The Maid's Contract Marriage (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 178

The ‘Julius’ family is a noble house bearing a title with its own historical legacy.

Yet, despite being a high-ranking noble family with a long history, the Julius household had long been regarded in society as a ‘merchant family’—because the first person in the Julius line to receive a title was a woman named ‘Yuliana,’ whose husband was a common merchant with no title of his own.

Yuliana Julius was such a distinguished figure that she personally received her title—bearing her own name—from the king himself, yet the nobility still labeled Yuliana Julius’s lineage a ‘merchant family.’

Yuliana Julius did not care; rather than striving to gain acceptance from the nobles, she amassed wealth based on fertile lands and practical sensibilities.

After Yuliana Julius’s death, her title and the Julius territories passed to her only child, a son, and people came to see ‘Julius’—now led by a son of a merchant father and engaged in large-scale commerce—as a merchant family with even less interest in noble affairs.

Time passed, and the king changed.

Several principalities and the kingdom formed an alliance, merging into an empire, and the previous royal bloodline came to an end.

The rulers who once held powers akin to the king formed an alliance, becoming prince-electors, and established a rule that the emperor would be chosen by vote among them.

With their loyal royal house gone, the ‘Julius’ family reached an appropriate compromise with the new powers, preserving their lordly privileges and title.

While other noble houses splintered through sibling rivalries or were replaced during territorial disputes, Julius—spared from succession conflicts due to their limited heirs—focused on commerce and negotiated with neighboring lords to maintain their status.

Their natural geographical position, bordering the Margraviate of Diloa—a domain famed for its invincible shield and honorable knightly lineage—helped them avoid territorial wars.

Though this practical choice allowed Julius to occupy a location unlikely to suffer from war, they never earned praise from honor-obsessed nobles as a noble and refined house.

It was around this time that Ronald Julius, a rare patriarch of legendary caliber, began coveting the power of the prince-electors.

He was precisely the man responsible for shaping the image of Julius that nobles now recognize.

People had forgotten Yuliana Julius, but the records remembered her.

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