The Diary of Princess Alice

At night, in a luxurious bedroom, a little girl in a white silk nightgown sits at a table in the bedroom, writing something. The girl is around twelve or thirteen years old. She has long, soft hair like a golden sun. Her small oval face is pink but not plump, giving people a strange feeling of being both cold and charming. The girl lowers her eyes and holds a quill pen, seemingly writing something. "Miss, here's your milk." Suddenly, a cool voice sounds beside the girl, and then a cup of steaming hot milk is placed in front of the girl. The girl looks up and sees that it is her personal maid. "Thank you, Bella." Bella looked at her young lady. Although they have grown up together since childhood, every time Bella sees her young lady's beautiful purple eyes, she is amazed that they are the most beautiful things in the world. "Miss, you seem very focused. You didn't hear me knocking on the door. But it's time for you to rest." Bella says in her unchanging cool voice. "Oh, dear Bella, just a moment. I'll go to sleep soon." The girl blinks her eyes, and her thick eyelashes like small fans flutter. "Ten minutes. I'll come and tell you to sleep in ten minutes." "Fifteen minutes, okay?" "Nine minutes." "All right, all right. Ten minutes! There's no maid like you who doesn't listen to her master." The girl says "angrily". Bella stands motionless by the side without a word. "Okay." The girl stands up and reaches out her hand towards Bella's face, but before she can touch it, Bella avoids it subtly. "Uh..." The girl is stunned for a moment, then sighs softly. "You can go out first." Bella leaves the bedroom. The girl takes a still life sketch aside from the table. Then the girl takes out a thick notebook from the drawer. Judging from the appearance of the notebook, it seems to be quite old, but this is the girl's diary. The girl opens her diary and looks at the candle in front of the table. Looking at the dim yet somewhat glaring flame, she was lost in thought for a moment. Then the girl comes to her senses and says self-deprecatingly, "According to Bella, this candle is made of honey. Only such candles won't produce smoke or an unpleasant smell when lit. It's really luxurious..." The girl shakes her head, picks up her pen and begins to summarize what she has experienced today. If an outsider sees the words written by the girl, they will surely find it very strange because the girl is not writing in the common language of the Norman Empire... ※※※ "Today is another idle day. It has been twelve years since I came to this world. It seems that I have gotten used to seeing myself as the eldest lady of the duke's family. Every day, I enjoy a luxurious and boring life in fine clothes and delicious food. It also seems that I have abandoned my previous life and the soul of that man. No, I haven't abandoned it. I am still trying to make my surroundings look like my previous life. Although it's a little bit similar, just a little bit..." The girl stops writing, smiles helplessly and then writes. "Bella still won't forgive me. She still cares about that kiss yesterday. To be honest, I didn't know why I couldn't help kissing her at that time. Well... it's true. In my previous life, I was a man. Although in this world, I have become a girl, my soul is an out-and-out man. Bella, that kind of cute girl, is indeed very attractive. Although she is expressionless all day long... Alas... I don't know if homosexuality is allowed in this world. Homosexuality? Oh no, I am a man. Liking girls isn't homosexuality, right? But my body... This is really terrible..." The girl frowns her beautiful eyebrows. Just as she is about to write something else, there is a knock on the door behind her. While quickly writing "Bella has come to** me to sleep. That's all for today." in the notebook, the girl says, "Come in." "Miss, ten minutes are up. It's time for you to sleep." Bella opens the door and looks at the girl expressionlessly. "Okay." The girl shrugs, puts the notebook in the drawer, then gets up and walks to the bed and lies down. And Bella walks to the table, tidies up the somewhat messy table a little, and then blows out the candle. "Bella..." The girl's voice came from the dark room. "Yes, miss? What can I do for you?" Bella's voice was without any fluctuation, as cool as ever. "I just want to say, good night, Bella. And thank you for the milk. It was very delicious." After saying that, the girl covers herself with the quilt and then turns around and sinks into the soft and magnificent big bed. "Good night..." Bella leaves the room. The girl doesn't fall asleep immediately. Instead, she tries hard to keep her eyes open in the darkness, as if thinking that as long as she keeps her eyes wide open, she can see everything in the darkness. ※※※ In the morning, the duke's family sits together and enjoys breakfast. "Alice, I heard from Bella that you went to bed very late yesterday?" Duke Eberon said to his daughter with a smile. "Dad, it was just a little late, not very late!" Alice glared at her father angrily. Alice is very fortunate to have been born into a noble family in this life. Although this noble family also pays great attention to noble etiquette, when there are no outsiders and the head of the family, Duke Eberon, doesn't require his family members to perform those cumbersome noble etiquettes. Sometimes, the duke's family is more like an ordinary family. "Dear, there are bread crumbs in the corner of your mouth." The speaker is Alice's mother, Donna. After hearing this, Alice quickly picks up the napkin on the table and wipes it. Duke Eberon and Donna look at their daughter wiping her mouth in a hurry and laugh happily. The Eberon couple had only one daughter, Alice. For a reason that even Alice doesn't know, they didn't raise their daughter like a vase in a greenhouse like other nobles and then marry her off to other nobles for political alliance at some point in the future. The Eberon couple loved their daughter very much. They have found the best teachers in the entire Noah Plain (the Noah Plain is Duke Eberon's fiefdom) to educate her. And their daughter Alice is also very obedient. She studies very seriously every day and completes various tasks assigned by her teachers. Apart from study time, the Eberon couple almost gives Alice complete freedom. Even if she goes out of the castle and plays in places where ordinary people live, of course, she must be accompanied by guards. This kind of educational method is impossible among other nobles, but the only duke of the Norman Empire educated his daughter in this way. "Alice, you have to hurry up. The morning class is about to start." Duke Eberon takes out his pocket watch and looks at the time. Alice quickly drinks the milk in her cup and gets up to leave. "Dear, be like a lady." Donna says casually, but the slight smile at the corner of her eye still shows that she is joking. Alice helplessly rolls her eyes and then makes a curtsy. "Father, Mother, I have finished eating. Please enjoy your meal." "Heeheehee... Hahaha..." The Eberon couple laugh happily, looking at their daughter's reluctant appearance. After Alice leaves, Donna says to Eberon, "Don't you think Alice is too mature? She is only twelve years old." "Dear, this is not maturity but intelligence. Isn't Alice always very intelligent? She almost never does things that make us worry." Duke Eberon smiles and looks at Donna. "Perhaps..." ※※※ Alice loved her parents very much. Perhaps it is because she didn't have parents in her previous life. Although sometimes in this life she is very distressed about why she came to this world, the love of her parents makes her more and more dependent on this world. Sometimes Alice even thinks that her previous life was just a dream. "Perhaps... I should completely forget my previous self and be an Alice who listens to her parents?" Alice murmurs. Then Alice shakes her head and quickens her pace. Alice's morning classes are different every day. There are literature, mathematics, history, etiquette, painting, and so on. Even swordsmanship and horsemanship are included. Although there are many courses, Alice's study time is only one morning. In the afternoon, she would only practise swordsmanship and horsemanship occasionally. Most of the time, Alice is very free. Today's course is history. When Alice first came to this world, she was very confused and fearful. However, as time passed and Alice grew up, she began to be curious about this world. So, after just learning some simple words of this world, she began to read various books, especially history books. Although she knows that history is written by the victors, she can still see the general outline of this world from these victors' "diaries". After reading some basic history books, Alice knows that she has traveled to a society similar to ancient Europe, but it is not the ancient Europe she is familiar with. It seems to be a parallel world. And the place where she lives is a powerful country that has almost unified the entire continent, the Norman Empire. Three hundred years ago, during the chaotic war, the Norman Empire was just one of many small countries in chaotic times. But after various difficulties and so on, it defeated various powerful countries and saved all living beings and so on. Anyway, Alice thinks that those praise words in the books mean this. By the way, Alice's family, the Lancaster family, are the ancestors of the founding hero of the Norman Empire. ※※※ "The last question, Miss Alice. Besides the sacred Norman Empire, what other countries are there on the Tianyun Continent?" Alice's history teacher is an old gentleman. "There are only the island country of Varang in the south and the kingdom of Gemeiya in the west. Because these two countries are located in remote places and have no resources. Plus, they pay tribute every year. The kings of the Norman Empire did not send troops to capture them." Alice answered immediately. From this, it can be seen that Alice is usually very serious about her studies. "Well, not bad. That's all for today's class. Miss Alice, please take a look at the relationship between these three countries. Next time I will ask questions. If you can't answer, I will report to the duke." The old gentleman said while tidying up his books and smiling. "Oh, Mr. Jeff, you will make me very sad if you do this." Alice covers her chest and pretends to be in pain. "The clever and beautiful Miss Alice. Are you afraid that you won't be able to answer the questions I ask?" "Will you not tell my father if I can't answer?" Alice blinks her beautiful eyes and says. "That's impossible." Jeff laughed happily. He really likes his student. Although she is from a noble family, she is not at all arrogant. "Okay, I will definitely answer correctly." "I hope so." Watching Mr. Jeff leaves, and Alice is in a daze for a while. "Go and play with Doris in the afternoon."