Can I Be Loved In This Life? - Chapter 2

What’s the point of you just screaming? I purposely clung more to Lisbeth as if to show off. Then I left behind my second brother who was making a fuss and headed to my dad. Behind me, he was still arguing that I was ugly and screaming that he wouldn’t leave me alone, but it didn’t hurt me at all. I’m someone who lives to be hated by everyone! Hate me more. Jerk brother!

Shortly after we arrived at the Emperor’s or dad’s room. As soon as I knocked a couple of times, the door opened and I could see my dad through it. If there was a god, would it look like this? Silver hair, red eyes. It feels as if there are angel wings on the back. As soon as I hold Lisbeth’s hand and went in, he approached me. And an unexpected word came out of my mouth.

“You don’t look human.”

As soon as nonsense came out of my mouth, the facial expression of those in the room stiffened for a moment. Silence passed.

“…”

“…”

Haha. What are you so upset about? I’m just telling the truth. I lifted up my head and looked up at him again. He’s like a dad who doesn’t care.

He was looking down at me with his hips on the desk as if he didn’t care about his child’s eye level at all. He’s really handsome. How envious of his hair that shakes every time he moves.

But the eyes that looked at me are cold. It’s stings just with his gaze, almost as if there are thorns hidden in his eyes. The terrible silence resulted from that. As I spoke the maid next to me and my dad were looking and rolled his eyes.

It wasn’t wrong, but he didn’t look good when he heard this compliment. Does he hate compliments? Meanwhile, the words that broke the silence for a long time made my thoughts about my dad gets even worse.
The starting point.

“The child lived on the street so she doesn’t know manners.”

The room was quiet again. Perhaps not knowing what the emperor meant, Lisbeth hurriedly stopped in front of me with a pale face. With her head down, she bit and pursed her lips as if crying. I thought it was a spring of the moment.

“I’m sorry. Your Majesty The Emperor. I’ll let her know about that part. So please don’t punish her.”

“I never said I’d punish her.”

“…Ah.”

Then,

“Papa! Eawt this! It’s so gwod!”

A girl’s voice fills the room. Also, his forehead frowned by itself at the short sound of her tongue full of cuteness. It was natural for the eyes of those in the room to find the origin of the sound.

“Right. Bebeana and Lilian must have met for the first time. Now go greet each other. Lilian, come here and say hello.”

“Dwon’t wanna. I won’t gwo unless papa hugs me!”

…I feel nauseous. Only then did I see Lilian in my view. The child was sitting on the sofa lying on the other side of the office and eating cookies, moved her body from side to side sticking out her tongue.

“Lilian.”

“Dwon’t wanna. Dwon’t wanna!”

The child was sitting on a high chair with her hair tied in pigtails, thumping her legs hard and puffed her cheeks. I couldn’t tell if I hated Lilian instinctively or if I hated the way she looked. At the end, when Lilian refused to come down with cuteness out of nowhere dad ordered in a slightly stronger voice.

“Stop, come down.”

“Is Papa tiwed of Lili?”

How is it possible to make such a short tongue sound so naturally? It was just so fascinating. Seeing her acting cute like a normal princess, I looked at the emperor’s expression. But the emperor pressed his temple hard as if he had a headache. Lilian in question. Changed Bebeana’s life.

Originally, she would have lived as the maid’s daughter, but she was a fake who became a princess thanks to her mother’s cute trick. A child who doesn’t even know who her real father is. However, despite her lowly status, she has been living like a princess since she was born.

Even now… seeing her say disgustingly short tongue words at the age of 10, I feel like she’s just used to live like that. Meanwhile, dad who will lead me to the shit path came to me holding Lilian, who held and folded her hand toward him as if nothing had happened.

“Papa. Who ish this?”

“Hmm. A princess just like you.”

You know everything. You have to know. Because it was said that only the imperial family had silver hair and red eyes here. But the Emperor didn’t tell Lilian about it, even though he knew she was a fake daughter and that I was his real daughter born a few years ago. Well, I don’t mean to talk about it but it would be better for me to have her. Lilian who’s acting cute in front of him couldn’t have looked pretty.

“Say hello. This is Lilian. Lilian, that’s Bebeana. A princess like Lilian.”

“Isn’t Lili the only princess? Papa. Lili is the only princess rigwht?”

“No. You’re both princesses.”

“Dwon’t wanna! Lili is! Lili is!”

Eventually, I couldn’t stand it so I opened my mouth to say hello and called her name.

“Lilian.”

“Are you cawwing me?”

“…”

Did you cut your tongue? Or is there a problem with your oral structure? When I saw her sticking out her tongue pretending to be the nicest person in the world, what I saw in the book came to mind. She held and folded the Imperial Palace with her cuteness and loveliness, but it was written that she’s a hundred sly snake on the inside.

The book itself is biased because Bebeana’s the main character. It’s said that Lilian tortured Bebeana so much in an invisible place. So, if the story continues like this, there is a 100% chance that I’ll be bullied. But that’s it. I’ll never be bullied. Fufu

What kind of person am I! If Lilian bothers me I’ll bother her, I’m never the person to be bullied. It was then. Dad approached me while holding Lilian. Looking down at me for a moment to see what I was thinking and put Lilian down on the floor with a groan.

“Papa?”

As if I wasn’t the only one who was shocked by the sudden action, Lilian stared at Dad with teary eyes.

“Say hello to each other. Lilian.”

“Dwon’t wanna. Lili will gweet her in Papa’s awms.”

“You can’t say hello because I’m here. You two should say hello. I’ll be back after talking for a while.”

Dad turned around his body very firmly and walked to the place where the servant was. Lilian tried to follow him but was soon stopped.

“Down’t wanna. Dwon’t wanna!”

Should I pull out her tongue out? If I take her to a shady place and pull it a little… Ah, no. I have to play the role of a princess well. I approached Lilian quickly made my expression bright and held out my hand.

“Call me Bebeana.”

Lilian’s expression, who was looking at dad talking with the servant, changed abruptly. She had shown an innocent smile until just now as if she was acting, lifted only one lip, and turned her head towards me.

“Don’t even think about taking my place.”

“…What?”

“After all, everyone is already obsessed with me.”

Oh, I see. I was wondering what nonsense you were talking about. You’re coming out in front of me right now, right? I smiled and tilted my head slightly to the side.

“Yeah. I don’t think I’ll take it. So do your best in your place.”

“…What?”

Knock knock. It was then. Both me and Lilian had no choice but to turn our heads at the sudden sound of a knock. A gentle voice was heard.

“Father. This is Elterion.”

Elterion? Elterion is dad’s first son. I stared at the door. Written in the unknown book. The eldest son took out the emperor, who wasn’t a human being, had a great appearance and a bad personality as if he copied pasted him.

Whoops. Did he turn 14 this year? Nope. I think he was sixteen. Well, he’s still a middle school student. No matter how bad his personality is. Come on in. I’ll judge you for your appearance. An open door. The door opened. He came in. At first sight…

“Wow… Handsome”

My voice once again filled the quiet room. This time, the eyes of five people paused and turned to me. But my eyes didn’t want to fall off him. Except for Jeno and Lilian, this family is unrealistic. How can he be so handsome? My gaze wasn’t even thinking of moving away from him. Elterion pointed at me with his finger as if he was interested in me.

“Is that kid my sister?”

“That’s right. She’ll live in the Imperial Palace from now on, so take care of her.”

Instantly, his red eyes turned to me. Contrary to what I thought he would reject me because I was a guest, his eyes were subtle. What. Do you not hate me that much? But that idea was only a temporary illusion.

“She doesn’t look that pretty.”

Okay. The explanation in the book can’t be wrong. Are you picking a fight?

“Yeah. Brother isn’t that handsome either.”

“…”

The expression on his face of ‘What’s this?’ looks obvious. That’s it. Hate me more with that look.

“Brother Ete!”

“…”

“Brother! Lili ish cawwing brother.”

“Lilian.”

“Hmm?”

“You still haven’t been able to talk properly? Even that rolling stone is good at talking.”

(T/N: Rolling stone means someone who has no ties with anyone or anyplace)

Huh? Are you on my side? This is a little touching. Nope. I can’t believe I like this, I want to put down my cheekbones that are smiling like a perv toward Elterion and looked at Lilian.

As expected, Lilian’s face turned red as if she had been hurt. Her face looks like it’ll explode if touched. Now, I wonder what she’ll say. Looking at her, I couldn’t even look forward to it.

‘Brother ish so mwean!’

‘Brother only hwates Lili!’

Well. Will she say this? But the words that followed soon went beyond my imagination.

“Even if you say thwat, brother wikes Lily!”

…Lilian, you are so perfect. My chin fell out at the shameless remark. How can you even say that? I looked at her face to see if she was acting, but there were no lies. In a word, that’s how you really think. Wow… that’s amazing. Best actress.

Lilian, you should’ve been born and acted in Korea, not here. I was so impressed by that performance I even got goosebumps. At that time, Elterion sighed deeply listening to Lilian’s story with a tired expression on his face. His gaze turned to Lilian, who rested at his feet and wag her tail like a puppy, then turned to me again.

“I don’t like both of you even if you’re my sister. Especially you.”

Oh my. I still get the hit even though I’m staying still. I smiled toward him as his face stiffened.

“Yeah. I don’t like you either.”