The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 107

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 107

“Marquis, don’t be angry.”

“Why would I be angry? I’m not angry.”

“Come on, you are angry.”

Eve leaned her upper body back to remove Radis’s hand from her shoulder.

Radis pressed Eve’s cheek repeatedly with her finger.

“Cheer up, okay?”

“Ugh, you…!”

Just then, the carriage wheels hit something and the carriage shook violently.

Radis, who had been half-standing while playing around, swayed momentarily.

She pressed against the carriage wall to steady herself.

The problem was that Eve was caught between Radis and the wall.

“…!”

Through the disheveled black hair, she could see Eve blinking.

His pale skin had turned reddish, and his beautiful lips were trembling.

‘Wow…’

Looking at those lips made her throat dry up as if she had drunk salt water.

‘Marquis, why are you so cute?’

Radis smiled softly and stepped back.

Even though she had moved away, Eve remained pressed against the carriage wall, unable to move.

It seemed like he was worried she might pounce on him again.

Radis said with a laugh.

“I won’t eat you.”

She could see Eve finally letting out the breath he had been holding.

“Huh… you…!”

“Why are you so surprised? And why is your face so red again?”

“…!”

Eve quickly turned his bright red face away.

But this time it seemed more from embarrassment than sulking.

Radis leaned her shoulder against Eve’s shoulder and looked up at him as she spoke.

“Marquis.”

“…”

“You’re not busy except for the day Robert spars with Earl Zenon, right? Shall we play chess together again?”

Since her suggestion didn’t seem unwelcome, Eve said nothing.

Thinking this was her chance, Radis continued talking.

“That tea you made for me back then was delicious. Make it for me again.”

“…”

“Oh, right, Marquis. Could you look at this?”

Radis pulled out a necklace from inside her shirt.

It was a locket necklace that could hold something like a small portrait inside.

“What do you think should go in here?”

At her words, Eve slowly turned his head to look at her.

Radis opened the locket to show him the inside.

Eve’s lips parted in surprise when he saw what was inside.

“What… is that?”

“It’s what you picked for me back then.”

It was the small cherry plum tree flower that Eve had carefully selected from the garden’s flowering tree, saying it was the prettiest one.

“I couldn’t put this in a vase, so I dried it by pressing it in a book, but Berry found me this necklace so I put it in here.”

“…”

Eve stared blankly at the necklace for a moment, then stepped back and muttered in a low voice.

“…Why do you wear something like that? It’s not like you don’t have jewels, you should wear something more proper.”

“It’s cute. Jewels aren’t cute.”

At her words, she could see Eve’s lips wavering before finally forming a smile.

Fortunately, his mood seemed much better.

Eve mumbled.

“I can make tea even when it’s not my day off. Come if you want to drink some.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

“Anytime?”

Eve chuckled and nodded.

“Anytime.”

Seeing him smile, Radis could finally feel at ease.

She liked seeing him smile.

She liked when he twisted his lips slightly in a faint smile, and when he chuckled as if trying to hide his emotions.

Sometimes when he had dark thoughts and chuckled wickedly, that was a bit much… but lately even that seemed cute to her.

But still, the best sight was his bright smile when he was genuinely happy.

Radis inwardly sighed in relief and thought.

‘Really, appeasing the Marquis is no easy task.’

A moment later, the carriage stopped.

Eve said.

“I’m supposed to meet briefly with Lord Runtier. Want to come along? Or you can wait in the greenhouse tea room.”

Radis checked the time on the clock tower and said.

“I was going to visit my teacher briefly. It’s not far from here, right?”

At her words, Eve, who was about to get off the carriage, hesitated.

“Earl Sheldon?”

“Yes.”

“Will you be okay alone?”

Radis burst into laughter.

“This is the Imperial Capital, I’m a formally appointed knight, and I’m going to see my longtime teacher, so of course I’ll be fine.”

Her words were so reasonable that Eve had no choice but to nod.

After getting off the carriage, Radis waved at him slightly and said.

“I’ll see you here later.”

“Y-yeah…”

Radis turned her back to him and walked forward with long strides.

The moment he saw her moving away from him, Eve realized something.

When Radis was by his side, she felt small and delicate, but seeing her from a distance, she wasn’t that small at all.

Radis was noticeably taller than other girls her age and looked much larger than she actually was due to her perfectly balanced, slender body.

As she walked away wearing the Black Knight Order uniform with her red hair flowing, she looked exactly like a scene from a heroic epic.

She was so beautiful that even the nobles and knights of the Imperial Capital stopped to stare blankly at her retreating figure.

‘These bastards, won’t they look away?’

Eve almost shouted that out loud, forgetting this was the Imperial Capital.

“Ha…”

Eve Russel barely swallowed the curse that was about to burst out and instead let out deep sighs before turning around.

Lately, his feelings for Radis and his deepening self-loathing were so tangled that he couldn’t maintain his composure at all.

He had no right to like her.

After pushing her toward the 3rd Prince with his own hands, now he was being pathetic by clinging to her.

Moreover, Radis liked Olivier.

No matter how much he tried to maintain his petty pride, he couldn’t compete with the 3rd Prince of the Empire.

Olivier also seemed to be deeply infatuated with her.

Eve Russel knew that Olivier secretly found him disagreeable.

Yet Olivier willingly became a chess piece for him.

Even though the position of the 3rd Prince of the Empire was by no means light.

“A disaster I brought upon myself….”

When he arrived at the meeting place with Runtier Arpend, Eve Russel’s mood was utterly miserable and his face was completely crumpled.

Fortunately, Runtier had not yet arrived.

Eve Russel had his maid bring him a glass of strong liquor to calm his mood, then settled in the waiting room attached to the audience chamber.

The waiting room was a small space, but as a place where high-ranking nobles and foreign ambassadors rested before meeting the imperial family, it lacked nothing.

On the table in the center of the waiting room were a chess board, premium cigarettes, imperial periodicals, and even magazines that noble ladies enjoyed reading.

“Ah, I should read this.”

Eve picked up the imperial periodical.

That periodical called 【Imperial Bulletin】 was printed in very limited quantities and only placed in the Imperial Capital.

It contained everything from major and minor affairs of foreign royal families to evaluations of various academies and guilds, discussions on diverse topics, and even obituaries of nobles, making it something he enjoyed reading whenever he visited the Imperial Capital.

Then Eve’s gaze was drawn to the ladies’ magazine.

Among the promotional phrases about summer vacation recommendations and this summer’s trending dresses, there was a phrase that caught his eye.

[Characteristics of Eldest Daughters.]

The maid brought him a glass of strong liquor.

Eve confirmed that the waiting room door was closed, put down the imperial bulletin he was holding, and quickly opened the magazine.

[Mrs. Walker Talks About the Characteristics of Eldest Daughters!]

1. They tend to be blunt.

2. They don’t talk about themselves to other people very well.

“Pfft!”

Eve almost spat out the liquor he had brought to his lips.

“Wow, this is exactly Radis, isn’t it?”

Eve giggled as he continued reading the magazine.

3. They have an obsession with yielding to others.

4. They take on unpleasant tasks.

5. They get flustered when they receive compliments.

“Pff!”

Eve covered his mouth with his hand and chuckled.

He thought of Radis, who was so vulnerable to compliments that she would turn red like a boiled shrimp at even a casual compliment thrown without much thought.

“That’s what makes her cute.”

Eve smiled bitterly and took a sip of the fragrant liquor.

6. They play a lot of pranks on people they trust.

Eve’s gaze lingered on that sentence for a long time.

The image of Radis poking his cheeks came vividly back to life.

When had she started treating him like that?

Eve pondered over past events.

It was hard to say exactly when, but it was probably from that time.

‘Marquis, if you’re really on my side… couldn’t you trust me now?’

From when she said those words.

He recalled Radis’s face, tears welling up in her eyes, yet crying and then laughing like a fool at his single word that he would trust her.

“Hah….”

Eve let out a trembling sigh and rubbed his forehead with his palm.

“You damn bastard, you’re the worst one of all.”

He felt like beating himself up until he was completely destroyed.

Radis had never expressed her feelings in words, but looking back, she had been saying everything through her actions.

He had tried to use her, but Radis had truly trusted him.

“Aaahhh… Die, Eve Russel….”

Self-loathing washed over him like a wave, and Eve dropped his head onto the marble table with a thud.

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