Saved Him, Now I'm Obsessed (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 28

“Come to think of it, I heard that Crown Prince Ian’s personal perfumer isn’t actually a perfumer at all, but a woman who used to be an apothecary.”

“Then it’s definitely confirmed.”

No, confirmed? What’s confirmed? Of course, I’m publicly known as a perfumer, but how on earth could a perfumer suddenly transform into his beloved woman?

Yet, contrary to my thoughts, everyone nodded as if this fact were irrefutable proof.

“Information about the Crown Prince’s perfumer has always been unusually scarce and kept strictly confidential, right? They even say His Highness restricted all contact with her to monopolize that scent.”

“Exactly. It already seemed odd that an apothecary, not a perfumer, was making his perfume. There are professional perfumers trained specifically for this—how could some unknown, even young female apothecary possibly be crafting the Crown Prince’s perfume?”

“I also heard the Perfumers’ Guild felt deeply insulted by that apothecary. They supposedly spent huge sums bribing high-ranking nobles to help replace the Crown Prince’s personal perfumer. Rumor has it someone who accepted the bribe and dared suggest changing perfumers to His Highness ended up severely reprimanded.”

“He’s clearly not the type to casually keep a perfumer around. It wasn’t really about the perfume at all.”

“That’s right.”

Now they were chattering as if it were no longer a rumor but a confirmed—no, verified—fact.

Granted, it was true that Ian kept our meetings private and restricted information about me—not because the perfume mattered, but because he desperately needed my medicine… Yet I couldn’t explain any of this, and frustration boiled inside me.

“By the way, what kind of person was that apothecary who received the Crown Prince’s love?”

“She must have been stunningly beautiful, no doubt.”

“Beautiful? She was utterly ordinary.”

The women, who had spun tales of a legendary romance between Ian and me, now began theorizing about what kind of person I must be.

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