Strategic Marriage with the Mad Villain (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 21

Ironically, though I’d wished the wedding ceremony would end quickly, the evening reception turned out to be even more grueling.

I couldn’t afford to drop my smile for even a moment because people kept pouring in endlessly to greet us, and since this was the day I needed to appear most affable in married life, I couldn’t leave Reus’s side even briefly.

Still, the one small mercy was that, later on, I was so exhausted that I didn’t even notice my contact with Reus anymore.

Thanks to that, we must have looked like the perfect couple in everyone’s eyes.

Yet even the dazzling party—seemingly destined to last forever—finally came to an end. I stayed until the very last at the banquet hall and at last returned to my room.

The only difference from before the wedding was that I wasn’t staying as a guest but had now come to the main estate.

Though this was quite a significant change, my body was far too drained to consciously remind myself of it.

Ultimately, I couldn’t continue my thoughts any further and, having completely forgotten this was the marital bedroom, collapsed defenselessly onto the table.

“Ah, I’m so tired….”

I didn’t even have the strength to walk to the bed. I needed to wash up quickly so I could sleep….

I squeezed my eyes shut and slumped there when a soft click came from the door leading to the adjacent room.

Too exhausted to move, I only turned my head slightly to look toward the door. After staring blankly at it for a moment, I abruptly sat upright.

It wasn’t the visitor’s presence that startled me.

At this late hour, who else but Reus would enter the marital bedroom?

Thus, it wasn’t Reus himself who flustered me—it was his attire.

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