The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 263
Chapter 263
Translator: Yonnee
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“…….”
Reading the sorrowful light on her face, Olivier’s eyes widened.
He began to plead earnestly now.
“If I hadn’t known you, I wouldn’t have despaired. Knowing that spring will never come makes dying in eternal winter less painful. You showed me hope. You made me believe that this winter has an end.”
He rambled like a man suffering from a fever.
“Every year on my birthday, the day my mother died giving birth to me, the Emperor sent me a perfectly fitted black mourning dress. Until I was fully grown, I had to stand at my birthday banquet wrapped in evidence that the Emperor, my biological father, loathed my very existence.”
“Olivier…”
“Listen to what I thought. Once, I too wanted to be happy. I wanted to leave this place. But I couldn’t. They made my mother die miserably and then tried killed me countless times with poison, blades, looks, and their hearts. If I had raised a white flag and left, they would certainly have taken my life.”
“I won’t let that happen.”
“No, Radis. Back then, I was alone and couldn’t escape. I had to pretend to be what they wanted. The beautiful Olivier, the embodiment of a glass doll. I hid my emotions behind an expressionless face, bowing my head, licking the dirtiest parts of the gutter to survive.”
His voice, drenched in sorrow, tore at Radis’s heart.
She embraced Olivier’s face tightly and whispered into his ear.
“No, that’s not true.”
A faint smile spread across Olivier’s lips.
“But you know, Radis, living like that wasn’t so bad until I realized it was unhappiness. Because many people live in such painful ways.”
Olivier lifted his gaze to look at her and whispered.
“You did too, didn’t you?”
“……!”
Olivier’s soft smile reappeared as he looked at the speechless Radis.
What he had found in her when they first met was himself, in his entirety.
Olivier continued,
“But still, you smiled. I can’t smile like that.”
He grabbed Radis’s clothes as if he would tear them apart and used that strength to stagger to his feet.
Olivier embraced Radis’s shoulders tightly.
“You are the only one who can make me smile. Only your warmth makes me feel alive.”
She felt his lips touch her forehead.
As he confessed his love to her, his lips moved.
“Radis, I’ll give you everything. No, if you want, I’ll give you the whole world. So please, stay by my side.”
Radis lifted her head.
She looked into his jewel-like beautiful eyes.
That beauty felt as vast as his despair, tearing at her heart.
But she couldn’t deceive herself.
“Olivier, I’m sorry. I don’t love you.”
She saw Olivier’s eyes sink deep into despair.
Radis hugged his waist tightly.
To keep him from falling off the cliff of despair.
His soft cheek slowly touched her eyes.
His cheek was as cold as ice and wet with tears.
She couldn’t tell if those tears were Olivier’s or her own.
Olivier whispered,
“Don’t try to push me away with those words.”
“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry…”
Olivier spoke, his lips almost touching hers.
“I’ll give you one last, final chance. Please say you love me.”
Enduring a pain that felt like her heart was being cut out, Radis answered,
“No, Olivier. I don’t love you.”
He closed his eyes in pain. The strength left his arms.
Radis slowly stepped back from his embrace.
Olivier placed his hand on his chest and spoke.
“What must I do?”
“Olivier…”
“This hurts me so much, and yet I cannot bring myself to hate you.”
Olivier spoke in a self-deprecating tone.
“Did that man, Yves Russel, know this much? That I could never hurt you?”
“…….”
His beautiful face, wet with tears, shimmered silver under the moonlight.
A bitter smile appeared on Olivier’s lips.
“You’ll regret this. No one can love you as desperately as I do.”
Radis couldn’t say anything more to him.
Olivier spoke softly with a smile.
“I’ll wait for you.”
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