The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 20

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 20

“The bedroom is here, and the dressing room is inside. You may use everything inside comfortably. If you need anything else, please feel free to ask anytime…”

“I think… there might be some mistake.”

Allen, who was giving the tour, turned around at Radis’s words.

“Pardon?”

“The room is too large.”

Radis struggled to choose her words.

There was definitely some mistake.

Perhaps Eve Russel had simply told the servants that Radis was a ‘guest.’

So Allen might have thought Radis was an honored guest and prepared a room beyond her station. If so, she needed to let him know before Allen got into trouble.

But she didn’t want to sound like she was reproaching Allen for his mistake.

Radis forced a smile with her lips stiff from nervousness and said.

“I don’t need such a large room. A small bedroom would be sufficient.”

Allen’s eyes wavered.

However, like the skilled butler he was, he quickly regained his composure.

“Miss Radis, I was merely following my master’s orders.”

“Yes…?”

“The Russel Manor always provides appropriate treatment to guests who visit the estate. And Miss Radis is a guest who deserves such treatment.”

“…”

“The master will summon you before evening. Until then, please rest comfortably. And if you need anything, you can pull this cord anytime.”

Allen bowed politely and left the room.

Radis was left alone in that spacious room.

Radis was about to place her bag on the table but set it down on the floor instead.

The bag was too old and dirty to place on the snow-white marble table.

She put her nose to the vase filled with flowers as fresh as if they had just been picked from a garden to smell their fragrance, and also examined the paintings hanging on the drawing room walls with her hands clasped together like a squirrel.

The display cases lined up along each wall contained tea sets and plates so ornate she wondered if they could actually be used as tableware, and porcelain decorations that looked expensive at first glance.

Seeing them made Radis feel frightened.

‘If someone takes these, would I have to compensate for them?’

Radis carefully tried pulling on the display case door.

Fortunately, the display case was locked. But the glass of the display case was so thin it seemed like it would shatter with just one hit.

‘If there’s a breaking sound, I’ll rush out immediately and catch the thief.’

Making this strange resolution, Radis picked up her luggage and entered the bedroom Allen had shown her.

“…”

The drawing room was sigh-inducing enough, but the bedroom was more serious.

By the window was a lovely marble table that seemed perfect for some kingdom’s princess to use, and on top of it was even a silver candlestick.

Moreover, the wallpaper was silk wallpaper embroidered with gold thread, and on the console beside the bed was a golden vase.

Seeing that vase, dark clouds gathered on Radis’s face.

“It’s not real gold, right?”

Radis stared seriously at the vase filled with white roses like clouds.

“It must be gold-plated… It has to be.”

But even if it was gold-plated, it would probably be tremendously expensive.

Radis carefully pushed the vase with both hands to place it as close to the wall as possible.

If she accidentally hit and broke this in her sleep…

Just thinking about it was horrifying.

And then the bed.

The bed was so wide that two or three people could practice swordsmanship on top, and it was covered with rose-colored silk bedding that would perfectly suit a princess spreading out her golden hair while sleeping.

Radis tentatively reached out and pressed down on the bedding.

The endlessly smooth and soft silk bedding felt like clouds, whatever was stuffed inside.

A sigh escaped naturally.

“Haah…”

Radis put on the cleanest shirt and pants she had and anxiously waited for Eve Russel.

Only one thought filled her mind.

‘This isn’t right.’

It seemed Eve Russel was quite the fantasist.

He seemed to be fantasizing that Prince Olivier had fallen in love at first sight with her after seeing the gentlemanly Prince Olivier help the fallen Radis to her feet.

Otherwise, this kind of treatment made no sense.

‘I don’t deserve this kind of treatment…’

Radis was sighing with her hands on her hips when she suddenly noticed her reflection in the dressing table mirror.

She looked like a shepherd boy whose face was full of worry after having all his sheep stolen.

‘Prince Olivier felt attracted to me? That’s ridiculous. It would make more sense if I had fallen for His Highness.’

The moment that thought occurred to her, Radis was shocked to witness her face turning red from her neck all the way to her forehead.

“Me? Is that me? When I get flustered… my face turns this red?”

She had never owned a large mirror, nor had she ever blushed in front of one, so this was the first time seeing herself like this.

While she was looking at her face out of curiosity, the red color gradually faded and returned to her normal complexion.

“Was I this red when I met His Highness? Then I must have looked like a red person wearing a pink scrubber. No, he might have mistaken me for a cooked shrimp…”

Having hurt her own feelings with her own words, Radis turned away from the mirror.

The more she thought about it, Lord Russel’s decision was a complete mistake.

However, for something caused by a momentary misunderstanding, his loss was too great.

Eve Russel must have already paid quite a large sum to the Tilrod Estate.

On top of that, he had prepared such a nice room for her.

Furthermore, he had made a contract to act as her guardian until she came of age and give her the enormous sum of 100 million rupens per year.

‘This isn’t right. It’s no different from deceiving a foolish person and committing fraud.’

Especially acting as her guardian for two whole years until Radis came of age was truly an unfair contract from Eve Russel’s perspective.

‘How am I any different from that Hover Kradieum?’

The thought that she was on the same level as that terrible fraud gave her chills.

‘No matter how ungrateful a person I am… this isn’t right. This doesn’t seem like a place I should be. I was blinded by the overly good conditions. If I’m going to entrust myself somewhere, the House of Rosild would be better. There, at least I could earn my keep.’

Radis, who had been pacing anxiously by the window, spotted the marquis’s carriage entering the estate and rushed out of her room without thinking.

There weren’t many people in the estate.

She walked around the corridors and found some maids who were about to enter a room to clean.

Radis approached the maids and asked.

“Excuse me. Where is the marquis’s room?”

The maids, who appeared to be around Radis’s age, seemed very surprised by her appearance.

She heard someone exclaim ‘Oh my!’ from behind.

Radis felt sorry for startling them and took a step back.

The maid at the front spoke in what seemed like a deliberately kind voice.

“The marquis’s room is the central room on the upper floor.”

“Thank you.”

Radis was about to start walking again when she turned back to ask where the stairs leading upward were.

Then she ended up overhearing the maids whispering through the gap in the open door.

“What do I do, I told him!”

“Is it okay?”

“Oh, really…”

Radis, whose face had turned pale, quickly backed away with hesitant steps.

So she didn’t hear the rest of the maids’ conversation.

“…Where did such a beautiful boy suddenly appear from? It’s unfair to suddenly talk to us with a face like that! My way of speaking wasn’t strange, was it?”

“The central↑room↑on the↑upper↑floor↑!”

“Kyaaah, Melody! Don’t imitate me!”

Not having heard that conversation, Radis could only assume the maids were speaking ill of her.

Because that’s how it had always been.

In the Tilrod Family, she had lived among people who constantly spoke ill of her, whether in front of her or behind her back.

So she also knew how to deal with gossip.

It was best to pretend she hadn’t heard anything at all.

‘They must already know about me.’

Radis covered her cheeks with both hands.

Her cheeks had grown a little warm.

‘The outcast of the Tilrod Estate. Do they also know that I sabotaged David’s Academy admission? It’s only natural they’d wonder why someone like that came to the Russel Estate. And if they find out I’m staying in such a nice room… they can’t help but dislike me.’

Feeling dejected and walking aimlessly forward, Radis discovered stairs in the middle of the corridor and went upstairs.

In addition to the anxiety from being in such a seriously unfamiliar place, the thought that the people of the Russel Estate viewed her unfavorably made Radis endlessly depressed.

‘Let me tell Lord Russel to cancel the contract. And ask if I can stay here for just a few days. In return, I’ll promise to repay the money he paid to the Tilrod Family over several years if necessary. I’ll go to the House of Rosild and apply for the Extermination Troops. That’s the only thing I’m good at anyway.’

Radis stood in front of the Lord’s room with her shoulders slumped.

And she knocked on the door.

The door was so thick she couldn’t make it out clearly, but it seemed like someone was having a conversation inside.

The conversation was interrupted by the sound of her knocking.

Soon someone walked over and opened the door for her.

“…Radis?”

“Lord Russel…”

Today too, he was dressed all in black.

Perhaps he had just returned from an outing and hadn’t even taken off his cloak yet, as he wore a pitch-black hood pulled down so only his chin and lips were visible.

Looking at those pale-seeming lips, a phrase came to mind.

‘100 million rupen.’

The magic of those words was tremendous.

It was enough to grab even Radis, who had almost given up on the contract with the Lord, by the scruff of the neck and make her stand at the very back of the line marked A, B, C, D.

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