TRAPPED BY THE SECOND MALE LEAD
CHAPTRE 1
Nope,
I don't want to feel that bitterness anymore,
I don't want to repeat that nightmare again.
“Hey you, Meridia!”
Call— error. The shocking sound of a jolt managed to wake the owner of the name from his daydream.
The girl's head looked at a woman in the uniform of a waiter who had been snapping at her “You want to rub that table until it disappeared from there?! don't slow down on purpose because you have so much to do! quickly clean that closet there!”
Meridia did not like to see the woman glaring at her and was now ruffled around her waist, acting as if she was the one in charge.
After being satisfied to look at the slim girl cynically, the servant woman continued to wipe and tidy up the contents of the cabinet table. His mouth is still moving mumbled at length, “Damn it! Why do I have to clean up with this guy anyway?! Tc. Don't leave your work to me!”
Meridia rotates both eyes puffed “Ya, I heard.”
That lazy simple answer made the waiter even more annoyed, “Huh! I hope I don't get bad luck from him. I'd love to slap him!” gerrutu annoyed. Even so his hands still worked. While Meridia was quietly enjoying the grunts of no quality for him it was as if listening to the music of the entertainer.
Now Meridia is sixteen years old which is two years since Ziel ordered his own daughter to be part of the servant who served for the Emerald family. Coinciding also with the soul of Bianca Gwyneth who entered the body of the twin Marigold.
Bianca enters into a novel that she gets from a mysterious masked man whom she has never seen her face.
Because the book looks interesting and does not feel any strange, Bianca kept the book and read it while free. Of course Bianca doesn't like Meridia's nosy character. In the book is not explained with details of life from the side of Meridia.
After two years of living as a character she disliked, Bianca came to know the reason behind Meridia's brutal attitude towards Marigold. Being the most backward, not considered a child and family member, is always set aside. He came to know the life of Meridia's side which was only a shadow of the female lead.
Meridia snorted softly as she muttered “Has fast to be an excellent bully."
What can be done, he does all kinds of pranks because only that way will Meridia get attention and others will want to talk to him. It was Meridia's way of letting go of the loneliness that had penetrated all the way to the recesses of her soul.
A duster landed on Meridia's back. “So I warned you, right? or do you want me to call His Highness Ziel on purpose?!” snapping waiter who became a clean-up partner was fiery, “Quick get your job done! You're not the queen of this house, don't act like it!”
“You are also not the butler in this house. Don't act like you have a high position, so stop commanding other servants. It's worth it that you were assigned with me here.” Reply Meridia cynically. The long-spirited girl smiled wryly, “Let me however remain your master's biological daughter. I'm just reminding you, if you forgot.”
“You...!” the waiter was upset.
“I don't have time to argue. See you.”
Meridia relented and finally went to find another place to clean up, which was the kitchen. In just a split second, right after she opened her door a little, Meridia immediately regretted her decision to go there.
It is fitting that the kitchen is quieter than usual, it is being used by Marigold. The heroine of Light and Shadow was standing looking at what she had baked in the kitchen's manual oven.
His enthusiastic smile made the three workers there smile with anxiety “Nanny, is this going to work? I can't wait for him to mature~!” he said with a spoiled tone.
The woman who works as a nanny for her employer's children nodded confidently not letting Marigold disappointed or desperate. “Of course, Your Majesty. You don't need to worry.”
“He's right. You have followed all the procedures correctly, even you can be a great cake toaster hahaha,” said the chef trust Marquess Ziel.
Oh, and do not forget the atmosphere and warm smiles that appear around them. So moving. It was too moving to make Meridia nauseous to see it.
“Jeez, Your Majesty. Look at the flour on your face. For a moment, the full-bodied woman's” gently wiped off all traces of white flour that stuck to Marigold's cheeks and forehead.
Marigold shows a smile as innocent as a child “Hihi thanks, Nanny.”
The girl grew up well, the abundant affection must have managed to build a mentally healthy one for her, thought Meridia who had been silently observing from the front door of the kitchen.
The Iris sapphire Marigold shifted to the tail of the eye after catching a shadow of someone standing in front of the door. “Oh it turns out there is Meridia here,” greet full of cheer, it seems the mood of the blonde girl is being very good. Instantly the gazes of others became cold to him, the opposite of when they interacted with Marigold.
Marigold's adorable sweet smile did not necessarily make Meridia follow along like other people because she knew it was all fake.
On several occasions when the two of them were together, Meridia somehow realized that her twin sister had deliberately cornered her, making her survive in a place where the difference in treatment that they both could feel was very pronounced.
Not only that, Marigold also deliberately defended her as if she was the most perfect sister and rendered Meridia powerless to cope with her own situation.
“Meridia? why are you daydreaming?” the girl gasped as Marigold drew his face closer to her, not knowing when she was standing before him. “Ayo, come. I want to show you my homemade cake.” The expressions of the two men (the personal caretaker Marigold and the chef) turned even more unpleasant.
“Yes geez. I'm not the one who wants to stick to your idol, don't look at me that way. Your eyes are like almost out.” Inner Meridia is lazy to face the same situation every day.
Marigold ordered their family chef to take out the cake in the grill and then he showed it to his twin sister “Look at it. This is my first experiment. Meridia, what do you think?”
Meridia knitted her two eyebrows. In view of from any side the breads remain the same as the layer of cake in general. There's nothing special about that. What do you want to judge? Meridia did not understand what her twin was asking.
“Good, the cake will definitely be better than this. You are very clever, so the result will be twice as beautiful,” forced Meridia to lie for her own safety.
Marigold smile intensity increased “Really? thank you Meridia,” Marigold looked down at some pieces of bread that he would later arrange into one, “This is a cake that I made for mother's birthday. How about we decorate this cake together?”
Caregiver Marigold shook his head in disagreement with Marigold's call “Your Highness, you don't have to do that. He will only ruin all your efforts with his curse". The woman dared to call Meridia because no one was on her side so she was not afraid of being rebuked or scolded by someone.
Meridia could not bear the intimidating look of the two people behind Marigold. It was not his desire to be in the middle of this heartwarming moment.
“He's right, Marigold. You're the adept one. If the Marchioness finds out it's my interference, she might not want to eat it. Besides who knows when the cake will be poisonous when I touch later”.
The wavy blonde girl pursed her lips, “Why did you say that? we are ‘kan both mother's children, of course she will be happy to receive this surprise.”
Marigold always subverted it to attract more sympathy and attention from others.
Annoying right? Meridia just wanted to slap her sister's pretty face.
It was common knowledge in the Emerald mansion that Ziel and Zoya did not regard Meridia as their child, their treatment of Meridia far from family relations.
“You know the evidence for yourself. I don't want to give Marchioness a curse on her birthday,” Meridia turned her eyes the other way “Although I really want to do it.” The connection in the heart.
Marigold ruffled his waist while puffing his right cheek, “You are my sister! here, look at yourself,” the beautiful girl hooked Meridia's arm. “I was fine when I touched you. No sign of a curse or anything that came up to me".
I'm not going near you. Stay away.
Meridia took off Marigold's hand violently “that's because you're different. You have purification abilities. Unlike people in general.”
Meridia hastily gave distance so that Marigold would not touch her again “I have to help uncle Sammy in the back garden. Good luck.” Meridia did not want to linger in a room with Marigold, she ran through the back door of the kitchen.
A thin grin was framed on Marigold's sweet lips at a glance before the door leaf that Meridia opened closed again. Marigold turned around and put on his gentle expression again “Give me more sweet decoration yes.” Ask the chef.
“Good, Your Highness.”
“Yang Mulia. You better not get too close to him. I'm afraid your life is threatened. We don't know when he'll harm you.” Said Marigold's nanny.
“You're too much, nanny. He is not a bomb that can explode at any time and destroy anything that is within his reach.”
Meanwhile, Meridia has taken out garden equipment and some lavender flower seeds that have grown as tall as the index finger. “Lady, is it alright you help me here? The weather is pretty hot.”
Only Samuel, the forty-two-year-old gardener, was as willing to act as an ordinary superior and subordinate to Meridia. That's why Meridia felt calmer and more comfortable doing garden work together with him.
Meridian smiled thinly as she replied, “Quiet only. I came here because I wanted to plant lavender flowers that I had planted a few days ago. I had to move her so she could grow up well.”
“Oh so you planted it in those little pots? It looks like it will be good planted here because it is not too hot compared to other parts. Its soothing aroma may be able to get to your room.”
“Haha it's possible. Thank you, uncle Sammy.”
Today Samuel was in charge of pruning some untidy branches of the tree so he had to continue to be at the top of the stairs. That guy can't help Meridia down there.
Every now and then he ducked down to watch Meridia and he became anxious to see the girl working with a blank stare “Lady, You want to bury the flower to the top?”
Samuel's rebuke resuscitated Meridia from the reverie of “Gosh, I forgot hahaha.” Meridia laughed blandly, her hands moving on their own until Samuel realized that he had dug a hole too deep to exceed the height of his lavender plant.
Samuel's sympathy made him choose to pause from his work. The man helped Meridia make a hole to move the lavender. “What are you thinking, Lady? Since then I have noticed you are daydreaming a lot.” Ask Samuel for attention.
“Uncle, I want to ask you something.”
“What is it?”
“If you were me, would you choose to run away from here? Or will you survive here in your own way?” Samuel gasped at Meridia's question.
She was not surprised if Meridia had any thoughts of escaping, nor did she blame Meridia if she did not consider Ziel and Zoya worthy of her respect. “I don't understand very well what you've been going through and feeling all this time, Lady. So please decide for yourself what is good for yourself,” replied Samuel.
The gardener who had worked for ten years in the Emerald residence stared at the pity of the twin Marigolds who had always been ostracized from childhood.
Meridia lowered her head, her hand moving to pick up a small shovel. “I also don't know how to,” his great-grandson while stirring fertilizer.
“You don't worry, Lady. I've always had a feeling that you'll soon be free of this pain.”
“…”
“I have strong feelings and sure you will get greater love from this.”
Meridia showed a bitter smile. “Don't rely on feelings, uncle. All things will only end runyam if uncle always involves feelings in everything. That's troublesome.”
Yeah, that's true. Meridia does not like to worry about excessive feelings in every action, because therein lies the curse will be active, after all this time she tried to break the reason for the power out.
Meridia did not know for sure when the curse would actually happen but she knew that whenever she involved strong feelings in her then she could damage or kill something alive.
Luckily, everyone in the house thought Meridia's power was as simple as touch, just as Marigold had to touch her object first to activate her purifying power.
At first he was confused too. But after two years of studying when and where the flash of Meridia's memory came and made her grief soar, the curse took place.
“Lady, you may not get affection here but I'm sure you'll meet people who will prioritize you above everything, love you, and take good care of you.”
Meridia could not understand Samuel's overly positive thinking. But as long as it was good, Meridia felt calm hearing it.
Meridian smiled wryly as he said, “I would be very happy if that happened to me.” it made Samuel's heart also sliced.
Everyone there acted as if the baby born safely was just a Marigold. “Of course it will happen. It is precisely people like you who can greatly appreciate the slightest form of caring.”
“Meridia!” call one of the waiters from the kitchen door. The cold beautiful girl looked up. “Marquess calls you to his office!” he said in a loud voice because of their considerable distance. After that, he went back into the kitchen.
Meridia sighed “this time what else?” more or less Meridia has guessed half the things that will happen in there “paman, sorry. Can you continue this until I'm done with my business?”
