Chapter 13.1

“Nippler Academy?”

“Yes. I have to meet someone, but my mom won’t let me go if I go alone. If I say I’m going to see your grandfather, she’ll definitely be okay with it—”

“Okay.”

“Huh?”

“Okay.” Gerald smiled brightly.

As if you’ll do anything for me.

“Don’t be nice to just anyone,” I said to him coldly.

There are people who misunderstand like me.

“I’m not nice to anyone.”

“Then?”

“I’m being nice to you because you’re Lulu.”

Please, don’t even say that.

You’re like a bad unicorn.

I won’t fall for those words ever again.

* * *

Alexid knocked on Louella’s door with swollen eyes.

He couldn’t help it! He had to make a huge decision. Mom said that Louella could marry someone else, but Alexid had nothing else to do but worry for her.

You’re ugly, but with whom would you get married with—

That Alexid might have been thinking about it now, and couldn’t help but cry.

“Come on in.”

Alexid entered Louella’s room with a sulky face.

He could see Louella lying in bed and looking in the mirror.

Also, Alexid, who was crying, rubbed his eyes hard to wipe the tears away from his eyes.

No matter how much Louella was his younger sister, he realized that he could not live with her for the rest of his life.

“I’m going to marry Veronica!”’

What is this peanut talking about?

You could never marry, Louella!

At the age of ten, Alexid didn’t know what marriage was yet. He was the cute and naive person that I knew.

Louella, who was already hurt with deep scars in her, said that she didn’t want to marry him!

* * *

What’s wrong with him?

After he returned to the mansion, Alexid came to me. Judging from his bloated face, I think I cried as much as I did.

Alexid faltered next to me and sat down.

“Do you have something to say?” I shot back with a pout.

It was absurd that he still thought I wouldn’t be able to get married because I’m ‘ugly’.

I wasn’t the best beauty in society just because I married the unicorn, but I was still called the white rose of society. The white rose symbolized pureness and elegance.

“It’s . . .”

“I’m not ugly! If you’re going to say that I am, then get out!”

“It’s not like that! I came because I had something to say.” Alexid shook his head.

“What is it?”

“Hey,” Alexid hesitated and opened his mouth. “Do you not want to get engaged because I told you Gerald is going to pick his nose at home?”

What is this kid talking about?

Alexid closed his eyes and shouted, “I said that Gerald would pick his nose at home no matter how handsome he was!”

“And it’s a lie when I said Gerald would fart at home, and that he’d pee in his blanket”.

That peeing thing! I’m not cheap! Gerald isn’t cheap either!

No, wait a minute.

Is it because he’s jealous of Gerald and now he’s framing him for something ridiculous?

There’s no way I’ll fall for that. What do you think of me? A kid?

“I don’t believe in that!”

“You’re lying.”

“It’s true,” I replied.

“When I said that, you said you wouldn’t hang out with Gerald anymore.”

“Did I? Really?”

Oh no . . . I must have been an innocent and cute eight-year-old kid.

“You did!”

“Anyway, no!” I cleared my throat as I explained, “I just don’t want to get engaged. I don’t like Gerald anymore.”

“What’s wrong with you? Did Gerald bother you?”

Did he bother me? Well . . .

Suddenly, a thirty-two-year-old Alexid appeared on top of a ten-year-old Alexid.

At first, Alexid objected when I declared my divorce. I already knew that there was no one else like Gerald!

It was a natural reaction because I had never told Alexid about the embarrassing things I had done in my marriage.

Alexid and I were good siblings to each other and had no apparent problems.

I burst into tears in front of Alexid.

“What’s going on?” My older brother had asked with a worried face.

But how relieved was I that I had an older brother whom I could rely on at that time? Alexid said to me, who was only talking about ‘wanting to divorce.’

“Okay. Do whatever you want. I’ll always be on your side.”

Blood was still thicker than water. Alexid was once on my side, and he will always be.

Well, even when I was young, Alexid and I fought tirelessly, but we never did that outside.

I couldn’t help but laugh.

That was when I realized that he was still older than me.

“He didn’t bother me.”

Gerald didn’t bother me, he ignored me. He didn’t have another woman, nor did he say anything mean to me. It’s just that he didn’t see me as a woman.