“My lord.”
Holio gazed at the dazed Teishar with a heavy heart. Teishar’s handsome face, once overflowing with the vitality of love, had been in complete disarray since Lorencia left for the Duke of Glosston’s residence.
His appearance, filled with a mixture of sorrow and anguish, seemed extremely vulnerable.
Following the order to leave traces of the room Lorencia had used intact, they left the room that needed cleaning untouched.
Holio scolded himself for imagining that Lorencia and Teishar’s relationship was a contract romance. The two were absolutely not in a mere contract romance.
He had doubted their love solely because Teishar was known as a cold man. He felt foolish.
“You haven’t eaten a single meal today, my lord. I wish you would have some food.”
“I have no appetite.”
After Lorencia left, the busiest kitchen in the ducal residence came to a complete halt.
The cooks, pâtissiers, and all the servants lost their energy.
“If the future lady of the house knew you were starving yourself like this, she would be upset.”
“Future lady of the house?”
“The proposal must have been successful. With Lady Lorencia soon to be engaged, she is naturally the future lady of the house.”
All the servants sincerely hoped that Lorencia would become the mistress of the Spencer household. And when Teishar’s proposal succeeded, the servants at the ducal residence raised a toast that day.
However, the joy was short-lived. On the day Lorencia left for the Duke of Glosston’s residence, the servants’ expressions were gloomy with regret.
With those words, Lorencia departed for the Glosston estate. After her departure, Teishar immediately lost his vitality.
“Holio, I can’t take it anymore.”
Teishar instructed, with a haggard face, to change his room to the one Lorencia had stayed in.
“Understood. I will inform everyone.”
Teishar lay on the bed, burying his face in the pillow, grieving Lorencia’s absence.
“Let’s endure for just one year.”
He wanted to rush straight to marriage. However, Abrelina and Welson advised that it would be better to give Lorencia time to spend with her real family before getting married.
Teishar had a fit, foaming at the mouth, as the engagement period sneakily increased from one year to two.
He could understand Abrelina and Welson’s words. He could pour his heart, love, and devotion to make up for the family’s share.
He wanted to cling to her and beg her not to go, but he didn’t stop Lorencia from going to the Glosston residence, thinking he should let her feel the happiness of living with her real family.
He wanted to whine and plead with her to stay by his side. Even knowing he shouldn’t, he felt like tears would burst out at any moment.
Teishar suppressed his anguished heart and had no choice but to send Lorencia to Glosston. It was painful, but didn’t he vow to let her live as she wished and serve her with utmost devotion?
He should think positively. Perhaps she would become even happier than now, receiving an abundance of love from her blood-related family. Above all, he knew well that her family cherished Lorencia as much as he did.
Pondering Abrelina’s words, Teishar abruptly stood up from his seat.
“This is not the time to be like this. I was forgetting the most important thing.”
“What do you mean, my lord?”
Holio tilted his head in confusion.
“We need to prepare the engagement papers.”
Come to think of it, he had been so preoccupied with the thought of Lorencia leaving after the successful proposal that he hadn’t drawn up the engagement papers.
“What? Understood.”
Before the pests could intervene, he had to send the engagement papers with Lorencia’s handwritten signature and the Glosston family seal to Her Majesty the Queen.
“Holio.”
“Yes.”
“Prepare the snacks our Loa likes.”
“Pardon? Ah, understood.”
“We’re going to the Duke of Glosston’s residence right now.”
Teishar’s face was filled with determination.
[Timeline separator]Lorencia intended to ride the white carriage gifted by Teishar, enchanted with a 3-circle shield spell, to the Glosston estate, but Blondie strongly opposed it.
Recently, people had been paying attention to the Spencer ducal residence due to the couple’s dates. If Lorencia were to take the carriage and head to the Glosston estate in such a situation, it would certainly spark gossip here and there.
When Blondie drew the line, Teishar’s spirits immediately dampened.
It was extremely painful to be separated from the person he loved, with whom he had spent every day.
Forcing the corners of his mouth to rise, he smiled sadly. That was the last sight of his face as she boarded the carriage. The carriage set off. She opened the carriage window and poked her head out. Teishar’s face was painfully etched in her heart.
“Lady Lorencia, are you upset that I couldn’t accompany you?”
“No, Blondie did it because of potential rumors.”
Lorencia kept recalling Teishar’s face, looking like he was about to cry. She fiddled with the ring on the fourth finger of her left hand, gazing at it.
“I miss him already.”
Teishar Spencer.
“If it’s Duke Spencer, don’t worry. He will come to see you soon.”
“Yes, he’ll probably come tomorrow, right?”
Lorencia nodded at Blondie’s consolation. From the moment she first met him until now, they had never been apart. The meals he always brought her every morning, the delicious snacks he prepared for her throughout the day, and the cocoa.
What he gave her was not just food. It was his wholehearted devotion.
“If he’s too busy to come, I can go see him, right?”
Lorencia’s gaze turned back to the window. Even if they were apart, the fact that they were in love would not change. Just that thought made her smile involuntarily.
She looked out the window at the beautiful scenery that caught her eye. When she was trapped in the Pol Heredian estate, she couldn’t even imagine being able to see such a stunning view.
When two knocks were heard from the coachman’s seat, Lorencia’s gaze shifted from the window to Blondie.
“Lady Lorencia, we will soon enter the teleport hall.”
“Okay.”
The carriage slowly entered the large teleport hall. Lorencia closed her eyes due to the dazzling light when teleporting, and as she felt the light fading, she gradually lifted her eyelids.
“We’ll arrive at the Duke of Glosston’s residence soon, Lady Lorencia.”
The atmosphere was definitely different from the Spencer ducal residence. There was a peculiar warm and salty scent.
“I think I smell something fishy and salty?”
Lorencia tilted her head in puzzlement.
“That’s because there is a sea behind the Duke of Glosston’s residence.”
“The sea?”
“Yes, the sea.”
Poking her head out the window, Lorencia saw the shimmering blue waves behind the distant Glosston estate.
Lorencia opened her mouth wide in surprise. Her heart raced.
“My lady, it’s dangerous to stick your head out the window.”
“I know, Blondie. But is what I saw really the sea and not a river?”
“It is indeed the sea.”
“It’s my first time seeing the sea.”
Lorencia smiled with joy.
−Meow.
“Leo, are you awake? Did you sleep well?”
Leo, who woke up yawning, looked up at Lorencia with sleepy yellow eyes. Then, wagging his black tail, he rubbed his face against Lorencia’s chest.
“Leo, we’ve arrived at the house where we’ll live from now on.”
Leo purred and snuggled up to Lorencia’s body, showing affection. Lorencia couldn’t help but laugh at Leo trying to be held.
“Leo, you need to adapt well to the new house too.”
−Meow.
“It’s good to wander around, but don’t stay out too often.”
−Meow.
At the Spencer ducal residence, they used the room on the second floor. Whenever he had a chance, Leo would use the second-floor terrace to roll around in the garden and come back in when he was hungry.
Lorencia stroked Leo’s belly with the back of her hand as he kept showing his belly and cutely waving his front paws while being held in her arms.
They arrived at the entrance of the estate. The carriage door opened.
“Lorencia.”
“Elder Brother Leanid.”
Leanid extended his hand into the open carriage door, smiling.
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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