“I will figure out the circumstances myself. Madam, please rest.”
He strode out, and the door closed behind him. But the sound of the door was different than usual.
With an uneasy feeling, I quickly pulled the door. As expected, it was locked.
I pounded on the door and raised my voice.
“What is this? Are you locking me in now?”
Philip’s voice came from beyond the door.
“It’s to keep the maids safe while I’m away.”
“Ah, who would harm the maids?”
“You said that before. You seem very excited, so cool your head for a moment. I’ll be back soon.”
“Even if you come back soon, this is imprisonment!”
“I ask for your understanding, Madam. I don’t want to do this either.”
“Understanding? Are you joking? You think I’ll endure this injustice?”
I protested loudly, but no more of Philip’s voice came from beyond the door. He seemed to have already gone.
“Idiot, fool, judging without even knowing properly.”
It was heartbreaking, but it seemed like Philip would do this. After all, Ellen’s pranks were not one or two times.
“Sigh, what to do if you can’t hold it in?”
All I could do was lean on the sofa, hoping the investigation would end quickly.
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It was an hour later that Philip came back and opened the door.
“I’ve heard all the circumstances before and after from Lila and her friends, the maid attending them, and even Duke Mild…”
I raised my chin proudly.
“The friends were strange, right?”
“Everyone claimed differently.”
Duke Mild and the maid spoke exactly what they saw, but the friends complained that I suddenly appeared and created havoc.
“Duke Mild and the maid are correct. Didn’t Lila tell the same story?”
Rubbing his temples as if having a headache, Philip soon shook his head.
“Lila told the same story, but she also defended her friends. Either way, their wrongdoing was apparent.”
“Phew, even then defending them, being too generous is not good either.”
I shook my head along with him, and Philip cleared his throat.
“Hmm, anyway, I asked what you’re going to do about this friendship.”
“Of course, we have to break ties with such rude friends.”
There was no need to think about it; indeed, it was so. They were nothing but harmful, even if they didn’t appear in the novels.
“What did Lila say she would do?”
“Laila felt terribly sorry for the inconvenience she caused you. She said she would come to apologize after dealing with her friends.”
Laila’s decision was to break up with her friends.
“That’s good.”
Laila didn’t have a single friend left, but I didn’t hesitate at all. Because there was an alternative.
“Now we just need to make new good friends.”
There are a few young nobles from noble families that are encountered when Marlboro ascends to the throne.
They will become the maids of Queen Laila, loyal to her, so it wouldn’t be bad to meet them in advance.
But Philip was baffled.
“Did you eat crow meat? Or are you playing a game of giving disease and then the cure?”
“What?”
“It was the lady who drove all of Laila’s noble friends away, wasn’t it?”
“……”
‘Ah, right.’
I was at a loss for words at what the body’s original owner did.
Philip stood up.
“I feel sorry for Laila, but this time, the lady was right. Please rest now.”
I tried to hold him back.
“Wait!”
But Philip had already left.
“Ah. That inconsiderate person. He locks me up and doesn’t even apologize.”
I was a bit frustrated with Philip’s response, so I folded my arms and grumbled to myself.
Then I thought of the original Ellen, shrugged my shoulders, and found my own mental victory.
“Philip acknowledged it, so that’s enough.”
Although wreaking havoc at Laila’s tea party was the same as in the original work, I feel indifferent about it.
The annoying person has been removed, after all.
Also, I know that hearing praise once doesn’t change anything around me.
“Yes… A broken clock is right twice a day. It must have felt that way to Philip this time.”
I might as well go out now, I need to find a house to live in.
Especially since I couldn’t change the original work, I have to look at the house more carefully.
[This is the time separator]From the next day, I started to rush around the territory, leading Mildred.
I had to check the houses that Philip had prepared.
The means of transportation was a twoseater black carriage that was easily pulled by one black horse.
It looked small but elegant and pretty, and it was convenient to ride around lightly.
If I took my place in the carriage with a white lace parasol, Mildred sat on the coachman’s seat and drove the horse.
The sound of lively hooves and the slightly swaying carriage was a different and pleasant experience.
The medieval European cityscape looked somewhat like a fairytale world.
Of course, not all the city was pretty and clean.
Looking at the list, the ten houses that Philip was considering for Ellen were purchased by him and currently vacant.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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