The Duke, Who Didn’t Even Call Me by My Name Until Yesterday, Has Suddenly Started Doting on Me? - Chapter 14
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- Chapter 14 - My step-sister Susanna visits Me
Hi!! Here is Green Rose again! I started reading this mange not long ago and liket it so I decided to translate the novel <3 I hope you like it!!
“Lady Mariane, Lady Susanna is here to see you… what would you like to wear?”
“Eh…?”
Susanna…?
Three months had passed since the Duke’s behavior changed, and when Lydia, with a troubled expression on her face, told me her familiar name, an unpleasant feeling hit me deep in my chest.
It was almost lunchtime, and I was getting restless, but I lost my appetite all at once.
Susanna was my father’s daughter with his previous wife, and in conclusion was my step-sister.
She and I were born a few months apart, so she should be twenty-two by now.
I haven’t seen her since I married into the Duke’s family, but I don’t particularly want to see her.
She always looked down on me when I was at home.
I met Susanna when I was going to marry your father, who was the owner of Kutlan.
I heard that the two of them started dating after her mother helped her father’s failing restaurant recover with her sound advice.
When I heard that story from her mother, it seemed to me that she was more in love with her work than with her father, but if that was what her mother had decided, I didn’t particularly object.
When I first met Susanna, she was a cute, shy girl who would hide behind her father and glance at him.
Even after we started living in the same mansion, we hardly exchanged a word, as she would run away as soon as I called out to her.
Still, I cherished a small hope in my heart that one day we would become close. But one day our relationship suddenly changed.
When I was ten years old, my mother suddenly fell ill and passed away.
In contrast to my sorrow, my father, after my mother’s funeral, showed no signs of sadness and resumed his daily life as if nothing had happened.
My mother’s room was quickly cleared out, all mementos were sold, and anything that could not be sold for money was disposed of.
Feeling extremely angry, I clung to my father’s arm and desperately begged him to return my mother’s personal belongings, but he suddenly pushed me away with great force.
I looked up in shock, and there was no trace of my father’s face, who had always treated me so kindly.
“Have you forgotten the kindness I’ve shown you up until now? You ungrateful bastard! How much do you think it costs to raise you? If you don’t want to be kicked out of this house, just follow me obediently!”
I couldn’t say anything back to him as he cursed me with a stern face, so I could only suppress my anger and cry alone in my room.
I had no relatives to rely on, and I didn’t know how to survive on my own, so I thought I’d have to live while watching my father’s mood so I wouldn’t be kicked out of this house.
As I was crying and at a loss, Susanna appeared with a nonchalant look on her face.
“You’re being nice.”
I forgot my sadness for a moment when I couldn’t believe my ears at the sudden words.
“I’ve always hated you. You look down on me just because you were born a little earlier than me.”
“What? I don’t mean it like that…”
“Don’t talk back. You’d be in trouble if you were kicked out of this house, right? So you know your place in the house, right?”
As she said this, Susanna had a creepy smile on her face that was hard to believe coming from a ten-year-old girl.
My mother once told me.
“Everyone has a devil inside them. It usually sleeps in a corner of their heart, but when the people around them let their guard down, it can suddenly emerge and cause a stir.”
So I thought that the devil inside her had made itself known. And just as Mother had said, the devil began to cause a stir.
She began to visit my room more frequently, and started rummaging through my belongings.
She took my favorite cute dolls and accessories, etc., as she pleased, saying, “They’re too good for you, so I’ll take them.”
When she made me join in on role-playing, she arbitrarily chose my role, saying, “You can be the heroine. I’ll play the role of the villain,” and she verbally abused me like the villain, and poured tea over my head.
After Susanna turned 16 and made her debut, she stopped playing with me, but her selfishness at home only got worse.
She never wanted to wear the same dress again after wearing it once, so she bought a new one for every tea party, and any maids she didn’t like were quickly fired.
My father never showed me the slightest bit of love, but he doted on his own daughter Susanna and always catered to her whims.
I tried to avoid having anything to do with Susanna as much as possible, so I tried to stay away from her, but when she was in a bad mood, she would come to my room to vent her frustrations.
She was a free-spirited girl at home, but as soon as she stepped outside, she played the role of a gentle and timid girl.
I thought that was why she was releasing the stress she had been hiding inside at home.
She was constantly insulted, called gloomy, ugly, and not worth living, and then her room was trashed.
After that was all over, she went to my father, crying that I had bullied her.
After hearing my tearful plea, Father locked me in a dark, cramped storage room in the basement for an entire day… that was the usual pattern.
Even if they yelled at me, I just had to listen to them.
Even if they made a mess of my room, I just had to clean it up.
But this storage room was the one thing I just couldn’t get used to.
It was dark, cold, and cramped. I was cut off from the outside world and couldn’t hear a single sound.
I was overcome with a feeling of loneliness, as if I was the only person in the world.
In truth, I was all alone.
Since Mother passed away, there had been no one who truly loved me.
Susanna, who was nice on the surface, had spread the word to everyone that her step-sister, from her father’s new marriage, was bullying her, so no one wanted to be friends with me.
I had no place for myself anywhere. But what if one day I could marry someone who loved me and build a happy family?
That was my dream, and my only source of comfort. But in reality, things didn’t work out that way.
Even after getting married, I was still alone.
Storyteller Green Rose's Words
Hi!! Here is Green Rose again! I started reading this mange not long ago and liket it so I decided to translate the novel <3 I hope you like it!!
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