Maria jumped up and embraced Leofold. A momentary glint of triumph flashed across her pitiable face as if her ally had appeared. On the young maidservant’s dress in front of Maria was the seal of the Princess’s Palace.
“I pay my respects to the Empire’s little sun. I have briefly visited to hand over a task to Lady Etel. I’ll return later.”
“Leofold, do you know what that task is? It’s the Princess’s summer banquet, and they’ve brought it to me. I keep saying they’ve got it wrong.”
Maria’s voice trailed off, playfully pleading. She hoped that Leofold would quickly take her side and send the maidservant from the Princess’s Palace away.
“My Maria, surely you remember what you said?”
“Huh?”
Annoyance seeped into the low chuckle. Maria opened her eyes wide.
“For one year, as my official fiancée, you will fulfill your duties.”
One year.
The words felt accentuated. Maria quickly glanced around. The other maidservants shouldn’t know about this, but it seemed most had heard.
Embarrassment flooded her, but Leofold continued speaking unconcernedly, brushing Maria’s hair.
“You did reply sweetly, didn’t you?”
“……I did. But Your Highness, that’s not the duty of the Crown Princess.”
“No, it’s the right thing for you to do.”
Leofold nodded unhesitatingly. At this, the maidservant from the Princess’s Palace swiftly approached and handed over the documents. Maria’s face filled with bewilderment as she accepted them.
“It seems my fiancée still doesn’t fully understand her duties, my lady.”
“I apologize, Your Highness.”
“Let Maria know by tomorrow what the Crown Prince’s fiancée will be doing.”
“Yes.”
This wasn’t it. Maria rolled her eyes around. The confusion spread across her dolllike beautiful blue eyes.
As she looked at Leofold as if hoping for a lifeline, not knowing what to do,
“……there was never such a thing.”
Maria’s heart sank at the subject hinted at by the soft mutter.
But Leofold’s eyes, looking down at her again, were tender, as if he had never said anything. So Maria couldn’t even ask what he meant.
Instead, Maria clenched her teeth and smiled brightly.
“Then, please officially hold an engagement ceremony, Your Highness.”
“An engagement ceremony?”
“Yes. Show me off as your official fiancée. It will make it easier for me to perform my duties.”
Looking down at the lovely face, Leopold muttered the three syllables of the engagement ceremony. He remembered the Emperor’s words, advising him to hold the engagement ceremony simply, thinking of a year later.
Maria added a word as if nailing it in.
“…More grandly than what was done with the princess.”
“Anyway.”
Leopold chuckled at the jealous voice, and affectionately brushed Maria’s cheek.
“I don’t even remember then. Alright, but you must work hard.”
Maria’s face brightened. A loving, coquettish gesture clung to me. Now she was my Maria. Suddenly, a scene from the past crossed Leopold’s mind as he naturally embraced her.
“…Understood, Your Highness. As you say, the white dress in the future is….”
A very long time ago, it was a scene from my engagement day. Olivia’s face, answering with a wounded expression, suddenly flashed before my eyes.
Anyway. Memories of Olivia are always like this. Leopold endured his growing discomfort and said to Maria,
“Let’s take a walk.”
Maria said with sparkling eyes that she would visit the palace for a moment. Seizing the opportunity, Leopold softly called for Count Hajes, his aide.
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“…Find out how Olivia is doing.”
Something he wouldn’t normally care about. What was that expression of Olivia’s?
Leopold clicked his tongue as if annoyed. Then he went over Olivia’s cold voice again in his memory.
(This is a time separator.)
At that moment, the princess’s big eyes were engulfed in shock.
“It can’t be.”
The fine hand holding the document trembled. The imperial seal was stamped at the top of the document.
[DASH] Vicander Order, Baek Soojung MineThat the barely surviving abandoned mine had been the leash keeping Duke Vicander till now. No, more than that.
“That was in that abandoned mine?”
The princess, muttering as if she couldn’t believe it, wobbled. Then she suddenly collapsed onto the carpet as if her legs had given way. But she had something more urgent than dignity.
“Nanny! We must leave right now!”
The princess shouted sharply. If the Emperor were to find out, really.
It might become irretrievable.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
