Hold Me, My Emperor

Chapter Three

Everything is starting to clear up for me now. I am reincarnated in the body of Lady Tatiana Mircea, A lady born and raised as a noble lady of Mircea Family. More importantly, I am bound to die young.

In the original story, I will become the Prince's playmate. It was requested by the prince himself after Prince Casimir and Lady Tatiana accidentally met at the garden. The prince was said to have been astonished with my immaculate beauty and charm, the one and only Tatiana! However, things will get difficult when something brutal happens in the Palace and I happened to witness it.

Now that I look at this mirror, I am indeed such a beauty. I am grateful to feel this way. My hair was golden just like my Mother and my eyes are jewel like yellow that I got from my father. My skin is also smooth and flawless, and a lot of people praise me for it. I resemble my mother a lot, and I think I inherited most of her features. And my mother is already like an angel with her charms, and is know for being one of the fairest noblewomen in society! Thinking of it now, it really is devastating that I, Tatiana, will die young.

Back to this, I was bound to die young because I will witness a mass murder. Something a child should not witness because it involves the Imperial family. From what I read, Duchess Heidi together with other members of Nobles will also die because of rebellion. According to the story there will be a huge banquet where most nobles will come to celebrate, but it will turn out to be a m******e.

"Oh! Lady Tia you're up." Abelina exclaimed and gently pulled me up to put me down from my crib. As of now, I can crawl a little, but my body movements are still awkward and limited.

"You're so adorable Lady Tia!" Abelina screeched again because of my cuteness. I could only nod at her words internally, of course I know that.

Now, I only have 10 years to live according to this book. I'm already 1 year old now. On my 10th birthday I will ask my father to bring me to the Palace to see Prince Casimir for my birthday. And I will aimlessly go there without knowing that it will become a tragedy, and will cause my life to end abruptly. I, Lady Tia will die as my eyes will get slashed out by the murderer for witnessing something that I shouldn't have. Just remembering those parts makes me want to cry!

I have this fear that I might not have the power to stop that, this is a the inside of a novel after all. Things here are pre-destined by the author, and I'm only a small existence which was mentioned to give more substance to Prince Casimir's personality. I keep thinking that no matter how hard I try to change it, things will still go as they were meant to be. Maybe my life will really come to an end even though I still have a lot of regrets.

But I can't give up now. I asked the heavens to give me another life, and it was fortunately given to me. Here I have a family; my mother loves me so much and adores everything I do. I have my older brother who treats me very nicely, and my Father who will protect me no matter what. I cannot lose this precious life of mine again. This was like a second chance for me, so I need to change my fate for their sake.

Without noticing it, I already built the small bricks on my toys and solved the puzzle. I was distracted with my deep thoughts! To be honest, this is the first time I have ever played with these kinds of toys, They were very meticulously crafted and was made to stimulate the minds of growing children. In my past life, the orphanage was too poor to even give at least one toy to every kid. So to compensate, we have to exchange toys when we play and not to use them for too long to give the others a chance to play. Donations don’t always come to our small orphanage. We are lucky if we ever get visitors who will give us clothes and toys instead of money. Because no matter how large the amount they donate is, when the money is handed to the heads of the orphanage, we will not feel it anymore. Their treatment of us didn't improve, and we only saw them celebrating with the money they got.

Amidst my panicking, I heard a loud gasp come from behind me. "Hasna.. call her Lady Amelie.. I think Lady Tia is a genius!" Abelina hurriedly said to Hasna while lightly covering her mouth in shock. Hasna immediately nodded and almost ran outside to follow her orders. Her voice surprised me. I glanced at her and she looked like she was about to cry!

Crap. I messed up! I forgot that I should act like my age. It's far too impossible for a one year old to build a puzzle and bricks alone! They're supposed to just be crying and begging for food every single time! I quickly put down my toys to hide the evidence. I was about to smash things that I built when Abelina held me in her arms with such amazement Her eyes were wide as saucers as she looked at me like a scholar finding an ancient scroll. I just stared at her while she kept on smiling from my cuteness. The door popped open and I saw my mother rushing in with such excitement in her eyes.

"Please ake a look, Lady Amelie! These toys were all solved by Lady Tia alone. I'm telling you, maybe the Lady is a genius!" Abelina screamed happily as she almost swung me around happily.

What have I done?