Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!

Fortunately, from a certain point onwards, Mother’s condition had improved considerably.

At least… in those years after Yvonne awakened her past memories, Mother’s health was relatively good. Even after being exiled to the northern frontier, although Yvonne was always worried, every time she saw the familiar elegant handwriting and clear, coherent language in the letters describing new experiences in a foreign land, Yvonne would feel relieved from the bottom of her heart about her mother’s well-being.

However, regarding this point, Yvonne had always felt a vague confusion in her heart.

Because according to the original settings of this game, the villain daughter Yvonne Smollett’s birth mother Lena had already passed away when she was young.

The early loss of her mother would become an indelible shadow in her heart.

The villain daughter, spoiled excessively by the Duke and becoming arrogant and domineering, transferred the love lost from her mother to her fiancé Michel. Fearing loss, her heart became dark and fragile due to jealousy towards the female protagonist, which led to her being vulnerable to possession by the ‘Nightmare’.

Just then, her father’s voice interrupted Yvonne’s thoughts.

“Here, Yvonne, your favorite baked apple—”

Father quickly hid the fleeting look of sorrow on his face, showing the same loving fatherly gaze as before in front of her.

Saying this, he used a fork to bring a piece of brownish baked apple to her mouth,

“Ish too mush (It’s too much)~~! Mmph!”

This is too sweet!!

It was as if all the fruit sugar had been forced out by high temperature. The apple, baked until soft, was extremely sweet with a hint of caramel flavor. To a child’s palate, it might taste good… but now Yvonne’s memory was filled with all kinds of salty foods, so she found this overly sweet food rather cloying.

Because Mother had been weak and frail since before, and even more so after giving birth to her, the doctor said that having another child would be life-threatening. So Duke Campell only had Yvonne as his sole daughter, naturally treating her like a precious jewel.

Afraid of dropping her when holding her in hand, afraid of her melting when keeping her in mouth—this description was not exaggerated at all,

Growing up in such a family environment, Yvonne often felt it was too much, but no matter what, being overly pampered in a noble family was still better than suffering from cold and hunger outside, so she tried to adapt and accept it.

Just then, a voice rescued Yvonne from the baked apple.

“—Your Grace, I have a matter to report.”

The messenger strode into the main hall, then knelt on one knee before the Duke.

“What is it?”

Campell looked somewhat displeased, putting down his silver fork.

“Can’t you see I’m dining with my daughter?”

“Your Grace, His Highness the Second Prince has arrived.”

Michel Oziel was the second in line to succeed the throne of Oz Kingdom, also known as the Second Prince among players, a male protagonist.

However, Yvonne preferred to call him by his derogatory nickname: Second-rate Prince.

Hearing his name, Yvonne instantly became alert. She wiped her mouth with the help of a maid, jumped down from her father’s knee, and smoothed out her skirt which had become slightly wrinkled from sitting.

Soon, that bright voice she had heard countless times in the plot rang out:

“Lady Yvonne, I’ve kept you waiting!”

A fair-looking blond youth walked in, accompanied by a knight wearing armor and carrying a sword.

Compared to her own pale gold hair, Michel’s was the kind of bright gold like actual gold.

Although young in age, Michel’s aura was not at all inferior to the tall knight accompanying him,

Like a little lion, naturally bearing a princely halo.

“As promised, I’ve come—!”

“Your Highness Prince Michel, good day.”

Holding both sides of her skirt, she curtsied lightly, smiling and bowing her head to greet Michel.

Thankfully… the curtsy she had learned before was still imprinted in her body, performing it quite skillfully… it should be fine, right?

Yvonne didn’t notice that her action made Linda and Duke Campell beside her show slightly surprised expressions.

“However, wasn’t our appointment scheduled for noon today? Why have you come so early?”

This small prince wore a dazzling smile on his face,

“I was worried—that Lady Yvonne might be unable to eat due to excessive longing for me, so I came early.”

He said this with utmost seriousness. Seeing his appearance, Yvonne felt veins popping on her forehead.

This prince was good in every way except for being too narcissistic, narcissistic to the point of believing all women liked him.

However, this prince’s narcissism wasn’t without reason, because from a young age, there were indeed many girls infatuated with him,

Michel, unwilling to make girls sad and upset, had a sense of responsibility of ‘being liked’, so those sweet words and narcissistic remarks he inadvertently said were all his true feelings.

This trait of attracting bees and butterflies also led this character to utter countless famous lines, such as “Could it be… that my mere existence hurts others?” and “What a sinful person I am” which the prince often had on his lips

However, the female protagonist Elsa was an exception.

In the original game plot, Elsa’s encounter with the male protagonist was a comedic development like “A woman who is indifferent to someone as handsome as me—how interesting!”

However, although he seemed to have a playboy character setting, he was essentially a person who was devoted and serious in love,

Because of the villain daughter’s excessively dependent yandere behavior towards the prince in the original work, Michel as a child was always very afraid of Yvonne, to the point of taking detours to avoid meeting her. But now, towards his fiancée, Michel instead acted like a golden retriever coming up to her, impossible to chase away.

In some ways, very similar to Elsa.

Thinking of this, Yvonne couldn’t help but feel a pain in her heart.

She missed her so much…

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However, since he had already come, according to social etiquette, it was naturally necessary to invite him to stay for a meal.

Michel was sitting properly across from her, cutting into the new veal steak served by the head chef, chewing carefully, seeming quite satisfied with the Duke’s hospitality.

Duke Campell was watching his daughter and future son-in-law with a nervous expression,

“Do you have any plans recently?”

“Oh? Could it be that Lady Yvonne wants to go on a date? If that’s the case, I’ll do my best to make time!”

“It’s not that, just simple small talk.”

Although Linda was coughing desperately behind her, Yvonne pretended not to hear.

She didn’t want to let this prince take advantage of her.

Fortunately, His Highness the Prince had a good temper. He didn’t mind, tilting his head to think for a moment,

“Hmm… These days my mentor plans to take me to nearby cities for some training. And to hone my horsemanship and swordsmanship along the way.”

The mentor Michel mentioned was this tall man in silver armor standing beside him.

Yvonne remembered that in the game, this Knight Commander was the Knight Commander of Oz Kingdom.

By the way, the Knight Commander’s son was the same age as Michel, and was also a capturable target in the game.

“I see…”

At the dining table, Yvonne nodded thoughtfully, desperately suppressing the excitement in her heart,

The ‘Soulmate’ plot should be triggered at this stage,

In other words, as long as she kept following Michel, the male protagonist, she could see the young Elsa!!

“What’s this, Lady Yvonne, could it be that you’re also interested in knight training?”

Although Michel believed that horsemanship and swordsmanship were not things a lady needed to master,

His fiancée showed great interest in it.

“No—Your Highness Prince Michel, please allow me to accompany you!!”