Becoming Bestfriends With the Cold Male Lead

Livia has turned 12 years old this time.

According to the novel, she came to the Colden Empire to handle the power of the Fire Spirit that would appear upon her soon.

And there Livia met Lucian, her crush.

She didn’t know exactly how Livia grew up and ended up falling in love with the male lead until she went to the Colden Empire at the age of 22.

Livia was just a character that existed in order to show Lucian’s huge popularity and help him in the future.

Due to that, the details of their childhood memories weren’t told in the original story.

But in any case, as long as she knew the content of the novel, everything wouldn’t possibly go wrong.

For now, all she had to think about was how to remain a calm and cool noona* without having unrequited feeling in the beginning.

[*used when men/boys call their older sister or women who are older than them.]

“This is the room where Your Highness will be staying in. I’m Lina, who will serve Your Highness from now on.”

“Yes, thank you.”

And when her father, Urgan, has left.

It was snowing heavily for the first time in her (current) life.

Livia gazed at the scenery outside through the window.

Thin smoke came out from her mouth even though she was staying indoors.

‘The plot of the original novel has finally begun.’

The part where Livia came to the Colden Empire was obviously mentioned only briefly in the beginning of the novel.

There were four spirits in the continent, and four countries were established based on them.

Water, fire, ice, wind.

The descendants of the Hate Kingdom, who were born with power of fire, would be taken by the power of fire itself if they couldn’t control their own power.

Therefore, it was important to learn how to control their power.

Livia came to the Colden Empire, the land of snow and ice, in order to learn how to control her power, just as her father did back then.

All spirit forces could interact with each other, in particular the relationship between the fire and ice spirits.

According to the ancient book, fire and ice have had contracts from long ago to share power with each other.

[If they can’t control their powers, the descendants of fire spirit cannot handle the burning fire and it would burn themselves, meanwhile the descendants of ice would not be able to save any of their feelings and freeze as it is.]

[In the end, they were forced to borrow each other’s power. The descendants of fire spirit depend on the freezing cold power of the descendants of ice spirit, and ice spirit’s descendants depend on the melting energy of the fire spirit’s descendants.]

As said in the ancient book, the relationship between the fire and ice spirit was special.

They act as a somewhat inhibitor that suppresses the power of each other.

They had to find a way to control their powers all the while preventing each other’s power from exploding.

However, she didn’t know how to divide the power in order to control it.

This was because the detailed explanations of how Livia received help from Lucian were cut out in the original.

She thought, ‘Isn’t that too much to be omitted?’ but she was able to figure it out like a miracle. Before leaving for the Colden Empire, Livia was able to hear some useful facts from Urgan, her father.

In order not to be taken away by the fire spirit which couldn’t be handled yet, she would learn how to control her ability through physical contact with descendants who have inherited the power of ice spirit.

‘……What is it?’

That fact came to Nelia as quite a shock.

She understood why the original Livia stayed in the Colden Empire for such a long time now.

In order to stay closely with expressionless Lucian to make physical contact, she thought 10 years was quite short.

What Urgan has to say regarding the form of physical contact was even more shocking to her, who had been in shock for a while.

‘Physical contact that can be controlled by sharing powers always changes.’

It meant that neither Lucian nor her knew what kind of physical contact would be effective.

Either one of them had to figure out quickly where to touch.

‘That’s why I had no choice but to come to the Colden Empire as soon as possible when my power hasn’t completely manifested yet.’

The whole situation happened in perfect order.

Livia had to figure out what kind of physical contact so that she could share the power of ice spirit from Lucian before it burst.

‘I have to make physical contact and control of my body before the power manifests.’

If she couldn’t continue to control her power even after the power manifested, she wouldn’t be able to manage that huge power and it would burst.

In the original book, Livia stayed in the empire for only ten years.

From when she was 12 years old until she turned 22.

Livia and Lucian have been doing physical contact for 10 years, learning how to share and control their powers with each other.

And it was at the age of 22 when the fire spirit in Livia and the ice spirit in Lucian didn’t burst.

In the original novel, the time needed for their abilities to become adjustable was exactly 10 years.

Therefore, she didn’t know what would happen if it passed that period. Naturally, there was a great risk of being possessed by that power.

Before that happens, she has to genuinely make friends with Lucian and figure out what kind of physical contact that could suppress the bursting power of fire spirit.

However, Livia didn’t intend to wait until then.

She must be able to control her power quickly because she wanted to return to the Hate Kingdom.

She wanted to lead the precious country with people in the kingdom who loved her.

Holding festivals, farming, drinking cold drinks as they’ve done until this day in the kingdom full of people who’re passionate in their work.

‘If I make friends with Lucian, I can maintain a friendly relationship with the Colden Empire like what Father does.’

The Colden Empire, where Lucian would become an emperor in, has tremendous power.

How valuable would it be to befriend the emperor who ruled over such an empire.

Livia thought like that.

Livia opened the window and extended her hand to feel the heavily falling snow.

Then, she made up her mind for solely one thing.

The most important thing for her to do is based on the original book.

Become best friends with Lucian.

In all honesty, if that’s all it takes, wouldn’t half of her plan have been accomplished?

Livia jumped up from her seat, nodded and clasped her small hands tightly.

“Since I’m in the Colden Empire now, I should attend the snow festival I’ve been looking forward to before coming here, or even snow fight competition.”

Soon enough, it was already time for dinner preparation.

Livia bit her lips while feeling satisfied after recalling the things she had anticipated.

The door opened right away after she heard the cheerful knock of the maid who introduced herself as Lina earlier.

“Your Highness, a welcoming dinner has been prepared for you.  Shall we go now?”

“Yes!”

Lina smiled happily at the lively Livia, which wasn’t a usual sight around here.

Sensing Lina’s soft gaze, she took a deep breath faintly.

‘If I attend the dinner, there will be the male lead with a fascinating appearance that I saw for the first time a while ago.’

A handsome black-haired boy and charming eyes with intriguingly shining purple eyes.

Livia was well aware that the child, whose appearance looked like a child now, would be a very important person in her life from now on.

It was said that she had to sew her first button properly.

Let’s do this first step properly with Lucian!

“Princess Livia Hate is here.”

Shortly after making a vow, Livia arrived at the venue of the showdown.

“Huft.”

Livia, who took a deep breath, went over her own plan once again. Talk to Lucian in a friendly manner in order to befriend him.

This plan was very important because Lucian was quiet and lacked words.

To be precise, he was more difficult to be talked to because he had a personality that wouldn’t talk to strangers first.

Therefore, the most important point she had in mind was to make Lucian open his heart to her.

“Good idea!”

Smiling to herself at the ambitious plan, Livia was about to move when she was blocked by someone who stood before her and had been quietly following her around, Tiam.

“W-wait a minute. Your Highness.”

“What’s the matter, Tiam?”

“First, please don’t lose your cool, second, please don’t lose your cool. And don’t forget the last one, never lose your cool.”

“Oh, dear. It’s the same for here as well. Yes, I got it.”

Tiam scratched his head at Livia, who seemingly didn’t give a sh*t on his words and laughed as if it was ridiculous with her arms crossed.

She might wonder what kind of nonsense he was saying, but the princess, whom he served, clearly needed that.

Even if you’re angry, you have to hold it back for now. You must not rush to attack like His Majesty Urgan.”

“Tiam, do I look like that?”

Livia paused for a while at Tiam who compared her to his father before asking so.

Tiam was in torment upon her words with a serious look on his face.

The princess was a very ordinary person, but she was known to have a characteristic of someone who could do something quite surprising for other imperial people if they saw it, just like in the Hate Kingdom.

He wondered what kind of big things she would cause at dinner with the people of the Colden Empire, although they had been interacting with each other in order to control the power of fire and ice, it wasn’t a bad idea to prepare for a rainy day either.

[t/n: he meant ‘rainy day’ as in disaster that may come anytime and they must prepare for it.]

“Yes.”

Livia was getting worked up for a while after hearing Tiam, but she took a deep breath and soon spoke calmly.

“Whatever, Tiam, I’m not doing it today anyway.”

The boy she was about to see today is the male lead of this novel whom she would try to have a good relationship with and work with to bring benefit for each other.

Moreover, she has made a difficult plan to befriend Lucian.

Leaving behind his concerned escort, who shouted desperately, ‘Please don’t forget what I said for the third time until the end of the event.’

The deliciously nose-stimulating smell hit Livia the moment she entered the appointed place.

There was a lot of food on the long table.

Shocked by the amount of food served on each plate, Livia finally sat on the chair that had been prepared for her.

And Arden, the Emperor of the Colden Empire, said in a welcoming voice as if he had expected her.

“Right, Princess Livia. You must have paid attention to a lot of things on the first day of your stay in the Colden Empire. Mind telling me?”

Livia replied with an excited face, thinking that he was clearly not wrong to say that she’d paid attention to a lot of things.

“Yes, everything is great. There are so many delicious foods.”

“Haha, yes. I heard a lot about you from Urgan, Princess. I heard you like to eat a bit too much.”

She nodded.

It was true, she used to love eating.

Arden smiled in satisfaction at her bright blue hair that shook wildly.

“Then shall we dig in now?”

“Yes!”

Livia, who had been eyeing the thick steak that had blood flowing out from it, couldn’t hide her excitement and took the fork as soon as he announced it.

However, sensing the sharp gaze on her, she looked up for a moment.

Only to be immediately met with an indifferent gaze of a handsome little boy.

Disclaimer: I put disclaimer belatedly on chapter 1, therefore I will put it here as well. My translation is not 100% accurate as I mostly depend on the machine translation. However, I understand a little bit of Korean and can write and read, so I know several terms and search up when I have to. Thank you for reading my work!