The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 235
Chapter 235
Translator: Yonnee
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Eyeing the helmet adorned with lavish feathers with a sense of burden, Robert turned his gaze towards her.
As their eyes met, Radis clenched her fists tightly, conveying a message of encouragement with a bright smile.
Looking down at her, Robert spoke.
“Radis, perhaps… Is there something going on?”
“What?”
Radis flinched.
She had not yet told Robert about the incident that had occurred days ago in the archives of the White Dragon Order.
She couldn’t imagine how he would react if he heard about it.
She was certain that once Robert found out, he would refuse to accept the seal.
He was a man who cared little for titles or honor.
The only reason he considered accepting the master’s seal was entirely for Yves and Radis.
If he learned that the emperor had committed such a despicable act, Robert would likely toss aside the seal and suggest they return to the South immediately.
Or perhaps he might accept the seal…
…Only to immediately hurl it in the emperor’s detestable face.
No matter how positively she tried to think, she couldn’t envision a beautiful outcome.
Thus, she decided to keep the incident from him until he had received the master’s seal.
Radis quickly covered Robert’s head with the helmet as she asserted firmly.
“There’s nothing going on. Absolutely nothing.”
Robert hesitated for a moment before slowly opening his mouth.
“It’s just that… you and the Marquis have seemed quite suspicious these past few days.”
His voice sounded profoundly sorrowful, perhaps because it echoed inside the helm.
“P-Pardon? The M-Marquis…?”
Suddenly shifting the topic to Yves had Radis’s cheeks puffing up, her face turning a bright red.
Yves had confessed his feelings for her, but she didn’t know how to respond to his declaration of affection.
To her, love was truly an uncharted territory.
‘Be it Yves or His Highness, how could they confidently declare their affections? I… I couldn’t say such things, even if it killed me…!’
Radis was acutely aware of the heavy implications their confessions carried.
Olivier was willing to cooperate with Yves simply to get closer to her.
He didn’t realize that she had nothing to offer him in return.
He was the empire’s Third Imperial Prince.
By his side, there would undoubtedly be many beautiful and affluent women from noble families.
In contrast, she had nothing.
If Olivier chose her simply based on his feelings, he stood to lose much.
For Yves, it was even worse.
It seemed he had entirely forgotten his plan to use Radis as his stepping stone to regain his ducal title by befriending Prince Olivier.
Furthermore, if Radis chose him now, it might even jeopardize the still-rocky friendship between Yves and Olivier.
In that case, Yves might lose much more than just the ducal title.
Feeling the weight of their confessions, Radis had been trying to understand her own feelings ever since that day.
But the more she thought, the less she understood her own heart.
All she truly wanted was for everyone to be safe.
‘I really don’t know what to do… How should I handle this?’
Groaning inwardly, Robert asked her again.
“I’m just asking, but… Is something going on between you and the Marquis?”
“Huh? B-Between us? What… What are you saying…?”
Just then, as Robert turned his head, a feather as large as his forearm from his helmet decoration brushed against her cheek.
The moment the soft feather caressed her cheek, Radis couldn’t help but recall the touch of Yves’s lips on her cheek, very near her lips.
“Ack, ahh!”
Radis hurriedly swatted away the feather with the back of her hand.
At the same time, the words Yves had shouted dozens of times echoed in her ears like a hallucination.
“I like you.”
“Ahhh, arrggghhh!”
Radis screamed, covering her ears.
“T-There was, a-absolutely, no, i-incident!”
Seeing Radis’s face, flushed as red as the bright red carpet laid on the waiting room floor, Robert was immensely shocked.
‘So something did happen.’
And if something happened, it would have been the day Robert’s mana purity was being verified at the grand temple.
That day, he had been detained by the high priest, causing him to return to the townhouse very late alone.
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