Today's Goal is a Safe Divorce!

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Chapter 13

Edward, who had never been properly loved, turned to her, a half-sibling. He thought she was her only blood and felt sympathy for Elysia, who was in the same situation.

She was the only person who could fully understand him, and at the same time, he was the one whom she could share affection with. For this reason, the two siblings had no choice but to be affectionate with each other.

Edward, in particular, liked that he was a support for someone. He was despised by the Count and Countess, though to Elysia, he was her protector.

Perhaps, that was why a sense of responsibility gradually weighed on him. The fact that Edward took medicine even though he knew he was going to be ill and failed to refuse the Countess’ orders was all evidence of that.

“So, from now on, brother, take care of yourself first.”

A good child complex. Edward was trying hard to be a good older brother, not to be abandoned by his one remaining blood. But this was kind of odd. Even if she received such a sacrifice, she would never be happy.

When Elysia found out that someone’s sacrifice had allowed her to survive so far, her breath was choked.

“I have to go back to my room.”

Eventually, she walked past Edward, who stood blankly with a bewildered face, and left the parlor.

A relationship where a sacrifice was natural was abnormal. Even if it came from affection, too much sacrifice on one side could make the relationship sick.

Just like right now.

Elysia wasn’t happy when she found out that he was taking medicine because of her and listening to the Countess’ demands. Rather, she felt disgusted and terrible that she made Edward that way.

She could never run away to live alone.

She was willing to do whatever it took, even to be the bad guy.

“Rowena?”

On her way back to the room after barely pushing Edward, she ran into Rowena at the door.

Seeing her roaring with anger and vigor, Elysia was not at all upset. It must have been that people took turns trying to torment her today. Otherwise, she couldn’t explain why everyone came to visit her like this.

“What’s the matter? I’m tired, so…”

Slap.

Before she could finish her words, Elysia couldn’t come to her senses for a moment as her head turned around. It was because she couldn’t figure out what was going on with her now.

“What is this…”

“Bad b*tch! Are you happy that you finally took my place?”

Rowena had never done harm directly against her.

Rowena, who was always busy chasing the Countess, did nothing she would hate. Although she hated and was jealous of Elysia, she also knew that it was because she couldn’t fight her until the end of her life.

“How the hell did you end up marrying the Grand Duke!”

But, Elysia guessed that was also an illusion.

The figure of Rowena standing right in front of her now and screaming like a person who lost their mind was not what she thought.

“How the hell are you and the Grand Duke…?!”

She understood that Rowena hated her and tried to separate her from the Countess since Elysia knew that it was her own way of surviving as she understood with her heart, ‘You can’t help it either.’

Hence, Elysia was patient with County Caitlyn, because there were things that everyone had to do if they wanted to survive.

It wasn’t that she was okay with being ignored by Rowena.

She eventually understood that even the person in front of her was no different from her. This meant that she didn’t pretend that she didn’t know that she was going to get hit.

“Is it okay to dress up like a prostitute and seduce the Grand Duke?”

Rowena, in front of her eyes, was insane. Elysia didn’t understand what the hell she had done to her.

Even her frivolous attire was actually the Countess’ plan… With that thought, she was just laughing at all these situations right now. A man named Damon Raphael caused a ripple in her daily life, which can be said to be quiet.

“Okay, that’s all you have to say?”

“You…! Are you completely crazy? Are you admitting that you seduced the Grand Duke by wearing lewd clothes now?”

“Not you, it’s sister. Don’t forget that I’m one year older than you, Rowena.”

It was wrong to try to understand that Rowena was in the same situation.

In fact, the other party doesn’t even think like that. Rowena’s trembling in anger made her laugh out loud. Who sympathizes with whom? So, she had been foolish so far.

“An illegitimate child of unknown origin!”

“Well… At least, I’m not sure about the other half?”

“What?”

“Unlike you, I am definitely sure of the other half. Exactly half of me is County Caitlyn.”

What made it so obvious that Rowena was from the Countess’s family was that Rowena was just like the Countess, even when she was angry.

Elysia made fun of herself for ever thinking that Rowena was in the same situation as her. She voluntarily felt a sense of identity. Although their blood wasn’t mixed, she still thought she was her younger sister.

Perhaps, Rowena would have laughed if she had known this.

“You were born from a lowly courtesan…!”

Even now, Rowena was still impatient and raised her hand, just like the Countess. The only difference was that she was a little more easily aroused.

Tak.

It was the behavior she had already expected, so Elysia grabbed her wrist as it flew into her face. Even though Rowena was crazy, she never meant to be beaten twice.

“What are you doing?”

“Not you, sister. Do I have to say it twice for you to understand?”

“Eeek! Let go of this!”

“If I let you go, are you going to slap me again? Are you the style to have to slap me twice to feel better?”

She was so strong that Rowena couldn’t stand still and was making a fuzz. Damon’s justaucorps dripped down over her shoulder as her body shook. Then, her thin dress was revealed.

“Dirty b*tch.”

“If you want to curse, curse the Countess. Because it was the Countess who made me wear this kind of clothes and met the Grand Duke.”

Elysia nonchalantly placed the justaucorps that had fallen on the floor over her shoulder again. Maybe, she understood why Damon gave her this coat since the attire was too embarrassing even for him to look at.

‘I must have been ugly enough for him to kindly cover with his clothes.’

As she was thinking about it, Elysia let go of Rowena’s wrist and could feel her body shaking.

It seemed that Rowena’s trembling body was holding back her anger so much that she couldn’t even compare it to before.

She was really surprised that Rowena thought that she had met Damon in this outfit because she wanted it herself. Naturally, this place was under the hands of the Countess. If Rowena had thought a little more, she would know that everything was the will of the Countess.

There was no way she was unaware of that.

Even if it was Rowena, who was nothing before the power of the Countess because it was her who wanted to claim that power more than anyone else.

“…That can’t be true.”

“Don’t take your anger out on me for nothing, and go back to your room.”

“This is my room!”

It wasn’t that Elysia didn’t understand why Rowena was so angry with her. She was kicked out of her sleep in just a few hours, not overnight, and even had her room taken away from her, so of course, she was.

In addition, she would’ve been anxious as her relationship with the Countess, whom she believed to be strong, seemed to be on the brink so suddenly.

“But, the Countess has given me the room.”

“I know! I know, but it’s my room. It’s all mine, and you stole it…!”

A sigh escaped Elysia’s lips at the sight of Rowena, who was now screaming at her and swearing at her.

Rowena was already a childish child. Conceivably, it was also because of the Countess who raised her like a child. It was the first time she had been deprived of everything, and it was strange for her to stay sane.

“Still, you got the wrong person. If you had been offended by it, you should have gone to see the Countess, not me. It wasn’t me who took everything from you, it’s the Countess.”

“No, if it wasn’t for you, everything was mine. You always look at me like that every day? You always tease me about how good you are!”

The child’s grumbling was truly disgusting. In particular, the stubborn child who could not communicate properly was the worst.

And, Rowena was just such a child.

“I never looked down on you. Looking down on others, it would be you, not me. I don’t want to keep arguing with you, so won’t you get out of the way?”

Not wanting to hear the answer from the beginning, Elysia lightly passed Rowena and strode forward to the door.

From Damon to the Countess, to Edward, and finally to Rowena, they were exhausting her.

“Oh, and I didn’t take anything. From the beginning, you know that everything in the County is not yours, right?”

She had no intention of driving Rowena up to this point, though she couldn’t contain her anger at her bitterness as she went on.

“The Countess must have at least preferred an illegitimate child to an adopted child.”

Had she not closed the door as she finished speaking, Elysia would surely have been hit by a flying object.

“Aaaakkk! Elysia—!”

Fortunately, she luckily locked the door on time, so Rowena couldn’t get into her room and could only bang on the innocent door.

Elysia couldn’t deny that she felt slightly sorry for Rowena’s behavior, yelling loudly and knocking on her door like her madman.

“It’s mine, it’s mine…! Of course, it’s all mine! You dare a b*tch like you to have it?”

Oh, she took it back that she felt sorry for a while.

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