Chapter 113: Your Happiness
"I want you to be happy... all I want is your happiness, Cedric would have wanted you to be happy too"
My eyes trembled, does he want me to be happy too? Does he want me to marry Emperor Lawrence? Was that my fate? To lose the man I love and be married to another I have no feelings for? Was this really the fate of a Silver-haired to outlive a life decided by others, to be whisked away to marriage whenever they saw fit?
Why did goddess Yelena create such a fate for Silver-Haired, why did she want us to be subjected to decisions that weren’t ours to make, to put duties before feelings, laws before love, and partners before soulmate.
All this, my lips pressed thin. It didn’t seem like she wanted any of this. I looked at myself in the mirror, staring at my sad features. Who are you to say that Sylvia... it’s not like I knew goddess Yelena... then how? How did I know that this was never what she wanted?
Boring in my looks for a prolonged time, for a split second there, I wasn’t looking at myself, but a woman who resembled me, her silver hair straight falling to her waist, some packed in a golden pin, golden armlet on both her arms, shaped in a butterfly. The same with her ankle chains too, her light pink dress barely covered her smooth milky skin, like a silk line fabric against her body, swirling around her with other layers. The center of her forehead had a small crescent moon tattoo, gold color.
I gasped, closing my eyes, and then opened them... it was just my reflection now, what did I just see? Was that Yelena? And why on earth does she look exactly like me? There was no difference at all. Could I be... my eyes trembled, could I be her?
"Sylvia... we are done you can come down now"
Mother’s voice snapped me out of my delusion. "Y-Yes Mother," I said with a shaky voice descending the platform, for a minute my eyes moved to the mirror once again, it was still my reflection. Was I seeing things now?
☆☆☆