The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 7

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 7

Irene had a red bump the size of a thumb on her right cheek, and Margaret liked Irene precisely because of that blemish.

She thought having an ugly maid by her side would make herself stand out more.

Unaware of Margaret’s true intentions, Irene reveled in the authority of being the lady’s favorite and acted arrogantly.

She especially enjoyed tormenting Radis.

‘Lady Radis, do you know? The madam likes me more than you.’

How deeply those words from Irene had torn young Radis’s heart to shreds.

Irene truly tormented her as if she were Radis’s spiteful older sister.

She would take things as she pleased, wouldn’t deliver meals on time, poured water on Radis’s bed and spread rumors that she still wet herself, tormenting her through such despicable methods.

Irene’s bullying only ended after Radis began going on monster hunts.

‘The first thing I demanded after starting monster hunts was to have Irene removed.’

Margaret kicked Irene out as if she had been waiting for it.

As if Irene’s bullying had never been Margaret’s intention.

Not long after, Irene was found dead in the marsh near the estate.

People said that Irene, having been kicked out of the estate with nowhere to go, must have thrown herself into the marsh.

But looking back, Irene was someone who knew the House of Tilrod’s fatal secret.

The fact that David, who went on monster hunts, was actually Radis.

To protect her son, Margaret had taken a life without a moment’s hesitation.

‘I died the same way.’

Radis’s eyes sank deeply.

Not knowing what she was thinking, Irene arrogantly tapped her plate with her spoon and said,

“Miss, you really are blessed. Even after pushing the madam and making her bedridden, you still get meals.”

The more Irene chattered, the more Radis’s eyes regained their coldness.

‘Irene, who had died… is alive.’

Radis had to accept it now.

That this situation was reality, not a dream before death or a life flashing before her eyes.

Looking at Irene with cold eyes, Radis opened her mouth.

“Where is Father?”

“The master?”

Irene answered in a heavily sarcastic voice.

“Thanks to you, miss, he’s running around handling the fraudulent admission issue without a moment to breathe! What a truly admirable daughter!”

Radis let out a thin sigh.

In her previous life, Radis had simply endured Irene’s bullying in silence.

Because she was afraid of defying Irene, who was favored by Margaret.

But now she had no need to tolerate someone like Irene.

Radis picked up the soup bowl and dumped it right over Irene’s head.

Irene shuddered at the hot sensation spreading from the top of her head.

“Oh my, oh my my my!”

“Have I been too quiet until now?”

Radis rubbed the soup bowl against Irene’s head while looking into the maid’s eyes.

“But I’ve decided not to stay still anymore. So while Mother and Father are suffering like this because of me, what do you think will happen to you?”

Radis read the emotions rising in the maid’s pupils.

Surprise and anger quickly faded.

The maid rolled her eyes in a circle, seeming to recall the things she had done in the past.

And soon her gaze dropped, losing all fighting spirit.

Radis almost let out a chuckle.

She was just this kind of child after all.

Radis patted the soup bowl as if it were a cute hat and said,

“If you’re curious about what will happen to you, feel free to keep acting so boldly. But if you want to continue being the madam’s precious maid like now, you’d better be more careful with your words. And…”

Radis picked up the spoon and tapped the edge of the soup bowl.

“Bring me something proper instead of this garbage.”

Irene rushed out of the room with wide eyes, still wearing the soup bowl as a hat.

Shortly after, she brought a tray with steaming mushroom soup and soft bread, then quickly ran away.

Radis tore the bread with her fingertips.

‘Real.’

She dipped the torn bread into the pearl-colored soup.

‘This is real too.’

When she put it in her mouth, the soup’s aroma and the bread’s soft texture filled her mouth completely.

‘Everything is real.’

Radis had died at twenty-six from magic poisoning.

And she had returned to sixteen.

It wasn’t like a life flashing before her eyes at death, but she had truly returned as sixteen-year-old Radis to live a second life.

‘A second life?’

A bitter laugh escaped her.

Radis Tillord’s life had been terrible.

It was truly like hell.

A second life wouldn’t be any different.

No matter how many times she returned, she would still be Radis Tillord, daughter of Margaret and Jade.

She shook her head.

‘I can’t live like that again.’

She no longer wanted to live a life of sacrifice for her mother’s vanity, to support her father and siblings.

Slowly swallowing the bread soaked in soup piece by piece, Radis reflected on her past life.

Even after David entered the academy, Radis’s life didn’t change much from before.

She always practiced alone in the clearing, the swordsmanship she had learned from her teacher, and spent the rest of her time confined to this room like a hermit.

Until David graduated from the academy.

After that, Radis would go on monster hunts in David’s place for David’s knighthood ceremony.

For six years, until she met her miserable death.

As the agony before death came to mind, Radis unconsciously let out a thin moan.

‘Why? Why did I return? What, to get revenge?’

Radis let out a dry laugh.

She didn’t want revenge or anything like that.

A few days ago, when she grabbed Margaret’s wrist, Radis had desperately realized it.

‘I wasn’t… suffering because Mother tormented me. I wasn’t suffering because I had to go on monster hunts instead of David. I wasn’t suffering because I was poisoned by magic and couldn’t even receive proper treatment, feeling pain and injustice.’

Radis put down the soup bowl and looked up at the night sky.

‘I was… suffering because I wasn’t loved.’

She wanted to be loved.

So even while enduring harsh torment, she pretended not to hurt, pretended not to suffer.

Even while fighting terrifying monsters, even while being poisoned by magic, she endured.

Because she was happy when her family rejoiced because of it.

Because she thought that was the way to be loved.

“Haha…”

Radis laughed weakly.

For reasons unknown, she seemed to have been born without something that children should naturally have.

Something that David and Yurhee had, but she apparently lacked.

Radis lay weakly on the edge of the bed and muttered,

“Let’s give up on that now.”

She had made more than enough effort to be loved in her previous life.

Only after experiencing a miserable death could Radis finally realize.

That she meant nothing to her parents, to her siblings.

“I need to get out of here.”

She had to leave the Tilrod Estate.

But how?

Where to?

With what money?

Radis got up from her seat and paced by the window.

The world she knew was narrow.

At most, it consisted of the palm-sized Tilrod Family estate of Willingham and the Monster Forest filled with creatures.

“The forest…”

Thinking of that place filled her with a longing feeling, as if remembering her hometown.

It was strange.

The Monster Forest was a dangerous place.

However, in her previous life, it was the only place where she could be free.

“There were pioneers living near there too.”

The terrain was rough, and hungry monsters would often appear, so it wasn’t a safe area.

But there were people who made a living cultivating such land.

“Come to think of it, didn’t some pioneer village once make a fortune from cherry farming…?”

One summer, there was a disease that spread through the trees, causing all the cherry trees to fail to bear fruit.

However, only the pioneers’ farmland, which was isolated and remote, escaped damage, and thanks to that, cherry prices skyrocketed to the price of gold, allowing them to make a solid profit—she had heard such rumors.

Radis’s eyes sparkled.

‘If I invested there…?’

But her hope was short-lived.

Right now, she didn’t even have money to buy a basket of cherries, let alone invest.

Money wasn’t the only thing she lacked.

She was currently just a sixteen-year-old girl.

One who wasn’t even allowed to go out alone.

“Sigh…”

Having lost her appetite, Radis pushed away the soup bowl.

‘Why did this happen?

Having to live this kind of life twice…’

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