I Will Disappear, Grand Duke | LK Adaptation

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That night, they sat on a small sofa on one side of the bedroom and talked endlessly.

They just sat next to each other and chatted, but none of them fell asleep as if even that time was precious.

"YourHighness. Actually, I have known you for a long time."

Lalisa carefully spoke. Looking at him with anxious eyes, he showed no sign of surprise.

Rather, he just smiled and replied plainly.

"I know. That you were the little girl who was crying that day."

"... Oh, did you know?"

Lalisa opened her eyes wide, looking at him slightly startled, Jungkook slowly closed his eyes and then opened them.

Lalisa will never remember her. That they had already talked about their first meeting.

"But ... you said you didn't remember at first."

Lalisa muttered with a puzzled look on her face.

A while back, when they met to proceed with the wedding, she asked him if he remembered her. But he only answered coldly.

"You must have seen the wrong person."

At that time, looking at the cold-looking man, she recognized that she was the only one who valued the memories.

To her surprise, Lalisa thought that this friendly man in front of her now and the man at that time were completely different.

"How did you come to be remembered?"

Lalisa opened her mouth again as if she was genuinely curious. Jungkook thought for a moment to answer, and then gently looked at her.

"I went to the Imperial Palace and it suddenly came to mind. The girl who was sitting in the closet crying."

In fact, even these days, Jungkook sometimes recalled the child who was crying sadly in his dreams.

And he overlapped the child with her who cried because of him one day. When he woke up like that, the remorse of the past would hit him again.

"Did you always cry alone like that?"

Jungkook asked in a calm voice. He already knew that her past wasn't glamorous and easy.

But he had never heard the story directly from her mouth. Lalisa blinked her eyes slowly, and then she shook her head slightly.

"No. I wasn't the kind of kid who cried as often as I did back then."

Of course, she was lonely because there was no one on her side, and she used to cringe at the harsh gazes and words that fell for no reason from the Marquis and his wife. But from some point on, she stopped crying so often.

The hurt and loneliness were the same, but she remembered the friendly voice that whispered to her every time it happened.

"Don't cry. I'll stay with you."

Oddly enough, when she remembered that voice, tears would come out, but it would stop right away. Lalisa looked at Jungkook in front of her.

She felt glad to see this man again.

"Your Highness was the first person to tell me not to cry and stay with me."

To Lalisa, who was separated from her mother and was left alone with no one on her side in the world.

The day they met was remembered as the only warmly shining past.

"I guess that's why. After that, I didn't cry often."