At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 102

“So we meet again here, Your Highness the Princess. It’s been a while.”

Now even Marquis Haihar has come over. You really do live long enough to see it all.

Caella looked up at the gentleman bowing to her. This was precisely the fourth time. The gentlemen who used to leave Caella alone against the wall—deeming her too plain and awkward for conversation in high society—had suddenly started approaching her.

Every time Pheon stepped away even briefly, one person would come, get rebuffed, and then another would appear. If she dismissed this man, surely yet another would follow. What on earth was going on?

Caella knew very well the mocking remarks circulating about her in society.

“Stiff Caella, the flower pinned to the wall whom no man bothers to glance at. She’s never even ridden a horse with a man—so she rides alone.”

Those were Beatrice Lavalle’s words, eagerly repeated by her followers. And they were all true. Hardly any man ever spoke to her.

Even when they did, it was strictly out of courtesy—just one brief, bland dance before moving on. Thus, Caella found these gentlemen suddenly eager to talk to her and volunteering as her escorts extremely suspicious.

‘What’s going on? Why are they acting like this?’

Caella had no idea.

“My congratulations on your marriage.”

“Thank you.”

“But you came alone?”

It was always like this. They approached her, fixated immediately on her solitude, then offered their escort. Even if Caella had arrived with her husband, they’d still push forward recklessly. Hadn’t it been long enough for someone among them to finally reveal their true intention?

“His Grace the Grand Duke is truly going too far—leaving his newlywed bride all alone like this. Then again, there’s only one person he truly cares about, isn’t there?”

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