On the contrary, Chloe wore a faint smile.
“I don’t think the dessert suits my taste either, so I’ll leave first.”
Chloe also sent back the dessert plate as new.
She said her goodbyes first and went up to her room, leaving the bewildered couple behind.
Callis probably wouldn’t take what Chloe said seriously. Rather, he would think the opposite, that she confessed everything to the royal family.
Since he’s not in good terms with the royal family, he wouldn’t be able to ask outright. He would only be able to fret alone.
But as she had thought initially, this was a temporary measure with a time limit.
Since the royal family turned their backs on her, she couldn’t improve the situation for the ducal family, so eventually, Callis would doubt her too.
She had to do something before then.
(This is a time separator.)
A rustling sound came into Chloe’s ears as she slept. The noisy sound woke her.
‘…What’s that noise?’
Rubbing her eyes as she got up, she opened the curtains to brighten the dark room.
The faint moonlight shone into the room. As Chloe looked around the room, she felt puzzled.
‘Did I hear wrong?’
Nothing else had changed. Rather, the lack of change was suspicious enough to make everything seem as it was.
‘Maybe I mistook it for sleep talk.’
It was when Chloe was about to return to bed.
Something was placed on the small side table next to the bed. It was hard to accurately identify the object in the weak moonlight.
Carefully reaching out, she held the object under the moonlight. Gradually, the object became clear.
‘A letter?’
A thin paper envelope. Hardened sealing wax. Whether viewed from the side or behind, it was a letter.
‘A sudden letter to me…’
The gentle voice spread into Chloe’s ears, still pondering.
‘I’ll write to your house soon. We are now at that point in our relationship, aren’t we?’
Kun. The unidentified man who declared himself her friend a few days ago.
Chloe looked closely at the sealing wax. Usually, a family crest is engraved, but there was nothing drawn on this letter.
Then it must be Kun…
‘But we’ve only been separated for two days.’
After mailing the letter, it takes three to ten days to reach the recipient.
Sending it quickly is an option, but it’s not cheap. So people usually use the standard method unless it’s very urgent.
Kun wouldn’t have spent such an absurd amount on just exchanging letters with a friend, and there is no other way.
‘He doesn’t easily reveal his identity, is he someone important?’
Then Chloe and Kun’s first meeting contradicts itself.
Chloe’s shelter, a place to help the unfortunate, was not a place where welloff children would visit.
Or perhaps, being a foreigner, he was unaware of the shelter supported by the royal family.
‘Whatever the case…’
Whatever the case, Chloe couldn’t find the answer she was thinking about.
She gave up on her reasoning and tore open the letter. Soon, a fresh lemon scent wafted from the slightly torn gap in the envelope.
A fragrance that lifted her spirits for no reason. Chloe was smiling faintly before she knew it.
“To my dear friend.”
The first sentence that greeted her first. A special title that only one person could call her.
It was really unexpected, but, surprisingly, it was him.
How the letter that hadn’t arrived even by evening was delivered to her room was unknown.
It’s unlikely that the servants, who barely set foot in Chloe’s room, would have kindly left it there.
‘Could it be Jane?’
The only possibility was that Jane had sneaked it in while she was away.
‘Thank you. For even taking care of the letters one by one.’
Chloe promised to bring a bunch of Jane’s favorite desserts for her tomorrow.
With a heart lifted like a hot air balloon, she rushed to check the letter. She moved to a spot where the moonlight shone better and began to read the letter.
It would be more convenient to read it after daybreak, but that didn’t go as planned.
“Writing a letter to a dear friend is a bit embarrassing as it’s my first time. Please overlook it if my tone is awkward.”
Thanks to the blue lighting, the atmosphere became a little more mysterious. His beautiful handwriting matched the emotional lighting quite well.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
