The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 144

Marquis Tipian was displeased with the atmosphere that had returned to Maindlant.

He had avoided being imprisoned again by using Adrian as a shield. He had even been given a room like a guest. Yet everyone here—even a single servant—looked at him with contemptuous eyes. How dare they, not knowing their place…

Cold… he muttered alone in a room where no one could hear. Bone-deep cold… No real person would live in a place like this. A cursed, cursed breed…

The tiny room where he had been locked away for half a year had been bitterly cold. Even in spring, his body had shivered involuntarily. The words he had mumbled during that endless solitude, with no one to speak to, had now become a habit.

He no longer believed he would ever feel warmth again. Even basking in the peak of summer sun, his heart remained frozen. But these people here were different.

Everyone except that one person seemed happy.

“K-Khh… Hhh…”

In the silent room, devoid even of a single candle, he seethed with rage. It was unfair. He hated the castle’s cheerful atmosphere—its residents chattering about autumn, about the festival soon to come, reminiscing about last year’s joys. He wanted them to be as miserable as he was.

He wouldn’t have to wait long. Adrian had kindly lent him one of his own subordinates.

Knock knock. Someone rapped at the door. Out of a newly formed habit, the marquis reflexively seized his dagger and barked hoarsely,

“Who’s there…!”

Instead of an answer, he heard the door open immediately. Annoyed and suddenly frightened, the marquis raised his dagger high, ready to hurl it at whoever entered. But when he saw who it was, his eyes widened.

Clatter. The dagger fell onto the stone floor—he had ordered the carpets removed out of fear of assassins. The marquis gasped in relief.

“You—! You startled me.”

In this wretched northern land, the one person the marquis truly trusted—the very one who had helped him escape.

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