Becoming the Villain’s Family

library every day after that encounter.

She had to practice singing inside the library, so she had to be extra careful.

‘It was nice and quiet until he came.’

This place was built solely for those who had the blood of Valentine.

Usually, nobody would come here except for the librarian who kept going back and forth to organize the books.

However, Vincent would be inside the library before Aria could arrive, and he would leave later than her.

‘At least I know that he isn’t intentionally chasing after me…’

He was a scholar from an academic institute who loved learning more than anyone else, so it made sense as to why he kept staying in the library.

‘The soundproofing is perfect, but my singing might leak out by accident.’

The possibility was tiny but it could not be completely ruled out.

Aria peeped at Vincent, nervously hiding behind the edge of a bookshelf.

He was reading a book on a sofa.

“You won’t choose a book?”

“……”

Aria stared at Vincent with a sullen look.

He often argued with her over the simplest, most unnecessary things.
He would belittle her if she chose a useless book, and he would give his own opinion about each book he recited afterwards.

“You don’t know this either?”

“Come on, there’s no way that you don’t know what this is!”

“What? You have no idea about this?”

“I don’t know how you’ve survived when you’re this dumb…”

Her conversations with Vincent had always been like this.

‘Even if I ignore him, he’ll continue to blabber about his so-called area of expertise.’

She didn’t know why he was so interested in her.

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Aria, who used to be sensitive to insults and provocations, couldn’t even care less anymore.

She didn’t know how proud she would feel if she was also a genius, but she knew that if she did the same things as him, she would have made tons of enemies.

[Then recommend a book to me.]

She decided to respond in a dry manner.

He was so annoying.

Then, after pondering for a while, Vincent handed her a book.

「Basic Arithmetic That Even Monkeys Can Do!」

“……”

Aria glared at Vincent while looking at the contents of the book that read ‘1+1=2’.

Vincent Valentine.

His eyes were a perfect spring sky, his mind was filled with curiosity, and his blond hair and gentle smile brought more golden sunshine into the world.

‘Golden sunshine my ass!’

He might look like an angel.
But he certainly had the ability to make Aria want to spit on his smiling face.

* * *

“… Milady, did you have a bad day?” Diana couldn’t help but ask.

Aria seemed to be in a bad mood these past few days.

Diana was scared because she looked like a volcano that could erupt at any moment now.

And as Diana had guessed, Aria was on the verge of explosion.

It didn’t matter if he insulted her openly for being ignorant.
But at the same time, it couldn’t be helped as she had never been properly educated!

‘That’s right, I’m stupid! So what?’

She finally admitted.

However, the library was the only place where she could practice singing without other people’s knowledge.

‘I can’t stand him! He keeps disturbing my singing practice!’

She needed to learn the song of healing as soon as possible to treat the grand duchess.

If Vincent interfered with her and she missed the time of the grand duchess’ treatment…

‘Didn’t the ancestors say that if I can endure him three times, I should save him from the massacre?’

But what would happen if he crossed her more than three times?

‘Will it be okay for me to kill him?’

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She had been patient because he was Lloyd’s younger brother.

There was a limit to her patience, and the little patience she had was waning fast.

But in the end, things happened.

One day, Vincent was waiting for Aria in the library.

“You’re a little late today.”

Aria naturally turned her back and reopened the door to visit another library.

This library, which Vincent spent his time on, used to be her go-to-place.

It was the largest library in the entire palace, and she used it because it was perfect for sound insulation.

But still, it didn’t mean that the other libraries weren’t soundproof.

‘I guess he’ll be planning to read books here from now on.’

Aria tried to pass it that way.

Suddenly, Vincent shut the library door shut.

The boy leaned obliquely by the door with his arms crossed and looked down at Aria.

He struck her cold gaze with an innocent smile.

“Since you’re from the House of Cortez, you should know a lot about music.”

“……”

“My sister-in-law’s grandfather, Maestro Cortez, was a genius musician and mathematician who will never be born again.
He was the one who invented the 24th note in music.”

“……”

“No way!” He covered his mouth, mocking her, “You do know the history of your own family, right?”

“……”

“Really? You don’t know this either?” Vincent muttered as if he was openly disappointed.

Aria’s patience wore thin.

“Oh, excuse me.
I’ve been talking about things that only I know,” he chuckled.

That’s it.

She couldn’t take it anymore!

Aria pushed the book that she was holding into Vincent’s arms in the harshest way possible.

“Argh!” The boy groaned.

Aria walked straight to the piano on one side of the library.

Then, she sat down and ran her fingers along the pure white keys of the piano.