WAYSOWRA

Chapter 26

When I listened to the Grand Duke, I felt as if the strings that had been tangled in my heart were untying.

I felt like I rarely ever felt secure even after struggling alone to build a bunch of defenses to protect myself.

Somehow, my heart was overwhelmed and I couldn’t answer right away, so I asked to take a deep breath instead of immediately saying ‘Yes!’.

“Why do you want to adopt me? A troublesome kid like me… ”

“A person who is hungry cannot forget the food they have tasted. Even if you try to forget about those foods, when you reach an obstacle you have to overcome and spend all of your energy, you become hungry for them again.”

“I am not the only one who loves you.”

“Oh, well…”

The Grand Duke looked at what he saw with an increasingly sadder face as if thinking about something.

Don’t tell me, has no one ever loved him openly and honestly? What about your parents? The Grand Duchess?

Why is he like that? Why should a man as friendly as the Grand Duke have such a sullen face?

I felt a little sad and clenched my fists.

“Is it true that you have no desire to return to your family?”

The Grand Duke asked me with a more serious face.

It seemed that he was trying to make sure that I was not hesitating because I missed my family.

“I hate them. They are not my family.”

They are people who left me without looking for me.

People who never believed in me.

Because they hated me?

Or because of the empress?

Maybe there is something wrong with them.

But I didn’t want to understand their circumstances.

Whatever their reasons, it wouldn’t change the fact that I was living a miserable life thanks to them.

‘They wouldn’t understand a young and fragile orphan girl like me.’

The Imperial Rulers, or my Imperial Brother, neither protected me.

Rather than protecting me, they only loved Azuela.

Anyway, this is the world in the book. It is a world that is only kind to the main character, Azuela.

That fact will not change.

“Have you ever met them in person?”

“No…”

I shook my head.

“If I am actually the princess, why was I living like that?”

I had no intention of regaining my status.

“I am very worried if I am a real princess.”

There was no reason for my family members to appear, and even if they appeared now, it would be an envoy of servants sent to retrieve me.

“Hmm… ”

Grand Duke seemed a little surprised by my unenthusiastic reaction that I now showed for the first time.

I thought I had to soothe my mind and forget my grudges, but when the dam in my heart that I had used to suppress everything broke, I couldn’t restrain myself.