“Phew, I wonder if what we’re doing is right.”
Lucas wiped the sweat on his forehead and casually spoke to the man.
“I’m not sure how to explain to Anette. What should we say so she understands?”
The man glanced at the closed door and moved towards the Earl.
“Please be tactful with Miss Anette for now. If what I’ve told you gets out, both me and my friend will die.”
The Earl deeply furrowed his brows.
“Don’t worry about that.”
“Thank you. Lady Anette will soon understand why you opposed.”
“I hope that day comes soon. Viscount Melson.”
Viscount Melson grinned so widely that his thickly grown beard quivered, showing a sigh of relief.
“Of course.”
“Well, how long have we known each other? Thanks for coming today.”
The Earl tried to lift the corners of his mouth and expressed his gratitude to Melson, who had been a longstanding house doctor of the Leangberia family.
“It’s a great relief that I came by to deliver Lady Anette’s medicine.”
Melson had been a doctor who had done his best to cure the fever that had afflicted Liane since a long time ago.
Having seen him working hard to cure Anette’s illness, there was no way they couldn’t trust his words.
“It’s a disappointment for Duke Blanche. I was foolish to think he would be decent about women since he’s in the middle of a war.”
The grinding sound of the Earl of Leangberia gritting his teeth echoed quietly.
“I almost sent my precious daughter to that bastard.”
He recalled Melson, who had urgently knocked on the door and rushed in while he was in the indoor garden with his wife.
It was just a few hours ago.
“I heard that Lady Anette is marrying Duke Blanche!”
“Heh heh. It seems the butler already spoke. Yes.”
“Did you stamp the seal on the marriage proposal?”
“Not yet, but why are you sweating so much?”
“That is…”
Melson, looking unusually anxious, shocked the peaceful Earl and his wife with his words.
“Is the Duke… so debauched?”
“My friend who went on this expedition as a doctor came back and told me.”
It was about the Duke of Blanche who, not satisfied with indiscriminately coveting the women in the villages he conquered during wartime, had also laid his hands on the princesses.
“Apparently the Duke’s XX rotted and XXXX so much that my friend had to XXX it himself.”
Gasp.
They both let out a gasp of horror at the first obscene medical term they had ever heard.
“So now only half of it is left.”
“Half, is it cut in half?”
“With the lady present, please confirm this for the detailed content.”
What Melson handed over was a medical record. It contained extraordinary content. A kind of disease that was unimaginable.
“But the name here is not the Duke’s, is it someone else’s?”
“In cases like that of a duke or a royal family, we intentionally denote with different names. This is to prevent the leakage of information.”
It wasn’t a lie. Moreover, Melsen, who had spent a long time together, was even less likely to lie without reason.
“Ah…….”
Lucas sighed softly. Then, like a person in great trouble, he widened his eyes and jumped up from his seat.
“No. Immediately. I must call off the wedding immediately.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]As soon as Baron Melsen got on the carriage, he wiped off the cold sweat forming on his forehead.
“Anyway, I am lucky. I can make a decent profit with this opportunity.”
Contrary to the cold sweat streaming down, his face was filled with the smile of victory.
“Where should I take you?”
The coachman asked. Melsen considered where to announce this news first.
“Take me to the back alley.”
However, he finally decided that it was too late today, and it was better to unwind, thus directing towards a tavern.
Then he leaned back against the hard carriage seat, and let out a small chuckle.
“That’s why it’s good to deceive the nobles who are finely bred to the bone.”
He recalled Count and Countess Leangberia, who naively believed his words.
They were nobles who had only seen good things throughout their lives, never doing anything that would blemish their honor.
So, from the time Lian started to fall ill, he started to approach sensing the smell of a gullible target.
When he became Anette’s primary doctor after Lian, fortunately, the money source approached on its own.
Even after several years have passed, his true identity is unknown. He simply did his job as instructed and collected money from both sides.
And he just handed over the precious medicinal herbs given from that side to Anette. Once, he pretended to have personally sourced a rare herb that only grows in the East, and since then, the Count and Countess have shown deep trust in Melsen.
“Why is he so obsessed with that house’s daughter?”
He didn’t know the exact reason.
‘Does she have some hidden treasure because she’s a count’s daughter?’
He could only guess loosely with his imagination.
He simply had to do what he was told. He didn’t like it when he was abruptly asked to summon people like today.
“How did you know that the Duke is bringing a proposal letter?”
The more work he did, the more he found the person to have remarkable intelligence. How did he know this information when the Duke had just returned from the war?
“It’s not the royal family, is it?”
Melsen wiped the goosebumps on his arm and erased the headacheinducing speculation. After all, as long as he got his money, that was all that mattered. Instead, he snickered, recalling the events just now.
“Was it a bit too much to say he was halfdead?”
He deliberately turned his head in a direction difficult for the count to check, and the rumor flew that way. It was a hastily made up story.
‘Doesn’t he believe it?’
But his anxiety was only momentary.
The trust towards him was thicker than he thought, and someone else’s medical records did another part. Yet, to call off the marriage without any verification.
“Those who believe are fools, anyway.”
Even if something went wrong, the highstatus money source would solve it. Melsen shrugged off his worries and scratched his suddenly itchy ear.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
