"What is this?"
The slightly frowned eyebrows are cool.
Whether sitting with your slender legs crossed or crossing your arms as if you don't like it, everything is cool.
"It's a hot cake made by Princess Peony."
The maid responded politely to his question, and I was hiding behind the door and nodding her head.
She should have said that it's not just a hot cake, it's a hot cake with plenty of honey from our Garten!
I was so sorry that I rolled my feet in my heart .My favourite character loves Garten's honey .He likeS Garten's strawberries, and also black tea from Garten.
All three were treated as the highest grade on the continent, so they were often used as expressions reflecting the luxurious taste of our second male lead.
"Are you saying that the princess made it herself...?" suspiciously he said.
It would be strange to say that a princess from a country was touching a frying pan in the kitchen.
However,if it's for someone who is the favorite person, even the queen, not the princess, can bake hot cakes.
Besides, if you have the ability to bake hot cakes like me, even more!
Richt looked at the plate on which the hot cake was placed with a suspicious expression.
It was a hot cake that I just made, dropping his fuss that he should eat it when it was warm, and the maid ran to him as if he had to eat.
The fluffy hot cake was also made with butter made from cow's milk raised in the abundant green areas of Garten and sprinkled with plenty of honey, making it a delicious snack.
The fragrant scent, the sweet scent, made my nose open from the outside as I am looking inside the door. It will be thicker for Richt who is closer.
"Let's leave it..."
He turned his head, as if nothing, and looked back at the book he was reading.
"Stir..... ... "
As if she had not forgotten my request, the maid carefully opened her mouth.
Then Richt , who was looking at the book, glanced at her. It was such a gaze that if he is indifferent.
As if frightened by the look of his eyes,the maid quickly shut her open mouth.
"What?"
"Well, that..."
Hurry up! Eat now! Say it's delicious to eat when it's warm!
"Oh, nothing."
However, the maid of her unknown presence could not dare to catch the eyes of the Grand Duke of the North.
Frightened by Richt's eyes, she couldn't tell what she had to say, and she just turned her back and tried to get out of the Grand Duke's parlor....
Oh no wait!I haven't run away yet.....
"Oh my goodness!"
When the maid opened the door, I opened the door a little bit and looked inside, and I was very grimy in front of him.
"Pionnie Princess?"
"Ahahaha... ... Hello, Grand Duke."
I quickly bowed and said hello. The maid who opened the door and made me caught doesn't know what to do as stood aside.
"Why are you here?"
"Uh, that's..."
At the polite Richt's words, couldn't answer.
I was looking at him, said..... ...
"So, it was a passing road."
".... .... "
Oh, can you see too much?
"So, it was on my way to go back to my room after I baked the hot cake and gave it to the maid.... ... .."
"Neither the kitchen nor the princess's room would be this way..."
".... ... I'm not used to this castle yet, so I guess I'm lost."
I decided to go out shamelessly.
A shameless woman would be better than a peeping woman.
"Hey, Grand Duke."
"You speak."
"Eat it now."
I glance at the hot cake and pointed....
"It's delicious to eat when it's warm."
And the shameless thing, I become more shameless. Just feed my food to my favourite character! Seeing the sight!Heh ~ just thinking about it makes me excited.....
"No."
Huh!After breaking my excitement, Richt looked at me with a numb expression.
"I don't like sweets."
It's a lie.
With a manly face that seems to be sticking to meat, I know that he really likes sweet things.
"I don't like hot cakes either."
This is also a lie.
He loved hot cakes. I know that he ate the hot cake made by the female lead to the point that he had a stomachache.
"The hotcakes I hate, and the sweets I hate are sprinkled with.... . I really hate it."
Without changing a single expression , Richt lied.
"nevertheless... ... "
I wanted to refute. Actually, isn't it what you like!
But I couldn't. I couldn't say that I knew all that he liked hotcakes, that he actually liked honey, and that he liked sweets.
"Thank you for the princess's sincerity, but please take it back."
Richt glanced at the plate on the table, and even gestured to the maid standing over there.
"Well, that's Grand Duke Richt."
"You speak."
His face was very calm. His deep, dark black eyes were still and his sexy red lips were firmly shut. There seemed to have no expression, no emotion.
I couldn't even tell if he was really looking at me.
"No..... it's... "
So I quietly looked down and looked at the floor.
"I'll take it with mine."
I picked up a plate of hotcakes and accepted the plate from the maid who was trying to follow me.
The plate was still warm, and the hotcakes must have been warm.
But strangely, my hand in contact with it was getting colder.
...
* * * *
"What is it? Did you go out with excitement earlier?
"
"Huh?
"
Rachel, who was sitting in front of me, asked, tilting his head .His lips were shiny with honey.
The hotcake I was going to give Richte eventually became Rachel's.
He was packing his luggage to return to Garten, and he said that it was good to go out and ate the hotcake very deliciously.
It looked good to see but it was bitter. It would have been nice if Richt had enjoyed it.
"Oh, it's nothing, brother."
I shook my head because I didn't want to cause any worries.
"It was delicious, but how much did you even have a share to return to me?"
"I did a lot. Because my brother also likes it."
"Of course. The hot cake made by our Peony is the the best in the world. I was really surprised that you knew how to make this. I was more surprised because it was so delicious"
"I learned during the bride's class. I want to be a bride loved by my husband."
At this lie with a smile,I and Rachel faced each other and laughed.
But in my mind, the lie was scratched.A bride loved by her husband..... .....
Today, when I look at Richt's cold eyes and numb expression,it was absolutely impossible.
Richt, which I liked in the novel, was a man who could choose fire if it were for the female lead. He's not that cold guy.
His mouth was rough and he spoke wildly, but he was a man with a warm heart. He is not such a cold man.
I was struggling because of the gap between the Richt I read in the book and the Richt I actually see.
"Are you okay? Why does your complexion look bad?"
"okay?A little ... .... I'm tired."
Rachel's face, full of worries, looked at me.
"Of course. I knew it from the time when you said you were baking pancakes. It's still cold, so it's hard to adapt, but you're baking something like that."
Rachel's nagging began with a whip.
"Or just do it with your future husband. Why have you baked! Is not because of him that you've been standing in the kitchen longer."
"It's not like that."
"What is not. Hey! What are you doing? You have to rest quickly."
He jumped up and grabbed my hand.
"Now, now. Take a break."
After laying me on the bed and covering the blanket almost to the tip of my nose, Rachel looked relieved.
"Let's take a nap."
"Okay, nagging brother."
As I stretched my mouth out of the blanket and grumbled, Rachel looked scared for nothing and pulled it up again and closed my eyes.
"Close your eyes."
One last glimpse of Rachel, and she closed her eyes. Dark darkness filled her view.
"Peony, do you remember what I said yesterday?"
A small voice tapped in my ear.
"I'll go back to Garten tomorrow. It's hard to leave you here,.... but.... I can't help it because I respect your choices."
A small sigh penetrated into the air.
"If you are having trouble,feel free to contact me. We're by your side. You're our father's precious daughter, my brother and my precious little sister."
Rachel's hand, who walked on the blanket slightly, clasped my hand.I felt like tears were coming out .They were loving me. Really sincerely.
Even now, if i could get up and tell Rachel that I regretted or wanted to return to Garten with him, I would go back with me without asking anything. Maybe Richt wouldn't catch me either.
From his point of view, it would be to get rid of the annoying princess to marry.
But the reason I felt like tears wasn't because I was grateful for Rachel's words or because I felt sorry for Richt's indifference.
Richt, whom I liked, knew this love. He loved precious female lead this way. But now he had eyes like what was love .It was cold and cold, turning into desolate eyes that no one could live.
It's a pity that my Richt has changed like this.I felt like crying and tears.
* * * *
The tip of Richt's nose still smelled sweet.
He didn't taste it, but the smell alone knew it was Garten's honey. He knew that it wasn't just honey, but the best honey .It was Richt's favorite honey. The same was true for hotcakes. It was Richt's favorite food.
But he couldn't eat it.
"Hestia.. .."
Richt quietly called the name of the person he loved the most, and who has now become another woman .She was a beautiful woman.
He used to be called the stupid prince, and she was the only one who treated him warmly.
she was the woman who taught him what motherhood was, instead of his mother, who was obsessed with love,saying that he should be the emperor. And she was the woman who chose a man other than himself.
"Hestia... ...."
There was even more sadness in his voice, which he sang once again. It was the love, he wanted more because he couldn't have it. Because it was not his, he was a more greedy person.
That hot cake which was came out today was also a food with her memories with her. So he couldn't eat it.
The fluffy hotcake would stab his throat more painfully than a thorn .Sweet honey would feel bitter than poison.
Like everything that reminds me of Hestia.
"Hmm..."
Richt inhaled the sweet scent that still remained in the space .Fortunately, the fragrance was sweet as it was. It was the scent of honey he liked.
I remembered the princess who had made it. So, her hair was probably blond .Is her eyes blue? Or is it green? That wasn't clear .Nose? I didn't remember. The lips? I don't remember that too ....
"It was red."
He thought it was a hazy memory, but suddenly he remembered her red lips .It was small, red lips .The princess's lips were red,like the strawberry of Garten,which Richt's favourite.
The eyes that looked at his glances with jagged look were probably blue.
"A stupid woman trying to cheat someone else."
Unfortunately, that was Richt's first impression of Peony. She was obvious .It was to gamble on Garten, a rich but small country next to the Fairsprene Empire.
The present emperor already had a beautiful and perfect empress. It is also between lovers who love each other fieryly, who completed the romance of the century.
There was no time for Garten's Princess to intervene .That's why he turned his eyes to the north. But, I have been the Emperor's half-brother who was the first to succeed to the throne.
As she said, the emperor forgave himself for treason. So how do she know? I might call in my northern brother and take him at the top of the empire.
Or, if there is no heir from the emperor,he might make take his younger brother heir's.
The princess of the small country, or the king of the small country, would have proposed to herself with that in mind.
Indeed, they were cunning like rats.
"Well, you are handsome!"
I remembered the voice of Princess Garten, who was talking with a slightly blushing.I looked up in surprise at the unexpected situation, and I immediately turned away.
Even if I think about it, I would have thought that it was too much. The first word when you first see a person is 'You are handsome.'
"Tsk..."
Richt kicked his tongue without knowing it. The sweet scent was gone. It was all useless thoughts. The hot cake of memories, the princess of the cunning Garten .Marriage or anything, but how long will a princess from a warm country come to this cold place?
It is rumored that she is a princess who raised by the king of Garten with Banokyeop, and even her servants' maids will not be able to last long in this unchanging place.
It's just a little distorted in a room in the castle, and if I ignore it, she can't stand it and leave for Garten. She would go, Licht thought.
I couldn't tell the princess of the friendly country to get out from my territory. So I offered her an engagement, but the delicate princess couldn't last long in Stern in the cold weather.