“Madam, please wake up.”

Lady Hujak lay on the bed with a vacant expression.

“If you want to adjust the afternoon schedule, you need to get up now, madam.”

The reflection of Lady Hujak in the eyes of the maid was surreal.

“…Olga.”

Lady Hujak spoke to the maid with a listless voice.

“I had such a ridiculous dream… My husband, without consulting me, gave away our entire estate to the in-law… What was that?”

The lady’s gaze at the ceiling was absent-minded.

Wasn’t that a dream?

To enlighten her about the reality, a headache gripped her head.

Lady Hujak bit her lips and rubbed her forehead.

Olga continued, “Now, please get up. Sir has gone to the eastern forest hunting ground to meet Sir Arthur today. We don’t know what they’ll discuss, so you need to prepare and be alert, madam.”

Slowly, a sense of reality returned.

Lady Hujak blinked her eyes absentmindedly.

“Are you crazy?!”

“You’re the crazy one! Now that it’s a significant ceremony, are you going to leave Arthur alone until he goes to the capital? Do you think we have plenty of time?”

“Even so, you’re signing this without negotiating once?”

“Arthur has to meet him to negotiate! Are you going to bring Arthur to the negotiation table? Do you think that guy will blink an eye unless you do something like this?”

Though Hujak shouted logically, the eyes of Lady Hujak, who had spent 30 years together, clearly revealed Hujak’s underlying intentions.

It was about vanity and the desire for recognition.

“So, you signed this document just because you want to make that guy blink an eye?!”

“…”

Lady Hujak fantasized about designating the estate as a forbidden mountain while counting the lace patterns on the ceiling.

I’d rather this be a nightmare.

Why am I in this crazy household, witnessing this scene? What sin did I commit in my past life to come here and see this?

Lady Hujak closed her eyes, hoping that when she opened them, everything would be gone.

What’s the use of coming to my senses?

There’s nothing more to lose now that my crazy husband has given everything away to the in-law.

There was nothing to prepare for.

Even so, Lady Hujak tried to think positively about what had happened.

It was a sacrifice to untangle all the twisted affairs and restore Christina to her rightful place.

At the very least, Antonio will resolve the issue with Christina today.

If not, he’s not human.

If Arthur has a conscience, he will listen to our story now.

Despite thinking that things could have been negotiated in a better way, Lady Hujak tried not to dwell on it, boiling with anger.
Sure. Here’s the English translation of the provided Korean paragraph:

“A definite blow was needed in the courtyard, even up to the Emperor’s invitation.

Certainly, the atmosphere could be defused positively.

Even if she wouldn’t withdraw her signature, if she could ride on the good atmosphere and persuade her to put Christina as the head of the foundation, somehow…

Then, urgent footsteps and a hurried voice burst in.

“Madam!”

Brody, terrified, shouted with a trembling voice.

“Something terrible happened! Right now, Re-Reyna…! She’s being dragged away by strange thugs!”

Lady Hujak’s eyes widened.

“What should we do? What do we do!”

Brody ran around in panic.

Reyna resisted fiercely, struggling with the force that almost overturned the carriage.

In reality, the carriage was on the verge of flipping.

“Ah, damn it! Stop it, just a bit!”

“It won’t hurt, Lady! Calm down… calm down!”

“Ow! My hand! It bit me!”

As soon as the carriage turned onto a deserted forest path, Leo quickly took off the mask and shouted.

“Wait, Lady! It’s me!”

However, in her near-panic state, Reyna couldn’t recognize him.

Hurriedly, Lionel took off Lucan’s mask, shouting.

“Calm down! It’s safe! We were all acting!”

Reyna, after hitting the two knights desperately for a while, finally recognized them and stopped resisting.

“Heuk… Heuk…”

Lionel… Sir?

Lucan, Sir?

Reyna’s excited heart thumped violently.

Although the two knights surrendered after being beaten for a while,

Reyna’s whole body still trembled with fear.

“You really bit down hard.”

Lucan, without the mask, complained while rubbing his hands with clear bite marks.

“If I hadn’t blocked it with my fingers, it would have been severed.”

“…”

Even though she had wrapped it with a handkerchief, Reyna had bitten his hand with all her might.

“…”

She seemed quite hurt, but she didn’t say sorry.

Reyna still looked at them with a gaze full of suspicion and unease.

Lionel cautiously checked Reyna’s complexion.

“…I apologize. Were you very surprised?”

Lionel also received a few kicks and elbow strikes from the resisting Reyna.

“…”

But Reyna didn’t say anything and, like a wary cat, stared at them with a gaze full of distrust.

It seemed like she still hadn’t completely resolved her suspicions about her situation.

“…”

The two knights exchanged glances.

It was quite a surprising incident.