Shall I Save You, Duke? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 24

I was angry.

[I’ll stay by your side.]

Those words, spoken as if out of pity, like an act of charity.

And.

I, who was swayed by the cheap sympathy of a maid.

“What a sight you are.”

Belige scanned her up and down with a mocking gaze.

“Did you accept the empress’s orders just to be treated like this? So, what did she command? To uncover our family’s curse? Or perhaps, to seduce me?”

Lina, whose mind had gone blank, snapped back to reality at the man’s accusations of being a spy.

“No! I absolutely didn’t enter the estate under anyone’s orders!”

To be mistaken for the empress’s spy—the situation was growing serious.

Everyone knew the empress despised the Permanence ducal family and the first prince. She must have suffered cruel harassment under her.

“And my real name is Lina. My past… I can’t tell you everything, but I didn’t come to the estate to act as a spy under anyone’s orders. Nor did I steal anything and run away.”

It was better not to tell lies that might be exposed later. But she couldn’t exactly say she’d been alive for 400 years without dying.

“And I was only gone for a day, planning to return to the estate…”

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