I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

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“What?”

Alice’s swollen eyes widened in surprise.

“You’re entrusting me with the Moonlight Flower business?”

“That’s right!”

Sandra was extremely excited as she hugged her daughter.

“Who is your father? He’s the vice head of Windsor, isn’t he? He can do at least that much for you.”

“But how could I possibly…”

“It’s fine. Juan will help you from the side. Take on the business together with your uncle!”

At those words, Juan didn’t hide his displeasure.

“Please reconsider, sister. Business is, you know, a rough world for men.”

“Shut your mouth, Juan.”

“No, but that’s true. A precious young lady like Alice would be busy just doing Embroidery at home and learning Piano. Could Alice really endure the world of men?”

Smack!

Juan finally got hit on the back by Sandra and shut his mouth.

However, his dissatisfaction didn’t disappear.

‘What does that cheerful idiot know to be entrusted with business?’

Alice Windsor, his niece, was lovely and cute and beautiful—but that was all.

Alice was just a flower. A flower raised most preciously in a Greenhouse.

What could such a flower possibly know how to do to be entrusted with business?

‘It’s because of parachutes like that that talented people like me get criticized.’

When he was about to dissuade her once more.

“I, I’ll do it!”

Alice clenched her small fist tightly.

“I’ll do it! I can do it!”

Alice had been feeling frustrated anyway.

Setting aside that the engagement ceremony had been reduced to a shabby 3-minute event—.

The most depressing reason was still because of Dana, her sister.

‘I still can’t believe it. How could she treat me like that?’

Dana’s face watching the engagement ceremony was vivid in her memory.

She had definitely thought she would be disappointed or miserable or envious, but…

But there wasn’t even a handful of such negative emotions on her face. She was just clear and composed.

‘Of course I didn’t want her to be hurt, but still.’

But still.

But still!

It was an important day, couldn’t she have shown a little admiration?

She felt so depressed thinking she hadn’t received any congratulations at all.

That wasn’t all. The Crown Prince’s words to Dana dominated her thoughts.

‘He told Dana she would soon be the woman to become Crown Princess.’

But then?

Then who would become Empress?

Though she couldn’t ask, Alice had a vague premonition.

Dana would become Empress.

Of course Lyos’s love belonged entirely to her, but the position of Empress wasn’t something that could be claimed through love alone.

‘She has so much after all.’

Honor and wealth. She held the pinnacle of both in her hands.

But…

‘If I handle the Moonlight Flower business.’

That flower symbolizing the Moon God.

That mysterious flower that sparkled on its own and was considered more precious than Jewelry.

If I take charge of the exclusive trade business for that precious flower.

Couldn’t I gradually build my own reputation too?

Most importantly, Dana had also wanted the Moonlight Flower!

She who could have anything, enough to ask His Highness the Crown Prince for that flower as a gift!

When her thoughts reached that point, motivation overflowed.

“I’ll do it. I can do it. I’ll work hard!”

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“Alice did?”

“Yes. I heard she was put in charge of the Moonlight Flower business.”

“Oh my.”

Dana couldn’t help but laugh.

To become the lord of a sandcastle that would soon collapse.

How unlucky could she be.

‘Perfect. I was wanting to punish her anyway.’

Let’s see her suffer properly for once. Dana handed documents to her Secretary.

“Lete. Can you purchase several Forged Identities?”

“What couldn’t be done with Miss’s money.”

“Then purchase several Forged Identities and participate in the Moonlight Flower auction to win the flowers. As many as possible, at the highest prices possible.”

Then the Secretary frowned.

“Don’t tell me you’re trying to raise the Moonlight Flower prices now?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

It’s a method often used at Auction Houses.

To raise the price of items at auction, they sometimes deliberately hire shills to call high prices and intensify competition, but.

‘For me, who needs to lower the value of Moonlight Flowers right now, it’s not an appropriate method.’

One of the secrets to the Moonlight Flower’s popularity is that supply can’t keep up with demand.

Too many people want Moonlight Flowers, but too few people can actually have them.

That’s why their value keeps rising day by day.

But if carried out as Dana ordered, the value of Moonlight Flowers would rise even more.

Then the Secretary raised an eyebrow as if realizing something.

“Don’t tell me the method you’re planning is…”

“Dana!”

Just then. The door burst open and Alice entered.

Then she stopped with a startled, surprised face.

“Huh, sister? What exactly are you doing right now?”

What was she saying? Entering rudely without even knocking.

“Lete, go out.”

“Yes, Miss.”

After the Secretary left, Alice watched her retreating figure until the end, then blushed.

“Sister, you can’t do that.”

“What?”

“No matter how heartbroken you are from parting with His Highness the Crown Prince, still, meeting with an employee is a bit…”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

“What?”

“Of course, your secretary is exceptionally handsome, but still…”

“…”

“S-sorry if I made you feel bad.”

It was complete nonsense from start to finish, so I didn’t know what to respond to first.

We did talk closely together to discuss something secret, but to misunderstand like that.

“Don’t make such unpleasant assumptions. Lete is my secretary. More importantly, whoever I meet is none of your business.”

Dana spoke coldly.

“And I have nothing to discuss with you, so leave.”

“Sister…”

“I said leave.”

However, instead of leaving, Alice hesitated but came closer.

“Um, sister.”

Her face was flushed as if expecting something.

“You know, I prepared a gift.”

She extended the hand she had been hiding behind her back. In her hand was a small flower pot—

“It’s a gift.”

A flower that shone like moonlight.

It was a Moonlight Flower.

“You were really upset when His Highness the Crown Prince gave me this gift last time, right?”

Alice looked at Dana with an apologetic gaze and sighed pitifully.

“It really hurt my heart then. Let me apologize once more. I’m sorry, sister.”

“…”

“So I prepared this instead. I’ve been put in charge of the Moonlight Flower business.”

“…”

“But you can think of it as a gift from His Highness the Crown Prince. Sister.”

My head was spinning. I couldn’t believe what I had just heard.

“What do you mean by that, Alice?”

“I wanted to comfort you. You wanted this flower, didn’t you?”

So…

‘You’re giving me flowers on behalf of Lyos?’

Bubbling, heat slowly began to boil up from my chest.

“Are you pitying me right now?”

“No! I just wanted to comfort you, sister!”

“Comfort? You’re giving me this flower as a consolation gift for stealing my fiancé?”

“That’s not it!”

Alice shouted in a fragile voice.

“Why do you always take things the wrong way, sister? That wasn’t my intention at all!”

Good heavens.

Dana burst into hollow laughter, dumbfounded. Anyone watching would think she was the villainess.

“I thought you were still upset, sister, so I wanted to make you feel better. I wanted to make up…”

Upset?

Make up?

How dare you utter such words?

All kinds of curses bubbled up like lava inside me.

What was even more unbearable was Alice’s gaze. Those eyes filled with nothing but good intentions.

That wasn’t fake. It was sincere.

So.

‘Alice truly believes that.’

Ah, right. To the very end, you’re the good child, the virtuous child.

Dana wanted to destroy that face.

“Do you think my mood will improve with just this measly flower, Alice?”

No, she was going to destroy it.

“Get rid of it right now. This thing means nothing to me.”

“Sister! Th-this is a Moonlight Flower. It’s extremely hard to obtain. Even though it’s a business our father runs… even though I’m in charge of it now…”

“That’s exactly my point. If someone like you is in charge of the business, how trivial must it be for them to entrust it to you?”

Dana deliberately provoked Alice. To stimulate that girl’s competitive spirit.

“H-h-how can you say such things.”

“I guarantee the Moonlight Flower business will fail within a month.”

This was sincere. It was also the truth. Dana clicked her tongue as if pitying her.

“Poor Uncle Karl. If the Moonlight Flower business fails, it will be a huge blow…”

“Sister, please! Please stop saying such cruel things. I’m begging you!”

Alice clasped her hands together tightly and pleaded with a trembling voice.

“No matter how upset you are, you shouldn’t say such things, sister! No matter how miserable you are, you can’t do this!”

“Miserable? Me?”

Dana rose from her chair. Then she pushed the flower pot with her hand.

Crash!

“Kyaah!”

The flower pot shattered, and soil scattered everywhere.

Dana looked straight into the shocked Alice’s eyes and firmly trampled on the Moonlight Flower.

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