CH 1

1. Beginning

She wandered between life and death in a fever.

It was a terrible illness so it took a week to come to her senses.

Everyone said she’d die, but Lilian lived.

And…

‘I’m sure I remember…’

A long time ago, before she became Lillie, she had ‘read it’ in another world.

A story featuring Lillie and her life.

Could it be that the heat that penetrated deep into her head became the key to awakening her sleeping memories?

Lilian calmly inhaled once. It was to somehow calm down, but it didn’t help her much.

Because…

“Selling the young miss to get engaged! And that, too, to a marriage that’s no different from a kite with the string cut off!”

It was because of her nanny who was crying a river as if the sky had collapsed.

“Lord Cedric is also indifferent! Even though he’s your half-brother, it’s as if he waited for the Master and Madam to die to do this….!”

Well. Lilian could only smile awkwardly.

She wondered if her half-brother deserved credit for not killing the wicked stepmother’s daughter right away.

Lilian’s mother was the second wife of her father, the former Marquis, and she had a very clear purpose in dealing with Cedric from the beginning.

Either framing him or abusing him.

“Poor young miss, if only the Madam were alive!”

Lilian only shrugged her shoulders this time.

Unlike her nanny, Lilian didn’t miss her mother, who pretended to care just because she wasn’t a son.

In the first place, this woman was like that too.

This woman was not originally her nanny. She was originally her mother’s maid, but as soon as her mother died and she became a loose kite, she cleverly took on the role of Lilian’s nanny.

“You’re only twelve!”

Even now, she’s just shedding crocodile tears in fear of losing her only backer.

It wasn’t that she was really worried about Lilian.

Before she had a fever, Lilian believed this woman like an idiot.

The child who lost her parents all of a sudden thought that this woman who pitied her was really on her side.

But now she knew.

This woman was just planning to manipulate Lilian to get what she wanted from the new Lord, her half-brother.

Convinced that she wouldn’t do much good by her side, Lilian pulled out the item she had prepared from under her pillow.

“Nanny.”

“Oh my God, young miss!”

It was a necklace with thick oval-cut emeralds surrounded by small diamonds.

Lilian smiled silently and handed it to the nanny.

“Madam’s keepsake! Why is this here, no, this precious thing for me…!”

The woman hurriedly grabbed the necklace, mentioning that it was a keepsake but only out of courtesy as she didn’t hesitate to take it.

“My kind-hearted young miss, don’t worry. This nanny will definitely protect you from now on!”

“Thank you, but you don’t have to.”

Lily smiled and shook her head.

“You’re fired as of today.”

“Yes?”

“That’s your severance pay.”

It took the woman, who opened her eyes blankly, some time to understand what was being said.

The woman immediately urged Lilian not to lie and play pranks.

However, Lilian was calm throughout. Like someone who knew in advance how this funny skit would end.

The woman sensed that things were going wrong for her.

“W-why are you doing this, young lady!”

“I know you want to get your share by driving a wedge between me and my brother.”

The woman had her mouth wide open, never expecting a 12-year-old child to expose her insides so openly.

“By the way, if you don’t leave quietly, I’ll say that the necklace was stolen.”

“…”

“What would you like to do?”

It was a casual tone, as if asking about the dinner menu.

Lilian’s nanny has lived more than half her life as the limb of the sensitive and fussy second wife.

Thanks to that, she knew it instinctively. The current Lilian was not someone she could control.

If she made a fuss here, she could literally be kicked out empty-handed. The nanny involuntarily grabbed the emerald necklace.

That answer was enough. Lilian smiled.