A pure white carriage entered the mountains, frozen raindrops falling through. Because of the unpaved and bumpy road, the carriage shoke terribly. It made me even more nervous, soiling my mood.
My reflection is spectacular through the carriage’s window. I wore a tight-fitting white dress and my red hair in high pony. Wearing silk gloves and holding a bouquet, it was obvious that I looked like a new bride.
I nervously took off the silk gloves.
“Amy. Speak the truth. You know today is my wedding day.”
“No, I had no idea.”
Amy, my personal maid, shook her head with a hardened expression. It looks like her head is about to bounce off.
“You really don’t know?”
“If I knew, I would have already informed the Lady. Don’t you still trust me?”
Seeing the saddened expression painted on her face, it seemed it wasn’t a lie.
I just heard of my marriage this morning. 10 minutes before the Count ordered the maids to wash me up and helped me put on the dress.
“Does it make sense that I have no knowledge of my own wedding?”
“I, too, feel that what the Master has done is too much.”
It was my father, Count Vistor, who deceived everyone of my wedding, even my own personal maid.
After possessing this body, I thought I was able to maintain a good relationship with him. I couldn’t be friendly to a man who hates his daughter, but at least it won’t be so bad that our relationship ended up in a betrayal like this.
I guess, I just misunderstood.
“After all, you sold me.”
I was the heir and the only daughter of Count Vistor. Since there were no other children in our Household, I was so sure that I would be the one to succeed him. I never doubted it.
‘It’s a decision I made because I could not entrust the family to you.’
However recently, that doubt began to show cracks. It was because of the judgment Count Vistor made at will. He decided to appoint his son-in-law to take over the Vistor family.
‘What do I lack?’
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‘Are you not aware of your shortcomings? Even if you forget what happened in the past, that day you acted on your own… Judging from that alone, you do not deserve to inherit the family.’
‘Was it because I sent him back?’
Looking back, it could be said that I was the one who set on fire to the Count’s impatience. It has already been six years since then. However, seeing that he still mentions what had happened every now and then, it seemed the Count had quite a shock.
That’s understandable. The Count feared that his sword would point at us. So I tried not to hold the sword, and I didn’t even want to let him go from the mansion.
Rattle, the carriage shook violently as if the road got dumped on rocks.
‘Sister’s hair is just like a camellia.’
The voice I had forgotten lingered in my eyes all of a sudden. Even though it is a voice I have not heard of for the past six years.
The face of the one who was once my younger brother was blurry, the person who hates me. Even though I picture him to remember him, it was already long forgotten in my memory.
I could only remember the black hair and his green eyes that were a little darker than mine, and his picturesque smile.
Razette Wigrion.
I had a younger brother that I shared no blood with. A fake younger brother who had to imitate my dead younger brother who died without being officially part of the family.
He hated me. He would have hated not only me, but also my family.
It was none other than me who sent out Razette, who might come to kill my family in the future.
The Count’s anxiety began from that time. He wanted a reliable husband who could protect me.
I was also anxious whether his anxiety was contagious or not, but I thought Razette would have forgotten me as I planned.
However, the Count seemed unable to wait to see him any longer. Didn’t you say everything enough to push ahead with my marriage?
“What shall I do now…”
I am currently on my way to my wedding, regardless of my will. The carriage entered a shortcut directed to the Cathedral of the Vistor territory where the wedding will be held. It was all forest.
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‘Is running away the only way?’
I had no intention of marrying odiently as the Count wanted. I turned away from the view outside and pulled the velvet curtain to block the view. It was then the time to tell Amy to stop the carriage.
Before that, a scream rang.
“Aaack!”
Starting with someone’s scream that first rang outside, new screams shrieked everywhere. At the same time, the carriage who was moving halted. Soon, noises of horses could be heard but soon died down.
Soon, sounds of dozens of horseshoes approaching our way could be heard. Horseshoes treading on the snow on the road was getting nearer. There was the sound of someone’s shriek and the sound of slashes through the wind.
No, it was the sound of cutting people.
“Just what is happening right now…”
My body stiffened similar to the first time I experienced when I possessed this body. Instinctive fear crept up from the tip of my toes. Even without lifting the curtain to look, I am aware of what was happening.
There has been an attack.
The tension made my head ache. I couldn’t hear any of the knights who accompanied me. There was a high probability that they had already fallen, as there were no signs of protecting me.
What should I do?
The bouquet I am holding is the only thing I could use as a weapon.
A shadow casted over the velvet curtain. As soon as I recognized the shadow, the door opened. Before my mind could process anything, my body moved on its own. The hand holding the bouquet went up at will, and soon after, I hit the unidentified man in the face.
“Ah.”
The bouquet full of white and pink flowers in harmony soon got ruined. Petals scattered in the air as if it was covering the man’s face. Only after the petals fell slowly, like time had stopped, the face of the unidentified man was finally visible.
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My eyes widened as I recognized who the man was.
“I guess you’ve gotten a little aggressive since the last time we met.”
It was a familiar face.
The black hair that dazzles by the snow falling from the sky, the dark green eyes that looked down at me, and his lips curling slightly to a smile.
He frowned at the pain where he got hit by a bouquet, he then leaned against the wall of the carriage with one hand and bowed.
“It has been a while, Sister.”
“You…”
At first glance, he looked strange without his boy’s shirt, but I recognized him at a glance. I couldn’t not recognize him. Because he was the one who I used to see and bump into the most.
“Why are you…”
What is the reason why Razette is here. Unless I was seeing his vision, it was clear that the assailant who attacked my carriage was Razette. Recognizing my astonishment, he then took off gloves. His black leather gloves slip through his hands.
“I should be able to live with shame.”
I tried to turn my head away to avoid his stretched hands but in an instant, his cold hand gently grabbed my cheeks and led me to look at him with the coldness of winter.
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The Razette I haven’t seen in six years, was a different person from back then. The appearance of a boy who had long disappeared was now a man and his lips drew a smile.
“I’m here to get you back.”
The frozen raindrops were gently falling over to Razette’s shoulders. After the spring I sent him out, dozens of seasons have passed, and now it is winter again.