(A/N): chapters 3-7 will be focusing on (Y/n) and Athanasia's POV, i know that this is a Lucas x reader but i want to establish a father and daughter moments which should only take, few Chapters i'm sorry if ML is not gonna show up any time soon cause i'm following the manwha(◞‸◟；)

*Gasp!*

*huh?!*

She dropped the rattle that she was holding because she was suddenly reminded of a scene from a novel

What's this? Why did i suddenly think of that novel?

The romance novel i read because a customer left it behind

The title and the plot were tacky and childish too. Did i recall this because the princess that gets executed in it...?

Has the same name as me...?

'Get out of my head this instant!'

"Hmm?"

"Oh, bother. How clumsy she keeps dropping it."

A woman that had been sewing peacefully was startled up by the sound of rattle hitting the floor 'babies don't have good grip dummy!'

"Don't be a nuisance and play quietly with your toy, miss."

She picked it up on the ground and gave it back to me without wiping it, is she belittling me for being an "outcast" of a princess?

*Dropped*

So the rude maid started to console me. I could tell she was annoyed "whats wrong? Ugh, i already have my hands full of this sewing!" "Here let me get that for you"

"Nyo!" I don't want this, it's not what i want. Do you really think a rattle would be entertaining at my age?!

"Are you bored with it?" She nod

"Let's lay you down"

She placed me back on the crib and left. She probably went to the head maid

If your coming back with another rattle, don't bother. "uaun..."

"Auu" I lifted my hand in the spinning mobile and look at it. What a light and chubby hands. I could't get used to it. I went to sleep after taking some sleeping pills, i could't sleep on my best friend's death

And i woke up to this

This makes no sense, me suddenly becoming a baby? And to top of it i'm a princess 'this is crazy'

"Princess!" ah this girl does this all the time! "The head maid said our budget is low. You'll have to play with this" is she allowed to abruptly open a door to a baby's room like this?

"I won't coddle you if you start crying. I'm really busy right now!"

I'm a baby! Do you think i'll understand what your saying? This was unfair!

I guess not every princess is treated as one

From being an orphan in my life, it's nice to be reborn as a princess...

But why did it have to be a princess that everyone hates!

- ω - Night - ω -

My father on this world...
... Was a real psycho

"Ewya" Geez it gives me goosebumps

According to what i overheard from the maids talking, this ruby palace that i'm currently living in, was originally where the emperor's concubines lived.

In short, the emperor's harem
... Or so it was until the day i was born, when the emperor killed everyone in the ruby palace.

My mother was invited to the royal bouquet.

She drew the emperor's attention and was deflowered by him. But then she was forgotten...

And died, leaving an infant behind, who was me. Since then the emperor has cast me aside, his baby girl.

So i was raised by the wind rocking my cradle...
...I mean the maids of the ruby palace.

'What's this dirtbag of an emperor doing throwing his wife and daughter aside?'

Leaving a baby like me here, where he committed such a...
Cruel massacre

Ugh... Since hearing that story for the first time i've been having nightmares

But what scares me more than nightmares

Was the emperor that i never even met yet. 'Even a born princess i didn't get to lucky...' What if he suddenly goes cuckoo again and tries to kill me?

Like he killed everyone else who was in here in the palace

I should think of something else i'm scaring myself "uaang" the name i got this life was given to me by my birth mother

- The Undying -
Athanasia

Such an extravagant name for an "outcast" princess like me. It's the same name as the Ill-fated princess in that romance novel "Lovely Princess"

I supposed mother meant for me to live long an prosperous in the emperors care. Unfortunately the Athanasia from the novel faces a tragic death at the age of 18

Her father emperor himself, no less!

'Why do i keep thinking about it?'

My thoughts had been interrupted by the sound of loud bang on the door informing someone had entered and slam it to hard "hm?she's still not asleep"

"Do we really need to be here? She can't move on her own way"

"You know how fussy Lilian is. So much trouble that one"

"Think of this as taking a break"

"What if she starts crying?" "Rock her cradle so she'll fall asleep faster"

Ahh, this again

Just as that the maids got interrupted by their talking "Let's not take it out on her, ladies you all stuck here in the ruby palace together."

All the maids look to where the voice was and saw a beautiful blonde girl leaning on the door "heh?"

"Huh?"

"Uwah?"