IWCVF 06

Chapter 6

Princess Shiran was walking in the garden.

Her golden hair was neatly tied, and she was quietly looking at the flowers with her blue eyes.

She was simply staring at them with a calm expression, when she suddenly raised her head and looked ahead.

Her maid, Lea, was approaching while holding a letter.

“Your Highness.”

“I told you not to disturb me. If this is something trivial, you’ll be punished.”

“It’s a letter from Lady Roel.”

“Celia?”

“Would I come for something unimportant?”

Shiran quickly walked toward her maid.

The letter she had been waiting for had finally arrived.

She wondered what it would say.

She opened it.

Celia wrote that she was doing well. She was even bragging that her fiancé was handsome.

“Just how handsome is he that she’s writing about it in a letter?”

There was no complaint in the letter.

Even though a duke’s daughter had become engaged to a baron’s son, Celia only wrote good things, just like always.

‘That’s Celia’s strength…’

Shiran frowned slightly.

If she were in Celia’s place, she would have resented her father.

Then she looked at the end of the letter.

It asked if she could come to a party at her house.

“A cake party?”

Shiran had felt sad when Celia said she couldn’t hold one before.

Celia, who was two years younger than her, had always been careful about her family’s situation.

It was shocking that her family had fallen so much that she couldn’t even hold a simple cake party.

And in the end, the Duke had sold off his eldest daughter for business.

Shiran didn’t like the Duke of Roel at all.

For now, she needed to write a reply.

She quickly returned to her room and sat at her desk.

Inside the drawer was scented letter paper.

“Big sister.”

At that moment, Crown Prince Majin entered and slowly walked toward her.

“What is it?”

“I need some letter paper. I’m sending a letter to a lady, so stiff paper wouldn’t be suitable.”

Majin said with a smile. He was 20 years old, the same age as Celia.

“Are you sending it to Celia?”

Shiran had a feeling.

Celia must have sent him a letter too.

To be honest, Shiran had secretly hoped Celia and her brother would end up together.

“Yes. A cake party at the Pellis family…”

Majin looked very happy.

“Finally, a party not held in the imperial palace.”

“Are you going?”

Majin answered as if it was obvious.

“Of course. I’m curious about Celia’s fiancé.”

As he said that, he looked at Shiran’s letter.

“Even if they are rich, it’s not easy to grant a baron title.”

“That’s true.”

“They say the Pellis family paid all the costs for the large road construction project this time. As a reward, Father granted them the title.”

“The Pellis family has contributed a lot of money to the country.”

“In the end, Father chose to support that family.”

Majin shrugged.

“And after seeing their heir get engaged to Celia, he said we should meet him in person.”

“His Majesty said that?”

“He probably wants to judge his character. If he has the ability to lead such a wealthy family, we should get close. If he’s arrogant, we should stay away.”

“If Celia invited him to introduce him to us, then his personality shouldn’t be bad.”

At Shiran’s words, Majin nodded.

“I think so too.”

“If he had a bad personality, she would have told us in advance.”

“Probably.”

Majin thought about the Celia he knew.

She would have already guessed that the imperial family was interested in the Pellis family.

“She probably sent the letter knowing that the palace is watching them.”

He picked a pink letter paper.

“What a pity.”

“What is?”

“We missed the chance to have a future Crown Princess.”

Shiran burst into laughter.

“You said you weren’t interested.”

“Now that she’s engaged, I became interested.”

His honesty made Shiran glare at him.

“But now, I suppose we should just remain friends.”

Majin thought about how enjoyable it was to spend time with Celia.

Since he was already there, he stayed in Shiran’s room and wrote his letter.

He also added that he would happily attend the cake party if invited.

Preparations for the party were going well.

But I told Raiden that I would prepare something special for the cake, so we hadn’t made one yet.

“Artern.”

During dinner, I spoke to him.

Artern smiled and looked at me.

“What is it?”

“For the cake party, I think it would be best to buy the whipped cream cake from a place I usually go to.”

“You want to buy the cake from outside?”

Through the letter from the palace, both Majin and Shiran had agreed to attend.

So we needed something special.

“That shop’s whipped cream cake is special.”

Artern thought for a moment.

“Is our chef not good enough?”

“No, that’s not it…”

I quickly explained.

I didn’t want the chef to lose his job because of my words.

“Their Highnesses really like the cake from that shop.”

Artern reacted to that.

“It’s a place our family has worked with before. They often supplied cakes to us for parties. Sometimes I even brought those cakes to the palace, and both of them liked it.”

“I don’t usually like desserts… but now I want to try it.”

Artern rubbed his chin.

“I’ll buy one for you too, Artern.”

After thinking for a moment, he smiled.

“Alright.”

“If Their Highnesses like it, I want to try it too.”

Raiden looked excited.

Everyone seemed to be looking forward to it.

They wouldn’t be disappointed.

That shop’s cake was truly special.

Then suddenly, Artern looked at my clothes with a serious expression.

“Celia, why don’t you get matching clothes with Raiden?”