Became A Blind Villain
The Regrets of Duke Damien.

Duke Damien Daren Lynx stands in front of a glass window not to stare at the roses blooming in the garden, but to look at his own hands.

The hand that he had used to slap his own flesh blood in front of all these people had snatched away Ashlyn's vision.

Duke Damien himself did not expect that his spontaneous actions would be fatal, previously he only wanted to make the child stop making trouble and humiliate himself in front of the King and the nobles who were looking. He himself was very disappointed with his daughter's attitude which was somehow similar to who.

Duke Damien even wondered if the petite girl shouting in the hall was his daughter?

How could he have such a stubborn, rude and disputant daughter. It's completely out of his mind.

Duke Damien who was too busy killing and hunting demons on the battlefield had absolutely no idea how his daughter grew, he had only read the report saying everything was fine.

Ashlyn in her memories was just a five-year-old little girl who would cheerfully jump at her every time she returned from battle. However, from when the boy stopped jumping at him, he did not even remember the smile and laughter that was expanding on his daughter's face anymore.

It seemed like he had become a person who did not care much and had missed out on many things.

Ashlyn's words that day re-spinned in her ears. "I'm just doing what I think is right! The stepmother loves only her father and daughter while her daughter takes what should be mine!"

Duke Damien massaged the base of his nose before seeing the roses blooming in the garden.

What really happened to his family?

"Bin, tell my wife to meet me at work."

Bin, Duke's butler Daren Lynx immediately bowed and resigned to carry out the task.

Arabella was sitting down enjoying tea with Annabel in the tea room.

"Mother, should we cancel the engagement. I really feel guilty to Ashlyn because I am her ...."

Annabel looked at her mother worriedly, but Arabella seemed to look calmer than anyone who lived in the Duke Daren Lynx Mansion.

Putting down her teacup, Arabella looked at her daughter firmly. "It's not your fault that Ashlyn lost her sight. It was his fault because he wanted to snatch what should be yours."

Annabel was still worried, "But, Ma'am .. It's true that Ashlyn saved the Crown Prince."

Arabella nonchalantly replied, "Who cares, the Crown Prince is ultimately in love with you and not Ashlyn."

"But, Madam ... We lied to him ..."

Arabella looked at her daughter and said. "Stop being a head monster. We're not lying to anyone and it's the fact that you're the one who took care of the Crown Prince until he recovered. Everyone who lives in this place has eyes to see, who is right and who is wrong they know. Ashlyn just took him to this place and let him go. After all, don't you love the Crown Prince. Annabel my dear child, you deserve to be happy, stop thinking about people who don't want to think about you and think about yourself."

Annabel was speechless and Arabella was delighted, so she again took a sip of tea when Bin came and reported the Duke's order.

Upon hearing that, worry grew on Annabel's face and Arrabella simply stared dislikefully.

"Mother ... What do we do?"

"Don't worry, your father won't do anything, he alone caused all this to happen. Ashlyn's blind because of her, she won't blame us."

Quietly, Arabella walks after Bin and walks into Duke Damien's study.

The man was tall with sparkling blonde hair, his shoulders were wide and his face was so handsome that it could conquer the hearts of girls all over the country. However, who would have thought that this handsome and charming man would fall into his arms, a widow from a remote village.

Arabella develops a smile, revealing love in front of her husband and rushes to hug him with affection, but Arabella's heart becomes bitter as the Duke resolutely resists her embrace and looks at her coldly.

"Darling, what's going on? Are you mad at me for what happened to Ashlyn?" Arabella asked.

"Then should I be happy with what happened to Ashlyn?" The Duke asked coldly.

Arabella was stifled and speechless, almost spewing out words.

"Arabella Woods from the first time I fell in love with you and decided to marry you, you asked me if I wouldn't mind if you brought your daughter with you. I don't mind because I also have a daughter. Arabella, I love you and treat your daughter fairly, but what did you do to my daughter?"

Arabella. "What did I do to him? It wasn't me who made him blind. That's you doing it."

The Duke's face remained calm restrained as he looked at his wife, but deep inside he was completely disappointed.

"Arabella I trust you, but why did you let me down?"

"What do you mean let you down, I don't understand."

"How could Ashlyn grow up to be such an abusive girl under your charge. How Ashlyn can be so different from Annabel. Is it true that you ignored Ashlyn all this time?"

Arabella is back. "Darling, what do you mean I ignored it. I can't do it."

"Then how could the two of them have such vastly different personalities? Arabella I told you from the beginning that I'd hand Ashlyn over to be nurtured by you, so how could they be any different?"

"Honey, how can Ashlyn and Annabel be the same? From the beginning they had different personalities. Ashlyn was rude and Annabel was meek, it had been like that since the beginning. You can't blame me for everything that's happened."

But this time the Duke just looked at her and said, "I should never have entrusted Ashlyn to you."

Because for Duke Damien, a person's personality is derived from the education they receive. If Annabel can be a gentle person, then how can her daughter be such a rude and out of control person.

Duke Damien believes there is something wrong with his daughter's education.

So, after saying that Duke Damien walked away leaving Arabella frozen in place, completely unable to believe in her husband's attitude.

Duke Damien walked to Ashlyn's room and told people to tell Ashlyn his arrival. As the door opened, Duke Damien saw his daughter sitting in front of the window, hugging her knees in white pajamas that were still worn. Her wavy ash-like hair was left unraveled, her pale white-looking face staring out the window as if she could see, she said, but when Duke saw his daughter's gray eyes he realized that his daughter could see nothing but feel the warmth of the sun falling on her face.

Her daughter who had grown up was now sixteen years old and Damien had absolutely no idea how this girl had grown up. He had lost so much time that he had never seen it properly.

For what had happened, Duke Damien really felt guilty.

The Duke Daren Lynx family has never neglected the education of their family members. They always give the best they can to their younger generation as trustworthy and reliable potential successors. However, Duke Damien felt he had neglected his responsibilities as a father, trusting his wife too much and handing her daughter over to Arabella so that her daughter grew up to be a rude and uncontrollable person.

How can he fix this? It seemed like she herself had to educate her daughter and watch over her at all times. However, for that what action should he take?

She was not close to her daughter and she did not know how to educate a child, let alone this was a daughter. Damien, who grew up under his father and grandfather, was taught the hard way because from the beginning he was prepared to accept the title of Duke and go to war against the devil.

However, his daughter ....

What's he supposed to do?

And not only that, Ashlyn is now 16 years old. What's he supposed to do?

"Ashlyn, what do you want. I'll do everything for you."

Finally only these words could he spew out from his mouth after a long thought. She thought she needed to be close to her daughter first before educating her. After all, she really felt guilty because her actions had left her daughter blind.

Whatever his daughter said he would give it to her, no matter if he asked the Crown Prince then he would give it to her, it was only the Crown Prince of a small Kingdom, no matter what, the Duke's status could even be considered higher than that of a King at the imperial level, his services that had protected the imperial territory had left him with even more power.

The king would not dare to refuse his request, and for Annabel he should be able to accept his decision.

Inside the Duke actually sighed, if only he had thought about this before slapping Ashlyn back then, none of this would have been this bad. At that time he really could not think clearly when he saw Ashlyn's behavior that was rude and out of control, everyone's gaze and how they were whispering incinerated his soul and for a moment he could not control his emotions at Ashlyn and ended up slapping her blind.

However, the answer not expected by Duke Damien completely shook his soul.

"Because of you my world went dark. Don't do anything and never do anything like before when you're never here."

Although Duke Damien had predicted that Ashlyn would blame him for what happened, but upon hearing that came out of Ashlyn's own mouth, Ashlyn, duke Damien's chest really felt it had been stung to the point of feeling sour and sore.

The Duke felt increasingly guilty and seeing the sad expression on his daughter's face, the Duke felt himself to have been attacked from all directions.

"You really don't want me to do anything?" The Duke asked again with a hopeful expression on his face.

Tell me what you want, if you ask the Crown Prince I will also give it, just say it and I will.

The Duke was completely in a state of disarray, facing his slumped daughter for the first time really made him confused and go awry. However, he still hoped that Ashlyn would ask him for something, at least with that Duke Damien would feel calmer in his heart and reduce his guilt.

However, the petite girl in front of him actually ignored him more, as if the girl could tell where Duke was standing, the girl changed her position and showed a cold back to Duke.

"Don't do anything, I don't need it. Just go to war or just go to your wife, in your eyes I've never been, have I?"

In your eyes, I never existed, did I?

The words rolled over and over in his ears. This is how her daughter looks at her. Her dad.

Duke Damien said nothing more than to stare at the tiny girl's extremely fragile back, as if with just a single grasp she would crumble into ashes as her name suggests, Ashlyn.

After gazing for quite a while, the Duke left in silence and with an unbecoming thought in his head. Her daughter had harbored hatred towards her from the very beginning, even her daughter thought she was never seen by her eyes, isn't it rudely that his daughter has told him that he as a father has never paid any attention to his daughter and is impressed to ignore her.

And now after what he did, his daughter hates him even more to the point of saying that she needs nothing more from him.

This is completely wrong. How can a princess expect nothing from her father?

And how could her daughter think that she never paid attention to her daughter?

Duke just didn't see it growing under his eyes, but he always read reports about his daughter's development and always sent her lots of gifts whenever she traveled and found something interesting.

What it can't be called a form of attention!

Gazing at the hand that had been holding his daughter, Duke turned his head and looked at Bin.

"Bin, you're a person I trust a lot, I hope you don't let me down this time. I want to know everything, what's my daughter and my wife's relationship like?"

Note: Some may wonder, just slapped so you can go blind. Hmm, as the story goes this mystery will be revealed, hohoho. Thank you for reading 😘