Received the Obsession of a Chaste Dark Lord (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 15
Leopric said this play was because of the letter he received in the morning.
The letter, quietly delivered by Sir Deon in the morning, contained information about an illegal auction house in Waince.
I had roughly guessed it, but pretended ignorance and listened carefully to Leopric’s story.
The play, he said, was Arnold’s clever idea—to stay at the imperial palace in his place while he took a few weeks off for his honeymoon.
The letter ended by saying it would be better than him wandering the auction house alone, as it would draw less attention.
He showed me the postscript and wore an apologetic expression throughout.
It was actually me who should feel sorry for him, for telling me everything so casually.
“Are you alright, Amelia?”
I thought Leopric’s intelligence was quite impressive and silently approved his plan.
Then I smiled awkwardly, quietly pondering the contents of the morning letter.
“You said you wanted to travel quietly on your honeymoon.”
Unintentionally, recalling how noisy things had become, those words slipped out.
I didn’t really want to blame him, yet it sounded as if I were, and I felt a little flustered.
I hadn’t meant to.
Leopric, seated across from me, observing my reaction, lowered his gaze slightly at my words.
His face, faintly smiling, was full of regret.
“I’m sorry. I was born like this.”
It was a purely apologetic expression—not mocking, nor meant to embarrass me.
I was the one who felt sorry for him because of that face.
I shook my head and quickly spoke.
“I’m not blaming His Highness. I merely wish I’d known earlier—I’d have gone to Hameln and returned to the palace sooner.”
“It’s precisely because we came to Waince, not Hameln, that we can do this, Mela. Had we stayed in Hameln, you could only have given orders.”
He gently shook the auction entry ticket he had obtained from the jeweler earlier in the day.
“Still, since we came to Waince, isn’t this a rare sight to see? I’m sorry I won’t get to spend more time with you.”
Leopric gave a playful smile.
A rare sight?
I sighed softly as I looked at the ticket in his hand.
Myself and he were now on our way to the illegal auction house, holding the ticket the jeweler had proudly given us.
The jeweler, dressed in a slightly shabby but well-kept suit, had proudly twirled his thin mustache as he spoke.
As befitting Waince, the empire’s largest trade port, all sorts of rare goods arrived here that never even made it to the capital.
He had loudly claimed I would surely find something perfect for me there.
Overly proud of what was merely an illegal auction house, he nearly earned a slap right there.
Had Leopric not swiftly stepped in front of me, I might have been arrested for assault before even obtaining the ticket.
In any case, the expensive ticket we had acquired through such trials was meant for tonight’s auction.
We had also requested assistance from the Waince City Guard, using Sir Deon’s name from the imperial palace, in case we needed backup.
Leopric and I had decided to wear masks and quietly infiltrate to observe the situation.
Thus, as he originally hoped, he planned to complete this task without leaving even a trace of Crown Prince Leopric’s name.
“When this is over, I’ll be able to spend more time with you again. I’ll finish it as quickly as possible.”
He asked, with unmistakable delight, “Is there anything you’d like to do afterward?”
Was he excited about sweeping the auction house clean, or just about finishing this task?
Watching his flushed face, even I, who had been about to tell him to be careful, found myself laughing uselessly.
“I have nothing special in mind. Please take care of yourself.”
“Of course. If I’m injured, I won’t be able to spend time with you.”
“Even back in the capital, we can spend time together.”
“It’s most important that Your Highness not get hurt…”
“Even back in the capital, would you find time to sit across from me and talk like this?”
At my words about having nothing to do, his expression briefly dimmed—but at my suggestion of spending time in the capital, his face immediately brightened.
Who could have imagined that Leopric Reinhardt, of all people, would be so easily moved by such simple words?
“Once our official schedule begins, won’t there be more matters to discuss than you expect? Because of our contract, it’s better to speak face-to-face rather than send someone else.”
I replied casually and nodded.
He was someone I had to meet face-to-face two or three times a week, whether I wanted to or not.
The dictionary definition of “spending time together” probably wasn’t this, but unfortunately, I was going to be even busier once I returned to the capital.
So there was nothing I could do.
Though my answer might not have pleased him, he still wore a smile on his face.
Then he picked up the mask beside him and placed it gently over my face.
Before I could protest, his thoughtful hands adjusted the stray strands of hair that escaped the mask’s edges.
Wherever his fingers touched, warmth lingered.
“Let’s focus on finishing today’s task well first. The most important thing is that we both return safely.”
His alluring voice was followed by a laugh that caught me off guard.
As I stood there, speechless, blinking in silence…
“We’ve arrived.”
Sir Deon’s low whisper came through the carriage door.
Leopric and I exchanged silent glances, then adjusted our robes in preparation to disembark.
“Stay right beside me, Lady. You understand, don’t you?”
Because I couldn’t risk him getting hurt.
Leopric murmured softly just as the door opened.
The tense moment began again—the play resumed.
Beatrice Moldina, known as Betty, was a remarkably capable maid.
With her sharp mind, keen intuition, and excellent sense, she became the personal maid to Amelia Vermilian, the marquess’s daughter and the jewel of high society.
At the same time, she was also a capable assistant to Guild Master Janet, Amelia’s employer.
Of course, she was the second assistant after Head Mistress Hailey, who currently managed the company, but Betty was quite satisfied with her position.
She loved helping with the company’s affairs—more precisely, with Amelia’s work—as much as washing, dressing, and adorning the beautiful lady.
She always told her friends, as if it were a habit, that she wanted to serve only one lady for her entire life and die in service.
Her pride in her work was immense.
She believed she could live each day in contentment, as long as her mistress Amelia didn’t assign her absurd tasks.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if life always went exactly as one wished?
That was why the Amelia Vermilian she served was greedy, never satisfied unless everything was perfect.
None of those who had raised or cared for her had ever demanded perfection from her—yet she did.
The reason behind this relentless pursuit of perfection was what Betty most wondered about.
“This is madness. Pure madness.”
Betty murmured quietly, pulling the hood of her robe deeper over her head.
Amelia’s perfectionism was not new, but she never imagined she’d be assigned something like this.
It had been unexpected, even as she delivered Hailey’s letter that morning.
She had assumed Amelia would move without informing Crown Prince, but she never imagined it would be her alone, not Amelia.
Betty shook her head, recalling her mistress’s unusually dazed expression earlier.
“When exactly did I first instruct her to look into Isolde’s Tears?”
Before leaving the hotel with Leopric, Amelia had called Betty aside and asked quietly.
Betty had nodded as if it were obvious, and Amelia had departed with a serious expression.
It was slightly odd that her mistress, who never forgot a command, had asked again about the instruction.
But then, that brilliant lady had once been obsessed with an utterly unreasonable man.
Betty dismissed it casually, assuming the same man was involved again.
But the problem came next.
Amelia instructed her to go to the Waince branch of the Janet Trading Company and seek their cooperation.
And to secretly follow the knights of Waince City to find the whereabouts of Isolde’s Tears.
She had only said to look into it.
Betty pouted her lips.
She didn’t know what sudden change of heart had occurred, but as the one who had served Amelia longest and closest, she understood the sudden whim.
“She must want to wear Isolde’s Tears on her head at the coronation, no matter what.”
Though His Imperial Majesty and Her Imperial Majesty the Empress were still relatively young, the Empress’s health was poor.
His Majesty had also expressed his desire to abdicate soon and rest.
So she believed her time as the Crown Princess by the Crown Prince’s side was drawing near.
Betty wanted to applaud such meticulous preparation.
Such careful foresight was truly unmatched.
She clicked her tongue softly and stepped lightly into the darkness where nothing ahead was clearly visible.
Despite seeing only vague, shadowy shapes immediately before her, she moved through the darkness without difficulty.
Walking through a place as dark as a moonless night street or a deep underground chamber, Betty eventually came to a stop at a certain point.
“It should be around here…”
She waved her hand, kicked the ground, and lightly tapped around her until she suddenly grasped something with her hand.
And she pulled.
Slowly, a faint rumbling sound came from somewhere.
The sound, echoing through the space, gradually illuminated the surroundings, and Betty slipped her body through the emerging patch of light.
As Betty, who had been pulling, vanished, the area rumbled again, and the faint glow slowly faded away.
In the darkness restored, only a chilling wind softly wept, searching for the vanished light.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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