It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 78

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A villainess who’s gone dark is overwhelmingly convenient.
#78
“Selin! You promised we’d go look at dresses together today!”
“I’m sorry! But I wanted to show Daisy the dress shop too… You know how it is. She’s never been to places like that before.”
“Selin! You brought her again today?”
“Yeah! Sorry. But I thought she might not have eaten something like this before. You know, given her situation.”
Whenever Selin went to the Blue Hair, she brought Daisy along with her.
And whenever her friends complained, she’d insist there was nothing to be done about it, explaining Daisy’s circumstances in meticulous detail.
Everything she already knew, plus all the naive confessions Daisy had volunteered herself.
“I mean, she said the Count doesn’t give her a single coin for pocket money.”
“Last time, she was locked in her room and couldn’t leave at all.”
“They say all she eats at the Count’s house is dried-out meat — it’s just heartbreaking.”
“Her grades came back terrible recently and she got scolded for it. How bad were they, you ask? I heard Herbology and Magical Theory were…”
And then, with that sweet, innocent face, she’d add one final touch.
“But this is a secret, okay? You can’t tell anyone!”
And just like that, Daisy’s circumstances became common knowledge throughout the entire Academy.
Information even Lydia, who frequented the Sablehart Mansion constantly, couldn’t have known.
Yet Daisy still trusted Selin.
Because while Selin’s tongue might run loose at times, she was fundamentally kind and good-natured.
The only one who knew her true nature was Gwon Do-yo, who had read the original story.
‘Ugh, what a…’
Gwon Do-yo understood people like Selin well.
People who fed themselves on praise for performing kind deeds.
For such people, others’ misfortune was nothing more than a tool to elevate their own refined character.
Their condescending kindness would make the unfortunate briefly happy, then plunge them right back into the abyss.
Because the wretched had to stay wretched so that those who showed them kindness would shine all the brighter.
Whether instinctively or by design, Selin spread word of Daisy’s miserable narrative far and wide.
In the process, Daisy became “the most pitiful young lady of the Sablehart house.”
And while Selin showered this unfortunate Daisy with kindness, the praises of her own character grew ever louder.
It was exactly what Selin wanted.
“Daisy? Oh… is eating with me not your preference? Did I ask too suddenly? I’m sorry…”
Selin spoke to Daisy, who hadn’t answered, with a troubled smile on her face.
Her friends immediately rushed to her defense.
It was the rude girl’s fault for ignoring her, not hers—she was too kind for her own good—that sort of thing.
Watching this unfold, Daisy swallowed a hollow laugh that threatened to burst out.
Selin, with her flushed cheeks, seemed genuinely sorry.
‘Not realizing that’s what makes it worse.’
“That sounds wonderful!”
Daisy lifted her head and met Selin’s gaze directly.
Her emerald eyes, which usually hung soft and meek, blazed with intense light.
“Huh? W-wonderful?”
Selin flinched slightly and echoed the word.
Something about this Daisy felt different from what she knew.
But Selin quickly shook her head.
It must have been her imagination.
Whenever she’d visited the Sablehart Mansion following her father, Daisy had always looked so pitiable and wretched.
“Y-yes! Come this way then. I’ll make room for you.”
“Of course!”
Daisy nodded readily and headed toward the restaurant entrance.
Selin didn’t see it.
The bright, radiant smile that bloomed across Daisy’s entire face.
She had plans to make sure Selin could never extend such pitiful sympathy again.
* * *
“What do you want to eat? Order whatever you like! You never got to eat well at the Count’s house, did you?”
“Never got to eat well? Why?”
A friend beside her asked, and Selin answered with a sympathetic expression.
“Daisy’s table manners weren’t very good, so the Count scolded her often. After a while, he started making her eat separately. The quality of the meals they send up for her isn’t very good, apparently.”
“Really?”
Selin’s companions looked at Daisy anew at this revelation.
Now that they thought about it, she did seem a bit thin.
It was pitiful and yet somehow amusing.
Here was the young lady of a count’s house drowning in wealth, and she couldn’t even afford an ordinary meal.
“Still, don’t you get an allowance? You could buy food with that.”
“I heard about it the other day—her allowance got confiscated too. Apparently she lost all of it? I mean, Daisy did mess up first, but even so, the Count seems harsh. How can he not give her a single Gold?”
“Ah… that is rather cruel.”
“That’s why I want to treat her. Daisy, don’t hold back. Order whatever you’d like.”
Selin raised her hand as she spoke to Daisy.
Daisy, who had been burying her face in the menu up until then, lifted her head at the sound of the waiter approaching.
“Yes, what would you like to order?”
the waiter asked.
Daisy opened her mouth shyly.
“Yes, I’ll have the honeyed cod and a seasonal vegetable medley roasted in the oven to start. For the main course, I’d like the tenderloin steak and the saffron-steamed lobster… oh, and some vongole pasta too, please. And for dessert, I think I’ll have vanilla ice cream with sea salt and cheesecake.”
……
……
Daisy tilted her head in confusion at the sudden silence around her.
Selin bit her lip hard as she looked at that innocent, adorable face.
She hadn’t expected her to order quite so much.
She’d thought Daisy would awkwardly scan the menu and order the cheapest item.
‘She’s… even bolder than I thought!’
Without realizing it, Selin’s fingers went to her purse.
Suddenly she was worried whether she had enough money left.
Daisy, noticing Selin’s expression, spoke dejectedly.
“Ah… did I order too much? I’m sorry… when you said you’d treat me, I got so happy that I just…….”
Then she turned to the waiter and said:
“In that case, cancel all of it… just the vongole pasta, please. That’s the cheapest.”
“No!”
Selin spoke up urgently.
She’d said she’d treat, and if it came to this, she’d look like a petty person herself.
Surely she could manage it somehow.
If not, she could always run a tab and pay next week.
Having made up her mind, Selin spoke to the waiter:
“Just bring everything.”
“Selin, this is too much…….”
“No, it’s fine! Daisy seems excited because she’s never had anything like this before. Let me treat her.”
“Jeez, Selin, you really…….”
Selin smiled sweetly as she watched her friend shake her head in protest.
* * *
An hour later.
Selin and her companions stared at Daisy in disbelief.
“Was that lunch or did you skip three days of meals?”
her friend whispered quietly to Selin.
Selin felt a deep sense of agreement.
Remarkably, Daisy had eaten everything that had been ordered.
In fact, she’d even placed an additional order in the middle of the meal.
Selin, unable to say she had no money, ordered lamb chop steak and chocolate fudge as well.
Daisy wiped her mouth cleanly with the napkin that had been on her lap and spoke.
“Thank you so much, senior. I ate so well thanks to you!”
“Huh? Uh, um…….”
Selin nodded awkwardly at the bright gratitude.
Something was off.
Daisy didn’t look as miserable as she’d expected.
The Daisy she’d seen at the Sablehart Mansion always had a gentle face and frequently looked to others for approval.
That was why she’d shown her this kindness, thinking Daisy would be overwhelmed with gratitude.
Yet Daisy didn’t seem nearly as grateful as she’d anticipated.
Rather, she carried herself as though accepting this hospitality was only natural.
Looking around, her friends seemed to share the same thought.
The friend beside her even asked Selin quietly whether she’d misunderstood something.
……
Selin bit her lip without thinking.
It was the first time she’d ever felt like her kindness had gone unappreciated, even as she gave it.
But Selin quickly shook off the feeling.
‘No, Daisy is such a pitiful girl, after all.’
Anyone who knew her circumstances would surely feel the same compassion.
“Here, the bill.”
At Selin’s words, the waiter approached.
He wrote out a long receipt and handed it to her.
“That will be thirty-two Gold and sixteen Silver total.”
“……What?”
Selin took the receipt in confusion and checked it.
After arriving and shopping with her friends, she had only about twenty Gold left.
Yet she was over by a full ten Gold.
She checked carefully, but the receipt was correct.
Selin’s face flushed crimson.
She had already told not just her friends but Daisy as well that she would pay.
She couldn’t take that back.
“Oh dear, what am I thinking? I must have left all my money at the Academy. You do accept credit here, don’t you? Under the name Count Tillie…….”
Before Selin could even finish speaking,
the waiter replied with an uncomfortable expression.
“I’m… terribly sorry, miss. Our establishment does not extend credit.”
“How is that even possible?”
Selin’s voice rose without her meaning to.
“Are you seriously saying the Count Tillie family has no credit? I’ll pay you back this very next Sunday,”
That was when—
“Please don’t, senior. I’ll take care of my portion separately.”

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