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“Even if you keep sighing and hinting like that, I have no intention of removing this scar!”

Euphemina, who had been staring blankly at Kardiel until then, blurted out.

As Kardiel, who had been lost in thought for a moment, focused, he read the unyielding, guarded look in Euphemina’s eyes as she protectively wrapped her arms around herself.

Come to think of it, his younger sister was also a problem.

Why on earth did she want to live with such a scar? In the past, she used to hate even being touched for fear of getting even a single scratch.

“…Euphemina.”

“I said no. If you’re done talking, please leave my room now.”

In the end, Euphemina, with puffed cheeks, pushed Kardiel out of the room.

Standing in front of the door that slammed shut, Kardiel sank back into deep thought.

‘How can I get Euphemina to accept treatment…’

Euphemina vehemently refused the ointment that the four of them had risked danger to obtain.

Starting with gentle persuasion that if the burn marks were severe, she wouldn’t be able to wear the same dress as Lieselotte in the summer, and ending with threats that could make her feel indebted, saying “everyone risked danger for this,” but it was all in vain.

Well, Euphemina wasn’t the type to be swayed by emotional appeals.

‘In the end, is there no other way but to consult with stepmother?’

It was a last resort, but the truth was bound to be discovered anyway.

No, it would soon be discovered. Since Lieselotte had gone to meet Mistress Dorothea.

‘Wait a moment…’

Suddenly, Kardiel froze.

There was a part where his heart felt cold, as if his blood was freezing.

The fact that Joseph had gone together to meet Dorothea. A hypothesis formed in an instant.

Mistress Dorothea, a criminal possessing enormous wealth.

And Joseph, who had his earl title recognized by Emperor Godfrey in one stroke with his immense wealth.

‘If they really are blood relatives. And if they approached stepmother for some reason…’

He couldn’t know what Lieselotte would experience, what would happen to her in the presence of those con artists.

Just the thought of it made his insides churn with anxiety.

Especially since Kardiel knew that Lieselotte was infinitely generous and sensitive to those she had once given her affection to.

‘Even if they make flimsy excuses, she would probably let it slide.’

As she did with him and his siblings.

At last, Kardiel’s feet began to move. His destination was the stairs leading to the basement.

Of course, Lieselotte had not permitted Kardiel to go to the underground prison.

But such thoughts had already been erased from Kardiel’s mind.

It was better to be scolded for disobedience than to let Lieselotte be manipulated by those two.

“Young master? How did you come here?”

As he descended the stairs leading to the deep underground like a tomb, Viscount Johannes, the castle manager, bowed with a surprised face.

But something felt off.

Although Viscount Johannes and the knights were there together, Lieselotte and Joseph were nowhere to be seen among them.

Moreover, the stone wall connected to the underground prison was tightly closed.

It was also strange that the surroundings were lit with torches instead of the oil lamps they had taken down.

“Where is stepmother?”

“Well…”

Instead of answering, Viscount Johannes shifted his troubled gaze beyond the stone wall. That was enough.

It was a choking sensation. Had his premonition come true? Kardiel commanded in a low voice.

“Open it.”

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Dorothea was walking, feeling the cold stone walls.

The light source in her hand burned dimly, faintly illuminating the surroundings.

It was a crude ember, barely lit at the end of a wooden stick, too poor to be called a torch.

Thus, it seemed precarious, as if it might burn out at any moment.

Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to find things to transfer the fire to if she went a little deeper inside.

Not only that, she could also find things that could be used as weapons in case of unforeseen situations.

For example, this worn-out scimitar that had been sleeping next to some skeletons.

‘Damn it. What hardship at my age.’

Immediately after being trapped in this underground labyrinth, she had made every effort to find a way to escape.

But even after wandering for days, she couldn’t find another exit.

‘Anyway, if it’s a prison, there should be a passage that someone used to escape…’

She remembered hearing a warning from someone, a viscount or whatever, when she was imprisoned here. Did he say there was no way to escape, so give up?

At that time, Dorothea had sneered and scoffed. It was a useless thing to say.

Who wouldn’t know they were trying to break her will to escape by intimidating her?

And then they tied a sturdy rope to the handcuffs? Not even iron chains, but trying to restrain someone with such a flimsy rope?

It was clearly a mockery. She had cut the rope as soon as she obtained the scimitar.

But now she regretted it.

Not only could she not find a way to escape, but she couldn’t even tell which direction the entrance to the prison was.

At this rate, she wouldn’t even be able to get meals and water when she was hungry.

‘But surely, it can’t be that there’s really no way to escape?’

Suddenly, she felt the pressure as if this underground prison had swallowed her up.

It was because of the anxiety that maybe that rope had really been a lifeline.

If so, that would be troublesome.

She might end up in the same situation as the countless skeletons she had kicked while wandering the underground maze for days looking for an escape route.

‘That can’t happen. The future boss of the underworld, this Mistress Dorothea, can’t become food for maggots in a place like this.’

How did I come this far!

A vicious glare burned in her cold blue-green eyes.

Mistress Dorothea was currently an executive of the underworld.

The underworld was an organization that spread to every place where the poor and miserable hid.

In other words, they existed everywhere people lived, in every corner of the continent.

The underworld, a criminal organization that started from a group of outlaws in what was called the slums so long ago that it’s difficult to measure its history.

However, just because it was formed by the poor doesn’t mean they’re still an impoverished organization.

Their own cruel rules and black cartels, solidified over a long period of time, were more than enough to grow the ‘underworld’ to a scale comparable to any ordinary country.

In fact, they exerted greater influence on commoners and the poor than the emperor of the empire.

The scale of assets of Mistress Dorothea, an executive of this illegal organization, was larger than that of most imperial nobles.

Perhaps she had more than even the emperor’s private funds.

Of course, it wasn’t honest money.

It had been more than 30 years since she had taken the position of an executive in the organization.

It was because her fierce and vicious nature suited them well.

Especially, what snowballed her assets was the black market auction.

To procure goods, she committed all sorts of evil deeds.

As Dorothea’s status soared like that, when there were widespread movements for the boss of the organization to make her his right-hand woman.

The most unfortunate event in her life occurred.

It was her entanglement with the Landgritz baron of that time. It was 20 years ago.

‘This is all because of that girl.’

The more she thought about it, the more furious she became, her teeth grinding.

‘Lieselotte Karin Landgritz, the baron’s daughter. If only I hadn’t let that wench escape then…!’

She would have lived a more prosperous life.

No, she would have already become the boss of the underworld long ago.

But thinking about what happened because that tiny girl ran away made her blood boil.

The enraged former Baron Landgritz annihilated the slums that had been her territory, and most of her subordinates were captured in the process.

She barely managed to escape, but from then on, a different hell unfolded.

Her executive position was revoked. Not only that, but she also lost the right to host the black market that she had been tightly holding onto.

The boss of the organization treated her like a bug fallen into a sewage tank.

The executives mocked her downfall, and the insignificant members who had looked up to her before spat on her.

‘I’ve crawled out of that hell for 20 years.’

It was a humiliating time. Still, she endured that filthy period tenaciously.

It took bitter resentment and bone-deep determination until she could become an executive of the organization again.

And so, Dorothea finally regained her former glory. The organization even valued her more than before.

Now there were factions trying to promote her as the next generation’s boss.

But…

‘To think that a day would come when I’d be entangled with that girl again in my brilliant life.’

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Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)

One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.

Synopsis:

Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.

Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.

Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.

Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.

There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.

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