Edith listened to them as if engaged in interesting gossip.
‘Sophia must have deliberately spoken ill of the other ladies.’
Sophia clearly wanted to separate herself from the other ladies. That way, her strategy would be less likely to be exposed.
Even afterward, Edith willingly listened to the maids’ talk. Most of it was trivial things meant to impress her, but their attitude towards her was very positive.
“I felt lonely in the castle with no one I knew, so thank you for being my conversation partner.”
She gave each a pair of earrings with small jewels, and the rewarded Ann and Mary thought they wanted to clean the fourth lady’s room as often as possible.
Edith, ready to leave, left the room.
Sophia, who found her, scanned Edith up and down with cold eyes. Though what Edith wore was all offtherack, it made her stand out as much as custommade.
“Edith. Be careful not to misspeak or intentionally be caught acting out in front of the other ladies.”
“I will, Sophia. By the way, I really like this dress you bought for me.”
Edith gave a warm smile. It was a face that seemed to remind Sophia to faithfully participate in her plan and not to forget to share the profits.
“Oh, I have a place to stop by on the way.”
Sophia, speaking with a voice as if hiding something, walked ahead with a walk that might be in an etiquette textbook, and naturally stopped in front of her husband’s bedroom.
“Ah, Edith. I have something to talk to the doctors about, so you go ahead.”
“Yes?”
“You said you wanted to see my husband.”
“…….”
Sophia sneered inside. It felt a little relieving to see Edith flustered at an unexpected event.
She had been annoyed by her behavior, appearing obedient at the sight of money, but sometimes unwittingly irksome.
“Thank you, Sophia.”
As expected, Edith entered the husband’s room.
The attending physicians, who had just finished examining and knew that the husband was in a coma, were puzzled at how to interpret Edith’s action.
Sophia, with a bitter but graceful smile, asked for understanding.
“Please understand generously. Her fortune is tied to my husband, so she might want to hold his hand and pray or something.”
“Ah…….”
The doctors finally understood what kind of emotion they should have towards Edith, how they should think of her.
‘After all, she would want to appear as the wife to others.’
‘Her inheritance rights may be at risk since she married a comatose man…’
‘Why doesn’t Lady Sophia get rid of her?’
Sophia laughed inside. She felt relieved as she saw the sympathy and contempt rising in the doctors’ eyes, who were looking at the door that Edith had carefully closed.
“As for my husband’s condition, I have some questions. In the last report about this herb…”
While Sophia was deceiving the doctors, pretending to be the one who worried most about Nicholas Portrion in the world.
‘I never thought I would come into the Marquis’s bedroom.’
Edith looked around the interior of the bedroom with a haughty expression.
The room was decorated in an oldfashioned manner, but she couldn’t even notice the furniture.
Medical magical tools she had only seen in the textbooks for the academy’s medical entrance exam. Lying motionless among them was Nicholas Portrion.
This bedroom was no different from a theatrical stage meant to dramatically display his death.
“……Marquis.”
Edith pretended to call his name, worriedly looking at the magical tools. According to the color and waves of the medical magical tools, the Marquis was completely unconscious.
“Nicholas Portrion. You are the son of a bitch in the world.”
There was no reply to be expected even if she cursed at him. Edith looked around, feeling slightly relieved.
Since the Marquis fell, it seemed that the employees in charge of cleaning had only paid attention to the bed where he was lying, and the working space was slightly dusty as if no one had touched it.
She vowed to give thanks in prayer to God if she could find something that would help her escape from the mansion.
And as if in response to that, not long after rummaging through the desk, she was able to find two thin ledger books stuck between thick books in the drawer.
‘Last year’s accounting ledger?’
The Marquis had removed his hands from both the headquarters and mansion’s accounting, something she knew from hearing Walter and Vivian.
The late Marquis, that is, Nicholas’s brother, was said to have paid some attention to the related accounting, but Nicholas had been a free spirit ever since his brother took over the title.
Since he suddenly inherited the title after his brother died unexpectedly, he naturally knew nothing about accounting, and Sophia, who married him in a hurry for strategic reasons, and Chief Butler Whitman were said to have managed the ledger.
‘Nicholas was only spending his personal fortune on voyeurism with women, so it must have been easy to play with the ledger.’
Edith checked once more to make sure no one was coming in and opened the ledger.
The clinic where she worked in Homan was busy, and there were many times when she had to learn and struggle with things even without formal education, and managing the accounting ledger was one of them.
“Edith, accounting can be used both in the capital and the monastery, so it won’t hurt to learn it.”
Mrs. Homan was right.
As she alternately scanned the expenditure ledgers of the headquarter and mansion, Edith soon found something strange.
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
