Chapter 4.2 - I FINALLY MET HIM

I FINALLY MET HIM

isn’t it nice, I’ll be famous? I will be like a heroine of a tragic love story.”

”Peony!”

“Hehe! I’m kidding.”

I smiled at Raheln, who has a very serious expression on his face.

”Don’t worry, brother. Since Grand Duke Stern accepted me as his fiancé, he said that I was free to remain as long as I want here in Stern Estate. So while I’m staying, I just have to let Grand Duke Stern know how nice I am, right?”

“You, do you have some basis to depend on? Where did you get your confidence?”

“I depend on brother.”

Raheln seems to be wondering what the hell I mean again. He looked at me with a frown.

I shrugged my shoulders looking at his expression.

“I’m right, though. Father and brothers always say that. Our Peony are so pretty, cute, nice, and the best.”

“Because that’s the truth.”

I laughed again at Raheln, who answered with a serious face.

“Exactly. I’m pretty, cute, and kind, the best someone could ever have. That’s why there’s no reason for me not to be confident. Am I wrong?”

Raheln chuckled when he heard my answer. I grinned as I saw his smile.

“You used to be an utterly spoiled little girl, I didn’t notice since when you became such an imposing lady.”

Suddenly, Raheln’s expression turned into a sad one.

The expression on his face was so mournful, as if a father looking at his own daughter who he raised on his own, and was now absolutely grown up.

“Was it last year? That you’ve been very ill?”

“Ah······ that time·····.”

“I think you’ve grown up a lot since then.”

That was when I transmigrated.

Perhaps······ maybe······ the Peony that Raheln knows, may have died at that time. No, she clearly died back then.

As a result, I am here.

If the voice I heeded was of the real Peony’s, what I heard was definitely her will.

She said that if she dies, his father and brothers will be sad, and she wants me to live on her behalf so that they don’t fall into grief.

“Haha······ People change especially when they almost die. Maybe that’s when I started to grow up.”

“You’re right. Back then, the royal family was in a state of emergency for fear that you might really perish.”

He reached out and fixed a few strands of my hair that went out of place.

The same shiny gold hair as his.

“Remember. You are the most valuable treasure of the Kingdom of Garten.”

The person who asked me what do I depend on and where I got my confidence, said something that raised my self-esteem to the fullest.

“If you get tired of this cold north, come back to Garten any time. We’ll always be waiting for you, and we’ll be glad if you come back.”

Raheln smiled very warmly.

His smile slowly warmed one side of my heart.