Worried thoughts filled Melly’s mind as she left the bathroom and headed back to the room. On her way, she suddenly remembered Herdine’s expression from a while ago when he had come out of Blair’s room.

Even though Herdine always exuded a chilly aura that made it difficult to approach him, the Herdine from a little while ago emitted an even colder chill that was almost freezing. It seemed like even the surrounding air froze.

And when Melly entered Blair’s room to deliver her clothes, Blair hadn’t shown her face, but her back seemed somehow precarious. It felt like the voice that had asked her to wait in the bathroom had been trembling.

A belatedly arising sense of unease urged Melly’s steps forward.

Arriving almost in a rush at Blair’s room, Melly knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside.

Unable to wait any longer, she opened the door and entered. The moment she did, warm air touched her skin. The fireplace, which had been extinguished until she left, was now blazing brightly. And in front of it…

“My goodness, Madam!”

In front of the fireplace, Blair, unconscious, had collapsed.

Upon hearing the news, Herdine came up immediately, followed by the head physician.

“She seems to have lost consciousness momentarily due to emotional shock. Other than that, there doesn’t appear to be any other abnormalities. She should recover with some rest.”

After the examination, the attending physician left, and silence descended upon the room. The silence was broken by Lena’s crying.

“Your Excellency…”

Lena, still unable to approach Blair, who was sitting up with Herdine’s support, sobbed, her tears and mucus flowing freely.

Herdine’s expression hardened upon hearing Lena address him in such a manner.

It had been over a month since Blair had become his wife, yet she still called him “Your Excellency.” Even her crying voice was irritating.

Without turning around, Herdine ordered.

“…Ruth. Take them out.”

Seeing that Herdine was in a bad mood, Ruth quickly led Lena and Melly out of the room. Finally, only the two of them remained in the room.

Perhaps because of his mood, Blair’s pale face seemed even whiter than usual, almost transparent. However, her expression remained calm.

It made him angry to see her, who had turned the mansion upside down and was now sleeping peacefully with a peaceful expression.

He couldn’t understand why someone who was so afraid of fire hadn’t gone near the fireplace. Why had she collapsed in front of it? It was incomprehensible.

“Could it be…”
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“Herdine, at that moment, was trying to gauge the reason. Blair’s eyelids, which had been closed gently, moved, and she opened her eyes.

Blair’s slow blinking eyes turned toward Herdine beside her.

The first emotion that crossed their gazes was relief, oddly enough, after the anger that had welled up just moments ago.

Blair, who had been quietly watching him, finally spoke.

“…Did I faint?”

“You deliberately went near the fireplace knowing this would happen?”

“I wanted to find my memories. It’s not something I can leave unknown forever….”

The moment he heard the word ‘memories’ coming from her mouth, his heart sank.

The woman who was afraid even to light a fireplace in the cold winter had turned it on with her own hands.

Because of that memory.

Because of that time he had suspected and confronted her.

Her voice was calm, without a hint of resentment. No, perhaps she was too exhausted from the recent accident to be angry anymore.

Herdine clenched his fist so hard that the veins on the back of his hand stood out.

“But that doesn’t mean you need to resort to reckless methods like this. So, please, don’t do something like this again.”

His cold voice was overlaid with memories of his past life.

It had been the same in his past life.

When he had known that she was pretending to love him to extract the truth, and when he had known there was no hope and distanced himself.

Back then, too, Blair had attempted hypnosis on her own and had fallen ill as a result, and Herdine had scolded her when she woke up. Just like now.

‘Don’t do anything anymore. Just stay still, like you have been all this time.’

His memories of that day when he had stopped confronting her out of fear of their end.

But now, he didn’t want that anymore.

“…What if I never find my memories in my lifetime?”

“There must be another way. Isn’t Lady Loreline making an effort?”

“You expect me to believe that my memories, which haven’t returned for ten years, will come back with just a few conversations, all while you continue to doubt me?”

Blair’s calm voice strangely raised. At the same time, her breathing became faster.”