, he even went so far as to call out a list of other books he had read at the age of five.