The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 68

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 68

 

Yurhee seemed to have inherited Margaret’s blonde hair, green eyes, and all the other bad traits as well.

 

Spewing harsh words without taking a breath and puffing out snorting breaths through her large nostrils, Yurhee looked like a little Margaret.

 

Realizing this fact, Radis felt as if her blood vessels had been severed and all the blood in her body was draining out.

 

She grabbed Yurhee’s shoulders and staggered.

 

“Yurhee…!”

 

In her previous life, Yurhee wasn’t like this.

 

Margaret only tormented Radis.

 

Margaret was an affectionate and kind mother, at least to David and Yurhee.

 

Especially Yurhee, who was Margaret’s beloved daughter, was a princess who never seemed to mature.

 

Sometimes she would fight with David, but that was just children’s quarrels.

 

Yurhee was always a lovely girl who spread laughter around her.

 

“Don’t you have any sense of responsibility as the eldest daughter of House Tilrod? As the eldest daughter, you should naturally take care of your parents! Worry about the future of David, who is the pillar of the family! Look after your younger sister! Isn’t that what you should do?”

 

Fourteen-year-old Yurhee was absolutely not the kind of child who would scream like this with poison on her tongue.

 

Feeling suffocated, Radis looked down at Yurhee with watery eyes.

 

Yurhee’s lips were painted pink, but if you looked closely, they were full of bite marks everywhere.

 

The fingernails on her pointing hand had been bitten down so much they were as small as dried beans.

 

“What, what are you looking at!”

 

Realizing that Radis was looking at her hands, Yurhee quickly hid them.

 

Radis felt her heart tearing apart.

 

‘Because I wasn’t there… she did that to Yurhee.’

 

At that realization, Radis almost collapsed on the spot.

 

Radis turned her gaze to look at Margaret.

 

Her black eyes were like a night sea surging with despair.

 

Margaret couldn’t help but flinch when she met that distant gaze.

 

Radis slowly opened her mouth.

 

“Did you really… have to go this far?”

 

At Radis’s words, Margaret huffed out a breath.

 

“Oh please! What did I do? What did I do?”

 

“Did you have to… destroy someone without rest, not even for a moment?”

 

“What?”

 

Radis grabbed Yurhee’s arm.

 

Startled, Yurhee tried to pull her caught arm away but couldn’t.

 

“Don’t! I said don’t!”

 

Radis thrust Yurhee’s hand in front of Margaret and said.

 

“Look. See how you’re destroying your own children!”

 

“Get that away from me!”

 

Margaret forcefully swatted away Yurhee’s hand.

 

Margaret’s patience seemed to have reached its limit too.

 

Having lost her reason, Margaret began screaming at Radis’s face.

 

“Are you trying to lecture me now? Yes, you’re so great! Do you think you’re some kind of marquis’s wife just because you’re at the marquis’s estate? If you’re going to act superior, at least do well by your own family! Why don’t you even have the sense to siphon money to your own family? You fool who can’t even take care of your own family! You parasite who couldn’t even secure a proper mistress position, how dare you raise your voice in front of the mother who gave birth to you?”

 

Margaret’s words weren’t even worth arguing against.

 

Because Radis wasn’t Eve’s mistress like Margaret’s dirty imagination suggested.

 

However, Radis would rather bite her tongue and die than speak those words in front of Allen.

 

She had to weakly let go of Yurhee’s hand.

 

In front of the staggering Radis, Margaret’s voice grew even louder.

 

“Selfish and wicked girl! I hope you have a daughter just like you! Then you’ll understand how I feel!”

 

At that moment, the lobby door burst open.

 

Beyond the open door appeared the figure of a dignified elderly lady who had personally pulled the handle to open the door.

 

She was none other than the great-great-great-grandmother marquis’s wife and grandmother of the current marquis Eve Russel, Meriel Russel.

 

She was always full of dignity.

 

However, Meriel now was radiating an overwhelming sense of intimidation like an enraged queen.

 

When she swept her gaze across the room, everyone in the lobby instantly became criminals and had to bow their heads.

 

Margaret, who regained her senses at Meriel’s appearance, looked at Radis and said.

 

“Hey, who is this person? You should explain…”

 

As if those words were a signal, Meriel Russel moved.

 

She forcefully threw open the door and approached Margaret with sharp clicking sounds of her heels.

 

Then she slapped Margaret’s cheek with her gloved hand.

 

“Kyaak!”

 

Margaret, who was suddenly slapped, screamed.

 

“Heuuk!”

 

“…!”

 

Yurhee, who had been trembling since the moment Radis grabbed her hand, let out a groan as if she was about to faint.

 

Radis couldn’t help but be surprised too.

 

Margaret shouted.

 

“Wh-what are you doing…!”

 

But Meriel didn’t stop.

 

Smack, slap!

 

After hitting Margaret’s cheek two more times, Meriel rubbed her trembling wrist and gasped for breath.

 

Taking advantage of that moment, Eve Russel, who had been standing behind Meriel, spoke.

 

“You should know who I am, and let me introduce this noble lady – she is the great-great-great-grandmother marquis’s wife of this Russel estate and my grandmother, Marquis Meriel Russel. Show proper respect.”

 

At Eve Russel’s words, Margaret’s face turned pale.

 

Being told to show respect after being slapped three times was absurd, but Meriel’s status made it possible.

 

Margaret had to bow her head reluctantly, even while her shoulders trembled with anger.

 

Meriel shouted at Margaret.

 

“If I weren’t a powerless old woman, I would have hit you a hundred more times!”

 

Meriel continued with a trembling voice.

 

“You made the child so thin as if she couldn’t even get bread crumbs, and dressed her so you couldn’t tell if she was a boy or girl, making me think how destitute she must be, and now you appear wrapped in silk and fur? Did you think that would make you look beautiful?”

 

Meriel’s eyes were full of anger and her face overflowed with disgust.

 

If it had been the usual Margaret, she would have gotten angry asking what they had ever contributed, but now doing so might cost her her head.

 

All Margaret could do was bow her head even deeper.

 

“Is that tongue a human tongue or a snake’s tongue? No, even a snake wouldn’t do this. Even beasts cherish their young, but you’re worse than a beast! How could you wag your three-inch tongue to stab such daggers into your young daughter’s heart!”

 

Even after pouring out all that, as if her anger wasn’t satisfied, Meriel struck Margaret’s shoulder with the fan she was holding.

 

Margaret’s body swayed greatly.

 

It was more because of Meriel’s words than the force of the elderly lady’s trembling strike.

 

Margaret, who was treated as less than a beast, couldn’t endure any longer in that place.

 

“Hey, let’s go…”

 

Margaret called Yurhee in a voice that had become as small as a mosquito’s.

 

Yurhee was dragged away helplessly by Margaret’s hand as if all her energy had drained away.

 

That child’s green eyes were endlessly wide, looking around like someone who didn’t know where they were.

 

Seeing that sight, Radis thought for the first time that Yurhee was pitiful.

 

Eve Russel, who had been looking down at those two people with an ice-cold gaze, turned his body just slightly to make way.

 

Over the heads of the two people walking away limping in miserable condition, Eve Russel’s low voice echoed.

 

“There’s only one reason you can leave here alive – because you’re blood relatives of Radis. However, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to restrain myself next time.”

 

Radis couldn’t even dare to look up at Eve Russel and just stared blankly at the backs of the two people hurriedly rushing out of the foyer.

 

Margaret, who had always seemed big, looked so small.

 

Even that small figure was instantly swallowed by darkness, and soon the door closed.

 

The lobby was enveloped in awkward silence.

 

Radis slightly raised her gaze and looked around.

 

The employees of the marquis’s estate had hidden themselves since the commotion began in the lobby, and none were visible except for Allen.

 

Allen had his head deeply bowed so his expression couldn’t be seen, and Lady Meriel had turned her head away, taking deep breaths so heavy that her chest rose and fell dramatically.

 

Eve, who had her bangs down as usual, also had an unreadable face.

 

Radis squeezed her eyes shut tight.

 

If she could choose where to die, she would rather die right now.

 

No, if she could disappear from this place without leaving a trace, she felt like she could do anything.

 

But no miracle occurred.

 

It was her job as the daughter to clean up the dirt that Margaret had kicked up with her parting blow.

 

Radis bowed her head, rubbing her hands on the hem of her dress that had become wrinkled from how tightly she had gripped it.

 

“I have caused trouble. I apologize.”

 

Then Lady Meriel whipped her head around and shouted.

 

“Why are you apologizing!”

 

Meriel walked toward Radis.

 

Radis could see all kinds of emotions rippling like waves across Meriel’s wrinkled face.

 

“Poor thing…”

 

Meriel pulled Radis into her embrace.

 

Radis’s body stiffened in surprise.

 

Meriel’s hand gently patted Radis’s shoulder.

 

The old lady’s hands were infinitely soft, like worn gauze that had become tender.

 

Her fragrance was the same.

 

From Meriel came a warm and gentle scent like the faint lingering fragrance that wafts out when opening the lid of a very old perfume bottle.

 

Patting her back, Meriel said.

 

“Radis, I’m sorry. I don’t know how to apologize to you for everything I said. My life is full of regrets, but this is the first time I’ve regretted my words this much.”

 

Radis realized that Meriel was apologizing for the things she had said when they first met.

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