My Engagement was Cancelled so I will stop Pretending to be a Fool

Since the party they had their first conversation, Alan and Tiana have frequently met up.

While pretending to be sympathetic to Alan’s dissatisfaction with Olivia, Tiana casually shows how [excellen] she is to him and Alan gradually grows interested in her.

Through the help of her father, Count Lemone, who kept promoting his daughter to Alan, Tiana finally managed to draw something out from Alan’s mouth.

——–I wish you were my fiancee instead.”

And the rest was easy.

In the first place, Alan never had any good feelings toward Olivia. Rather, he wasn’t really interested in her. It was easy for Tiana to squeeze herself between that gap and make him think that the [Excellent Tiana] is more suitable to be the next queen than the [Foolish Olivia].

After that, all she had to do was have her father read the condemnation she wrote and kick Olivia off the position of the prince’s fiancee.

Everything went her way up to that point——but she never expected such hardships to be waiting for her after she got to be Alan’s fiancee.

(Why do I have to take something like a princess education. I am supposed to be an excellent lady right!)

Surely, this must be some kind of bullying from her nasty educator, Wattle. After asking such incomprehensible questions at their first lesson, he must have used his position as the head educator to increase her lessons as a form of harassment. After all, such lessons are not necessary for Tiana.

As she was walking through the courtyard, Tiana suddenly spotted Olivia and stopped her feet.

It seems that Olivia is playing around again. She must be going to the library as usual. Oh, how nice it is to have such an easy position.

(She must have pushed the work His Highness gave her to someone else. Just because she’s the daughter of the Duke, she’s doing whatever she wants! Just look at her!)

All Tiana’s hardships right now must be due to the [Incompetency] of Olivia who is Alan’s ex-fiancee. Her instructors must be taking out all their frustration on her because of Olivia. Even though she’s no longer Prince Alan’s fiancee, she’s still found a way to be a hindrance to Tiana.

(In the first place, why did Her Majesty invite Olivia to that private tea party! She still hasn’t invited me even once right!)

The queen must have felt sorry for Olivia whose engagement was broken off so she tried to care for her……..still, it’s unforgivable.

(Cyrus-sama too! Just what did he see in that woman!)

Certainly, Olivia’s appearance is a [Little] beautiful. However, her head should be empty. She doesn’t deserve to be someone engaged to a prince.

Olivia entered the library. After a while, Cyrus also entered it as though he was following her and they both disappeared inside.

When Tiana stopped by the library window and peeked inside, she saw them reading a book at the same desk.

Seeing that, Tiana grit her teeth but suddenly, she smiled.

“I came up with a good idea.”

In another two weeks, Prince Edward from the neighboring country will visit them. According to Alan, Olivia will also be attending the welcome party for Prince Edward. At that party, she should make Olivia embarrass herself in front of everyone. Then surely, even Prince Cyrus will be disillusioned with her. Olivia will become a laughing stock.

(Ufufu, I’m a genius!)

Since Tiana has to suffer so many hardships because of Olivia’s [Fault], it’s only fair for her to take a little revenge. Moreover, if she reminds everyone how much of a fool Olivia is, Tiana’s genius should look even more prominent. Then, everyone will see that she doesn’t need something like a princess education.

Unlike her gloomy steps before, Tiana walked back the way she came with light footsteps while humming to herself.

The prince of the neighboring country, Edward, is a seemingly gentle young man with light wavy honey-colored hair.

However, in truth, has a very shrewd personality. The type that can corner you in a conversation with a smile. In her mind, Olivia has been secretly calling him a [Snake].

Prince Edward visits Brior once every one or two years so naturally, Olivia is acquainted with him.

Still, she hasn’t had many conversations with Prince Edward because she was trying her best to be inconspicuous next to Alan. However, despite being the Crown Prince, Alan is the type that can’t read if a person is good or bad, or sense what kind of ulterior motive they might have. Each time he talked with Edward, it was as if he was coiled by a snake without even noticing. It wasn’t once or twice that he was inadvertently made to make a promise that is detrimental to Brior and Olivia had to rescue him without dropping her act.

(……..will he be okay at today’s party, I wonder?)

Olivia is no longer Alan’s fiancee. He’s someone who broke off his engagement with her for some ridiculous reason so even if he asked, she wouldn’t be willing to help him. Still, she hopes that he wouldn’t get sweet-talked by Prince Edward and surrender one-third of Brior’s territory.

“You are frowning, are you worried about something?”

Asked Cyrus who is sitting across from her in the carriage.

Olivia was on her way to the castle with Cyrus who came to pick her up at the Duke’s residence.

Cyrus is wearing a light gray jacket on top of a black shirt today. The blue tie and the red rose on his chest also accentuate his white skin.

On the other hand, Olivia is wearing a blue dress that matches his tie color. Her platinum blonde hair is braided to the side and tied together. She also has a red rose, the same as Cyrus. By matching their colors, everyone should be able to tell that Cyrus’s partner for the party is Olivia.

This was born of Cyrus’s consideration for Olivia since some curious guests might hurt Olivia with their careless remarks.

Asked by Cyrus, Olivia shook her head in a hurry.

“It’s nothing.”

“Is that so? Then that’s fine. Since you don’t have to behave like [Usual] today, I want you to enjoy it.”

As [Usual]. Olivia was a little surprised at Cyrus’s words. It was as if Cyrus noticed that Olivia had been keeping an eye on Alan’s movement in such parties in the past.

(…….no way.)

No one should notice that Olivia was secretly supporting Alan.

“Still, is this fine with you, Your Highness? If you walk around the party with me, it might be unpleasant—–”

Most of the aristocrats who attend the party regard, Olivia, as a [Foolish] and [Lazy] girl who refused to properly take the princess education. A girl that was abandoned by the Crown Prince because she’s always lazily playing around. If he walks around with Olivia, even Cyrus might be subjected to ridiculing eyes.

In response, Cyrus laughed as though he found her words funny.

“I think that people will know how wonderful you are eventually though! On the contrary, I feel quite grateful for the current situation you know? I don’t have to worry about some strange insects approaching you after all.”

Saying so, Cyrus gently takes Olivia’s small hand and drops a feather-light kiss on it.

“That’s why, for the party today, I want you to only look at me.”

What could Cyrus’s words really mean? Olivia doesn’t think that he is trying to tease her or anything but with her chest throbbing, she looked down to hide her red face.