That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 85
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Chapter 85
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“Miss Tulia. Miss Sophia has arrived.”
“Mm.”
I sat waiting in the reception room.
Soon the door opened, and Sophia entered following the Assistant Butler’s guidance.
Sophia looked wide-eyed the entire time.
Though she hurriedly managed her expression upon seeing me, she couldn’t properly hide her surprise at seeing the interior.
‘Right. You’ve only ever visited Tulia when she was in that damn warehouse, haven’t you?’
And only once or twice at that.
After being granted various privileges, my quarters were recently moved to the ‘Moon Room’.
The finest room that direct members of the Frazier family could use, excluding the Grand Duke and his wife.
‘In other words, my room became the equivalent of a premium Gangnam station-area apartment with a Han River view.’
From Sophia’s perspective, it must be shocking to see someone who originally lived alone like a beggar in some remote mountain village suddenly rise to success.
“Sit down.”
“Oh, yes. Alright.”
But she was still a direct member of the Frazier family, and Lilius and Aubrey had thoroughly raised only her as the model of a lady.
Unlike Tulia, whom they had raised foolishly.
So Sophia was able to compose her expression faster than expected.
Sophia sat down with elegant posture and spoke primly.
“You said you prepared a gift to congratulate my engagement?”
“Yes. We’re cousins after all, aren’t we? Have some tea first.”
I offered her tea.
While Sophia drank tea like a refined lady, she also glanced sideways at the quality of the teacup and the carvings decorating the table.
‘This is different from the game.’
In , Sophia Frazier was a minor supporting character among supporting characters.
But she was very clever, with the setting that she never suffered losses.
Depending on which ending Coriko chose, the fates of surrounding characters would sometimes be briefly mentioned, and Sophia always came with descriptions of securing wealthy and good marriage prospects.
But now it’s three years before begins, right?
‘Age can’t be ignored.’
Sophia, three years younger, doesn’t seem to have the same abilities as in . Which was natural.
But she was quite clever for her age group.
In other words, she was shrewd.
Knowing that I held the domestic management rights, she must have followed the Assistant Butler here with mixed feelings.
Otherwise, she would have just told me to send engagement congratulation gifts through a servant and wouldn’t have accepted my invitation.
“Grans.”
“Yes, Miss Tulia.”
“Bring them out.”
The Assistant Butler brought out three jewelry boxes that had already been prepared.
“Th-three of them…?”
Sophia muttered unconsciously.
“Open them. All of them.”
“All of them?”
Sophia hurriedly reached out her hands.
“Oh my.”
She immediately covered her mouth with both hands.
Brilliant radiance.
Large size.
Even excellent cutting techniques.
I let Sophia be surprised to her heart’s content for now.
“Do you like them?”
“They’re not… bad.”
Sophia barely managed to say that.
Contrary to her haughty answer, her eyes were busy exploring the jewelry boxes this way and that.
That greed.
It was quite excellent.
‘No wonder your eyes are spinning.’
Those jewels were all public funds that Aubrey had embezzled.
As if to show they were truly husband and wife, Aubrey, Lilius’s wife, was very greedy.
Though she had returned the family jewels, she would undoubtedly scheme to somehow retrieve at least a few jewels once the current situation was resolved.
For example, something like the yellow diamond brooch that Sophia clearly liked most right now.
‘That one really couldn’t be obtained even with considerable money.’
The audacity to take such precious artifacts from the family warehouse and keep them in her own jewelry box for over ten years.
If only Roxanne Countess Frazier, the legitimate wife of Count Nigella Frazier, had been at the main castle, she would have checked the ledgers for such precious artifacts.
This is why it’s important to place the right people in the right positions.
Especially in such large noble families.
Empty mistresses of the house.
Thanks to that, didn’t Aubrey, who had the lowest rank, run wild with all sorts of embezzlement?
“Tulia?”
Sophia barely drew her gaze away from the jewelry and asked in a prim voice.
“So, which one of these do you want to give me? Are you telling me to choose?”
“They’re all your engagement gifts.”
“Wh-what did you say?!”
“It’s an engagement with none other than ‘Crown Prince’ His Highness, so did you think I’d be petty and only give you one?”
“B-but…!”
“Besides, you know, don’t you? I’ve come to hold all the domestic management rights.”
“…I heard about that.”
“Right? So I can certainly do this much for you.”
I tilted my head.
“But it’s a bit strange. Originally, Uncle Lilius and Aunt Aubrey held the domestic management rights.”
“…”
“It would be difficult to give such precious things as gifts every day. But couldn’t they have given you at least one on your birthday, or when you passed the Academy entrance exam?”
“…Of course I’ve received similar things before.”
“Right? I almost misunderstood.”
While smiling sweetly, I thought to myself.
‘Received what, my foot.’
There was only one child they cherished and hoarded for from the beginning.
“Well, Tedrick also received plenty of these things. From those two.”
“What?”
Suddenly, Sophia’s eyes widened.
“So naturally, as their daughter, you must have received many without discrimination. Precious artifacts like these.”
“…How do you, how do you know that? What Brother Tedrick received from Mother and Father?”
“How do I know?”
I wiggled my toes.
“You know why I’m in this wheelchair right now, don’t you?”
Sophia momentarily flustered and averted her gaze.
‘So she has heard about it.’
“Tedrick was kicked out, you know. I have a pretty bad personality too, so I looked into everything thoroughly. Since I gained control over domestic affairs, there were surprisingly many lists I could check.”
“….”
Sophia quietly bit the inside of her mouth.
I stayed still for a moment to let her imagination run wild in her head.
Your head spinning?
You’ve never been cornered like this before, have you?
But Tedrick received this kind of treatment countless times.
Feeling betrayed?
Quite a lot?
Even if Aubrey somehow scrapes together money and demands to know where all the jewelry is, insisting that according to family law, she should be able to wear them again and write the ledger entries.
I just need to say I gave them to Sophia under the excuse of ‘engagement gifts from the direct line’ and that’s that.
Then after that, well, she can scream at me all she wants.
Or I can watch the chaos unfold when she asks Sophia to return the jewelry and they get into a messy fight.
It’s none of my business, and at least I’ll get to see Aubrey’s blood pressure explode.
And meanwhile.
Sophia seemed to have finished her calculations.
More precisely, her anger appeared to be boiling over.
It was written all over her face.
I pretended not to notice and asked casually.
“What are you going to ask Grandfather for as an engagement gift?”
“Why?! Are you going to interfere?!”
Her voice came out sharp and pointed.
That meant she was very angry right now, and had completely failed to control her emotions.
It was the first time in my life I was happy to have sparks flying at me for no reason.
‘As expected, this is a million times easier than dealing with that cunning snake Viscount Lilius.’
“How could I interfere with an engagement gift?”
I blinked as if surprised, then asked with a sly smile.
“Ah, well. Is it an engagement gift related to Tedrick?”
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Shushu
Mwahahaha turn her against her greedy family I love it! 😈