LILA: THE CURSED VILLAINESS

14

"A ball..?"

"Yes. It's a ball that's held yearly, it's a holiday that's been celebrated for thousands of years, it's our first emperor's birthday." The marquis spoke while neatly organizing the papers across from him.

Lila who had a desk not far from the Marquis desk was also organizing the papers. In case you were wondering, these papers held contents of the new deal they will strike with a mercenary who'll plant the fake evidence in the empires files. They both were going over the deal

Of course they don't plan to uphold their side of the deal.

"So every noble is meant to attend?"

"Precisely. I'll call the seamstress to make you a dress tomorrow, don't worry about the budget and—"

"There's no need for that, Father."

The marquis looked up while raising a brow, "You already have a dress?"

"I will not need a dress."

"And why is that?"

"Because I will not be going."

shine~!

Lila's whole aura sparkles with a easy aura around her small figure as she smiled happily at her father. However that aura quickly shattered when she saw the dark cloud flying over her fathers head the moment she said those words.

"Don't be ridiculous." He bent down inside his desk drawer for a moment and raised back up and threw something at Lila's desk.

Lila looked down, It a..magazine.

for dresses.

She sweat dropped.

The marquis dusted his hands off after throwing the magazine towards Lila's desk, as if he touched something filthy.

"It's a requirement and you and I will go. I shall be your escort." The marquis spoke will clear authority in his voice, indicating he won't take no or anything but yes as an answer.

However Lila wasn't going to be swayed so easily.

Lila threw the magazine back, "I will not be going, Father." she emphasized the no.

Lila stood up from her chair and picked up the dress magazine, her eyes narrowing at the front page. Amanda in her past life never had the privilege to wear a dress, if she were to show up in her and her brothers lab with a dress, heals, or jewelry, he would immediately scold her and forced her to change into a buttoned up lab coat and dress pants with dress shoes with her hair tied back. At formal events with their sponsor, she also had to wear straight dress pants and dress shoes to show their professionalism.

Amanda never had the privilege to dress how she wanted. She was always in a lab coat and dress pants in her and her brothers lab, or in pajamas at home.

looking back on it..

I never even had a life. She never had friends or family besides her brother, her brother consistently isolated Amanda from everybody with the excuse that they needed to keep their distance from other people because of their work.

looking back on it..he just didn't want to be replaced..

Lila hesitated to throw back the magazine and only picked it up, she flipped through a few pages, her eyes scanning at the many cutesy and frilly dresses.

none of these suit me.. Lila may have a small figure, but that doesn't necessarily mean that she would automatically fit into cutesy styles like these. She was small but she still had a decent size breast cup and she also wasn't flat from her butt.