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After getting a pet, my life suddenly felt fuller.Strolling in the garden with briquettes has become a daily routine.

Hedwig glared at me for days after a fall and I pretended not to notice.

Finally, today I felt that the time was right, so I pretended to be a good brother and went to her room to greet her early in the morning.

"Could it be that my smart sister accidentally fell while walking? Impossible!"

I brought her a basket of flowers, handed it to her personal maid, looked at her sleepy on the bed, and said swearingly.

"That, of course! Me, I just don't fit my shoes!" She really bit the hook directly. "I've thrown away those shoes!"

"Great!" I agreed.

"Where's your fox?"

After struggling for a long time, Hegwig finally asked me.

"If you want to touch the briquettes, it's not impossible, but you have to promise that you will touch it very gently."

I am talking nonsense. "It is very timid and afraid of strangers. If you scare it, it will run away."

"It's just a fox." Hedwig said with a flushed face, "I'll just pay you one!"

"Oh, really?"

I suddenly smiled at her.

"But Hedwig, the meaning of everything in the world to everyone...I mean feelings, is different."

I have to say, I came prepared for today's trip.For example, I overheard chatting among the maids, and learned that there was actually a rag doll beside Hedwig that had been kept for five years.It was a birthday present from the Duchess.

Hedwig looked at me blankly.

I glanced at the attendants and maids not far away, and climbed directly to the side of the bed to talk to her, deliberately lowering my voice and acting mysterious.

"For example, the rag doll you like, but I don't like it, but that rag doll is still very precious, very good, because you like her."

"You're right." She understood now, and nodded arrogantly.

"So, that little fox is the same for me," I said, "and if I lose your doll, and I pay you a thousand and a hundred, you'll still be mad at me, won't you? So You lose it, and I'll be mad at you too."

After I finished speaking, I looked at her carefully, hoping that she would not directly shout out something like "I don't care if you are angry", which can directly end the conversation.

"Oh." She frowned, "What's so good about that fox? It's not like my doll has precious gems, it's very expensive."

"But you were not born with precious stones either,"

I knelt and sat on the edge of the bed, stretched out my index finger and tapped her forehead.

"You don't have eyes or a mouth sewn with gold and silver threads, but you are still a priceless treasure to the entire Duke's Mansion."

Hedwig opened her mouth wide, as if trying to refute me.But after listening to what I said, I was dumbfounded and seemed not to understand what I wanted to do.

"I like you, sister."

I gently took her little hand.

"Love that little fox the same way. Just like you do with that rag doll, even if she doesn't have a gem, you'll still find a craftsman to fix it and take her with you, right?"

Hedwig buried her face, her ears were red, and she didn't say a word. After a long time, she suddenly gave me a hard look.

"you're lying."

Seeing her suddenly calm down, I suddenly felt a different emotion.

She was right, I lied to her.

How many people in the Duke's Mansion really like this unreasonable eldest lady?One of the parents didn't seem to care much about her.

I suddenly understood what was wrong with Hedwig.

The Duke's Mansion, which is full of gold and jade, can only give her things that can be bought with money.How can there be a child who does not long for the care of his parents?

It's just that her parents who have not been around all the year round have made her subconsciously think that those things are unobtainable, so she fills herself with all the things she can get.

Her arrogance actually stems from extreme low self-esteem.

She said that she was an unparalleled Duke's daughter, but subconsciously she didn't believe it, which made her very uneasy; when she was young, she could only emphasize her identity through bullying over and over again to make herself feel safe ...

Maybe my speculation is not all right, but there must be more or less such reasons in it.Because I was so eager to be recognized by my parents.

This kind of self-deception develops over time and feels like it's not going to end well.

— After all, she was just a child in trouble.

No matter how many times I am disappointed, as long as I see such a picture occasionally, I will still choose to help her involuntarily.

"I always tell you that I hope you become a girl like the princess. It's not that I think the princess is better than you, but that if you do that, everyone will like you more. I very much hope that everyone likes you."

I patted her head sympathetically.

"I like Hedwig, I didn't lie to you."

I said to her very sincerely.

Hedwig still didn't speak.I understand that it's hard to convince her just by lip service.I think most of my preaching before coming here really fell on deaf ears to her.

After all, in her eyes, I'm just an unloved brother like her.

Any costly favor is cheap.I want her to understand that.

Before I could figure out a countermeasure, I received another letter from Yuli.He invited me to the south of the imperial city, near the slums, to attend the Firefly Summer Festival.

I told the duke about it at table, and he gave me permission to go.He made a fuss with Hedwig, saying that she would go too, but the Duke uncharacteristically opposed Hedwig's request.

"That kind of place is not suitable for girls, you can go to other places to play, Hedwig." The Duke wiped his mouth slowly and said.

"Why, father, Rayleigh can go!"

In front of my father, Hedwig would occasionally call me by my nickname.

"He's a boy, it's okay to go once or twice." The Duke was unmoved.

"Oh, my baby, it's really not good, so why don't you go and play around that place?" The Duchess couldn't bear to see Hedwig acting coquettishly, and she made a crying gesture with a handkerchief, "We as Hedwig How can the daughter of the Duke's Mansion be the same as those small families..."

When I was on the side, I couldn't hear it.

But when the Duchess cried, the Duke rubbed his eyebrows and relaxed, although his tone was very impatient.

"Fine. As long as she doesn't go to the park."

So the matter was settled.

After eating, I hurried to the library to search for information, wanting to find out what the "Firefly Summer Festival" was that caused the Duke and Duchess to argue, and Hedwig was not allowed to participate.

The anecdotes I found out as a result surprised me.

There is no other reason, just because in ancient times, this festival was basically only attended by men, and it was held for men to make friends.The aristocrats believed that it was "indecent" for women to participate. Simply put, it was a bad habit of patriarchal preference.

I don't like this kind of thing.

I have a great idea.Hedwig wanted to go that much, so let her go.As twins, we are very similar.

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The next preview, Xiao Lei's first women's clothing (implying one or two to see everyone's voice); Xiao Lei's first kiss (maybe I can write it); I recently went to audition for vtuber, and I was extremely reluctant to learn house dance all night, so busy [expressed starfish