I've been kinda thinking this for a while, but the child's bedroom being shown brought it back to mind: What if Lapis is not the original Lapis, and is in fact Aurora; making the original Lapis the one who died for her sake. And then she, for political reasons, was induced to take her place while everyone was told that she herself had died. It would explain the estrangement between her and her apparent father, and the vibe the story puts out whenever events parallel something between Aurora and Lapis in a flashback.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into the fact we never see little Lapis's eyes, but the glimpse we get at Aurora's show them to be not dissimilar to Adult Lapis's.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_fed_up_office_lady_wants_to_serve_the_villainess_ch04#1
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_fed_up_office_lady_wants_to_serve_the_villainess_ch13#11
I thought that was confirmed by Rubeus lol. There's a flashback to the killing and he says "when a noble is killed"; aurora was a commoner if I remember correctly, implying that Lapis was the one who died. There's other hints too, "parent and child" is in quotation marks when she's talking to her father, plus all the stuff about her existence being an act and wouldn't it be nice if she was who she pretends to be.
edit: ok yeah I'm remembering the flashback from the first chapter where Lapis is killed. She says her younger sister is a commoner which I took to mean Aurora. Something that never made sense to me about that flashback is how she derisively calls her sister "that thing" when the whole story is her wanting revenge, she obviously holds her in high esteem. It makes more sense she's talking about herself in that moment since she was the younger sister and she hates herself.
edit edit: I kind of want to know who reprimanded Rubeus to shut up in that scene, I can't tell who that speech bubble is supposed to belong to
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