The letters always came to me somehow, not even Max saw them coming, they just did, but they never referred me as Eleanor, and in them, he only called me 'my Lady'. He said he knew me, that I didn't need to answer him back, because he didn't want to be an inconvenience to me, that he just wanted to keep me in his heart, to write to someone with his own. But I never understood why he sent me letters at all, because I had og Eleanor memories from her first 5 years, and together with my own, I knew I had never met him.
This had been happening way before Yeji and Yejun transmigrated into og Diana and Arwel's bodies, so asking Ary wouldn't help in anything at all. But could... could og Diana have been the real destination for the letters, and as she didn't want nothing with the Crown Prince, for whatever stupid reason, she told someone to send the letters he sent her, to Eleanor instead? Maybe to even make Maximilianos think she had an affair, so he would dump her, and og Diana would have a chance, as she seemed to want him?
Fuck, this is madness.
However, it makes way more sense for this to be the case, then for my past self as Eleanor have been the destination, when I've never even met him at all. And I mean, og Diana was a hateful bitch who did, indeed, deserve to die. She was the Diana I always hated with all my heart, the unbearable to be near.
I could see og Diana doing this, it would coincide to the version of Diana appointed in the shit novel, the petty and reckless secondary villainess, but it doesn't make it less fucked up. Especially because the Crown Prince grew on me through the letters, I genuinely thought he was sincerely in love with me or something. Thinking about it, it was weird that someone like him would write love letters for a married woman.
Maybe I believed in it, because a part of me always wanted to get love letters, to be loved by a not-so-sick-in-the-head men who wouldn't try to fucking murder me, and that felt like it, even if it was an impossible situationship, given how I was married to that psycho with split personality. Even so, his letters gave me a warmth that my soul had been craving for, for as long as they lasted. OG Diana was a different breed of bitch if she really did this to me.
"...Liya?" I felt mom shaking my shoulders.
"Does he hate me?" I asked, fear creeping in slowly, because this is bad.
"I highly doubt that," Andrey scoffed annoyed. "He asks about you every time we meet. You definitely broke his heart, though."
I cringed, "Why did I had to break the heart of the Imperial Crown Prince of all men in this damned Empire?" He may not hate me now, but he'll definitely hate me if he learns what og Diana did with the letters, which he will definitely learn if the rumor of Eleanor having an affair with one of the Imperial Princes who sent her letters, spreads around. Given how Sofiya and Rosalie despise me for sure now, they will definitely spread it out.
Those letters contained his heartfelt feelings, I doubt he will be happy if he hears that another woman other than the one he wrote the letters to, got them. Thankfully, if he comes after me for it, I'll be able to say I did read the letters despite everything, because I did. That might save my damn life.
"We've been asking ourselves that for years," dad mocked. "But it's alright, he's an ally, he won't do anything to you because you broke his heart. You just shouldn't fall for him now, his parents are still bitter because of what you did, and so are his full-blooded siblings."
Which means, the 2nd Imperial Prince Atreus Nott-Novak, 3rd Imperial Princess Irina Nott-Novak, and the 7th Imperial Prince Aaron Nott-Novak... don't like me.
Ain't that just fucking great?
If it wasn't enough for og Diana to break the Crown Prince's heart, she had to go and make an enemy of the three most powerful Highnesses of the damn Empire after him. This is a nightmare.
Covering my face with my hands, I cried, "I should have hit my head earlier."
Kirill clapped his hand, "That's what I've been saying!" He beamed.
"You are not helping," I snapped at him.
"And you," he said with a smug on, "lost our bet. Which means, you'll sing me to sleep for three months, and I'll train you starting from tomorrow morning."
"We," Andrey corrected, side-eyeing him, "will start," his eyes came to me, "training you from tomorrow morning onwards, for undetermined time, beyond three months. First in the morning, we'll need to exhaust your body through exercises, first some basic physical training that we both do before the actual training, then Kill will take you up for martial arts, when his three hours are up, I'll take you for basic weaponry fighting."
Kirill snap his fingers, "What Rey said. Either way, we'll start from the basics and see what will work for you. I'll be teaching you martial arts general self-defense first, when you master it, we'll pick up an specific martial art that will resonate with you most for your initial training in depth. Fists, palms, arms, legs, feet, whatever you end up being better at focusing your energy onto, picking the right one helps mastering it."
"Now, with me," Andrey tilted his head, "we'll see which weapon you're most comfortable with, which suits you and your build the most, then, we'll see if it works for you, and if it does, we'll start the personalized training in it. You're smaller, so I don't think a claymore would be it, but if you're fast, daggers would be ideal. I'll train you in two weapons, one for short range and the other for long range combat."
"And to know if you're fast, or not, or stronger, good at climbing, good at jumping, and all of that, we'll do the initial basic training to test your abilities," Kirill crossed his arms over his chest, flexing the toned muscles under the long sleeved shirt, something about him reminds me of a pirate, in a royal way, if that even makes sense. "We need to know your strengths and weaknesses first, in order to train you to become stronger."
Getting stronger is a must! "Alright. Hour?"
"Wake up 5 am," Kirill said, surprisingly serious, "take a cold bath, dress up in training clothes that make you comfortable, then come down to have a morning snack by 5:40 am. We'll be waiting for you in the kitchen, 20 minutes for the snacks, then we'll be out in the training grounds at 6 am, me and Rey will supervise your training together. We'll test you for 2 hours and 40 minutes."
"You will get a 20-minute-long break from 8:40 to 9 am to have breakfast and rest a bit, but at 9 am your martial training with Kill will start," Andrey added. "11:40 am it'll end, you will have a 20-minute-long break for lunch, from 12:00 at midday to 15 pm you will be training with me. 30-minute-long break to clean yourself and have another snack, at 15:30 pm you will have tea with mother, at 16:20 pm you will be given a 20-minute-break to change back to your training clothes and by 16:40 pm you will train magic."
"Your wind magic," father cleared up.