Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 249

Duke Cesare passed through the main gate of the De Mare mansion again today.

It had practically become his own home now. The gatekeeper didn’t bother stopping him, and Duke Cesare didn’t feel the need to announce himself either. Even the il Domestico he met in the foyer no longer greeted him with the same stiff formality or nervous deference as before—after all, it was obvious he’d be back again soon.

Cesare removed his cloak and handed it to the il Domestico, then strolled calmly up to the west wing on the second floor.

“Knock knock.”

His destination wasn’t the drawing room but Ariadne’s study.

Hearing the sound of his mock knock instead of an actual rap at the door, Ariadne answered without even lifting her head.

“You’re here?”

He shrugged and replied,

“Who else would it be, my lady?”

Lately, Ariadne’s life felt both eerily reminiscent of her past life and entirely different. Waking up each morning to find Cesare always nearby reminded her of their engagement period in her previous life.

Back then, Cardinal de Mare and Lucrezia—Ariadne’s guardians—had eventually sent the young Ariadne to live at Count Cesare’s residence shortly after the engagement was announced. Cesare’s stock had been steadily rising, and they worried the engagement—arranged as a temporary substitute—might fall through.

– “If we send the girl straight to his house, he won’t dare cast her out—not with his reputation at stake!”

– “Do you really think Count Cesare cares about something like reputation?”

– “But you’re backing this! Throwing out his fiancée while living under the same roof would utterly ruin his standing.”

Without considering the slightest possibility of heartbreak or humiliation should the girl be rejected before marriage, they unilaterally sent her to her fiancé’s home before the wedding even took place. Still, it hadn’t been unpleasant at first.

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