Chapter 2 : Lovers Caught in Magic

“M-my lady! I don’t exactly kn-know what that is, but……! It’s a new business item, right?”

Unlike me, who was excited, the maid stood firmly in front of the door.

‘Is there no stationery store for kids in this world?’

I calmly rummaged through Meldenique’s memory with my maid in front of me.

Come to think of it, there was no such thing as a stationery store for children like in Korea.

It seemed that the only real stationery stores were classified as ‘miscellaneous goods stores’.

‘There’s no stationery store. Only miscellaneous goods stores. Isn’t that too vague?’

I think I’m presenting a pretty unfamiliar business item.

Of course, a series of strange and unique business items presented by me and the former Meldenique in the past have been ruined.

So it was understandable that the maid was suddenly scared when I said that I would be presenting items that she had never heard of or seen.

Do you think I’m going to get kicked out of the family because my business has failed every time?

“I-if you leave your family and fail again… you may not be able to wear your favorite satin dress!”

Rosalyn shouted, desperately blocking me.

But I don’t need an uncomfortable satin dress.

“It doesn’t matter.”

I answered, shaking my head.

“You won’t be able to eat the fancy food made by the chief chef from the Imperial Palace! You’ll only be able to eat oatmeal and whole wheat bread, which are both commoner foods!”

The original Meldenique was an immature villainess, but I am a commoner from Korea. I used to eat rice, kimchi, and ramen.

I passed Rosalyn with a small smile.

“I like oatmeal and whole wheat bread. They’re healthy food.”

Meldenique was also 25 years old this year. I’m already old enough to take care of myself.

Is her dissuasion almost over now? I brushed past Rosalyn. Then she cried out from behind my back.

Maybe that’s her point.

“What if Mrs. Hildegardt bothers you! Without your family’s protection, you might really die…”

There was nothing wrong with Rosalyn’s words. In the original 『Lovers Caught in Magic』, Duchess Hildegardt Vaveloa ended up killing Meldenique.

I thought about the entire original story, looking at Rosalyn, who was crying with worry.

Let’s get things right.

I was at the bottom, except for my present position.

The woman I possessed was Meldenique Vaveloa, the fiancee of the male lead and the villainess in the romance fantasy novel 『Lovers Caught in Magic』.

Her biological mother was the last direct descendant of the Marquis Kinoa, rumored to have lost all of their magical powers under the curse of the Dragon.

Perhaps because of that, most of the direct lineage of the Marquis Kinoa died early in life, and so did Meldenique’s mother.

‘And Meldenique was starting to get backed into a corner.’

After her mother died, her stepmother and sister came straight to Duke Vaveloa and since then, Meldenique’s wickedness and the bad rumors about her started.

‘There’s a rumor that she’s cursed, and she started losing her business as she grows up, so she deserves to be blamed for being evil…’

The important thing is that Lenox and Meldenique have been engaged since birth in 『Lovers Caught in Magic』.

Nevertheless, Lenox and Meldenique’s half-sister Sheria ignored her and passionately loved each other.

Meldenique, who has been struggling to break up the two, was criticized by people. It’s ridiculous.

‘In the novel, even though they were having an affair, Meldenique would look to be the one interrupting them.’

In the end, Meldenique was killed by Hildegardt, the Duchess Vaveloa and the mother of Sheria, and after her death, the two lovers met a happy ending without hindrance.

Isn’t it an unlucky ending?

I smiled flatly, looking at the maid.

The maid seemed to want me to stay here and get the protection of my family but that’s what she says because she doesn’t know how Meldenique falls and dies in the original story.

‘Even if I stay here, I’ll die if you disobey Hildegardt.’

I’m afraid that my maid with innocent eyes will cry if I say that…

Instead, I muttered in a low voice.

“Even if you hold me back, do you think I’ll stay?”

I’m leaving for now.

It’s annoying to be a hindrance to the love affair between a man and a woman and to die for nothing.

‘If I don’t get involved anymore, I’m on my way.’

That’s what I would be doing if she wasn’t clingy.

Despite my sincere words, the maid sweated on her forehead and wept.

She seemed to recall the humorous things that Meldenique had been subjected to so far.

“Y-you’ve been beaten every time you…! I’m worried. Please, be careful.”

I walked towards the maid and stroked her lovely hair and said, “Don’t worry. I’ve got everything in mind.”

Hildegardt Vaveloa.

Meldenique’s stepmother and duchess.

If you’re thinking of me as Meldenique Vaveloa so far, you’re mistaken. I know roughly what she will do.

I looked at the maid, recalling the thick, sturdy pile of money in my luggage bag.

“Maybe it’ll be fun.”

“My lady…”

“I’ll call you if it goes well.”

I went out of the mansion once again with my attire and called out a rental carriage, not the carriage of Duke Vaveloa.

It was when I was trying to get on the wagon in my unusual dress.

Perhaps the conversation I had with the Duke quickly spread inside the mansion, and people flocked one by one near the carriage. And they started whispering all around me.

Of course, I could hear their curses one by one.

“Is she finally getting kicked out?”

“And so this is the end of the villainess.”

“……yes, which relative would she go to? We all know her blood is cursed.”

Oh, you motherf*cker.

“Unlike madame Hildegardt and the lovely Sheria.”

I ignored those who spoke presumptuously on the subject of me leaving.

The reason why those who dare to swear at a Duke’s daughter can survive in a society of a solid status system is that my mother was the last direct descendant of the late Marquis Kinoa who was cursed.

My stepmother, Duchess Vaveloa, hated me, and my biological father, Duke Vaveloa, didn’t protect me at all.

Meldenique, a poor villainess who had no one on her side and no power, had no choice but to be isolated from her family.

“Her nickname is the Duke’s Ugly Duckling.”

“What does lady Sheria like about her?”

Sheria was as good as an angel. She was also a famous heroine who forgave the original Meldenique for trying to hurt her.

‘So people hated me even more.’

I ignored all of their voices and looked at the horseman of the carriage. I didn’t want to deal with them one by one.

“Where should I take you?”

I opened my mouth at the horseman because there was no servant to explain on my behalf.

“Let’s go to the slums.”

And after that, I got into the carriage without an escort.

I was seen as ignorant and uncultured, so I didn’t care about how clumsy I was.

I’m not even going to see them again anyway, so what’s wrong?

Duke Vaveloa may not think of it as a perfect insulation or scandal, but it was different from my point of view.

I will never come back to the duke family again.

I leaned against the back of the chair with my back against it and opened the window of the carriage.

I could see the mercenaries and some of the neighborhood people, who came near the carriage and gossiped about me with perplexed faces.

“Everyone.”

I lifted my middle finger in front of everyone.

They’ll never know what it means. But I know it’s a curse.

I shouted in a very grand, elegant and sweet voice, as if I was reading a majestic Bible.

“Go f*ck yourselves.”

Again, I have no intention of coming back.

I hummed and closed the curtains in the window, which had its own noise canceling system.

I hope you all get f*cked.

I’ll eat and live alone!

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