Roxane

Right after Haruka informed the higher-ups about Ayana's consent to the marriage, it was fixed that Ayana's marriage would be held just one month after that. There was nothing weird about the wedding that happened so fast and even without an engagement. The exact reason was that this marriage has been planned for some time for Nala Everheart and her fiance.

The commoners in District 2 might find this marriage a bit rushed and cold after what happened to Nala Everheart, but for the higher-ups, this was just a political deal. This marriage was no different than political means of achieve the peace between District 4 and District 2. No one care who would be the bride as long as the person was not their family.

After their discussion at the library, Haruka asked Ayana to live at the Luxon family residence because she wanted Ayana to spend more time with their family before her marriage. This was understandable that after this Ayana would spend her time in District 2 and would be away from her family.

Ayana thought that this kind of arrangement was quite bothersome, but she complied with her mother's wish.

In their family, Ayana was the only one who was still in school. Bryana, her twin sister, graduated last year and is now focusing on her modeling career. The rest of the Luxon siblings had graduated for several years and has been working in their job.

Within this time, Ayana grew closer to her family. Ayana was initially not very close to Richard, Raphael, and Ronney. Her quiet nature made everyone didn't know how to interact and approach her. She always gave a brief answer and appeared disinterested in their topic. Moreover, only after two months of living in the Luxon's residence, Ayana decided to live in her school dorm. The distance between her home and school was quite far, which made her choose this option. Because of that, their relationship stayed in the awkward phase for some time.

Ayana always came back on the weekend, but she would be busy with her mother or Roxane, Ayana's stepsister.

Ayana's relationship with her stepbrothers and stepfather started to get better after Haruka suggested that they have to drop her off and pick her up from school every day. It was awkward at first, but after some times, they started to get close, and the silence between them was not that stifling anymore.

They would talk about some light topics to understand each other better. After that, they didn't get intimidated by her disinterested face anymore since they knew her quiet nature.

Ayana never spoke with Bryana again after their dispute before the family discussion. The gap between them got wider after the incident. Bryana thought that she did nothing wrong by defending her right.

Bryana tried to initiate a conversation with Ayana, trying to forget the past. She has a little hope in her heart that Ayana will understand her feeling and forget everything that had happened between them, but Ayana ignored her blatantly in front of their family.

Some of them realized the cold war between the twins but decided not to butt in since they didn't really know the real problem. They heard some version from the maids' gossip but couldn't decide which one was real.

Haruka noticed their awkward interaction but didn't say anything since she didn't know the truth. She believed both of her daughters were adults and would resolve the problem on their own.

After that, Bryana seems to avoid Ayana as she accepted the job outside the town and rarely gets back home. Haruka was disappointed and tried to talk to Bryana about that, but her daughter only said that there was a trivial misunderstanding between them and that she will give Ayana time to forgive her.

The Luxon family house got merrier after Ayana got back home since Roxane was also back and stayed at home for some time. Roxane is Ayana's stepsister. She is the middle child from Richard's previous marriage. Raphael, Roxane, and Ronney were intimate since their age gap was close to each other. There is only a one-year age gap between Raphael and Roxane, and two years gaps between Roxane and Ronney.

Before Richard married Haruka, Roxane was the only daughter in the Luxon family. She got all the attention and was spoiled by her father and grandfather. She became brave and a little naughty, but no one dared to scold or give her a lesson since her grandfather always got her back. Richard can't even scold her daughter since his father would rebuke him if he did.

Roxane grows up to be a spoiled girl that always states everything in her mind brazenly. Luckily, she started to get madly in love with science and only made a request around her research as she grew old.

Roxane then became a young genius who won scientific research when she was 18. She also joined the research institute in District 1 laboratory after that. Her obsession with research makes her ignore everything. She never attended any social events, which made everyone forget about her existence and sometimes think that Ayana and Bryana were the only daughters of the Luxon family.

Before Ayana came to Luxon's house, she rarely got home and only got home when Haruka called her and nagged her for her busy schedule. After Ayana began living in the house, she started to come back every weekend or every month when she was busy.

She loved to talk to her sister since her sister understood what she was talking about. Unlike her other family members, who looked at her with a strange expression the moment she opened her mouth, Ayana listened to her rambling.

Roxane took her paid leave for a month and left the lab directly after finding out about her younger sister's marriage. Her colleagues looked at her in disbelief since they were at a crucial time to finalize their research. Roxane always prioritizes her research over anything, and her odd antics stunned everyone. Some of them scolded her unprofessional attitude, and some even begged her not to leave, but she ignored everyone and came home.

Roxane was frustrated with the fact that the smart little sister she just got close to was getting married. On top of that, she was used as a political tool to smoothen the agreement between District 2 and District 4.

She initially wants to persuade her sister to be a scientist just like her and join her in the laboratory, but it seems like it will be hard if Ayana moved to District 2. She pouted her lips when she thought that someone in district 2 realized her genius sister and invited her to the district 2 laboratories.

Aside from the time Ayana was in school, Roxane always tailed the girl everywhere and asked Ayana some strange questions when Ayana got home.

Ayana, who fed upon Roxane's constant question, finally snapped and told her sister to leave her alone. Unfortunately, Roxane pretended not to hear her and kept plastering her. Ayana then gave up and let Roxane do everything she wanted. She was just too tired to talk to her.