The Credentials of a Couple (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 199

What does it matter who my real father is? What’s so great about blood ties anyway?

Meriel walked with a hollow laugh. She tried to walk straight, but her vision swam, making it hard to keep her balance.

“Have you been drinking?”

“…Father.”

Meriel instinctively tried to correct her posture, but soon scoffed.

After all, even if she tried to behave properly, her father would never truly look at her.

She knew it well. As the adopted daughter of Duke Pierne, she had lived a life lacking nothing. Since the Duke had no other children besides his adopted daughter, it was only natural she might inherit the house; and even if not, her accumulated merits ensured she could easily make a living on her own.

She was no longer a child. She didn’t need a guardian.

She had already completed her coming-of-age ceremony and was legally independent. Leaving wouldn’t be difficult—no, perhaps it would even be better for everyone.

Yet even as time passed, Meriel’s position remained ambiguous.

Many avoided her because she was the daughter of a traitor, and those few who approached her did so only to benefit from Duke Pierne’s influence. There was no one she could call a true friend.

Her world had always been confined.

“If you’re drunk, go inside and sleep.”

“…”

She briefly considered running away. Before her coming-of-age ceremony, she had even vowed that the first thing she’d do as an adult would be to flee that suffocating Pierne estate.

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