The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 169

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 169

To such Alice, David spoke with all the charm he could muster.

“Alice, you see, when a man falls in love with a woman, he wants to go on adventures for her.”

Alice’s eyes widened.

She realized that until now, she had been in love with someone who didn’t exist in this world.

Alice spoke with a face as if she had been doused with cold water.

“Go back to your mother right now.”

“What? Why should I?”

“Your mother… you should at least escort her safely to your hometown!”

“Why should I!”

“Isn’t that David’s responsibility?”

“I even abandoned Radis, so why should I!”

Alice’s face turned pale.

She vaguely knew that Radis hadn’t spent very happy times at the Tilrod Estate.

And that even after coming to the Countess’ Mansion as if sold, she had suffered mentally several times because of her family.

Nevertheless, Radis had fulfilled her responsibilities for her family until the very end.

She saved the lives of the Tilrod couple, who should have been executed for the crime of conspiring with the ‘Black Mages’, and secretly paved a way for them to live.

The first thing she did after becoming a countess was to leave Willingham, a small village that should have been confiscated, as land belonging to the Tilrod Estate.

The people of the Tilrod Estate, including Jade, would somehow manage to live in Willingham.

And for Margaret, who had become penniless, she prepared funds so she could return to her hometown and start a new life.

Alice could easily guess that those funds were the Pelletier Bank promissory note that David was now holding.

But David had stolen that money and abandoned his mother.

‘To think he was this kind of person…!’

Things that had been hidden by her feelings for David, things she had tried not to see, began to vividly surface and show Alice the reality.

She had thought David wouldn’t be like that. She believed he would have been as kind to Radis as he was to her.

But it wasn’t true.

He was merely this kind of person.

Alice spoke in a breathless, stammering voice.

“You… were loved. You lived monopolizing affection. Then you should give back as much as you received. Isn’t that natural?”

At her words, David’s face became as if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world.

“What are you talking about? What did I receive? I received nothing!”

Alice was about to say something.

‘You were loved.’

But no matter how many times she said that, David wouldn’t realize anything.

Alice backed away hesitantly with a frightened face.

“…I can’t go with someone who doesn’t understand that.”

David, sensing the farewell, shouted.

“Alice! I love you!”

The word love that came from his mouth sounded so terrible that Alice had to cover her ears.

With her ears tightly covered, Alice said.

“I don’t love you. If I had known you were this kind of person, I wouldn’t have helped you from the beginning. You don’t even come close to Radis’s toes…!”

Those words seemed to hurt David’s pride.

“You!”

David, who had raised his hand, realized that uniformed men standing nearby were watching him.

David slowly lowered his hand and then shouted loudly.

“Fine! Do whatever you want! I’ll do whatever I want too!”

With both hands tightly covering her ears, Alice closed her eyes.

Tears streamed down from her eyes.

Margaret, who had lost David, first returned to where she had lost her bag to find her luggage bag containing her only possessions.

But there was some dirty young boy sitting on her bag.

Margaret let out a sharp scream and struck the boy’s back.

“Where does this dirty brat think he’s putting his filthy bottom!”

The young boy, suddenly beaten, was so surprised that he couldn’t even make excuses and ran away.

A coachman standing nearby shouted at Margaret, who was grumbling and shaking her bag.

“That child was watching over the bag so no one would steal it. You should be grateful instead!”

Margaret screamed loudly.

“You’re all in cahoots! You petty thieves!”

The coachman knocked his pipe toward Margaret and said.

“Who are you calling thieves? Look who’s making a scene in such a dirty state!”

At the coachman’s words, Margaret was at a loss for words.

Pushed by David and having rolled on the floor covered in horse dung, she was exactly the dirty mess the coachman described.

Margaret glared at the coachman with terrifying eyes, then dragged her luggage bag and retreated to the roadside.

And she pulled out any piece of clothing from her bag and roughly brushed off her skirt hem that was covered in horse dung.

People who saw Margaret splashing filth everywhere cursed and gradually avoided her.

Still, Margaret didn’t care and freely splashed filth in all directions until everything stuck to her skirt fell off.

After calming down a bit, Margaret sat on her luggage bag and muttered.

“Damn people. May they all get struck by lightning and die.”

Though she said that, thinking of David who had shamelessly shouted that she had done nothing for him and disappeared made her heart feel like it was tearing.

“Why haven’t I done anything for you? How could you say such a thing? I gave birth to you in pain and raised you until now…!”

What kind of child had David been.

Margaret could never forget the joy she felt when David was born.

When she held newborn David in her arms, everyone in the Tilrod Estate looked at her like a goddess.

As David’s skin grew plump and white, as that child grew, Margaret’s joy grew along with him.

That was right.

David had given her joy.

So Margaret believed that if she gave that child happiness, that happiness would surely return to her.

She wanted David to become a splendid knight.

Her dream was to hear these words from David wearing silver armor and riding a great warhorse.

‘I was able to become like this all thanks to my mother.’

An ecstatic smile spread across Margaret’s lips before quickly disappearing.

“Damn brat. What? I did nothing for you? I became like this raising you…!”

Margaret, who had been tapping her aching back with her fist, suddenly thought of Radis.

While everything she had done for David came to mind vividly, nothing came to mind about Radis.

She was a daughter she hadn’t wanted from the beginning, so she had never shown her affection.

She couldn’t even clearly remember if she had ever held her in her arms even once.

Margaret finally realized.

‘Why? Why did I do that…?’

Words that Radis had once said came to Margaret’s mind.

Those words flowed out through Margaret’s lips.

“Right. It was reasonable that it happened that way…”

Radis couldn’t give her any joy.

All the circumstances made it that way.

“Circumstances… Right. Circumstances made it that way.”

But Margaret had considered it to be Radis’s fault, that young child’s fault.

That’s why she could torment that child without guilt.

That was the reason Radis left.

When sold to the Countess’ Mansion by Margaret, Radis had said this.

‘I don’t need you people anymore. I don’t want to struggle to stay here any longer. I don’t want to live like that. That’s why I’m leaving.’

Now that she had lost everything and was returning to her hometown as if fleeing, Margaret could finally understand Radis’s feelings, even if just a little.

Then something seemed to collapse inside her chest.

Margaret denied it and shot up from her seat.

“No! I did nothing wrong! It’s all that brat’s fault.”

She had come too far down this path to admit her mistakes now.

Margaret, as always, protected herself by lashing out at the easiest target.

“If that brat had just been a little more affectionate, everything would have been fine. If she had taken good care of her brothers and brought me gifts with a smile, wouldn’t I have loved her? But she only remembers what I couldn’t give her and says disgusting things, so how could I love that!”

She shouted while forcefully dragging her luggage.

“David, David! My child! Where are you? Let’s go home!”

After searching through alley after alley for her son for a long time, Margaret realized that David would not return to her.

David, clutching the promissory note in his hand, would obviously run even farther away rather than come running at the sound of his mother’s voice.

‘Do I have to return to my hometown alone? Empty-handed and without my child?’

When the thought occurred to her that perhaps even her family might not welcome her, Margaret felt a chill run down her spine.

‘Couldn’t I return to the Tilrod estate now? Rather than going back to my hometown like this, it might be better to pretend to be generous and return to Willingheim…’

Margaret had lived her entire life hating Jade and the people of House Tilrod.

However, now that they had all disappeared from her life, she felt as empty as if she had lost her limbs.

She didn’t know what to rely on or where to go.

Margaret dragged her heavy luggage and wandered aimlessly on the split roads of Aldier.

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