Delina’s height was such that even if her neck had been cut, there would have been some left over. Hastily, Delina lay flat on her body and felt her neck once more.
“What on earth has happened to this damned mansion?”
She had known the rumors of the Duke’s family, but experiencing it directly was more horrifying than she had thought. Delina, who had lowered her posture entirely, crawled and checked the wall next to the front gate.
She didn’t want to touch the wall.
She feared that if she made a mistake again, this time a doubleheaded axe might fly at her.
In the end, unable to do anything, Delina simply stared at the massive front gate and wall. But she had to investigate the wall. The secret passage leading into the mansion was right nearby. This, too, was one of the secrets that had become known when the Duke’s family had been wiped out.
‘Still, I was sure it was around here. Hmm?’
It was then, as Delina was looking for the entrance to the secret passage and lying flat on the ground, that she saw a brick at the very bottom of the wall. Delina touched it with her hand.
‘Something about the texture is a bit…’
There was a slight difference, discernible only upon close inspection. Instinctively, Delina crawled toward that brick. Then, swallowing her dry saliva, she pressed the brick hard.
“…Was it just worn out?”
She wondered if it wasn’t the brick that opened the hidden passage, but there was no reaction, to her surprise. As Delina was about to pull her hand away from the brick in disappointment, a drop of blood oozed from a finger wound and seeped into a crack in the brick.
“…Huh? Uh, what?”
Then, the brick, which had not budged an inch, began to retreat, creating an entrance, and Delina, who had been caught off guard, rolled right into the entrance.
Delina rolled around the entrance passage for a while. Rolling so deep and dark that she didn’t even know where she was going, Delina was finally able to stop her body after a long time.
“Ugh.”
Spinning around for a while, she didn’t even realize where she was, and Delina retched. After clamping her mouth shut and sitting down for a moment, her senses began to return slowly. Then Delina finally looked around.
‘A room…?’
Although it was too dark to see properly, she could faintly make out the silhouettes of a bed and other furniture. Delina slowly got up. Then, from the darkness, a low voice was heard.
“These days, assassination methods are quite peculiar.”
“!”
At the sudden sound, Delina quickly turned her head in the direction of the noise.
For a moment, moonlight shone in, and the clear eyes of a man began to appear. Shortly after, the moon fully revealed itself, and its light brightly illuminated both the man and Delina. Only then did Delina clearly see the man’s appearance and inwardly admire him.
He had dark black hair, and his hidden eyes were red and blue. He had heterochromia. Despite Delina’s sudden appearance, the man slowly rose from the bed without a hint of surprise.
“……”
The man’s eyes were utterly bored. This was not the attitude of one facing an assassin. As if it wasn’t his first or second time in this situation, he casually drew the sword from beside his bed and looked down at Delina before snapping his fingers.
“……?”
“Come here.”
In the man’s hand that beckoned her was a cold knife. Delina swallowed dryly. Only then did she realize the man’s misunderstanding and laid her body flat.
“I’m not an assassin!”
If she had stayed still, she would have been cut by the man’s knife. Delina shouted.
“My name is Delina. I have come seeking the Duke’s patronage.”
Black hair, odd eyes, and a man in the Wolfheim mansion… There could only be one such person.
Duke Bellion Wolfheim.
Surely no one had seen his eyes outside because he had hidden them, but the secret of his eyes had been revealed after his death. That he had heterochromia, possessing a red and blue eye.
“I have long sought the Duke’s patronage, and so I came like this……”
“How did you get in here?”
Ignoring Delina’s introduction, Bellion looked to the side for a moment and asked. At the end of Bellion’s gaze was the hole in the wall through which Delina had entered.
Next to the main gate, under the wall, I pressed a brick and entered. I know some of the Duke’s secrets.
“…….”
I’m capable of gathering information. So, it should be fine to keep me around. It doesn’t matter if it’s not sponsorship. Just let me work.
Though called a secret passage, Delina had thought it only led to the mansion’s corridor, but it happened to be directly connected to Duke Bellion, and she swallowed her tears inside. For now, all she hoped was that Duke Bellion wouldn’t stab her with that sword.
“……I apologize for using the entrance carelessly. I did not expect it to lead directly to the room…….”
Wondering if using the entrance so carelessly had offended him, Delina looked at Duke Bellion’s face as she bowed deeply. But Duke Bellion still seemed dissatisfied, his eyebrows raised.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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