Why Do You Love Me When I Refuse Your Request?

How should one act when seeking love?
“You’re not my child. Shuelina is sentenced to the Mirror of Spirits.”

The real princess, Shuelina, is abandoned at an orphanage due to the empress’s schemes, living a life of loneliness. Eventually, she meets her biological father, the emperor, but her life ends in misery…

‘Shuelina, I won’t live like you.’

To escape this situation, she decides to embrace the support of the Grand Duke of Vailot and display her loveliness—

“Shuelina is my daughter.”
“That child is a princess, a royal blood.”

The emperor has come to find me.

“When Shuelina returns, I’ll teach her swordsmanship and even carry her on my back.”
Even my older brother is looking for me.

But I’ll stay with the Grand Duke. You never listened to Shuelina before. I don’t need this kind of affection!