Chapter 7

Lucas stared at the two men and women leaving alone.

The Duke and the Duchess. It was the two of them who surely hoped so. And he actively moved to ease the worries of those two.

But how did she know that?

A few steps away from him, her sky-colored hair waved, and her small soft face turned over.

“And stop acting now. It’s all obvious and uncomfortable.”

As expected, she threw shocking words with expressionlessness and then slowly moved away, and Lucas crooked his head and smiled.

“I changed my personality and lost my memory to the extent that my heart was empty…”

How come the eyes piercing herself are sharper and more accurate than before.

People have become indifferent and they are much more interesting than before.

He can watch it without the request of Aaron and the duke.

***

“Aiden”

“Yes, Princess.”

Aiden looked very uncomfortable with this situation right now.

However, unlike such a mind, the body followed instincts, the eyes brightened, and the saliva seemed to squeeze and flow through the lips.

After the walk, I sat down at a tea table and enjoyed a snack time to alleviate Lucas’ worries (which I said that it was the Duke and the Duchess who spoke that).

Anyway, I have Aiden, who I finally know his correct name.

“I’m going to have my walks and meals with you in the future.”

“What?”

As expected, he was professionally good, and he did not show any signs of discomfort, but the answer seemed to be that he did not understand what I said.

“You do it. Other people are uncomfortable.”

“That’s… I’m not an expert… If anything happens…”

“Let’s eat cake everyday with me instead.”

“Yes. I’ll do my best.”

As I saw in the book, he was a person who loved material things.

Among those material things, he also loves cake very much. Money is his top priority, followed by cake. Nodding satisfactorily at the desired answer, I focused on the strawberry cake.

Oh, the strawberry cake is delicious. It’s my first time trying…

I had never bought a cake with my own money and ate it even when I was younger or even when I was an adult.

The only cake I ever ate was the chocolate cake that my younger brother liked.

When my younger brother celebrated his birthday in the hospital, he bought a large chocolate cake and shared it.

Well, it seems that I also ate cake in my distant past. I can’t even remember what it was. Can I say that I’ve eaten something I don’t even remember?

All of a sudden, I felt that everything in my life was like my brother’s.

So, let’s try not to die together.

Aiden called me a small while scooping the cake mechanically in a delicate mood.

“Lady.”

“Why?”

“No, it’s nothing. I’m sorry.”

It’s sloppy. Aiden shook his head with the answer that called me.

“What are you sorry about? Would you like another cake?”

“Yes.”

“Okay.”

***

Aiden’s mind was confused by the protruding heart.

Here, she said that she should stop eating as usual, but these days, the lady is not tempered, subtly indifferent, kind, and has strange behaviors…

The feeling of fear faded a little.

Isn’t that so?

There was a strange feeling in the way the lady was eating the cake with her expressionless face, so he called the lady without knowing, but he refused because he couldn’t know exactly what to ask.

In the past, it was a fiery behavior.

Obviously, it was from that day that the girl was strange.

The day after the lady wakes up.

When she saw him and talked about magic that day, he almost went back.

No one knows that he can use magic, but how does she know…

No, even if she knew it, she was too calm to suddenly bring up the story.

But that was the end.

There wasn’t much comment after that.

His thoughts became complicated and he squeezed his head for a few days, but the young lady wasn’t even interested in mentioning it so much that the days he fell asleep in fear.

After waking up, she knew she had an accident a few days ago.

He doesn’t know exactly what happened, but after that, the duke pushed himself into the lady’s room.

Seeing that the Duke chose himself as the person who spent most of his time with her, not a maid, it seemed that it was not just a memory loss, meaning that she should spend time with a familiar person.

Perhaps it is necessary to have physical protection, or to have someone with enough power to overpower in the event of an accident.

Besides, that soulless expression kept getting on his mind. No matter what she is doing, she doesn’t even have a lot of interest in her tone. It wasn’t scary, but he was a little worried in a different sense.

‘That day, she asked if I could kill her without pain.’

Aiden looked at Selina, who was eating the cake in an expressionless face. He shook his small head and started to eat the second cake.

***

Aiden looked at me for a moment with strange eyes, then quickly focused on the second cake.

Good. I like it because it is simple.

I tapped on the floor of the empty plate a few times and looked at Aiden with my chin open, then closed my eyes. I have always been greedy for sleeping.

***

“You don’t have to follow me.”

“But I want to follow you.”

“I don’t like it.”

“There are things that can’t be helped even if you don’t like it.”

I turned my head to the smiling face.

Do whatever you want.

I wonder if my words not to postpone that day were a stimulant. Lucas, who took off the shell without hesitation, was not ashamed in a different sense.

If I take a walk with Aiden for a few days, Lucas suddenly appears somewhere and joins him and acts shameless.

It seems that the concept of Gentleman, which considers excessive courtesy and princess, was abandoned, but this was annoying.

They pretend to think about me like they used to be, not trying to achieve the results they want.

Just say, ‘No. Yes, no.’ It changed in this way.

With no room for persuasion… it was just plain and computational. ‘Why go back when there is a trail? Just go straight.’

I didn’t want this guy to see it as a means of how he could benefit from me, but it was something different from my plan.

With a sigh, I pushed the chocolate cake in front me. It was a little bit different type of chocolate cake than when I had my first snack time.

“What’s wrong?”

“You eat it. I don’t like chocolate cake.”

I thought about taking a bite, but I shook my head.

Come to think of it, I’ve never felt that the chocolate cake I’ve ever tasted was delicious.

I just ate a piece because my brother likes it. I chewed it and I tried to squeeze my tongue in the awful taste.

Ah… I hated chocolate cake, but I couldn’t tell.

I have to eat it whether I like it or not.

I wanted to be part of the joy of my family, so I just ate a cake with a tingling tongue and smiled mechanically to feel a sense of belonging with them.

I was stupid to not realize it until I came here.

I didn’t know anything about me.

Rather, I know more about the characters of the novels than myself.

Whether Aiden loves cakes, Lucas is a snake-like character who uses people to take advantage of his heart, or Ariel, who will be our prospective family, has some love with the man-made Lucas….

Oh, enough of this. I almost came up with a dangerous fact.

Anyway, I really don’t know anything about me.

Afterall, I was a tool and not a person. My life was not entirely mine.

Would I have known about myself if there’s a novel written about me?

No. No. Nobody is going into details about ATM machines or vacuum cleaners. And I was like that.

More like an object than a human being.

Stop. Nevermind. Stop thinking about the past. There’s no need for that.

“Aiden, is the engagement the day after tomorrow?”

“Yes.”

“Hmmm… Okay.”

When I saw Aiden eating two pieces of Dadidan’s chocolate cake, I felt my stomach going to vomit.

The engagement party is the day after tomorrow… It’s too easy

So, what will happen now? Will the novel be over?

Ah, it’s really hard to live.

***

The day of the engagement ceremony came earlier than I thought.

It was more interesting than I thought to see people busily moving with things to do.

Lucas seemed very busy because he didn’t visit me yesterday.

Maybe Aiden and I were the only ones who were relaxed in this big house. But when the day came, I couldn’t be relaxed.

I got up early in the morning and had to soak in the excessive bath water because of my bad smell, and the maids lit my eyes and brushed my hair as if they had a sense of duty to brush one hundred times per strand after applying something to my hair.

How many hours have passed since I left my body to the glances of their labor and passion, surprisingly, I have now entered the stage of decorating.

“Lady Selina, I’ll help you.”

“Yes. Please.”

Again, I left my body to the touch of the maids. Honestly, this was my first time. No, it has been a long time.

It feels like someone brushing my hair, preparing clothes for me, putting on make-up, and paying attention to me. Whether it is external or internal.

“Madam, which one do you prefer for your earrings, this or this one?”

Silver earrings with green jewels and earrings with purple jewels. I couldn’t figure out which one is better.

I haven’t had any experience of decorating since I was very young.

“Anything.”

“Yes, Miss.”

A purple earring stuck in my ear in the mirror. I wondered what she was thinking.

What kind of expression would Selina really look like?

When I forcibly raised the stiff tail of my mouth, my face was weird. When I saw the maids shrunk, I lowered my mouth again.

I don’t know if everyone will look like that.

A blue dress that wraps around the body, light blue hair, a purple necklace around the neck, and purple earrings.

Oh, Selina. You’re beautiful.

I swung my body around. The watery hair and the fluttering blue lace were full of life.

“Good. Pretty. Good job.”

The maids stiffened for a moment and then bowed.

In the meantime, Selina wasn’t a kind of person to say hello.

After I got into this body, I was mostly scrapped in the corners of the room, so I didn’t have much chance to see my face.

I left the confused lambs and stood in front of the mirror for a while.

What did the real ‘I’ look like.

I don’t remember. Nevermind. I am already dead. The dead must be forgotten.