Alielalia
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β°ββ€.She is the Leston Ducal house's worst-kept secret: the illegitimate daughter, a ghost in gilded halls. To survive, she crafts a secret persona in her diary-witty, resilient, and privately amused by the absurdity of her own suffering. This includes her detached fascination with Sein, the man hopelessly in love with another. To her, his pining is a entertaining side plot in the tragicomedy of her life.
Her carefully built detachment shatters when he does. After a devastating rejection, a broken Sein turns to her, expecting the same fearful deference, the same desperate need for validation that he sees in everyone else.
Instead, she gives him nothing.
She meets his anguish with the same flat, unimpressed silence she uses on the abusive servants. She counters his dramatic declarations with a dry, crackhead joke about her own trauma. She is a locked door, and her indifference is the one key he doesn't possess.
And it drives him insane.
Why won't she perform her role? Why isn't she grateful for his attention? In her refusal to be a victim in his story, he suddenly sees a person-not a shadow of another, but a wholly original, maddening, and captivating individual. His obsession doesn't just shift; it transforms. He no longer wants the perfect lady. He wants to unravel the mystery of the girl who laughs in the face of her own pain, and he will tear the world apart to be the one she finally, truly sees.