Chapter 3
As the Archduke left the room, Michelle remained sitting in place, her calm eyes slowly closing in thought. The reason why she decided to tell the Archduke was because of how doting and spoiling he was towards his daughter.
Because no matter how good at acting she was and how much she could imitate the way the original Michelle acted, some things couldn't be imitated. Things like subconscious actions, taste in food, or way of dressing.
If the Archduke was an indifferent father, Michelle wouldn't need to worry about him finding out, since she could just say that after a near-death experience of falling off the cliff, she decided to change, but since the archduke was a doting father, that excuse would be able to fool him only for a while as he would slowly notice the small details.
Rather than being found out later and being exposed to his anger and wrath, Michelle liked more the idea of revealing the situation straight away to make her future life easier. Of course, if the Archduke didn't accept her explanation, she could just run away or straight up kill him, but she didn't want to do that, since that was bothersome.
When she told the Archduke about the death of his daughter, she had expected a few reactions from him, of which one he did. Her first guess was that he would blow up in anger and blame her, the second one was that he would break down and cry, and the third was what he did, hide his pain and go seek loneliness to slowly accept the news.
After a while, Michelle was brought out of her thoughts when she heard a knock on her door. "Enter!" she answered calmly, putting a bit of arrogance into her voice to sound like the original Michelle, to fulfill what the Archduke requested from her, to not let the servants know about what happened, in other words, act like his daughter for a while.
The door opened, and the young maid entered with the doctor again. "My Lady, His Excellence, asked the doctor to check on you, to see if you are fully recovered." The maid bowed her head respectfully as she spoke.
"I see..." Michelle nodded with a bit of arrogance. "Since daddy said so!" she shrugged lazily, acting perfectly like the original Michelle.
Seeing that Michelle was acting as "usual", the maid and the doctor sighed in relief. Though they didn't know why, when Michelle was acting so calmly before and even called the Archduke by his title instead of daddy, they felt instinctively terrified.