Regina choked up.
Our gentle Miss, the pure-hearted Miss who only looked at His Highness Chase, to be associated with a barbarian!
Regina’s eyes were full of worry as she looked at Elise reading the newspaper.
How hurt Elise must be.
How worried she must be.
However, contrary to Regina’s worries, Elise was calm even after reading the entire article. Only Regina was trembling.
“The doe in the article, it’s you, right?”
Regina pointed to the Alleycat Times on the table.
“Yes.”
Elise nodded calmly.
“Leaving His Highness Chase for… for the man from the barbarians, spending the night with… so, that means…”
“Yes, Regina. I spent the night with the prince of the barbarian Titris.”
“Gasp.”
Regina collapsed to the floor.
“What will happen with His Highness Chase?”
“We’re breaking up. Completely over.”
“The engagement will be as if it never happened. Are, are you okay?”
Regina’s face was about to burst into tears, while Elise, the subject of the scandal, smiled brightly.
“Of course. It’s all as I wanted.”
Breaking off the engagement with the parasitic Chase and marrying Karan.
It was all exactly as Elise intended.
“Miss, are you sure you read the article right? Not His Highness Chase but the barbarian…”
“Regina. From now on, call him His Highness Karan. Don’t mention the term ‘barbarian’ in front of him.”
Regina was completely frozen.
Had Elise eaten something wrong in the morning? Was she so shocked that she was confusing reality with the content of the article?
“I’m perfectly normal. And I need to send a letter. Can I take this newspaper? Regina? Regina.”
It took Regina calling her name twice to come back to her senses.
“Oh, yes! Yes, Miss, take it.”
Regina had a mountain of questions she wanted to ask Elise, but as a maid, she couldn’t pry into her private life.
Unless Elise chose to tell her.
“But Miss, what about that newspaper?”
She could at least ask that much.
“I’m going to send it to His Highness Chase.”
Regina was horrified.
Regardless, Elise neatly folded the newspaper.
Like a sudden downpour, the Earl of Worton’s disapproval came without warning.
“Elise! Come down this instant!”
Elise, leisurely having tea in the afternoon, frowned at the voice echoing up to her room on the third floor.
“You’re quick. Father is still strong.”
As Elise tried to leave with a light remark, Regina blocked her way.
Elise raised her eyebrows.
“Miss, if you go down now, you’ll be severely scolded. He’s very angry. How about meeting tomorrow instead?”
“Avoiding the rain to wait for a storm? Regina, it’s better to take a beating sooner.”
“That’s not it! I know from experience… it’s better to be late. The person hitting loses strength.”
“You’ve been hit?”
“Ah… that’s not… what’s important right now. You shouldn’t go down, Miss.”
Regina had been hit by someone, and judging by her reaction, it seemed to have happened recently, but Elise had no idea.
She knew that house stewards or butlers sometimes punished young servants with corporal punishment.
But Regina wasn’t young enough to be punished like that, nor was she inexperienced in her work.
Moreover, she solely attended to Elise, so she wouldn’t have crossed anyone else…
Elise had a sudden realization.
‘They can’t hit me, so they hit Regina instead.’
There were often those who mistook their master’s power as their own, swaggering around.
She had heard of them creating their own power dynamics and hierarchies using their master’s influence.
‘Regina must have suffered a lot.’
In the Worton Earl’s house, Elise’s status was even lower than a steward or butler.
Her engagement with Chase was merely a verbal promise, and until recently, even Chase’s position was precarious.
‘It makes sense. And it’s more disgusting.’
Elise clenched her fist.
‘I won’t leave without doing something about it.’
A sharp light flashed in Elise’s eyes.
“Miss…”
Regina choked up. Unaware of Elise’s thoughts, she was only worried about her.
“Regina, I’ll be back. Stay here.”
“No, let me go with you…”
“I don’t want you to see.”
Regina clasped her hands in front of her chest.
Naturally, her refined mistress wouldn’t want to show her disheveled state to her.
But that would disrupt Regina’s plan to take the beating for Elise.
She wanted to insist on going, even if she had to be stubborn. This was not an ordinary matter.
“Stay here.”
But faced with Elise’s firm command, Regina had no choice but to stand frozen, as if glued to the floor.
With no one to ask for help and no power to assist Elise, Regina felt utterly useless.
“Lazy and sluggish, just like a slug! What is this mess? Couldn’t you just stay quietly at home and avoid this trouble?”
As soon as Elise stepped into the hall, a crumpled Alleycat Times was thrown at her face.
The Alleycat Times hit Elise’s shoulder and fell to the floor.
Elise’s gaze briefly rested on the Alleycat Times sprawled on the floor before moving away.
“Father, mother, and sister, you’re here.”
“Here? Do greetings even matter? Is this filthy business written here true? What have you been doing?”
Earl Worton, Fraser, pointed accusingly at Elise. His face was red with rage, veins popping on his neck.
“It’s as written in the article. I slept with His Highness Karan of Titris.”
“What, what did you say?”
“Just answering what you seemed curious about.”
At Elise’s calm reply, Fraser grabbed the back of his neck.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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