Sister-in-law of the Heroine in a Childcare Novel

However, I think it's worth it, because I was someone who wouldn't learn and whose self-esteem is shattered, and is obsessed with her fiance.

Even if I say to myself, ‘I’m sorry’, ‘I’m sorry’, ‘I can’t help it either. Wouldn't it be nice if I had my hair cut when I was younger', and so on over and over again.

It is said that it is difficult for people to objectively view themselves, but I have already been reincarnated as an adult who knows everything about Titania’s situation in the book.

I was just, until yesterday, like a stranger and pitiful.

"But looking at what you just said..."

The duke's eyelashes blinked slowly. His soft golden eyes looked at me and smiled deceitfully, hiding his complex emotions.

“…The appearance of the princess I have seen so far seems to be a lie.”

Anyway, he probably thought this: I thought you were an idiot, but how the hell did you get the family secret out and hit the back of my head?

“I wonder if the princess is the person who worked hard to change her thoughts…?”

This is too blatant.

I shrugged and replied.

“I just had some water from the tall tree in the garden near the balcony on the second floor of the Rose Palace.”

"...What?"

“My mind just changed a little bit.”

I almost died, but when I agreed to him implicitly, saying that he was right, Duke Rayman could not hide his bewildered face.

That's right, it was something Princess Titania would never do if she was sane...

And even if Duke Rayman comes here and digs up news from the members of the Rose Palace in Titania, he will not be able to get anything out of it.

She’s really dead. So what do I do when I wake up and change one day?

If there was at least one 'really' friendly person, she wouldn't have been able to hide her ideals.

A maid or a maid who truly takes care of you. A nurse. Or friend...

But Titania had nothing. So in any case, the hand I can move is only a small amount of trading using the whims, interests, and future knowledge of this 'nominal fiance', whether to imprison me in the future or to expel me from my marriage.

"...The Princess said that she wanted a 'deal'."

Thinking that I wouldn't be able to tell the truth right away, Rayman loosened his shoulders and cast his gaze as if searching this way.

“When you tell me that you have prepared a ‘gift’, you’re talking about a ‘deal’. It doesn't match.”

His eyes were sharp as if piercing me. I replied with a bashful smile.

"That's right, life in the world is a give-and-take. Of course, if I give it to you, Duke Rayman will have to give back."

“By the way, haven’t you already told me about the location of Gloriana’s Emblem?”

“I believe in my fiance. I also believe you will swallow the gift I have prepared with all my heart and will not turn your eyes away, pretending not to know.”

“How many people can say that the Princess is a 'mischievous fiancee'?”

Are you asking because you don't know? Almost all the people of the Empire... The corners of my lips trembled. No, now, no matter what, I think I used to show basic manners in front of my fiance?

No matter how much I think about it, it seems like you're trying to rip me apart?

Rayman slowly reached for his share of the teacup. Without drinking, he touched his handle, causing the tea to move, and opened his lips.

“…In fact, Your Majesty the Princess who was interested in the Duke of Castrine, what do you want in return for secretly handing over what our family needs?”

Like a storm, the eyes filled with various thoughts were staring at me tenaciously, as if they were devouring me.

I pondered this moment a lot.

What can I ask of my fiancée who does not trust me and who is very likely to be my enemy in the future?

I may be insignificant to them, but they are essential to me. Even if I asked for it, it would not pose a threat to them and would not judge me as a sure enemy.

“The staff of the Rose Palace are really lacking in many things, and even though the owner is hurt and ill, no one feels the responsibility.”

Even if it was a simple accident and not poison, an imperial family member almost died. At the very least, it is natural to do repair work where I fell. But no one cared.

Why did the young Titania suddenly fall from her balcony on the second floor of the long labyrinth and wander through her deathbed? No one was curious.

The reason was simple.

She wanted to get the attention of her mother who doesn't look after her. She wanted to see the Duke’s face too.

If she went to them for a simple reason, she was likely to be rejected.

So, if she falls from a height of about two floors and gets moderately injured, maybe. Maybe her mother would pay attention to her. Maybe she’ll feel pity and worry.

Although, her mother did not show interest in her childhood, even when she was infinitely ill. However, her older brothers are the First Prince and the Second Prince. If they were hurt, the empresses would overturn the palace.

Therefore,

Because it's the Imperial Palace, it's only on the second floor. Titania thought she wouldn't die...

With that in mind, she was so frightened that she hung on the patio for a while.

How much she trembled, as she looked down from the second floor.

She was terrified and miserable, but she couldn't leave, because she couldn't tell anyone. She was so scared that she would be told, 'your mother hates you so much, and she won't care if you fall here and get hurt'.

She was unable to step on her feet, and while she was frozen, a passing maid opened the door that had been firmly closed without notice.

Startled by a presence, Titania fell straight from the balcony.

Because she was timid, she didn't know maybe she would give up on her in the end.

She said at least that she might get even one scar on her face or lose her life. She may have persuaded herself and quit.

She may have ended up with shallow cuts in her limbs by forcing herself to the floor from the low stairs leading up to the first floor, rather than the second-floor balcony.

However, Titania eventually fell off the balcony.

The insensitive movement of someone among the rude family members who don't respect the owner's manners and open the closed door of the owner's room without knocking.

The young Titania, who was scared and selfish, died forever the moment I woke up from my past life.

Titania wanted to be loved.

I know it will never happen.

“I need a loyal escort and a maid.”

So, in front of my fiance who was wary of me, I threw the empty teacup away and spoke.

Crash.

My face was reflected on the shards of the shattered teacup. I was smiling in those shards of broken and shattered glass.

“Those who can kill and save people.”

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(3rd person pov)

“Has the princess really lost her mind?”

It was on the way home after finishing his private conversation with the princess. Rayman was silent at Cassian's astonishing reaction. As soon as he heard about the deal, Cassian pulled on his hair with a troubled face.

Immediately, the afterimage of the princess who had been alone remained in Rayman's mind and did not disappear.

“From the second floor…and a tree? Is that tree a legendary world tree that feeds knowledge from water? But do people change like that? Wow… No… This…”

‘The staff of the Rose Palace are really lacking in many things, and even though the owner is hurt and ill, no one feels the responsibility.’

It was a major incident where the princess almost died, but the palace was quiet.

There was no maid to stop her from being alone with her fiancé with her body, where the wounds had not even healed, and saying that even with her empty words, it was a burden on her body.

Although it was originally said that Titania didn't like to be interrupted when she meets with her fiance...

Her cold green eyes rebuked her family. Lips with a painted smile.

'I need a loyal escort and a maid.'

Princess Titania did not have an escort knight.

That was because she was a princess who rarely went out of the Imperial Palace in the first place. No, she couldn't go out. No one wanted her to make her formal debut in the social circle, build connections, and grow into a stellar figure.

Translator note: The fl sometimes would describe herself as “she” and that’s because she’s talking about the og princess Titania.