Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favourite - Chapter 42

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They’d want to say it outright—that they didn’t actually resent Diana, but rather wanted to mock and humiliate me, the one Diana favored.
“At least have the sense to know when you’ve gone too far.”
Allen cut Sophie off before she could finish speaking.
“Butler! Make sure this girl never crosses my sight again, understood?”
The butler, who had emerged from the Main Building upon hearing the commotion, froze and stared at Sophie.
He recognized her as the child the Head Maidservant had personally brought and trained.
But he quickly bowed his head and answered.
“It shall be done. Please forgive my oversight, Young Master.”
“No, no…! This can’t be! Young Master, I was wrong. Please forgive me just this once, I beg you!”
Sophie desperately fell to her knees and pleaded with Allen, but he turned away coldly, Diana’s hand clasped firmly in his.
And I, holding Diana’s other hand, turned away with them.
At that moment, I didn’t realize.
How I appeared in the eyes of the despairing Sophie and the shocked servants.
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“Sigh.”
I exhaled heavily and turned my head with a gloomy expression.
The servants and maids hurrying about, the Gardener tending flowers in the Garden, even the stable hands…
Everyone who had been glancing my way quickly averted their gaze the moment our eyes met.
“Do they really think I’m some kind of villain…?”
I felt a wave of sorrow wash over me and inwardly cursed Sophie relentlessly for all of this.
Sophie, caught by Allen after publicly humiliating me, was expelled from the Duke’s Mansion that very day.
Since Allen had only said not to let her be seen again, not to dismiss her, I’d expected her to be reassigned to some lowly position like the laundry room with a drastic pay cut.
‘After all, Sophie’s words were ultimately directed at me.’
But Sophie was dismissed outright. And by none other than the Head Maidservant herself.
〈How dare you be so disrespectful to the young lady! Is that how I taught you!〉
Upon hearing of Sophie’s actions, the Head Maidservant was furious.
She personally threw Sophie’s belongings out of the Dormitory and cast her out without severance, declaring that House Elrad could not tolerate someone like her for even a moment.
‘I suppose one cannot deny the Head Maidservant’s loyalty to House Elrad.’
The problem was, the atmosphere among the servants changed toward me after that.
Whenever I tried to speak to them, they’d pretend not to hear, and now they’d turn away the moment our eyes met.
Unable to even ask why, I was forced to hide my presence and began collecting their whispered conversations.
‘I never wanted to reconfirm my abilities this way.’
In any case, what I discovered through this process was a surprising fact: Sophie actually had quite a good reputation among the servants, contrary to my assumptions.
It seemed Sophie, who was not only Diana’s dedicated attendant but also eyeing the position of future Head Maidservant, had earned their goodwill by generously sharing money with the other servants.
That’s precisely why she could attack me so openly in front of so many servants.
‘She must have thought that since Diana was young, the situation would unfold exactly as she wished.’
She simply hadn’t accounted for Allen’s appearance.
Had it not been for Allen, Sophie likely would have succeeded in making me a laughingstock as she’d intended.
And that was precisely the problem.
Everyone present that day knew Sophie had attacked me—only young Diana remained ignorant.
And they believed there was no way Allen could not know this fact.
‘So in the end, they thought Allen stepped in because of me.’
I thought they were truly foolish in their reasoning.
They didn’t know how terribly Allen despised his younger sister Diana.
Moreover, to touch a noblewoman just to attack me in the first place—did they really not understand how stupid that was, just as Allen had said?
But the frustration was mine alone. Most people thought that way, and as a result….
I had become the hidden mastermind pulling Allen’s strings while carrying Diana on my back!
“Sigh, why is my fate always like this?”
In my past life too, my colleagues resented me because they thought the Master and the executives showed favoritism toward them.
I don’t know about the executives, but the Master actually wasn’t particularly kind to me.
Rather, there were many times when he treated me harshly, and I resented him with a sorrowful and wronged heart.
“Phew.”
It was just as I couldn’t hide my displeasure and let out another sigh.
“Lia?”
Standing in front of the Main Building, I encountered an unexpected person.
“Doctor!”
“So it really is you, Lia. It’s been a while.”
Baron Bardo, the physician of House Elrad, smiled gently at me.
“Have you been well all this time?”
I, who had been on the verge of an emotional breakdown from the servants treating me as if I didn’t exist these past few days, asked warmly, delighted that she acknowledged me first.
“Yes, I’ve been well. And since you haven’t come to see me, it seems you’ve been doing fine without any ailments either?”
The Baron, whose smile deepened as if my warm attitude wasn’t displeasing, asked.
I smiled ambiguously and looked at the worker standing behind the Baron.
Whether it was a delivery from the Herb Merchant Guild, the worker’s arms were full of herb bundles.
“Doctor, may I help you?”
“You? No, there’s no need for that….”
The Baron’s refusal, likely meaning she didn’t want to put a young child to work, made me feel slightly dejected.
That was when it happened.
“Very well. Come along with me. Help me out.”
“Really?”
Delighted by the unexpected acceptance, I bounced along after her.
“Anyone watching would think I’m the one helping you.”
Baron Bardo shook her head with a laugh, but I was truly happy.
The study of the Baron, the Duke’s physician, was located in the Annex Building on the right side of the Main Building where the aides also stayed.
“Now, these herbs here, according to what’s written in each section… ah.”
Upon arriving at the study and seeing the herbs the worker had set down, the Baron paused while trying to explain what I should do.
I spoke up quickly.
“Doctor, I can read those characters. Since the names are written on the bundles too, I just need to put them in the sections with matching names, right?”
The Baron looked at me with surprised eyes and nodded. Then she watched me organize everything carefully.
She seemed worried I might make a mistake, but since I had helped Ted manage and organize the Herb Field before, it wasn’t difficult at all. I could tell what kind of herb each one was just by glancing at it.
“Lia, you’re truly clever. I’ve always thought so, but you’re far more intelligent than I imagined.”
Embarrassed by the endless praise, I pretended not to hear and simply continued organizing. The Baron burst into hearty laughter once more.
After a moment, the Baron’s laughter subsided, and she moved to her desk, which was so laden with stacks of books and documents that I doubted any actual work could be accomplished there.
“You seem quite busy.”
“Hmm?”
Having finished organizing everything quickly, I asked the Baron, who was frantically checking books and writing something on documents.
She removed her silver-rimmed glasses from her nose and nodded.
“In truth, everyone has been preoccupied with the Spleshia research you discovered.”
Spleshia! My ears perked up instantly.
“Those mages were confident at first, but now they only speak of how difficult cultivation is. They insist I try it myself and simply wait, offering no real progress. If we could at least successfully grow even a single root, we could research how to extract its medicinal properties, but without that, we’re stuck.”
I blinked in confusion at the Baron’s words.
“They haven’t succeeded in cultivating even one yet? The one I discovered back then—it didn’t grow either?”
“That’s right. In fact, it would be a miracle that you found even a root that had grown at all.”
The Baron explained that upon hearing my words, she and the mages had even conducted an expedition to Tessar Orphanage and carefully searched the surrounding area, but found no other Spleshia.
I listened to her explanation with a sense of bewilderment.
It was true that discovery was difficult, and cultivation was challenging, but I had expected that with the physicians and mages of House Elrad, there would be at least some progress.
The Duke’s promise to give me a portion of the profits from any medicine made with Spleshia was entirely unexpected, so I harbored no regrets about money.
But I was intensely curious about what difficulties the mages were facing.
Moreover, as I listened to the Baron’s words, I noticed something else strange.
‘How to extract its medicinal properties? It seems they don’t even know how to use it.’
I was about to ask for more details on this matter.
“Oh, oh! Physician!”
I rushed toward the Baron, who was suddenly bleeding from her nose.
The Baron quickly pulled out a handkerchief to stop the bleeding, but the blood continued to flow.
In my panic, I looked around, approached the herb section I had just finished organizing, retrieved an herb, hastily crushed it, soaked cotton in the herb juice, and pressed it against the Baron’s nose.
Soon the bleeding stopped, and she looked at me with startled eyes.
“How did you know of an herb good for stopping bleeding… ah.”
She made a short sound as if she had realized something, then closed her mouth.
As I looked at her in confusion, I soon heard her voice filled with regret.
“Your Grace told me how you discovered Spleshia. I even visited the orphanage where you lived and saw the facilities myself…”
I could understand what the Baron was thinking.
‘This isn’t something I learned at the orphanage.’
But having no real excuse to offer, I kept my mouth firmly shut, and I noticed the Baron’s gaze toward me shift to something even more pitiful.
“How hungry you must have been…”
“…”
“Is there anything you’d like to eat? Anything else you’d like to have?”

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