“The moment the baron babbles nonsense, my shadows we’ve seen earlier will come after the baron. What will be quicker? My shadows finding the baron? Or the baron meeting the Pope of the Holy Kingdom?”
Alford felt his heart drop.
“Be good, baron. I’ll be watching, so just let me watch. Can you do that?”
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“There’s a bad rumor going around among the maids because of the man who came earlier.”
Rishi listened to Christina’s report while looking out the window.
“It seems the maids believe what that man said. Plus… Gillette is also supporting that story…”
Christina trailed off her words, overlapped with a soft whisperlike curse.
“Crazy woman…”
It sounded like Erwell’s voice, but Rishi decided she had heard wrong.
“Lady Iris, Gillette, that…”
The usually reticent Erwell opened her mouth for once, and there was a thud sound.
Surprised, Rishi turned to look and saw Erwell clutching her side and staring at Christina with wide eyes.
“Erwell?”
“We should not leave Lady Gillette alone, Lady Iris.”
Christina said.
Erwell lowered her hand that was holding her side as if nothing had happened. She seemed unsatisfied as she pursed her lips.
“If Lady Gillette, Lady Iris’s exclusive maid, spreads such a story, the maids will believe that nonsense even more.”
At Christina’s words, Erwell nodded vigorously, licking her lips as if she had something she wanted to say.
“Erwell, do you have something to say to me?”
“Oh, Erwell is not talkative…”
Christina answered instead.
That’s not true. She seems to have a lot to say.
“We can leave Gillette alone.”
At Rishi’s words, Erwell frowned. Rishi thought she was a person who didn’t talk much but had a variety of expressions.
She decided to take more time to deal with Gillette’s problem.
There was no reason to drive Gillette, who was doing her job diligently, out of the count’s house right now.
If she drove Gillette away without a reason, people would think the new countess was jealous of the maid by the count’s side and drove her away.
Even if she told them that Gillette had been rude to her, they wouldn’t believe her. People prefer injustices committed against the weak to the strong.
Rishi, who was looking out the window, saw Alford walking towards the mansion gate with Kevrant.
Alford was hurrying as if he was running away.
A little later, Kevrant came to find Rishi.
When Rishi gave him a signal, the maids left the room.
Kevrant presented a contract to Rishi.
“I got the gold mine of Lavent, Rishi.”
The name Iris Green was clearly written on the contract.
Iris Green.
In her past life, Rishi was Iris Withloro, and after marriage, she lived and died as Iris Fuchis.
These days, she was called Lady Green, but seeing a document with ‘Iris Green’ written on it made her chest feel strangely warm.
“You did well, Kevrant.”
“Is that all?”
“What more do you need?”
“Compliments that make me feel great, or a reward.”
Compliments that make him feel great.
No matter how hard she thought, she couldn’t find any compliment beyond ‘you did well.’
“Should I comb your hair?”
It was a joke, but Kevrant said “Oh!” and quickly turned into a wolf.
Rishi was surprised.
She had no intention of really combing Kevrant’s fur.
When Kevrant turned into a wolf, his clothes were removed.
That meant Kevrant was naked…
To comb the body of a naked man?
But before Rishi could say anything, Kevrant had already brought a large comb from Rishi’s vanity.
Kevrant put the comb down and lay obediently in front of Rishi.
His appearance, like a welltrained big puppy, somehow tickled a part of her heart.
‘Well, for puppies, fur is just like clothes.’
Nobles meticulously take care of the fur of the puppies they raise.
Becoming a pet groomer, someone who cared for the fur of puppies, had become one of the occupations that came to mind.
Lisi gently sat next to Kay, brush in hand, and combed the fur on his back.
The wolf’s fur was stiff, but it flowed with luster and felt soft to the touch.
As she combed the fur, the thoughts that filled her head slowly fell away one by one.
‘Combing a puppy’s fur is a healing task for the one doing the combing too.’
Kay, who had no idea that Lisi thought of him as a ‘puppy’, was comfortably closing his eyes with a pleasant purring sound.
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Jereshien, Kay’s younger sister, heard an unimaginable story at a simple tea party attended by a friend after a long time.
Jereshien’s sharp eyes, slightly raised at the corners, became sharper.
“What did you say?”
“That’s right, Lady Green, the Countess. The person who’s becoming your sisterinlaw is having an affair, leaving your brother behind.”
“What are you talking about……”
Jereshien’s pale gray eyes shook.
The friend who delivered the news patted Jereshien’s shoulder as if to comfort her.
“Isn’t it unbelievable? Leaving your brother to meet another man… How long has she been married? Rumor has it your sisterinlaw had been dating that man before she got married. That man even visited your brother’s mansion.”
“Ha… It’s unbelievable.”
“That’s right, that’s right. It’s unbelievable. Jen, so don’t just stay holed up in the mansion, come out and listen to what people are saying. You’re the only one who doesn’t know about this story. It even appeared in a magazine last time. A reliable person reported it.”
“Wow, it’s really unbelievable.”
Jereshien gripped her short bob with both hands.
“My brother, what on earth……”
At the tea party, Jereshien, Jen’s friends, sent sympathetic glances towards her.
Looking at those friends, Jen asked,
“When did they get married?”
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
