Episode 214

“Lady. I will leave the car.”

“Thanks.”

Elisha nodded her head. She took a sip of her perfectly brewed black tea.

In the afternoon, when the sun came in, Elisha would sit quietly at her little game table and play chess alone. When she did that, if she looked up, she could immediately see a picture of a newly decorated snake.

As Elisha looked at the flower, she often thought.

Do snakes own flowers? Or is it dominated by flowers?

'It doesn't matter either way.'

Elisha was sure she was now. The snake will not regurgitate the flower.

Maybe the two of them have been assimilated and have come to a situation where you don't know who is the flower and who is the snake. Like a lump…….

'What's certain is, it's not to the liking of the late family head. That picture.'

Elisha looked at the pieces on her chessboard. The chessboard was handcrafted by artisans with obsidian rims and real diamonds on the heads of the king and queen.

It was an item that the previous head of the household had cherished, so it was difficult to take it out.

But for some reason, the ancestral head of the family often took out this chessboard and left it when playing chess with Elisha.

'Did you know, that I, the humblest being in this mansion, the 'collateral', would be sitting here. Especially the deceased lord. You couldn't have imagined. The lowly woman you called to play chess in my place. That Elisha became the owner of this room.'

The housekeeper's office had been cleaned and decorated only with furniture and items that were of Elisha's taste.

Elisha flicked and hit the black king of her opponent. At that time, Elisha's hand held a beautiful white phone. Elisha rolled it in her hand.

'I want to be free.'

'I don't want to be sacrificed to the Cartier family.'

That was her first goal and hope for Elisha. However, people are always shameless beings, hiding more intimate desires underneath. Sometimes it becomes the most lofty goal of all.

'Lucerne, I want to see you again.'

'I'll give you life back.'

The love for him did not disappear even after returning. He was needed and a choice for survival. But that wasn't all.

Elisha looked at the king on the chessboard. Under the light of the chandelier, it shone brilliantly.

'I wonder if you have a next move, so I thought.'

On the day the new marriage contract was written, Lucerne said. Indeed, that was true.

'Lucerne, your intuition is real. It makes me stick out my tongue.'

There is a reason why Elisha sent Lucerne a letter conveying her last will of Faian and made him the head of the household.

'Rules of the game of chess. The lowest horse that has advanced to the end. A pawn can be anything.'

Sick. Pawn, the lowest word.

If that pawn survives to the end and advances to the opposing camp, it turns into an all-purpose horse that can serve any purpose.

There is only one word that can be replaced by a pawn that has advanced to the end.

'It's the King.'

So Elisha needed someone to be the king.

'If it really happened today, I would turn back time. Then……. I will go to Lucerne and make him my king. Yes, I will carry out all these plans.'

Lucerne was needed. From the point of his return, he thought about the situation closely for several days.

'The key to trading is always choosing good traders.'

Rosaria said. Indeed, he was right. Elisha from her previous life has been watching Lucerne and Sid for a long time.

'There were many seeds that were ruined by the long war, but not a single one was kicked out by the hands of Lucerne.'

Lucerne was not really a cold-hearted person. The nature that, when she finds the woman she loves, she frantically restrains her and separates her from her world. That was a problem, so I tried to limit my relationship with him to his subordinates and lord as much as possible.

'The moment it already included sex, it was over.'

And Elisha did not want to make the worst of her relationship with the monster and beast she had chosen, the poisonous snake.

'Astina……. Because I wanted to meet you.'

Lucerne's last doubt. It was true.

There was a time when the two were separated. Then Elisha sincerely asked for a divorce from her.

And if the divorce is finalized……. Elisha, regardless of her means, appeared in front of Lucerne a few years later and intended to sleep with him again.

'When Astina was pregnant. According to the day of her previous life.'

She honestly didn't think she would fail because she knew men to some extent.

'Two or three years is the time when a man wants to sleep with a woman he broke up with again.'

And she reunites with Astina. This was Elisha's last move and plan.

But this time, Elisha's plan failed and collapsed. Thanks to Lucerne.

Little did she know that her Lucerne would really love her. So she thought she would come to her first…….

'And the result of the game.'

Suddenly, on the chessboard, there was a king lying side by side, a soldier holding the king, and a pawn.

Yesterday, Muto, the priestess of the demon god, came and announced that Ramun dwelled in Astina.

And she stole the family's most important and precious thing. They had the most beautiful snake they had ever raised, Lucerne. Have their pedigree.

And Elisha is the head of the Cartier family, a poisonous snake. The world's most voracious snake has become a variable that never bites.

She was the antidote, the answer, and the weakness.

In this way, Elisha became the only one for the head of this family.

And the piece lying next to the king on the chess board was a pawn.

'Isn't this a bad deal?'

Last deal with Lucerne. It was a transaction of buying each other's lives by selling them. Yeah, it wasn't really a bad game, Elisha thought.

'But after all, success is better than failure.'

The Cartier family. They brought Elisha's life, which lived peacefully in the monastery, onto the plate of hell. All Elisha could do in that situation was to move forward without losing herself.

And at the end. The humblest little horse, the pawn, survives and has everything.

The important thing is that she doesn't lose herself. It is to not give in even in the midst of so much pain and humiliation.

Like that, when you didn't give up even after being broken and broken once.

A pawn becomes a queen.

Rats win

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widely. Elisha closed the chess board. Now I've used up all my numbers and I don't want anything more.

“Elisha.”

In the distance she could hear her lucerne looking for her. Lucerne reconstructed her own study and office to connect with her Elisha space.

Elisha got up from her seat.

“Mom.”

It was Ires who found Lucerne before Elisha. Ires was three years old and toddled with her nurse by the hand. Elisha ran and picked up her Ires.

“Ires.”

“Mom, the baby is crying.”

“Okay? Mom will go see you.”

Elisha caressed the round back of Ires' head. In front of her arriving cradle, Lucerne leaned first over little Astina. Astina, 8 months old, is now sitting upright. Astina was sitting in the cradle and whimpering. With her tiny fists, she was now rubbing her eyes wildly.

Lucerne lifted Astina up with her firm arms. Elisha approached and gently touched Astina's pale, chubby cheeks.

“Shh, nice. Baby. Lucerne. Did you call?”

Elisha examined Astina and asked if she was patting her.

Lucerne nodded her head.

“I always look for you.”

Elisha laughed.

Now, the first thing they do to find each other is to go to the nursery.