The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 33

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 33

The play was a comedic adaptation of a chapter from the original novel 【Knight Angela】, titled 【Knight Angela and Two Men】.

The early part of the play mainly focused on the romance between Knight Angela and Prince Christian.

Radis, who didn’t know the original story, was completely absorbed in the sweet acting of the two performers.

However, when a new character named Lamia appeared, the play took a new turn.

Lamia, who admired Christian, constantly tormented Angela and interfered with the party’s adventures.

Radis continued watching.

Honestly, it was annoying, but stories always have obstacles, after all.

But soon a cruel truth that neither Angela nor Radis knew was revealed.

It was the fact that Christian and Lamia were engaged.

“What?”

Radis was truly, genuinely angry.

She had to let out deep sighs to calm her boiling insides.

“What’s wrong?”

Eve, who had been slumped over limply from boredom behind her, asked.

Radis couldn’t hold back anymore and pulled the limply slumped Eve over.

“Christian, he’s a really bad guy! He had a fiancée from the beginning, so why did he pursue Angela like that?”

“Heroes are usually lustful…”

“The hero isn’t Christian, it’s Angela!”

“Then she’ll end up with Berno. Berno’s song is so heartbreaking, he seems sincere about Angela.”

“That’s right. Berno is much better than Christian. And Lamia, I wondered why she was interfering with Angela, but she had good reason. If she only did that much after watching her fiancé being lovey-dovey with someone else, she’s really kind.”

“That’s being kind? Then how much should she have tormented her?”

Radis made a gesture with both hands as if breaking something with a crack.

Seeing her like that, Eve shook her head.

“I don’t know who would take someone like you.”

“The Marquis doesn’t need to worry about such things.”

Radis focused on the play again.

Behind her, Eve and Olivier exchanged meaningful glances, but Radis didn’t notice.

Because the play’s development was reaching its climax.

Angela, realizing Christian’s betrayal, fell into deep despair.

Because her love was infinitely pure, the despair from it was even deeper and darker.

The climax of the play was the scene where Angela’s red flames turned black.

Angela’s red sword, which had cut down enemies without hesitation until now, was turning black.

Angela couldn’t move as if she had turned to stone.

Dark-clothed demons from the underworld jumped out and danced around Angela in circles, and finally Angela collapsed.

Pitiful screams erupted from various parts of the audience.

That’s when it happened.

“Angela!”

Berno appeared and lifted Angela up.

Holding Angela who looked dead, he sang a song filled with sorrow and heartbreaking love.

“Sob…!”

Radis, whose tear ducts burst from Berno’s song, buried her nose in her handkerchief and shed tears.

Berno’s true love made Angela open her eyes again.

The darkness receded, and red fairies jumped onto the stage, bouncing and dancing.

“Ah!”

Radis was startled.

Sage Luminous was descending from the sky!

More precisely, he was slowly descending while dangling from a rope attached to the stage ceiling.

“Ah, pure love has saved this world!”

When Sage Luminous descended from the sky, screams of surprise from the people in the first-floor audience could be heard.

“This too is providence and the natural flow!”

Sage Luminous seemed to have trouble maintaining balance in mid-air, waving his long white sleeves frantically while shouting in a voice with good projection.

“But remember this. Darkness will come again!”

All the actors came up on stage and performed a beautiful dance, and the play ended like that.

Radis applauded along with the other people.

Until her palms stung.

“Radis.”

Eve Russel, who grabbed her shoulder, flinched.

Radis was crying with tears and snot streaming down her face.

“Marquis!”

Radis said while shedding tears profusely.

“Thank you for bringing me here…! I’ll never forget this kindness!”

This was the first time in Radis’s life that she had shed tears from being moved.

The play was that wonderful.

Eve was flustered.

“Why are you crying? Was it sad enough content to cry like that?”

“It’s not because I’m sad, I’m moved!”

“Well, I’ll be…”

Eve chuckled and took out a handkerchief.

Then she grabbed Radis’s chin and carefully wiped her eyes and nose with the soft handkerchief.

“Was it that fun?”

With her chin held, Radis nodded several times.

It felt like she had stayed in a beautiful dream and then emerged from it.

This feeling was a first.

This must have been why lazy David even went in disguise to watch plays.

Eve smiled and let her go.

Then she pressed an envelope into her hand.

Radis sniffled and asked.

“What’s this?”

“Open it. My proud stepping stone.”

Radis opened the envelope.

Inside the envelope was a single note.

The content was brief.

[Next time, could you smile while looking at me? – O.A.]

Radis looked up at Eve with her swollen eyes.

She could see Eve Russel grinning widely with her thumb raised.

“What… is this?”

“Well done, Radis!”

“What do you mean…? His Highness… was here?”

“He was here, but not now.”

Eve pointed upward.

She could see a particularly splendid box seat not even a few meters away.

Though curtains were drawn now as if no one was there.

Radis’s expression changed by the second.

Confusion, shock, and then anger.

Radis, consumed by anger, grabbed Eve Russel’s raised thumb and squeezed it tightly.

“I thought something was strange, so you brought me here for this?”

“Ack!”

The play, the amethyst necklace, and these seats too!

Everything was part of Eve Russel’s scheme, black both inside and out.

Radis shook Eve Russel’s thumb violently while shouting.

“Yes, I know. That was your goal from the beginning, wasn’t it? But would it have hurt to give me a heads up?”

“Ra, Radis, it hurts!”

As the box seat became noisy, a theater attendant peered inside.

Understanding the situation, the attendant smiled warmly and withdrew.

And for good reason, as from the outside it looked like the tall Lord Russel and the adorable Radis were clinging together, holding hands while bickering.

But Eve Russel was genuinely in pain.

“Ow, ow ow ow! Ra, Radis? It, it really hurts quite a bit? Could you go easy on me?”

Radis looked down at that damned thumb with narrowed eyes.

‘Should I just… break this thing?’

Seeing her ominous expression, Eve Russel took a step back.

“So, sorry! I went a bit too far, didn’t I? So, so let’s, let’s put this down and talk…!”

Radis glared at Eve with terrifying eyes.

However, she soon had to sigh and release Eve’s hand.

He was a marquis, her employer, and the person who had even shown her a play today.

“My finger…!”

Eve Russel looked at his reddened thumb in disbelief.

“Radis… Why are you so strong?”

Radis snorted, then carefully gathered Prince Olivier’s note and the theater pamphlet before stomping out of the viewing area.

‘If I had been serious, that thing wouldn’t even be attached right now, Lord Marquis!’

Eve Russel glared at Radis’s retreating figure while blowing on his finger.

“Wow, what kind of woman is that? His Highness’s taste becomes more incomprehensible by the day.”

Though his finger hurt terribly, Eve Russel was in a good mood.

He held up his aching thumb and let out a laugh.

“Kuk… Kekeke, kahahaha!”

Over the past few years, how much effort had he poured into approaching Prince Olivier!

In Eve Russel’s judgment, the one destined to become the next emperor after the current Emperor Claude Arpend was none other than Prince Olivier, the 3rd Prince.

Of course, he couldn’t ignore Prince Charle, the 1st Prince and son of current Empress Adrianne.

However, he was definitely not cut out to be emperor.

If Charle became emperor, it was clear as day that the entire empire would fall into the hands of Empress Adrianne, her family the House of Relbelloa, and the Iszad Party centered around the House of Relbelloa.

The Emperor also knew this, which was why he had not yet appointed Charle, the 1st Prince, as crown prince.

The 2nd Prince Gabriel was popular among the empire’s citizens, but his birth mother Mirena’s commoner origins held him back.

Next was the 3rd Prince, Olivier Arpend.

The 3rd Prince Olivier, overshadowed by Charle who caused trouble daily and Gabriel who was popular with the citizens, had never received much attention.

However, his qualities were superior to anyone else’s, and his mother, former Empress Chartine, was from the Peletier family, one of the wealthiest families in the empire.

Moreover, due to his doll-like beautiful appearance and eerily calm demeanor, Olivier was most popular among the nobles.

It was even a well-known fact that Adrianne, who had dethroned Chartine to become empress, favored Olivier.

‘That’s probably because the 3rd Prince hasn’t revealed his true face yet.’

Eve was certain that Olivier had another side to him.

Why else would he need that solid mask of ice?

Masks are needed when one wants to hide their face.

Of course, he couldn’t openly support Olivier right now.

However, if he established a connection with Olivier in advance, when Olivier eventually needed power, he would surely seek out the Russel Marquis.

If he could meet Olivier’s demands at that moment, the Russel Marquis would no longer remain a marquis.

‘It would become the Russel Duchy…!’

Beneath his disheveled hair, Eve Russel’s eyes blazed with ambition.

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