The Villain Changed the Ending

020 The pony is the enemy

A waddling child is cute.

If it’s a cute child like a French doll, it’s even cuter.

But Marquis Petrie didn’t seem to think so.

The Marquis’ face reddened.

He must have thought that he had lost face in front of nobles from other territories.

“I’m sorry. Please forgive my daughter for being rude, Duke Weiss. I’ll teach her not to be rude from now on.”

After saying that, the Marquis stepped forward and blocked Catherine’s path.

“Catherine!”

The Marquis calls with a voice full of anger.

Catherine flinched, but did not cry.

Instead, he pursed his lips and puffed out his cheeks.

Then, with a swollen face, he stared at the floor silently.

I think I’m angry because the road is blocked.

She is also a born villain.

He is not afraid even in front of his scary father.

Rather, it was silently raging with the whole body.

She’s still cute, but when she grows up like this and thinks she’s going to become a girl with her own power, it’s scary.

‘Let’s make friends with this child and correct his behavior somehow.’

At least you should teach them to understand that you shouldn’t harm people.

I took a step forward.

“It’s okay, Marquis Petrie. My heart skips a beat when I think of being proposed to by such a cute lady.”

“… Peacock.”

The Marquis of Weiss looked at me with a strange expression.

“I am deeply grateful for the Duke’s generosity.”

Taking advantage of the moment the Marquis thanked me, Catherine slipped right past him.

“Catherine! You really are!”

The Marquis called again in an eerie voice, but did not look back.

Katrin ran right at me.

said Katrin, almost reluctantly running toward me.

“Pretty! Give it away!”

Eyes shine brightly.

It looked like hearts were drawn in the child’s eyes.

‘…it’s the first time I’ve seen a scene where a person falls for a person.’

Even if it’s a three year old.

“…”

I took Catherine’s small hand and kissed the back of it lightly.

“This is Oscar, Duke of Weiss. I will gladly accept Lady Catherine’s cute marriage proposal. Please take good care of me for many years to come.”

“… er… Be?”

Could my words be too long?

Or was the marriage proposal or other words difficult?

I guess I didn’t know what I was talking about.

Catherine tilted her head with a blank face.

The face is full of question marks.

You ask me to marry you, but maybe you don’t know what that means.

“Miss Catherine, I’ll beg you too. In the future, when you’re a little older, please marry me.”

“Compete!”

Catherine’s face lit up.

hug me right away

“Catherine!”

The bewildered Marquis’ voice rang again.

But either way, Katrin doesn’t care.

You’re strong, Catherine. How can you calmly ignore your father, who is like a ghost goblin?

Catherine muttered as she hugged me tightly around the waist.

“It’s messed up.”

“…”

Perhaps Catherine’s marriage meant possession.

If I get married, it will be mine.

In my previous life, I had dated women besides my wife, but no one wanted me to this extent.

There is no woman who fell in love with me first.

Most of them I fell in love with first or liked more.

Maybe it was a one-way love, not a round trip.

Maybe because of that, or maybe because the child’s behavior is cute, I was strangely moved.

‘perhaps.’

While reading the novel, I think I can finally understand Katrin’s behavior, which I didn’t understand all along.

Why was she jealous of the female lead?

I didn’t think that Oscar, who was fat as a pig and had a bad temper, was what Katrin in the novel liked.

I thought she hated the heroine because she was just the fiancée of the duke and thought she had lost her face.

It’s because she’s a villain.

But if it wasn’t for today, Catherine probably met young Oscar and fell in love.

The bean pods she loved at first sight must have been covered over Catherine’s eyelids.

In other words, this child is single-minded, never changing his mind once he decides on this.

I don’t give my heart to other men as easily as my wife in my previous life.

Even if I cherish and love you to the fullest, I will not be betrayed.

‘This… it’s really cute when you think about it that way.’

Of course, since she’s still three years old, it’s just a feeling of loving the child, but for some reason, a part of her heart thumps.

I said after lightly hugging Katrin’s back once.

“Miss Catherine, I have a present for you.”

“Gift Zoa!”

When Catherine raised her head, her curled hair swayed like clusters of grapes.

The butler was approaching before I knew it.

I nodded, and the butler handed the beautifully wrapped box to Catherine’s maid.

Katrin’s nerves immediately turned to that direction.

She left me and stood in front of the lady-in-waiting, her eyes twinkling.

Two ladies-in-waiting, one holding the box, the other unwrapping the wrapping ribbon and unfolding it.

The doll in the box was similar to Catherine, whether it was a coincidence or a deliberate choice.

I have to say that this is what Katrin will look like when she grows up.

Catherine seemed to think so too.

“It’s Catherine.”

Porong, he muttered and held out his hand.

The doll was connected to the box by a pretty decorative string to keep it from shaking during transport.

However, Catherine recklessly tries to take the doll out.

“Wait a minute, Catherine.”

As I took Katrin’s hand, she looked up at me curiously.

Children of this age have no patience. I just do what I want to do.

Having grown up in an orphanage, I’m used to being a child, so I put my hand on the string of the box to get Katrin’s interest.

“Pull this thing, now, look. It makes the doll’s hand move, right? This is the string that holds the doll together. There are a few more over there, so let’s untie them. So what?”

While I undid the straps in the corner, drawing Catherine’s attention, the maids hurriedly disconnected the other parts.

When the doll was free, Katrin quickly pulled it out and hugged it.

“Nice job. Very good job, Catherine.”

When I praised her, Katrin smiled happily and rubbed her face on my chest.

Thanks to that, my clothes were smeared with white powder like white powder.

It looks like she was wearing makeup.

“Ah, lady!”

The nanny turned white.

Hmm, I don’t get angry enough to ask for cosmetics.

The Marquis put his hand on his forehead as if he had given up.

I looked at Katrin’s head as if I were talking to her.

“I think Lady Catherine is prettier without makeup. She’s so cute… but with makeup, it seems to disappear.”

“Hwajang…?”

“This powder on your face.”

“Gruu, Catherine too.”

“Yes. I don’t like it either.”

“same?”

“It seems.”

If you do this, the people around you will stop putting on Catherine’s makeup.

I was about to mention the clothes, but I heard a maid muttering softly.

“My God, a conversation is being established with the lady.”

When I looked up, the eyes of the nanny and the ladies-in-waiting were round.

The Marquis seems surprised too.

Maybe these people continued to bully Katrin or get angry.

Each child has a different temperament, but Catherine probably had a rebellious personality when suppressed.

If you gently lead and convince a child like this, they will often honestly agree.

If you don’t force it, it’s rather easy to deal with.

If you see what I do and pay attention to these people, it will be okay in the future.

‘Okay, I think I can avoid the villainous lady anyway.’

It seemed that she was happy to receive a new doll and to layer it on top of her favorite me.

I lightly put my hand on my back, and Katrin shakes her body slightly and smiles.

It tickled a little as the child’s hot breath blew into her stomach.

As I twisted and laughed, Catherine’s laughter grew louder.

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two of us was soft, the Marquis opened his mouth as if he was relieved.

“We prepared a present for the Duke here too, but why don’t you go and see it now? It’s a pony. The Duke will like it too.”

“word!”

It was Catherine who reacted first.

Before the Marquis tried to say no, I held Catherine’s hand.

“Shall we go together, Miss Catherine?”

“yes!”

Seeing Catherine’s cheerful answer, I turned my gaze to the Marquis.

“Marquis Petrie, I’d be more than happy if Miss Catherine was with me. May I go with you?”

“… Of course, Duke Weiss.”

The Marquis looked at his daughter and me alternately before suddenly opening his mouth.

“I knew that the duke had no brothers, but…”

“Yes it is.”

Dennis, who is not the son of a wife, is not treated as my brother.

My father refers to Dennis as my older brother, but from the point of view of an ordinary aristocrat, this is not the case.

The Marquis made an awkward expression and cleared his throat.

“Our Catherine and the Duke seem to have a good temperament.

I laughed lightly.

Just a moment ago, he had been angry with Catherine as if his veins would burst, and it seems that the Marquis is planning to use this opportunity to push Catherine against me.

“I’m lucky to meet such a cute fiancée.”

“…hemp cloth….”

I don’t know what that means, but Katrin smiled at me with her face lifted up.

‘cute.’

I took Catherine’s hand and left the room to talk to the Marquis.

“I hope I can meet Miss Katrin as much as possible in the future as soon as I have time.”

“Of course! If you let us know of the duke’s plans, we will arrange a meeting anytime.”

It was very interesting to see the Marquis welcome with open arms.

Perhaps he was even prepared to have his engagement canceled because of today’s incident.

But after a while, tendons sprouted again on the marquis’ forehead.

Seeing the pony, Catherine exclaimed.

“Let’s kick it out!”

Hmm, it seems that for Katrin, marriage was just a concept of possession that belonged to her.

*

The next day, I was ready to leave in the morning.

What the butler prepared was a new outfit that had never been seen before.

Yesterday’s dinner was also changed, so it’s already the third time.

It was cumbersome to move, and it was literally only for greeting the marquis.

‘Being an aristocrat is really annoying.’

Seeing that the Marquis and the Marquis wear new clothes every time they see each other, just like me, this is probably something universal.

The good news is that you can change into slightly more comfortable clothes while traveling by carriage.

‘Of course, I’ll change my clothes again when I’m staying at a lord’s mansion other than the village.’

I sighed and left the room I was staying in.

After chatting with the Marquis couple in the drawing room I met yesterday, I made an appointment for my next visit.

The detailed appointment schedule will be decided later by the civil servants.

Today is just an appointment to visit.

Catherine did not attend.

Even though she is a fiancée, it is because she has not yet come out of the children’s living space.

Perhaps there was also a feeling that she didn’t want to expose her in front of me anymore because she didn’t know where her actions would go.

The gift pony was included in my procession and I decided to go with it.

It is possible to send it from the marquis family to the duke family, but this time I dare to take it to the royal capital so that I can ride and practice horseback riding during the trip.

Since the training has already been completed, I heard that there is no problem if I ride right now.

Since the pony is much more expensive than the doll I gifted, the balance is not well balanced, but this time it was like a greeting to the duke’s inauguration and somehow passed.

‘Is this also a gift prepared because I thought there was something wrong with Catherine’s personality?’

If the Marquis had had another young daughter, the fiancée might have been replaced.

When they left the castle, all the guards of the duchy were already ready to depart.

I headed for the carriage while being seen off by the Marquis couple.

It was the moment the butler opened the carriage door and was about to enter.

A screaming cry came from somewhere.

When I turned my head, I saw Catherine in the arms of a nurse in the far window of the castle.

It seems that I deliberately came out of the children’s living space to where I can see.

Maybe it was because she couldn’t do anything to appease Katrin, who started crying when she heard I was leaving.

As I waved my hand, Katrin’s wailing cries grew louder.

It’s like the last farewell of this life.

Even when I got into the carriage, Catherine’s cries did not stop, and it disturbed me very much.

The procession of the duchy passed through various territories and proceeded to the royal road.

And as I got closer to the royal capital, my heart calmed down.

‘What kind of child will the replacement prince be?’

And who else is the king?

As shown in the ending of the novel, if the royal family acquiesced to Dennis inheriting the succession, it would not have been simply the prince’s idea.

My heart felt frustrated at the still unknown future.