Chapter 243. I love you, my daughter
2022.05.31.
At my objection, my mother laughed as if in trouble.
“But Miss Winter. It’s common to give a child the name of someone you admire.”
“Of course it is, but…!”
Still, it’s not common to give your child the name of your husband’s ex-wife!
However, since I couldn’t express my true feelings, my mother smiled lightly and put the teacup down as I grunted.
“The name is not urgent, so I will think about it slowly. I really like the name Mabel.”
My name ‘Mabel’ coming out of my mother’s mouth sounded strange.
‘I’m Mabel, my mother’s daughter.’
But I couldn’t believe he was saying that. If you say that the unborn child is also your child when it grows up.
The name issue was passed, but I soon ran into a new problem.
‘The recovery of holy power is not yet complete.’
Confronting Devlin’s soldiers, he used all his magic tools and even scraped up his holy power.
Ades used her power to send me back to my original world, but in the end, I just came to a different past.
My divine power was still at the bottom.
‘Should I leave the imperial castle first?’
Crunchy…
timidly eating a cookie, I glanced at my mother and immediately met her eyes and bowed my head. It was still difficult to know how to deal with it.
There were no more scars from the previous life. I was able to overcome all of that because my dad and Oscar loved me wholeheartedly.
That’s why I no longer resented my mother from my previous life who abandoned me.
However, the period in which I had a mother in my life was so short that it was just awkward.
Because I don’t usually live with the thought that I can meet my mother who has already passed away…
Anyway, I couldn’t stay here all the time. It was because it was quite dangerous to stay in the imperial castle without revealing your true identity.
It’s kind of bittersweet, but it was right to leave this place.
“Thank you for treating my wounds. and I-.”
“Miss Winter.”
Before I could finish my words, my mother called me. Instead of answering, I looked at my mother and she smiled brightly with her chin resting.
“Your clothes are very damaged. There are clothes that I can’t wear because they’re too small, so I can wear them. yes?”
“Okay-.”
I waved my hand at the unexpected invitation and tried to decline, but my mother spoke faster.
“I didn’t know, but there was dirt on it too. I can’t. Let’s take a bath first. huh?”
“that-.”
“The bathroom is over here. Follow me.”
“yes? uh…!”
Words told me to follow her, but my mother’s soft but firm hand led me. I never thought my mother’s personality would be so easygoing.
“Ugh…”
When I came to my senses, I found myself in a bathtub filled with warm steam, completely stripped of my clothes, which had been a mess before I knew it.
Not to mention leaving, even taking a bath!
However, it was not at all in the mood to strongly decline.
It’s not just because a mother is a mother.
‘Am I weak against beautiful women?’
Seeing how he gets caught up in both Duke Donovan and Emily every time, he probably has the biggest influence on his appearance.
I enjoyed the bath with a comfortable mind that it happened like this.
Even if it wasn’t so, in the past 500 years ago, I was quite tired because I had never been able to rest properly because I was always busy walking around.
When I came out of the dressing room after taking a bath in a tired state, there were clothes that seemed to have been prepared for me.
It was a pretty chemise dress with a light design.
I couldn’t see where the giant I was wearing went.
‘How can you be so kind to strangers? Isn’t Mom getting scammed like this?’
It was when I had changed my clothes, worried for nothing, and opened the door to the bedroom slightly.
An unfamiliar, yet familiar voice leaked through the crack in the door.
“Your Majesty the Empress…”
The young Oscar, with wide eyes, was entering the bedroom with a teary face.
‘Hey Oscar. Five-year-old Oscar…!’
Ahh. so cute.
Short limbs, shorts that fit the body, and hair that was slicked to one side.
As an adult, I let out a silent clamor as I watched Oscar explode with cuteness that I couldn’t find now.
He looked a whopping one year younger than the first Oscar he had ever seen.
‘She’ll bring a camera.’
I peeked at Oscar and my mother as they were talking with the door only slightly open.
Mom sat down in front of Oscar, eye level.
“My pretty Oscar. What happened?”
“Hunt. Nothing’s going to happen…”
Oscar hesitated and wept helplessly. It was a face that I couldn’t just look at at all because it looked like ‘something’s wrong’ for a person who said nothing happened.
“Is everything okay? really?”
Oscar’s eyes widened even more as his mother gently stroked Oscar’s hair and asked affectionately.
“Actually, I took all the assignments… My uncle scolded me.”
“Sir Donovan did.”
“I’m doing well, too. But I’m so upset that I didn’t do that.”
A depressed Oscar drooped his shoulders. He looked as if he had taken on all the cares and worries of the world when he was only five years old.
“It’s already this hard, but will I really be able to help the emperor? I’m younger at wielding a sword than at studying.”
Oscar, who had been expressing his feelings as if upset, was embraced by his mother. Mom patted Oscar on the back.
“Oscar is always doing well. Swordsmanship training and study. If Sir Donovan is being harsh, it’s probably for Oscar’s sake.”
“Uncle. I didn’t ask for it in the past…”
“That’s right. If you weren’t like that in the past, why would you be like that now? I have to say something harsh to Sir Donovan. Trust me, Oscar.”
“lol.”
It was only then that Oscar smiled mildly.
“Her Majesty is the most shy.”
“It is an honor. A cute prince, Your Highness.”
The appearance of the two people hugging affectionately was a mother and son who were on good terms.
Recovering her energy, Oscar clung to her mother and chattered and chattered.
The dignified look of Oscar when he first saw him was like a boy at that age.
‘I was an immature person in front of my mother, Oscar.’
Mom carefully took care of that Oscar.
“Where did you come from, our cute prince, buried in dirt like this again?”
“uh. Please take it.”
At Oscar’s unreserved words, her mother wiped the dirt off her arm with a handkerchief. Then, suddenly, Mom called Oscar.
“Oscar.”
“yes.”
“How would you feel if you had a younger brother?”
“Your brother?”
Oscar widened his eyes and tilted his head.
“Brother. Little brother…”
Oscar muttered as if he was worried, but soon raised his head.
“You’re too young! Do you have a younger brother?”
“Shh. It’s a secret from my father.”
“Shh.”
When Mom put her index finger to her mouth, Oscar followed suit and smiled.
“Even though I didn’t know, Enrique kept teasing me for saying that he was like my younger brother, but when I have a younger brother with them, I’m too young!”
“Did Prince Javier do that?”
“yes. What would you do if you had a younger brother? I’ll give you pretty every day.”
Oscar began folding his fingers one by one.
“And if you use a delicious snack, I’ll give it to my sister.”
“Snacks too?”
“yes. I love you again and I will hug you!”
Oscar laughed, as if he was happy just thinking about it.
I felt the heart of Oscar who said he would love a younger brother he didn’t even know was undeserved.
‘fool. I was jealous of Oscar.’
Because I received a lot of love from my mother that I never received. But now I feel fortunate that I received that love at least an Oscar.
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When Oscar, who had been chirping like a baby bird for a long time, left, the bedroom quickly fell silent. I was thinking about when to go out, and then hesitantly went outside.
“I’m sorry Miss Winter. Wait a minute, the baby guest is gone.”
“are you okay.”
“What if I don’t dry my hair properly? I will catch a cold.”
My mom sat me down on the couch and dried my hair with a towel.
The hand that wiped the water was really careful.
My chest felt tickled and clogged up, and somehow my eyes felt hot.
I was taken aback at first, but I quickly acknowledged the cause of my feelings.
‘It’s because I like it so much.’
I know it’s a dream that I’ll soon wake up from. Because I know better than anyone that this moment won’t last forever.
“It’s all dry. You must dry your hair right away. Understand?”
My mom, who thoroughly dried my hair, sat right next to me. I couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the face of my mother who looked close for a while.
Mom’s thin fingertips gently brushed my eyes.
“My mother can’t protect my daughter for long.”
“…!”
It was an instant.
Tears poured out as if a dam of emotion had collapsed.
Mom looked at me affectionately and touched me. It was a gentle touch that wiped away the endlessly flowing tears.
“Mom…”
I wanted to say something, but all I could do was call my mother in a tight voice.
“It was my wish to hug you.”
Mom smiled lightly and gently stroked my cheek. I stared at my mother with blurred vision from tears.
“how did you know?”
“How could I not know?”
The mother’s eyes softened. Reflected in the warm amber eyes, I was still crying.
“I knew it as soon as I saw it. This pretty child is my child. You came here to see your mother. And what I’m sure of is…”
Mom’s eyes moved to my pastoral house.
“It’s because of that necklace that broke when we first met.”
ah.
I put my hand on the neck. The jewelry on the necklace reacted hotly when it came here and then broke, so all that was left was the necklace line.
“It’s a necklace I bought for my child not too long ago.”
Mom knew everything from the start.
“I thought Mom wouldn’t believe it.”
“Amazing, but believable. She is my daughter and no one else.”
Straight eyes, without the slightest doubt about my identity.
Indeed, my mother recognized me.
‘How could Mom and Dad do that?’
Not all parents blindly love their children. It was a bar that I realized painfully from previous life experience.
However, the love of mom and dad was too much to the point where I wondered if I could receive it like this.
It made me feel that I am a child who deserves this kind of love.
My mother hugged me and patted me on the back as I was in tears. It was the arms of my mother that I had been dreaming of so much.
“Our daughter. Can you tell me what happened?”
I nodded and buried my face in my mother’s arms.
“Dad…”
“Daddy?”
“My dad made me emperor when I was one year old…!”
“Yes?”
Unintentionally, I cried the most sorrowfully in the world.
***
The story that started with dad’s tattle continued through the night and into the day. Time flew by so quickly that the long night felt like an instant.
My mother cried and laughed at the story of my eventful life.
“Later, Aidan will come to Mom on Veron’s orders… Aidan won’t follow that order.”
“Didn’t I say he was a man with black hair and red eyes?”
“huh. you are incredibly handsome If you see your mother, you’ll know right away, right?”
“You look like your mother is the first to see your face.”
“Haha.”
I’m talking about Aidan.
“Dad really can’t stop me. Do you know what I mean when I say I want to see the sea every day?”
“What did you say?”
“Cheongdo Hajae!”
“Your father is really the same.”
“Does your mother do that too?”
“then. He said that the peaches were delicious, and he sent a thousand peach trees to the Gardenia Mansion. My father was frightened and even more against the marriage.”
“He’s my dad, but he’s so extreme…”
he said gossip about his dad as well.
I didn’t notice time passing and the story went on endlessly.
“That’s why I came to the past to save Aidan.”
By the time the story of coming here was over, the morning sunlight of a spring day was leaking in through the window.
I heard the sound of Hwangseong’s tweeters starting to chatter.
“It was a lot of trouble. our daughter.”
“That’s right.”
I couldn’t bear to say no. After I let out a tired sigh, my mother straightened my tousled bangs.
“Mabel.”
“…huh.”
“I’m sorry for not being able to protect my beloved daughter.”
“…”
Actually, I didn’t tell the whole story.
I couldn’t even talk about my mother’s death.
‘How can I say that with my mouth.’
However, as if she had read my inner thoughts, she was calm and kind.
I couldn’t dare imagine the feeling of knowing the future that I wouldn’t live long.
But my mother was strong.
“Mom is fine. You don’t have to say anything.”
“….”
“My daughter has grown up so wonderfully and healthily.”
Even though it wouldn’t be okay, my mom said it was okay. Even though I knew it was a lie, I couldn’t tell.
And I felt the breakup.
“I have to go back now.”
“Mom…”
“Because my daughter has work to do.”
I was helplessly shaken by the eyes of my mother who believed in me.
I didn’t want to break up. I wanted to remain weak.
But I had to be able to accept the breakup.
Tears fell from the eyes of my mother, who smiled brightly. Her thin, pretty hands held mine dearly.
“I love you my daughter.”
“…I’ve always missed you mom.”
Part of my life has always been my mother.
The courtesy of Duke Donovan, the love of my maternal grandfather, and other things were all feelings I could receive because my mother was there.
always i will never forget
“I love you mom.”
That my mother’s sweet life was always protecting me.
After seeing my mother’s brightly smiling face, I returned to the original time.
