The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 226

“No, wait, just a moment.”

Neris immediately stopped both Cledwin and the knights. Then she looked up at her husband with wide, startled eyes.

“What is all this? The ancestral treasure of a Grand Ducal house?”

“That junk? It’s not some heirloom. I just collected one whenever I thought of you.”

That many? Even if hundreds of master craftsmen worked every day, it would take them two years to amass that much… Neris blinked and suddenly understood.

Cledwin must have been gathering those jewels long before she ever came to this land.

“If I hadn’t married you, what excuse would you have had to give them to me? Were you even going to hand them over by saying, ‘Here, throw these when you get angry during a fight’?”

“That would’ve been fine too. Or I might have begged you to pave the floor of every road you walk on with them.”

“Who would do such a thing?”

“My wife. If she wanted to.”

Neris was speechless. Yet she couldn’t blame her husband for wastefulness.

She had already known this well when she served as an advisor, but after becoming Grand Duchess and gaining access to all the domain’s records, she understood it even more clearly. The Duke of Maindlant was rich—extraordinarily so. Moreover, he owned several mines producing exceptionally high-quality gemstones.

Treasure on this scale was well within his means. Compared to it, the wealth of the Morier Trading Company, in which she had always taken pride, now suddenly felt somewhat shabby. Neris grumbled irritably for no good reason.

“What’s in the next room? Surely you haven’t filled that one with jewels too?”

“Surely not.”

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