When The Villainess Loves - Chapter 6

…what?

Wait. What does he mean? But whether I was feeling unwell while hearing his words or not, the emperor continued indifferently: “I won’t arrange any political marriages for you, so do as I say. Also…”

“…?”

“I will not accept your withdrawal from the successsion. You will maintain your succession right for another year as it is.”

What is this? What kind of bullshit!

If he had seen the testimonial of Rox, a doctor of the royal palace, he would know about it.

If things would stay the way they are now, I would die in two years from now. But his Majesty is going to tie me up for another year inside the palace?

By now I was just dumbfounded by the emperor.

“A year from now you will recieve what you desire. I will grant you request to recieve freedom then.”

But I have to treat the disease within this following year? I’ll be throwing up lots of blood? Excuse me. Excuse me?

It would have been okay if I were to stay for three months.

But staying for a year… I am terminally ill, so I couldn’t suddenly show signs of recovery a year later. If I were to go far away, I would have a chance for my recovery to go unnoticed.

In the end, none of my suggestions were accepted by the emperor.

The emperor was behaving ridiculous, so I opened my mouth and looked at the emperor dumbstruck. Then I noticed how the emperor  avoided my eyes stealthily.

What are you doing?

If my inner thoughts were to reache his Majesty, I could forget my freedom. I would get executed immediately.

I carefully opened my mouth while suppressing my rising passion.

“…your, Your Majesty? But.”

“Well, you are dismissed.”

It was a useless struggle. Unlike three days ago, I was chased away.

***

The Eperor was alone behind closed doors.

He shut his eyes slowly while thinking of the princess walking away earlier.

“There was blood around her mouth…”

The emperor recalled the traces of blood that had not been removed from the lips of the princess.

A sigh of patience burst out.

‘When I checked wether she was truthfully ill or not, it was brought to light that the princess didn’t lie.’

After I asked the dictor to bring me a medical testimony, I was shocked by what Dr. Rox has written.

Raphaelis. The princess really fell ill with that terrible incurable disease.

‘I’m trying to figure out a cure for the disease, but it’s said to be close to impossible.’

It was a disease that had been proven to be incurable for a long time now.

The fact that Rox tried to find a cure for it will all means possible was almost insane.

There was no way for her to survive this.

“Whoa…”

When the woman he loved had died, all he had left was the crown prince, the son they’ve recieved together.

Furthermore, Leticia was not a child he could be affectionate with. The child itself was just like any other, but the power that the child alone hold was extraordinary. That’s how her maternal family is.

[T/N: this paragraph as so hard to make sense of. The next one isn’t better]

But this child alone… The child seemed like the reincarnation of the evil empress, her mother “Lysan Vance.”

It was impossible in the first place to cherish her like the crown prince.

‘But I thought it would be okay.’

The royal family is not that kind of affectional family, where one showed personal affection towardseach other.

‘I was sure it would definitely stay like that.’

Nevertheless, the emperor was shocked. When he found out that the princess truthfully was terminally ill, he couldn’t treat her the same as he did three days ago.

It was okay at first. Let’s hear her out. If that was everything she wantend, it wouldn’t be hard to grand her request. He also calculated the benefits of granting her wish.

But in the end he couldn’t summon the princess yesterday.

He couldn’t summon her. But why?

It took the emperor a whole day to come up with an answer for his own question.

She was only nineteen years old. But her remaining time in this world is at most two years.

Probably after struggling with terrible pain she will then die at the age of 2, leaving behind only a small grave.

“Why do you have cought such a disease?”, lamented the emperor.

I’ve left her alone for all this time … but I never wanted this to happen to her.

Suddenly the image of the smiling princess came to his mind.

She looked like she was smiling gracefully just as usual. She us different from her mother, who always smiled unfriendly.

Was it because of the emperor’s mood that he could feel the coldness in her smile less than usual? He was surprised to find himself thinking about what it would have been like see her truly smile.

How were the eyes, that looked at him like they would never see him again?

No matter how cold an emperor was to a woman, he could not help but be swayed by her appearance.

And the agitation was greater than the emperor expected.

“She said she wants to go to a secluded place and live there quietly.”

And she said he wanted to close her eyes quietly.

A blue flowers blooms in the grave of a person who died of Raphaelis. This beautiful blue flower was called windflower because of its resemblance with the wind.

Some people say that each windflower is a soul. Some people say that the youth fleeing to freedom.

“…freedom.”

The words that the princess put in her mouths over and over again in the past few days.

The emperor swept his hands roughly over his face.

A child who is not even 20 years old yet is now talking about death while keeping a straight face.

That is all she wants.

‘This isn’t right.‘

He thought about it a lot during this short time and came to a conclusion.

How is the princess? Yes, she had nothing regret before death. She just wants to leave this place.

‘That means the palace holds such a painful memories for the child.’

Enough to become meaningless to her.

Perhaps the child, who has been arrogant and incomprehensible, was just a lonely child after all.

He kept thinking like that.

The emperor muttered with an uncharacteristically disturbed face: “It’s stupid. If she were to leave now, she will never be safe even if she gave up her successsion right.”

The princess has many enemies.

Her mother’s enemies are her enemies as well, but her maternal  family will not protect her from them.

In addition, it was clear as the dY that the enemies who were going after her mother Lysan Vance were also looking for an opportunity to make a move against Princess Leticia.

That was why the emperor told her to stay for another year.

But…

The emperor sighed again.

“For someone that I have never cared for, I’m doing lots for her after knowing about her fate.”

Perhaps it will be the best to grant all her wishes. Nevertheless, he ordered her to stay with him for a year.

The emperor thought he would regret it greatly if he were to let the princess leave the pslave with only memories of being abandoned here.

In addition, it was because of his selfish desire to to be more confident in his own behavior when he will let the princess leave the palace in the future.

“At the end of the day, I am still a bad father to that child.”

The emperor closed his eyes slowly.

[T/N: Finally we’re over with the emperors part. He’s not really a charming man]

***

The original book starts off when the protagonists are still young.

The Prologue is a scene from the childhood of the heroin and the male lead. After that, the story continues immediately after they’ve grown up.

The Herioine Ariel, the pure daughter of   Duke, has lived a safe but boring life inside a villa on the island of Choltong because of her father’s overprotectiveness.

The only pleasure in her childhood days was to play with a boy her age, who sometimes appeared out of the blue.

The boy had red hair and blue eyes.

Ariel did not know the boy’s name, but  starting from the age of 10 she addressed him, who came to the unimpressive villa, as a fairy.

One day the boy suddenly said: “Arielle, you are mine, aren’t you?”

“Yes!”

Ariel naively understood his words as ‘You’re my friend?’

It was said that the boy smiled very satisfactorily at Ariel’s innocent smile.

In the next chapter after the prologue, Ariel appeared as a 18 years old young lady.

She participated in the National Foundation Festival to make her debut in high society. There she found out that her fairy, who she had not seensince he was 15, was the Crown Prince Rabilov.

“That’s how the gates to hell opened for the people who surrounded her”, mumbled I faintly while chewing the cookies.

“What?”

“Your Grace?”

Rini and Irene, the maids who were eating snack with me while sitting around, tilted their heads.

Maybe it’s because they’re both young. Strangely enough, I answered blankly when I saw two young ladies, who have become completely friendly to me in the last few days: “It’s just that when the gate to torture opens for thd people around me … what should I do?”

“When the gate opens, just run away!”, said Rini with a cute muzzle on her lips.

“…Is that so? Rini thinks the same as I do.”

“Of course. Torture? That means you’re getting married. No Princess, I think we should run away even before the gate opens.“

Irene and I didnt know what to say and looked at Rini quietly.

“I don’t know what to point out.“

“…yes. That’s right, but something’s strange.”

I strongly sympathized with Irene, who shook her head with a blank expression.

“Rini, you became 15 this year, right?”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

“I see.”

Well, I was old enough to have a fiance in this world. I guess she felt  young between us.