The Princess Who Saw the Fall of Her Homeland Strives to Change Fate by Becoming the Cold Prince's Bride! - Chapter 35

For Princess Luise’s birthday celebration, each group is to ride a small decorated boat on the lake.

As for decorating the boats, there is no equal distribution of materials. The rule is ‘outside help is allowed,’ meaning everything is up to the group’s own efforts.

Ladies with powerful support, like Gloria, had already called in supplies and workers from outside. They were beginning to decorate their boats with eye-catching, luxurious designs.

Meanwhile, Elze’s group was at a big disadvantage.

There wasn’t much time left before Princess Luise’s birthday.

Even if Elze asked her home country, the Kingdom of Maglier, for help now, the celebration would be over by the time any reply came.

Princess Vilma was in a similar situation. As for Frieda and Gisela, they had noble titles, but not much money. They couldn’t expect any help from home either.

In other words, they really had to manage everything by themselves.

(We have to compete with Gloria’s flashy boat? We’ll need something that looks really good and has a strong impact…)

Elze hadn’t given up. She believed that with creativity, they could still do something.

“Hmm…”

‘Elze, what’s wrong?’

“I just can’t think of a good idea…”

While groaning in her room, worried, Chiffon came over to comfort her.

“What would make a seven-year-old girl happy, I wonder…”

‘How about sweets? Elze, you love sweets too, right?’

“I’m not seven years old, you know. But hmm… I see…”

What about a candy boat? Like a candy house, but a boat instead.

Coating the outside with chocolate, adding a cookie roof…

(No, wait. This is a boat that floats on a lake. It’ll melt and become a disaster…)

It would look great if it worked, but they didn’t have the supplies or people to make a ‘candy boat’ real.

This idea would have to be rejected.

“Ugh… Chiffon, let me squish you a little…”

‘Ahaha, that tickles!’

While rubbing her forehead into Chiffon’s fluffy belly, Elze heard a knock on the door.

“Coming!”

Elze quickly stood up and went to answer.

The one standing on the other side was Abel, the examiner in charge of Elze.

“I came to check on your current progress. How are things going?”

“Ugh, actually… nothing’s going well at all…”

Elze honestly told Abel about the situation.

“So yeah, I don’t even have a solid idea yet. And even if I did, the real problem is whether I could make it happen…”

“I see. What kind of idea is hard to make real?”

“Well, you might think it’s silly, but…”

Elze explained the ‘candy boat’ idea she had just thought of with Chiffon. Abel didn’t laugh at her. Instead, he seriously thought about it.

“Hmm… It would be hard to pull off. But I don’t think it’s a bad idea.”

“Eh? Really?”

“The theme of this selection is to celebrate Princess Luise. If a candy boat appeared in front of her, I’m sure she’d be very happy.”

Hearing that made Elze happy.

She had thought it was a silly idea, but maybe she wasn’t completely wrong after all.

“…The feeling of ‘wanting to make Princess Luise happy’—I believe that is the most important thing. Celebrations are about thinking of the other person’s feelings, not your own.”

“Thinking about the other person’s feelings…”

Yes. That was the most important thing.

Which meant—

(I need to learn what kind of person Princess Luise is!)

Now that she thought about it, Elze didn’t know anything about the princess.

If she could learn that, she would definitely find the right way forward.

“Thank you, Abel! You’re really dependable!”

She said with a smile, grabbing Abel’s hand. He looked surprised and took a breath.

“…Thank you.”

“Watch me, Abel! I’ll make sure this becomes the best birthday ever for Princess Luise!”

Elze began to picture the next steps in her head.

Abel looked at her with admiration in his eyes.