Mehlia Saylum was the previous lifetime's own name.
I was raised and brought extremely well as a single child in a powerful and wealthy family, that even though they prematurely died and I became orphaned at the age of 10, I was still living fine.
As for the dramas of relatives eyeing the family's property to make my life hard and all, they were already settled the moment I was born, a result of my parent's overprotectiveness being charmed by my appearance very similar to them.
And also because of the fact that I was an absolute single child after my mother got poisoned of infertility three years after my birth.
They always see these problems faced by other children of fellow wealthy families that they made a smooth life insurance of getting rid of whatever thirst for power the close or distant relatives had by their own means.
As for other family clans coveting what's then belonging to me only, it was another story.
Just like that, even at the moment I debuted as an adult, I still have the family's accumulated wealth that is able to accompany me for a whole lifetime of 21 years.
Wow, as expected I would have no regrets even if I died that young, after all since childhood I lived the life as a queen of a powerful and wealthy family, and moreover I died in a very beautiful way, even the place I died was a paradise on a scummy place like earth.
Dying young and beautiful with no wrinkles and no problems related to being old what else could I ever ask for, of course not to die by poison, kidding, why would I complain about that when I willingly died on my own by drinking a painless poison in a fairyland to give me a beautiful young death, right?
After my death, was waking up as a one month-old baby in a cradle, turns out I experienced reincarnation in the flesh. I easily accepted a new life quite easily as if an interesting toy was handed to me while in an extremely bored state.
Seeing the plump and soft hands of a child, the only thing I'm wishing for was to grow up being the most beautiful, in this life along with surviving long enough until I decided to die in my most beautiful state, my main goal was to live my life being the most charming among them all, the most beautiful and the most lovely.
After the inspection of my body, just like the novels I've been reading as a short-term hobby, a person would come in to see the reincarnated protagonist, it either be the parents, or a maid to do audacious things or do baby feeding.
I mean I read them at novels and I'm living real life but as a person who fulfilled the requirement of having past life memories intact after reincarnation, the world still have to live by the isekai rules, right? A reward for bearing to read cliché stories that has routines repeated for more than 3 years even at a short time, at least.
Just looking at the two huge blue and red moons illuminating the night outside the window, it's a big give away of another world, and I even see the little humanoid beings sticking their faces in the window looking directly at me with happy expression. With their really small stature, I shouldn't notice them doing that but..
'Hays.. It's alll because the window is near me.:
With that, I stopped my eyes' room adventure and just thought of the next scene within a moment now. Trying to peek through the side in this cradle where I can see the door for expected visitors, I waited quietly.
What came however was a well-dressed and imposing crimson haired middle-aged woman in her late 30's. It's strange though, she definitely looks to be in her early twenties with a wrinkle-free face and youthful body, how could I absolutely be confident in an assumption I never even thought of thinking.
With looks of a woman in her 20's like that, she's a middle-aged person in her late 30's?
Narrowing my eyes, I have the thought that maybe I am thinking like this because of the experienced aura she is leaking out from head to toe, that I add numbers to her age?
Ah, no no no. It can't be too bad I added 10 years to it, at most I'll assume she's in her late twenties, having the perk of being youthful but, ahhh why did I immediately acknowledged she's in that age without any rebuttal at first then, and it was just one glance?
...Ah..The Reincarnated's Golden Finger?
The woman who came has two maids behind her with lowered head and a light pink haired teenage girl with purple eyes holding a fan, hiding half of her face in it. They walked to me and observed me as I just blinked curiously at them.
Oh right, my new body, how does it even looked, hopefully the b*tches I have offended in my past life not take offense and curse me to live as an ugly pigface within the next life.
It better be, or else I will immediately kill myself than to live this life then.
Suddenly, the woman talked in a language I can understand, it was English, but seeing the way her mouth moves per every word, it definitely wasn't.
Golden Finger again, huh.
The way her mouth moves and even seing how her tongue curls while speaking to the teenage girl next to her, meh, definitely wasn't english, but even if I can understand their talk, it was actually something I didn't bother to pay attention to even though I was sure I was related to it.
Why? Cause even though I know it's english, every words entered my ear and exited the other that my brain can't process any of it. I'm feeling sleepy honestly, and suddenly remembering that I was in a baby's body right now, made me not go against the diziness that's overwhelming me.
'What a pity, the first conversation I will hear in the new world and a baby's body put me at a disadvantage quickly, must grow fast and healthy as first priority for now then, fuu.'
It was a way too quickly sleep, ugh, quite disappointing that my willpower against the sleepiness is this much.
Whatever, who cares anyways.
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UNKNOWN POV
The clicking heels sounds that are supposed to sound out was blocked to silence by the carpet rolled in the hallways leading to the room with silver doors.
The guards respectfully bowed towards our presence as they immediately opened the door leading to one of the younger siblings born a month ago. Precisely, to the girl's chambers.
It was always a month of letting the babies living a cradle life before the matriach visit them by the time they are already a month old.
It was for inspection to see worthy offsprings of the family before being officially given a name in the family tree records in the Chamber of Ancestral Ruin.
Covering half my face with a fan while deep in thoughts, I deeply remembered the records about the mating partner of our mother for the new offsprings. Their father was special for having three titles called in our place.
'Hostage from Adamante'
'Prisoner of Tesor Cell Below the Mansion'
And
'First Husband of the Matriach Seline'
It wasn't even a concubine but a main, a husband, and the first one at that. The last one was a recently gained title after exposing unearthed information while the Matriach of Hareth, Seline got pregnat, it was well hidden but infact exposed in itself.
'A hostage from the enemy house, Adamante, alive for 20 years after being caught in this house, as per the style of the Hareth House, they should've tortured him to death and forget about peace with the enemy house, but they kept him in an underground dungeon still alive and breathing, locking him up and making him live in bad environment but never harming him physically.'
There must be agreements made by the two house more than the years of peace equal to the years of hostage that they won't break it easily and send rescue for the once most outstanding and promising eldest son of Adamante House.
During that time, he was 18 and mother just turned 16, the acknowledged age as an adult in this world.
My father, the 'First' Husband was only able to be a member of this family after mother turned 22 and it was weird that there never really was a reply to engagements and marriage proposal from the matriach when father was more than qualified to become a legal son-in-law.
The moment mother turned 16, there should have immediately been a fixed arrangement choosen from all the sent letters by many formidable and qualified families, but 5 years of marriage by then
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Hmmph!
It doesn't matter, father is still the legal 'first' and I'm really the first offspring anyways, we have a strong standing even if the one down there is the real 'first'.
But..
Looking at the enchanting and youthful woman beside her, the first daughter, Sheila Hareth was worried.
Her mother, despite the now spread out information about the marriage for the whole world to see and talk about, was surprisingly calmer than usual when she get's the angriest after a secret information was leaked.
'Maybe the fact was hidden for many years it needs to explode one day anyway.'
As if feeling her gaze, Seline Hareth, her mother looked at her with a serene smile and looked expectantly infront again.
We walked until mother's green eyes spotted 'her', a newborn baby.
Getting nearer to her, we saw a baby with thin crimson hair two shades darker than mother's, the eyes are an enchanting dark shade of mysterious purple, the nose is small and cute and the cheeks are plump and rosy.
Even the lips are not spared at making her features extremely beautiful. It's not cute or adorable but simply enchanting and beautiful. She was dressed in white baby clothes which is obviously fancy.
This view made her lips hidden behind her fan stiffened upwards.
'A-are you kidding me?'
Is this supposed to be a baby, babies are supposed to be cute and all adorable, but this little sister is something else, blessed to be beautiful, eh?
What's even more ridiculous is, this is still a month-old baby, an age where face features aren't even that developed.
'A temptress. This girl will definitely grow up
to step on kingdoms, no, it's definitely continents, a little sister like this little beauty is more than qualified as a family member.'
Sheila, who is a big-thinker knows the potential of appearance and charisma, having male slaves from powerful families using beauty is power in itself as long as she has very good intelligence...
Besides, Sheila is also a master at learning seduction techniques since childhood, thinking of the future of the family with the asset of a beauty who's whole appearance is enough to enslave a person the moment she grows up is thrilling for her.
'Alright, it's decided, the moment that she speaks and walk, the plans of seduction lessons must begin, she must be cultivated well. Don't let assets like this go to waste because of lack of knowledge in the future.'
She should have been jealous as like written on novels but Sheila is actually family-oriented and is a big potential great big sister if given opportunities, her worry like threats of her father by the little sister's father was dissipated little by little because she thinks big for the harmony of the family
Meanwhile, her mother on the other side who was observing the blinking baby was fascinated at her own offspring.
"As expected of his offsprings, very enchanting, back when I saw him after all those years, I barely held myself back, thank goodness or a good night would have passed by my life just like that."
She excitedly told me so as if it really was a relief and a big part of the happiest things in her life.
Though it's my turn for surprise this time, so I politely asked to excuse the curiosity within me.
"'His offspring' mother? You barely use that phrase when appraising children even if one made you especially proud, you would always say, as expected of your children everytime."
"Ahh.. It's all because it's true. Since back then, I know he was more outstanding than I was. If he wasn't married to me back then because of the situation, he could have become someone people of the whole world revered all the time. Showered in praise, and made the inspiration of all the people who seeks fame and honor. Afufufu, if only he was free then it could have come true."
She was emotionless as she spoke while gently touching the head of the now asleep baby in the cradle. She then straightened her back and sighed while looking at the little faes peeking in the window with fright and fear the moment we stepped inside.
"Looking at this child's beauty, she must have gotten a lot of it from her father. I would wish this child can have an outer shell based on her father and an inner soul based on the blood of the Hareth Family flowing within her veins."
"If I would be greedy, I wanted both children to have them this lifetime."
She continued, and then looked at me.
"But that's a story for another time, Sheila. It's just my expectation for the children of outstanding parents after all. Now hand me the [Appraisal Crystal] over there."
The maids got nearer holding a rainbow colored crystal and put it between the younger sister's hands.
Click
Suddenly, the crystal shone brightly and turned to silver powder, it twirled and twirled and then formed in a rectangular shape.
Clack
Sssss
It was amazing no matter how much I see it multiple times, the [Appraisal Crystal] turned to powder and shaped itself into a rectangle and miraculously a white screen panel with written words showed itself infront of us.
{Showing the status of one month old baby 'unnamed'}
NAME: (Unnamed)
AGE: A month
CLASS: None
RACE: Human
Ancestry : Hareth (Snake God)
(Very Thick)
Adamante (God of Judgement)
(Thick)
Sussane(Goddess of Beauty)
(Very Thin)
STRENGTH : 1
STAMINA : 1
AGILITY : __
DEFENCE : __
INTELLIGENCE : 20
CHARISMA : 28
LUCK : 8
SKILLS : [LISTED BELOW THE SKILLS ARE INNATE SKILLS BLESSED BY THE HEAVENS WITH DETAILS]
°THE SNAKE GOD, HARETH DEEPLY ADORES AND LOVE THE EXCELLENT DESCENDANT AND BLESSED HER WITH THE CHARM AND INTELLIGENCE OF AN EXPERIENCED SNAKE. THE SKILL ALSO BLESSED HER WITH THE GUIDANCE OF '101 WAYS AND TACTICS OF A TRUE SNAKE'
EFFECTS: PERMANENT +15 TO CHARM AND INTELLIGENCE, THE TACTIC BOOK "WAYS OF SNAKE", GRANTS TITLE
°HAS DISDAIN FOR A DIRTIED BLOODLINE MIXED TOGETHER WITH A DIRTY SNAKE. IS INDIFFERENT TOWARDS 'IT' BUT STILL DEEMED IT QUALIFIED. THE SKILL GRANTS AN INFERIOR 'BLESSING' TO THE DESCENDANT BUT IN EXCHANGE GAINED THE MONITORING OF ADAMANTE, GOD OF JUDGMENT.
EFFECTS: +5 PERMANENT INTELLIGENCE
+2 LUCK +3 CHARM
(SPECIAL MONITORING OF THE GOD
OF JUDGMENT, ADAMANTE)
°THE THIN BLOODLINE MAY NOT BE TO HER LIKING BUT THE GODDESS IS ENAMORED WITH THE LITTLE DESCENDANT'S BEAUTY SO SHE GAVE HER MORE, OF COURSE. IN ADDITION, SHE ALSO GRANTED HER TITLES THAT WILL BE MORE ACTIVE THE OLDER THE BLESSED ONE. THE SKILL ALSO BLESSED HER BELOVED DESCENDANT WITH TALENT AND AFFINITY IN SEDUCTION AND CHARMING TOGETHER WITH GOOD LUCK OWED FROM THE LUCK GOD.
EFFECTS: PERMANENT +10 CHARM, +6 LUCK,
END CH 1..