Anyone Beats the Original

Quang!

“Eve, what’s going on here!”

The door opened and my father and mother came in. I had no choice but to laugh inwardly at his distorted face in the high fever.

I will make you do business with your daughter.

“Ah, Father.”

But no matter what my innermost thoughts were, I was a poor daughter. The pretty Evangeline’s health has been weak since she was a child.

“Are you okay, Eve?”

“Sob, Father. I’m sorry.”

I lamented to my father with tears in my eyes. I could see my mother standing next to him sighing deeply.

But what can I do? It wasn’t just a cold, it was the flu. Although I wanted to see my father’s distorted face, the world seems to be spinning now.

My father stared at me and opened his mouth with his face hardened.

“Next week’s appointment with the Duke…”

“Oh, Father. Don’t worry. Even if I crawl … Cough!”

I coughed with an expression that seemed like I was going to vomit blood. Oh, it does smell fishy. Oh, yes. Evangeline’s weak body is really good at this moment.

My father, who was staring at me, sighed for a long time.

I closed my eyes tightly and let a teardrop from my eyes.

“I’m sorry, Father. Because I’m such a useless daughter…”

It’s useless. Where is the law that requires a daughter to be useful, and not a thing?

My mother shed tears as she looked at me like that. Although I couldn’t say anything to my father, I felt sorry for him because he loved his daughter in his own way.

In the end, my father said with a slightly disappointed voice.

“I’ll cancel this appointment.”

Oh yeah.

I smiled meaningfully inside. Without knowing what I was thinking, my father left the room with a confused expression.

***

I had to suffer for almost three weeks since the flu seemed so severe. Honestly, I was worried that I might die like this, but fortunately it didn’t happen.

If I had, I would have died in regret. I did this to avoid myself from dying, but in the end I die because of this.

Anyway, after three weeks or so I woke up again. My father looked at me and said to me to take good care of myself.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ve been relieved. As a result of observing my father over these years, his obsession with nobility has already exceeded the limits of my knowledge.

As if to prove this, after about a month, my father called me again.

“My lady, the master calls you.”

While fiddling with the newly purchased cosmetics in front of the dressing table, I finally realized that I had come. My father’s ‘blind date’ attack is about to start again.

*맞선 보다: see each other with a view to marriage / but nowadays people called it blind date.

However, as I was already anticipating his attack pattern, I got up very calmly. I have prepared something for this day to come-

“My lady. I think it would be nice to dress up prettily and go out.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Because the Duke of Florence is here.”

…..?

The elegance lasted less than five seconds. I blinked my eyes as if the thunderbolt struck from the clear sky. Meanwhile, Aida, the senseless maid, was excited to say that she could finally meet the Duke.

What the heck, this, this, crazy?

Look at my father’s behavior. How snobbish is a man to be this quick?

I grabbed my head. Not this guy. No, no, I hate him.

“Aren’t you dress up, my lady?”

Aida blinked her eyes as she looked at my face.

Dressing up, that’s funny. If I dress up with this face, I think it would be possible to captivate not only the Duke but the whole world. What do you mean dressing up?

I couldn’t turn my head in embarrassment.

I ended up feeling restless and finally chose the number I left to write next time.

“Aida. I’d like to look pretty to the Duke.”

“Of course, my lady!”

Aida ran straight to the dressing room and made a fuss about picking a dress that suited me.

After Aida left, I took a long breath. And with a grim look, I took the medicine out of the drawer and took it right in.

The gulping sound filled the room. And not long after-

Gulp-gulp-gulp-gulp.

“Ueg!” (the sound of throwing up.)

I shut my mouth and ran into the bathroom. Soon, Aida came into the room and ran in surprise.

“My lady!”

“Ueg!” (still throwing up.)

Ugh, this is driving me crazy, it’s awful.

“My lady, what did you eat…… vomiting medicine?”

Aida’s shocked voice came from behind. I laughed as I threw out what was inside me.

“Why did you eat this, my lady!”

Why would I eat it? I ate it so I wouldn’t meet him.

“I, I wonder if I’ll look a little slim if I throw up what’s inside……Ueg!”

Kyaa- Good reason.

*캬아: Kyaa / Aahh / Wow.

You’re not going to force your sick daughter to sit in front of the Duke. I kept throwing up what was inside me continuously.

That was the time when Aida rolled her feet in confusion.

Knock, knock.

Someone knocked on the door.

I could hear Aida running in a hurry, but I didn’t even raise my head with my head in the drain.

“What is Eve doing? The Duke is here.”

“Ma, Madam… That… Because my lady was vomiting medicine…”

“What? Eve, Eve!”

I heard my mother’s urgent voice. I raised one hand, shook my head, and vomiting when I was more and more exaggerated.

“Mother, don’t come. It’s dirty, Ueg!”

My mother rolled her feet at me. The maid, who was standing behind her, also muttered something with a puzzled look and left the room soon after.

And soon my father, who came running in a hurry, looked at me with a look of dismay.

“Eve, you…!”

I could not get rid of it already, so I shed tears as I grabbed my throat, which had already been filled with bitter water.

That was too much. Ugh, it’s bitter. I think my neck bones will also go out. But there was something I haven’t said yet.

“Aida… Please help me quickly.”

“My lady, why…”

“I have to meet the Duke… quickly.”

My father closed his eyes at my words and asked with an angry face.

“Eve, I’ll ask just in case. Do you really not want to meet the Duke?”

“Honey, that can’t be true! Eve’s been waiting for this day for so long!”

“You be quiet. You keep spoiled your child and now she’s become arbitrary!”

Why are you yelling at my mother? It’s because of you! How can a man have no conscience like this? I was dumbfounded with laughter.

My father shouted loudly at me with a vicious look on his face.

“If you don’t want to meet the Duke, you’re just making a vain attempt. How did Abby raise you!”

How was I raised? You’ve been nagging me about blind date against me, and you’ve always been pushing me into the society by buying me pretty clothes.

If I hadn’t been a possessed character, I would have gone wild right away. I could bear it because I thought he was a character in a novel.

Finally, my father left the room with anger. Looking at his back, I grinded my teeth.

***

There’s no way.

After two days of pondering over my face on the bed, I had no choice but to raise my head again.

Outside the window, the sunset glowed the sky beautifully. The last time I ran away from home, I was spattered with all the valuable things. So this time, I’m going to try to keep my tail by myself…

Yeah, it’s just a little money that’s impossible to trace and it’s spattering.

I’ll have a hard time, but it’s a hundred times better than dying. Wouldn’t it be okay if I used possessed’s buff and used what I learned in my previous life?

“I have to do the chicken business… But I don’t know where they sell the fried flour.”

I sighed deeply and got up from my seat. I think it’s better to solve anything quickly. It would be better to leave today than to leave tomorrow and to leave now rather than later.

I finally got up from my seat. The clothes seemed the easiest to wear now, so I tied my hair and took my money and went to the terrace.

Second floor. Not too high. I wasn’t a noble, so the guard wasn’t so strict.

I clenched my teeth and grabbed the terrace. And softly like a butterfly-

Puck!

-What. I hugged my throbbing body and sighed. Fortunately, the number of floors is not high though. It might hurt a little, but it didn’t seem like it was broken anywhere.

I moved my body. The dog hole I used to run away from home was blocked, but I knew it and I saw three more.

Immediately, I ran to the grassy place and rubbed my body without worrying about getting stuck in the grass.

But the dog hole was too small. Oh, the novel deceived me. What did the kids who ran away through the dog’s hole do?  But last time it was a little big…

“Ah, I came out!”

With a lot of dirt, I straightened my bangs with a puff of my nose. If you have lived on Earth at the age of 21, shouldn’t you clean up your bangs even at any critical moment?

It was a moment when I was about to take a step forward-thinking so. Suddenly a carriage shot past me with a few horses.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Thanks to this person, I fell down with a sound that wasn’t very elegant.

I blamed my bad luck by touching my ass, but the carriage that passed me gradually stopped and the door opened.

“What is it?”

I turned my head. And when I saw the person who came out of the carriage, I had no choice but to shout inside.

‘Wow, look at the dignity of the original work.’

There, a man with black hair and red eyes neatly turned back, stood like a statue with a cool face.

It was the Duke of Florence.

I realized. That this novel is going to make me meet the Duke.1

T.N: This story is so funny🤣