Chapter 1

Under the lights of the colorful chandelier, the sparkling golden hair was like honey dripping down.

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Then a voice began to flow from the lips of a handsome man as beautiful as a sculpture.
As I stared blankly at the scene, my face hardened.

I know what will be said later.

‘To all of you who are here today…’

I took a deep breath.

I don’t know how many times I’ve recalled this scene.

“I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you who are here today.”

My heart dropped at the sight of the man spitting out the familiar lines.

The soft smile and eyes that had never been directed at me swept through the audience.

It was a glance that could be passed without meaning, but he never looked at me.

Did I really not know?

Didn’t I feel a little sorry for myself for being so nervous and hardened in front of him like an idiot?

Was I just an extra to him until the end?

“I’d like to take this opportunity to make a confession today.”

I knew this moment would come one day.

But what a foolish one-sided love I have.

I knew the man’s fate, but I couldn’t let go of my foolishness.

It’s finally time to let go of the string that I barely held in my heart.

“I will propose to the young miss of the Hillingtons.”

Oh my.

I felt a rock hit my heart.

The eyes of the people in the banquet hall split in half at once.

Half was for me, who is standing still like a pillar, and the other half for the girl who had a lovely and sweet smile no matter where she was.

Between me, who was so stiff that I couldn’t even breathe properly, and the girl who was smiling happily with a peach-like blush on her cheeks, who does it seem like the person to receive the proposal?

Soon, everyone’s eyes turned to the beautiful girl, my lovely sister.

That’s it.

I couldn’t endure it anymore.

‘Let’s stop.’

I grabbed the hem of my dress and turned around.

There was a moment of commotion behind me, but I closed my eyes tightly.

‘I can’t look back.’

Digging into the crowd, I left the banquet hall.

In the romance fantasy novel “The Young Miss is Sweet”, I ran away from the climax part where the male lead proposed to the female lead.

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Even if it was a highlight in the original, if you’re a poor extra like me, it’s okay to run away.

Yes.
The man I loved didn’t love me, but my sister.

My little sister was the beloved heroine of the world in this novel, and he was the male lead destined to bring the very glass slipper to her.

There was no place for me in that glorious place.

‘I can let it go now.
Put it all away… Let’s disappear.’

It was me who had excessive greed.

So, the extra should be gone.

* * *

I was pretty lucky.

My flower shop was doing pretty well a month after I opened the store, and I even met friendly villagers along with a novice boss.

I mean, it was to the extent that the story of my shop was told by the aristocrats of the Mielian Empire who were not usually interested in the lives of ordinary people.

Otherwise, that man wouldn’t have come to see me.

“…How have you been?”

It was me who spoke first.

I ran away because I didn’t have the courage to see it happen, but I can’t help it now that I have to face him.

He was my sister’s husband, so he was like family to me.

But I was not confident enough to call him my brother-in-law with my eyes open…

By the way…

“Do you think I’ve been well?”

Yes?

What is this atmosphere?

‘Wait, what?’

I accidentally dropped the wooden tray I was holding from the power of the man who strode toward me.

The trey fell to the floor with a clang and spined until it stopped.

I stared at it with my eyes blinking, and then I looked up at him whose eyes were burning.

A man with a much bigger head than me was staring down close to me.

‘Hey, hey!’

It’s only been about a month since I left the Empire, but I wonder why people have changed so much.

Is it an illusion?

“Did you hate me that much?”

I don’t know whose voice just trembled.

Oh, did I drink during the day?

Is this a dream

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Is it fantasy?

“What?”

“Is this where you trampled on from my proposal and ran away?”

I almost pinched the man’s pale cheeks.

What are you talking about so vividly on what feels like a fantasy?

My heart is beating once again at the unrequited love that I threw away.

I smiled faintly, but that seemed to have touched the man’s pride.

“How can you smile?”

His bright purple eyes fluttered, and they were getting more and more moist…

‘What? Moist?’

What I saw in his blood-drenched eyes looked like tears no matter how hard I looked.

Why is he crying?

Was it such a shock that his wife’s sister disappeared?

And what did he mean by trampling the proposal and running away?

Did my sister run away?

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