'Alright.' she said to herself as calmly as she could. After all, just yesterday she came to an unfamiliar world inside a novel.
'Let's put everything in place,' she continued.
'I was walking home from college like always and was hit by a truck,' for someone like her who read a lot of reincarnation novels; this was as cliche as it could get.
'Afterward, I found myself here, as the illegimate daughter of Duke Von Silford, who is destined to die in five years because of her sister'. She sighed deeply and went on
'But of course I don't want to die, so that would mean I have to make a plan to survive'.
Well surviving her sister was just one of her many problems, but her biggest problem is what comes after. After all the novel she woke up in wasn't a happy sweet love story where the female lead falls in love with the male lead and the villainess dies after being heartbroken.
No,if only it were that easy, because the world she was currently in was going to be at war, right after the villainess died and the male and female lead thought they would be happy.
Now, how the war started was still unkown to Veroni as the novel hadn't uploaded that far yet, but she did know it was the second male lead who ended up murdering both the male and female lead.
While Veroni was agonizing about what to do to survive this nerve-wracking, confusing novel, she heard a knock on the the door.
'Good morning my lady, ' it was Melody, the maid she met the day before. 'I'm sorry for my rudeness but his highness the duke has asked for you to join and eat breakfast together. '
Melody's calm and soothing voice made Veroni relax a little, but now wasn't the time to relax. The duke asked her to join them for breakfast, but Veroni knew that he wouldn't just casually ask her to join him as the duke didn't pay much attention to his illegimate daughter.
Him asking her to join means he has something important to share, and that means her sister and stepmother will be there too.
Veroni never met them in real life, but knew from the novel they enjoyed tormenting her.
As she was thinking about the things her mom and sister could do, she heard another knock on the door. It was Melody who had been standing in front of the door for a while, asking her lady if she was awake.
Veroni, who was so deep in thought that she forgot about the poor girl, told her to come in.
'Come in, I just woke up. You said that the duke asked for me?' she said, thinking she would come over as mature and refined.
Melody who was two years older than the thirteen year old Veroni, thought it was cute of her to act so mature and answered her lady's question, 'yes my lady, he said to come as quickly as possible. '
'Alright, bring me a dress appropriate for the occasion and give me a simple and quick hairstyle. ' she ordered, not knowing what the maid thought just a second ago.
Melody, who was quick to follow the orders, picked out a green dress that matched her lady's green eyes.
The dress had cute frills on the bottom, top, and on the waist, there were flowers embroidered on the slightly puffy sleeves, and the dress itself was made out of a very soft and sparkling silk. ' I guess the duke still cared enough to give his illegimate daughter expensive clothes. ' she thought.
Just then, Melody said something that crushed that thought, 'It must be a little out of fashion, since my lady's sister used to wear it.
But it's the newest one in my lady's wardrobe. '
'Yeah, I guess he wouldn't buy his illegimate daughter expensive new dresses. ' she mumbled to herself.
She then asked marry if there was anything more mature in her wardrobe. 'I'm sorry, my lady, but I'm afraid this is the best there is, ' the maid replied.
Veroni stood up and checked the closet herself. Melody was right; her wardrobe was filled with childish clothes and most of them where ugly too.
' I'm sure Silina only gave me her ugly old clothes on purpose. ' she accidentally said out loud.
'Ah, no-I mean, I!' she stuttered, trying to cover up what she just said.
Veroni expected the maid to say that she should be thankful, as she was just an illegimate child.
But opposite to her expectations, the maid let out a little giggle, which soon turned into an uncontrollable laughter.
'I'm sorry, my lady, I just didn't expect you to say it out loud so bluntly. ' The maid said
between her laughter in.
The maid started to calm down. 'Shall we get you dressed, my lady?' she said.
'Yes, and let's hurry up, I'm sure father is waiting. '
A few minutes later, she was al dressed in the uncomfortable green dress that at least looked a little decent compared to her other dresses.
They started to walk towards the dining room, and before she knew it, she found herself before the door of the dining room.
Veroni suddenly started to think about something. Between the memories she obtained was one of a dinner like this, and let's just say that the dinner didn't go as planned.
'Will I be alright?' she asked herself.
But she stopped that thought.
After all, she might be in the body of a thirteen year old, but she had the mind of a twenty year old. She could do this, or could she?