Chapter 4

Cheonma’s visits ended after ten days.

Of course, I was hoping that Bing-Eun Seol would stop, but she kept coming and going until I was over a year old.

She was quite smart. Instead of stealing my gifts all at once and causing suspicion, she came every day and stole them little by little.

Thanks to this, her performance improved and she became more beautiful day by day.

But even so, Cheonma turned his back and wouldn’t look at her, so Bing Eun-seol began to relieve her anger and resentment onto me.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

My teeth chattered against each other. The coldness permeated throughout my whole body as if trying to freeze into the floor.

I couldn’t think of anything because my mind was frozen.

I felt like I was kicked out naked in the middle of winter. My hands and feet were cold and painful.

“Please, Ma’am! Please stop! Please!”

“You have a tendency to say, ‘You’re going too far. Your mother is from the North Sea Palace, so shouldn’t you get used to this cold?”

“Ma’am!”

“So much loud shouting! I was going to finish this if you’d just stayed quiet, but you’ve earned the punishment.”

She waved her hand slightly.

Then the cold that enveloped me grew stronger.

It was perfectly clear summer weather outside, yet I had misty breath coming out of my mouth. Gradually, the sensation in my hands and feet disappeared.

Now, Bing Eun-seol didn’t do anything that would cause a scar, such as pinching or hitting.

Perhaps it was because of fear in case someone might notice it, or maybe it was just a nuisance, but she only tormented me by using trivial means.

By using her own ice spells.

TN: Just to clarify, so she’s got like ice powers and stuff…

At first, the cold was not as easy to handle. My strength seems to have increased a lot since drinking all my elixirs.

Seoyoung’s body was as cold as ice because she was hugging me. The fingernails on her hands rubbing my feet were blue.

‘No, I can’t do this.’

I clenched my chattering teeth and rolled my eyes back as if I had fainted.

I wish I could’ve made some foam come off my mouth, but unfortunately I had to give it up because my saliva was frozen.

“Oh, my lady! Lady!”

Seoyoung stroked my face. Her tears rolled down her cheeks.

It was so cold that her tears appeared yellowish and burned.

TN: Don’t really know what this is supposed to mean??

“Oh, what do I do—- my lady, what do I do…”

“It hasn’t even been that long and you’re already about to faint…… pft, go outside and take a bath in the sun.”

Bing Eun-seol threw me out every time after abusing me. All while saying that sunlight is the best in the cold.

Of course, the sunlight was good. It was just that the recovery was too hard and slow.

There was a reason why she would throw us out.

She’s thinking of taking the elixir that came as a gift yesterday.

You’re trying to get us out of here so that you can dress up for the morning, so you’re going to let it go.

Seoyoung begged Bing Eun-Seol.

“Boo, please, my Lady… Please, miss. Please let her warm up!”

“Do you know where your courage comes from? Get out while I give you a chance. Or should we do some more? You choose.”

In the face of the displeased voice of Bing Eun-seol, Seoyoung swallowed her tears.

As we stepped outside, we heard Bing Eun-seol’s command not to let anyone in through the door for a while.

“Yes, Ma’am.”

The servants pretended not to know what Seoyoung and I were going through.

It’s because they were not the older sisters who used to clean my room before, but all of them are people of Bing Eun-seol.

No one thought it was strange even though the servants changed completely.

Cheonma stopped visiting all together, and the members only sent gifts.

No one was curious about what I was going through, why Seoyoung’s complexion had gotten so bad, no one was wondering about it.

No wonder, the Magyo had kidnapped a young child and made him his successor. This was the case with Yeon.

Therefore, the Magyo did not need the blood ties of the sect.

TN: meaning Cheonma doesn’t really need Chun Lihua even though she has blood ties to a strong family within the world of martial arts (the sect) because he already has a successor, Yeon.

Now it’s just ordinary members who give me gifts. The core leadership didn’t even bother with me.

So I don’t know what I’m going to do.

I opened my mouth quietly only after we came out.

“Ooh, sor…….(Nanny, sorry……)”

“Lady, don’t ever say that! Miss didn’t do anything wrong. Rather, it’s me who’s sorry. I’m… … Because I’m so weak… … You were very ill, weren’t you?”

“Seoyoung. (No, no.)”

I shook my head to signal that it was okay.

Of course, at first I thought I was going to freeze to death. I actually passed out at times.

But strangely, it became more and more bearable.

Now, I struggled like crazy, but I didn’t faint, and I recovered quickly.

It seemed like my body had adapted to survive.

Seoyoung smiled sadly. Then, she arranged my hair which was a little tousled and entered the center of the garden where the flowers were the best.

“My lady, would you like Seoyoung to make a flower crown?”

Your fingertips are still blue, can you make it?

Seoyoung, who recognized what I was thinking from my gaze, hid her hand behind her and laughed abashedly.

“You’ll have to move so I can be quick. Please sit down with the flowers and bask in the sun. I’ll make it quickly.”

“Hold on… …hold on.(Slow down, slow down.)”

“Don’t worry, I’ll take it slow.”

It was about two months ago that I started speaking properly, not just words of nonsense.

It was also the first day I succeeded in standing alone.

Seoyoung was very happy with me, who grew much faster than other babies.

I almost fainted when I heard myself speaking, though the words didn’t come out clearly from my mouth.

This was a secret between the two of us.

If Bing Eun-seol knows that I can express my opinions and understand what others are saying, she might do something.

I was still crawling around, and didn’t say anything, in case the servants would notice.

So I was rumored to be a little slow.

The servants whispered, ‘No matter how beautiful you are, who’s going to want a fool?’

Anyway, Bing Eun-seol had no intention of killing me right away. She was addicted to the sweet taste of the gifts that came to me.

The gifts sent by the sect members were surprisingly luxurious.

Apart from the elixir, a lot of other things came in, and the members seemed to have a lot of money.

As long as the gifts don’t stop coming, I will be fine. The more I’m known as a fool, the safer I will be.

“I have to learn how to do martial arts quickly.’

Even if I do master martial arts, I will not forget the ice. If a fool learns something, they will laugh and say, “How much can you learn?”

Yes, just let your guard down like that. In the meantime, I’ll build my strength and keep my life going.

‘I must be on alert until I run away.’

When I think about that day, even the pain from Bing Eun-seol seemed sweet. The gossip of the servants reached the point of enjoyment.

Try to bother me as much as you can. I will return it several times.

I clenched my fist and looked around.

I couldn’t see Seoyoung. She must have gone far away while picking flowers like she did last time.

I imagined the appearance of Seoyoung, running over to me so fast that her skirt turned over, and smiled.

“Huh?”

I turned my head around. That’s weird. It felt like someone was looking at me.

I opened my eyes gingerly and kept alert of my surroundings.

“Boo? Whoo-huh?”

I could feel something suspicious, as if someone was watching me.

It was kind of like a result of being abused by Bing Eun-seol, but it worked for me quite well.

However, no matter how much I looked around, I could not see a human shadow.

‘…isn’t it?’

I must have become too sensitive after being watched by the servants.

I turned my attention away and focused on picking flowers instead.

I wanted to make a flower crown for Seoyoung but since it’s difficult to do detailed work with these fingers, I made a bouquet.

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It was in the moment that I was collecting flowers that…

“Lady.”

I turned my head around.

“What are you doing here?”

Yeon was staring at me with a slightly irritated face.