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Evangeline, sniffling, stuffed the cookies in front of her into her mouth.
“Now, now. Eat slowly, my little one. Haha, does it taste good?”
“Yes,” she replied weakly.
Deorte el Lyndis, the emperor, smiled with satisfaction.
In all honesty, she was practically a stranger to him on paper, since she didn’t share a single drop of blood with him. Nor was she a child of his own flesh and blood, Aeria el Lyndis.
In fact, his only direct blood descendant with the O’Rowane lineage was Darian.
Well, at least that was what he had initially thought. That thought did not last long. Before he knew it, the notion that Evangeline wasn’t related to Aeria had become meaningless.
Considering the culture of the nobility Tionis, Evangeline would have a hard time being treated properly regardless of the circumstances.
In a world where even an illegitimate child from Davey having an affair with a maid would be frowned upon, there was no way an adoptee would be perceived any better.
Of course, very few people knew the detailed story, yet if it ever became widely known, Evangeline would never be able to shake off the troublesome label.
He had once heard about a young noble who found out Evangeline wasn’t Davey O’Rowane’s biological daughter and spoke badly about it. Sources said he went completely bald at a young age, with not...
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