***
"Herisha, come out."
He dragged me out of the break room and went outside.
"How far are you going..."
"Give me your hand."
"Hand..? It's not that badly hurt.."
"Give it to me anyway."
"This is holy water. It's okay to apply something so precious..."
"Herisha, you must have forgotten, but you are a princess. It's for someone precious, so what's the harm in wasting it?"
"That's true, but..."
"And earlier I was saying - I found it very unpleasant to see my fiancée with another man."
"It's not that I have feelings for the Crown Prince... The Crown Prince suddenly..!!"
"I know."
"Wh..what? Even though you knew..!"
"I've been a little jealous, but you don't like it?"
"That's not it!!!"
"It's not like that?"
"N.. Don't tease me! You're just joking around.."
"Anyway, apply the medicine well. It's late, so I'll take you there."
"What about Jeonghan oppa?"
"That human, no, Jeonghan, will come on his own."
"Hmm... well... okay!"
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"Herisha, I had fun today. Then, take care on your way home."
"Yeah, you go in carefully too -"
So Wonwoo left and I quickly got ready to go to bed.
"Your Majesty, did something good happen to you today?"
"Well, that's... I had a hard time today because of Princess Stella, but Lady Blancia..."
When I told Lucy what happened at the banquet, she started to worry about me.
"Your Majesty, you're not seriously hurt, are you?"
"Yeah, I'm fine because my hand was treated too!"
"Still, you've become very close with Lady Blancia... Your expression is bright today, and it's nice to see you..."
"Lucy! Why are you crying.."
"It seems like the princess is very happy... I didn't realize it..."
'Well, before, Herisha was too stubborn..'
"Lucy, thank you always.."
"Your Majesty..."
Lucy seemed to have cried in my arms for a while.
***
The next day, I went to the library.
"I need to look up a book to find out why I was possessed..."
"Even if it's not that, well... it's good to read books diligently..."
"Is this better..?"
I took a few books I had seen in my brother's room and a few books that seemed to explain the afterlife or why possession happened and started reading them.
"As expected, this is so fucking boring..."
After a few hours had passed, I started looking through the book again and found a title that caught my eye.
"What is this? I was proposed to by the Duke..?"
"Is it romance..?"
The romance genre book I read out of curiosity was much more interesting than I thought, and I started reading it with great enthusiasm.
"It's really fun... but why am I so sleepy..."
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Jeonghan went out on the street and came back to find Herisha's room to give her a gift, but Herisha was not there, so he asked the maids where Herisha was and headed to the library.
"Hey.."
"Hmm... I guess you read a lot of books... They're all romances..."
"What is this...? Death and the afterlife? Why a book like this..."
"I was taking out a book and I think I got it wrong..."
Jeonghan picked up Herisha and carefully laid her down on Herisha's bed before heading to his room.