My Fiancé Keeps Trying to Raise Me (16 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 99

It wasn’t merely pretty—it was chillingly so.

‘Worth giving up the reward for this… No, perhaps this itself is the reward.’

Though racing toward the reception room, driven by an instinctive sense of crisis that Jeon and Anet shouldn’t be left alone together, Kardin couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret that he couldn’t ask Anet for a kiss as his prize.

He’d suppressed his disappointment by telling himself he could earn something else just as lovely and admirable—but this unexpected gain?

Perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to make her angry more often. Yet, unwilling to be disliked by Anet, he quickly softened the corners of his eyes.

Then, blinking his feather-soft lashes, he said with poignant sorrow,

“It just felt as though my fiancée was alone with a strange man in a confined space…”

“Like… really?”

Anet unintentionally let her voice sound sympathetic before snapping back to her senses.

“No, it’s not exactly confined.”

Her eyes swept across the grand, splendid reception room befitting the magnificence of the Grand Ducal Palace.

Yet, she instinctively averted her gaze from Kardin’s eyes, which clearly said, “That’s not the point, is it?”

…He was right—they had indeed been alone together with a stranger.

The shadow cast by Kardin’s long lashes created such a pitiful, melancholic aura that Anet involuntarily felt guilty.

Seeing her demeanor soften, Kardin sighed inwardly in relief. Fortunately, his beauty-driven stratagem, fully deployed, had worked just right.

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