Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favorite

“By the way, your cleaning…”

Then a maid jabbed her finger into the crack in her window she had just finished cleaning, and she paused. It seemed that she was trying to find fault with her, but there was not a speck of dirt on her fingers. It’s been a few years since she’s been cleaning at a nursery school, and that’s about it. Unable to find fault, the girls glanced at each other with bewildered eyes and said.

“Since there is a lot of laundry piled up in the dorm, maybe you can do that too.”

“Yes.”

This time, she nodded without a murmur and turned around.

* * *

“Lia? Ha… Are you referring to the child who serves that lady?”

She asked the maid, who had been kind to her a little while before, withering away her laughter. Jack nodded his head, feeling a strange feeling.

“Why are you looking for that child?”

“…Should I say that?”

“No, not that.”

The maid laughed awkwardly at Jack’s stiff answer.

“If he is, he should be at the laundry by now.”

“Laundry…”

“Can I guide you?”

“It’s okay.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, Jack turned around. For some reason, the way he looked at me was unpleasant. Jack, who came up to the capital a while ago, noticed that strange eyes began to follow him from the moment he entered the Duke’s residence wearing an apprentice knight’s uniform. In fact, Jack didn’t know it, but Taze Seidian, who was directly appointed and knighted by Duke Elad, was more famous than he thought. To the point where he was wary of Syd Valerie, who has taken the elite course and has already risen to the position of vice-captain. And Jack was an apprentice knight whom Taze made as his apprentice. In fact, there was no better opportunity than becoming a knight among the ways for a commoner to receive a title and rise to a high social position. However, since Jack was chosen to join the Lexion Knights, his future was guaranteed. In addition, Jack, who grew up day by day thanks to good food and training after entering the ducal family, became strong enough to look three or four years older than his original age. It was only natural that the maids, who had guessed Jack’s age, couldn’t hide their excitement at his handsome appearance. When such a Jack appeared at the laundry where the maids came and went, his eyes gathered in an instant and he began to stir. Lia, reading the strange aura, turned her head.

“Uh, Jack?”

“Lia.”

“What are you doing here?”

Lia, who jumped up in delight, hesitated. The maids at the laundry looked surprised when they saw the two of them. Like Lia, no one knew in detail how Jack entered the Duke of Elad, so he was curious about the relationship between the two, who seemed friendly.

“What’s going on… Is that all you have to say?”

“Huh?”

“It has been several days since I arrived in the capital. Didn’t you hear that I’m here?”

Lia laughed awkwardly at Jack’s tone, which looked a little sad. Of course she knew he was coming. But she never thought of meeting him separately. She just knew that he wouldn’t care at all because of Jack’s personality, but she didn’t know that he would come looking so sad.

“Sorry, I’ve been a bit busy.”

“It seems so. Even Master Allen says he hasn’t seen you lately.”

Originally, Diana and Allen often ate together, but when Allen also came to the capital, it became difficult to see her face as she was involved in various social activities and studies, including her swordsmanship training.

Lia nodded her head and glanced around. The maids who envied the Lexion Knights, the pride of the Elad duchy, were still glancing at them. Among them was a maid who took an interest in Jack. Knowing how much talk Jack has become among the maids in the mere days since he arrived at the Duke’s residence, Lia quietly lowers her voice.

“Nice to meet you, Jack. But I’m a bit busy right now…”

Jack narrowed his eyes as he hoped she would return. And she looked for a while at the laundry, which Lia was wringing out of her. Jack frowned at the pile of laundry piled taller than Lia’s.

“Are you doing this all by yourself? Weren’t you serving the lady?”

“Ah… I’m doing it because I have time left. I’m not sticking with you all the time here.”

“Can I help you?”

“No. It’s fine.”

“Still…”

It was when Jack was about to say he would help once again in response to the firm answer.

“Lia, it’s meal time. The miss is looking for you, so go quickly!” shouted the maid who had come looking for Lia in the main house.

Lia was puzzled as she looked back and forth between Jack and her unfinished laundry.

“Hey, Lia… I’ll finish it, so go.”

Then a maid approached with a shy voice.

“We should help each other. I will be waiting for you, come on.”

At the maid’s urging, Lia awkwardly said, “Yes, thank you.” Then she said goodbye to Jack.

“Then Jack, see you next time!”

Jack stared blankly at Lia’s back as he left without looking back. Then the maid who said she would do Lia’s laundry spoke to Jack.

“Me, knight?”

“…I am not an official knight yet.”

“An apprentice knight is also a knight.”

“…Please speak.”

“I was just wondering if you could help me move this laundry, if you’re not too busy. It would be too heavy to lift alone.”

The maid looked up at Jack with her fake frail face. Jack said coldly to the maid and her pile of laundry.

“Lea is younger and smaller, but she can do it all by herself, can’t she? You will be able to do enough.”

* * *

As she ran to the main building, leaving Jack behind, she suddenly guessed the age of the maid who said she would take care of her laundry.

‘Maybe around 15?’

It’s clear that the maids didn’t know Jack’s age. In fact, even she, who grew up with him, was surprised every time she saw Jack grow up like bean sprouts, so she must have thought he was her age. What a surprise it would be to find out later that Allen and him were the same age.

“Anyway, he’s already popular.”

Well, since he was a handsome boy with a guaranteed future, the hearts of adolescent girls were thrilled. Not surprisingly, considering that he later became popular not only with maids, but also with noble ladies and ladies. Just want to be great.

“Jack, you must be a complete naive!”

She laughed out of embarrassment, so she clenched her fists and covered her mouth. In fact, the noble ladies were the VIPs who paid the most commission fees in the information guild. Many of the requests to catch evidence of her husband’s infidelity or to find out her daughter’s son-in-law were not dangerous compared to other missions and were easy to escape, so she often took on follow-up missions, but there were quite a few requests to investigate Jack.

‘Of course, even if we weren’t close, I’ve never been in charge of Jack because I’m somewhat reluctant to investigate someone I know.’

In any case, she knew that she was always ranked among the best grooms. He also had a very good reputation. Unlike Allen, who enjoyed dating noble ladies from time to time, Jack had no women close to him, let alone scandals.

‘Until he took the knight’s oath to Diana.’

It was said that the knight’s oath to protect you at the cost of his life was originally an oath of loyalty to the lord, but now it has become a confession of love to a lover or wife. And one day, Jack suddenly gave Diana a knight’s oath like a bombshell, shocking many women who were aiming for him. Well, if he had eyes, he couldn’t have other women in mind over the pretty Diana.

“Mmmm, good. It has a pretty romantic side.”

“Who?”

Hee! She stopped breathing at the sudden voice. In a completely different sense than before, she covered her mouth with her hand and turned her head to see Allen standing crookedly.

“Yo-young master?”

“Who is romantic?”

“Uh… nothing. I just said this after hearing the other maids talk.”

Embarrassed, she blurted it out casually, and Allen raised his eyebrows. She quickly changed the subject and asked.

“By the way, young master, why did the training end early? Dinner is already… ah! Do you want to eat with the lady?”

The place where he and she happened to run into was in front of the dining room. However, Allen turned his head away in surprise at the question, which was not a big question.

“Well, then! I finished it quickly to eat with Diana, never to see you!”

“…”

“Not really! It’s because Diana is busy studying these days, so I don’t have time to look at her face! Don’t be mistaken!”

Why was he saying such obvious things with such heat? She said puzzled over the rambling Allen.

“I am not mistaken. Anyway, get in quick. Miss, please wait for me.”

“That, like that… or not.”

Allen pouted his lips. He seemed to be perplexed as he turned her gaze to the side. She didn’t know why he was doing that

“Missi!”

When she opened the door and entered, Diana spotted her and immediately jumped out of the chair and hugged her.

‘My pronunciation has improved a lot lately.’

As she embraced the growing child with a sense of admiration, it seemed that something warm filled her empty chest.

“My lady, it is not polite to get up and move around so suddenly at mealtime.”

At that time, the lady-in-waiting who was standing on one side said firmly. Right away, Allen frowned at her.

“You haven’t started eating yet. How can it be?”

‘Allen, great!’

Without paying a vote on the outside and clapping hard on the inside, she sat down with Diana.

“My lady, what did you learn today?”

No sooner had she finished her words, Diana came back down from the chair.

“I learned to say hello! Look!”

“Yes.”

“Hello. I am Diana of the Duke of Elad!”

The little girl lifted the hem of her dress and bent her knees to greet her. It was when she covered her mouth because she thought her screams would come out at her cute figure that made her heart strain.

“Ugh, our Diana… How big is she already?”

Allen, seated across from her, wept. It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand his intoxication, but she was very fortunate that he didn’t make a sound. In fact, it looked pretty pathetic.

“And, again. What else did you learn?”

“Letters! I learned letters and drew pictures!”

“Painting?”

“Huh!”

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