The Ghost Lady Of The Duke's Family (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 91

She was so speechless that after flapping her mouth for a long while, she finally managed to ask.

“W-what about your reputation? Have you forgotten how you introduced me to the Pope?”

“I said you were a cadet branch of House Mason.”

“No, I mean—if people hear the Duke, recently widowed to the youngest daughter of House Mason, brought in a lookalike from the same family, won’t it cause a scandal…?”

“At the very least, no one would dare act rudely to your face. Anyone with half a brain won’t want to offend the woman destined to become the next Duchess.”

“…….”

“You know perfectly well I’ve never cared about such things. If anything, this secures your position more firmly—that’s hardly a bad thing.”

“…….”

How is it not bad? I’m the bad one—I am!

Though Aeli knew exactly what Lutis meant by his words, his casual tone made the back of her neck prickle.

They’d grown up together since childhood; it was nearly impossible to find anyone in the Empire unfamiliar with their relationship.

To outsiders, they’d seemed a rare exception in aristocratic society—where arranged marriages dominated—having achieved what appeared to be a genuine love match.

‘And now, the Duke goes and finds a cadet-branch relative who resembles his late wife from the same family?’

Worse still, he flaunted it openly by holding her hand everywhere they went—an event unheard of in the Empire’s seven-hundred-year history.

Long ago, seeking a new spouse from the same family to cement inter-house alliances hadn’t been unheard of, but those days were long past.

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