I have translated the paragraph from Korean to English as per your request. Here is the English translation:
Herdin looked at her hand, swallowed a sigh, and got up from his seat.
“…Please relax.”
Contract. Contract. Contract.
Judging by the way she kept mentioning the contract every time she opened her mouth, it seemed that his fake wife had staked her life on that one-year agreement.
Why the fact that this was already planned before their marriage suddenly hit him, or why he was getting annoyed, he couldn’t quite understand.
Herdin brushed his bangs somewhat irritably and left the room. Waiting outside was Ruth.
“Cut ties with that hypnotist.”
At the lord’s command, Ruth’s surprised eyes widened.
“What? But you told me to keep her around.”
“Get a new one. She’s as stubborn as a mule.”
Herdin walked past Ruth and added as he headed back to his study.
“And the maid who came from the palace, tell her to come to my study.”
Ruth, who recalled ‘that maid’ that Herdin mentioned, unknowingly stiffened her expression.
The woman who looked at everyone in the duke’s mansion with eyes full of animosity. She had never spoken a word to her, but just from her gaze, she could tell she was a woman who didn’t want to be approached.
“Why, that woman?”
To Ruth’s question, Herdin’s cold gaze returned.
One could not disobey the lord’s orders.
“…I understand.”
Ruth offered a firm greeting, which she rarely did, and distanced herself.
Lena, who was suddenly summoned to Herdin’s study, was staring intently at his desk, her fingers tapping it lightly.
Other maids who happened to pass by couldn’t help but stare at that striking face even while going about their business.
But that couldn’t be helped; the reason he had called her so unexpectedly was beyond her imagination.
All she could think of was a ridiculous guess like, ‘Could he have heard me cursing him in my head?’
But it didn’t matter.
He was the duke who had abandoned the bride he had spent the first night with, not her, who had taken care of Blair with all her heart.
As Lena straightened her trembling body, Herdin, who had been holding back a sigh, finally spoke.
“I heard you’ve been serving my wife for quite a while.”
Contrary to his earlier determination not to be frightened, Lena was startled and answered with surprise.
“Yes, yes! That’s correct.”
“You don’t light the fireplace in her room, is it because Blair is afraid of fire?”
On the first night, Blair’s room didn’t have the fireplace on, even in the snowy weather. At the time, she had thought Blair simply didn’t like the stuffy air.
But now, after witnessing Blair’s agony as she confronted the memories brought up during the hypnosis, it suddenly occurred to her.
“Oh, yes. So when you’re not in the room, you keep the fire off. Even though it’s uncomfortable, it seems she doesn’t like it when it’s too close.”
“Because of that incident ten years ago?”
“Maybe that’s why. She hasn’t talked about it directly, but…”
“And keeping a scarf around?”
“Yes. I heard it’s because her respiratory system weakened due to the aftereffects of the accident.”
It seemed that was the case.
With a confirmed answer, Herdin twisted his lips.
“Leave.”
Lena left the study, and the sound of the study door closing echoed.
Unconsciously, Herdin thought of Blair’s coughing sound.
And the image of her looking at him with teary, vacant eyes from earlier.
Despite his earlier resolution not to be scared, he released the sigh he had been holding and closed his eyes in irritation.
The sunlight filtering through his eyelids reminded him of her beautiful platinum hair that had disturbed him.
The next day, Blair was bedridden with a fever.
“Sometimes, after experiencing a great shock, people’s immune systems weaken, and they fall ill. It seems that might be the case with the madam as well.”
The attending physician made that diagnosis and left.
Herdin, who heard the news, looked at the sleeping Blair with a somewhat bewildered expression.
How could a person be this weak?
I have translated the paragraph from Korean to English as per your request. Here is the English translation:
By nature, a woman’s body is weaker than a man’s body.
However, even taking that into account, his wife seemed to have a body that fell far short of the average person’s health.
“If you need anything, please call me.”
Lena, who realized that Herdin wouldn’t leave his seat so easily, quietly left the room.
He watched over the sleeping Blair.
In the peaceful scene, the delicate woman with slightly parted red lips and shallow, labored breaths seemed quite agonized.
Herdin, who had been keeping his distance for a while, approached the bed. He gently placed the back of his hand on her flushed cheek.
The breath that escaped through the small gap between his hand and her lips still carried heat, but it had definitely improved compared to earlier.
It seemed like the fever reducer was taking effect.
Herdin withdrew his hand with a soft sigh.
“…El.”
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
