As he resolved to leave immediately, he left as if there were no lingering attachments here anymore.
Inside the rattling carriage. While the scenery outside the window was rapidly passing by, Akia was fidgeting with a handkerchief.
A white handkerchief with embroidered yellow wildflowers.
It was the handkerchief dropped by the man she had seen a few days ago in front of the dressing room.
‘Surely, I’ve seen it somewhere…’
The handkerchief, with its unique dried-up end, strangely didn’t seem unfamiliar.
“D.R…”
Furthermore, the initials embroidered along with the wildflowers caught her eye.
‘D.R… D.R…’
While Akia was contemplating whether there might be something she was missing, the speed of the carriage, which was almost arriving at the Belarus mansion, gradually began to slow down.
‘First, I should ask Rikell to investigate that man.’
She also thought about entrusting the investigation about the handkerchief. The technique of drying the end of the embroidery was not common.
Akia let out a short sigh, holding the handkerchief to her chest. Then, at that moment, a man passing by on the street caught her eye.
“That man is…”
It was that man. The owner of the handkerchief, the unidentified man who was following Leia.
He appeared in front of her again.
For a moment, Akia, whose thought process seemed to have stopped, quickly regained her composure.
Then, at the moment she was about to call the stable to stop the carriage. In her mind, one question arose.
‘But there’s only the Belarus Duke’s mansion at the end of this road… Why is that man passing through this road?’
As typical of the Belarus family with strong autocratic and individualistic tendencies, they disliked sharing the road even in the capital.
Therefore, in the past, the Belarus family had purchased several mansions within the 1st district where high nobles gathered, making it possible to use a separate road leading to the Belarus mansion.
In other words, the man walking on this street had business with the Belarus mansion.
‘Judging from the direction he’s coming from, he seems to have already met with the Belarus Duke…’
While Akia was contemplating, instead of ordering the carriage to stop, she immersed herself in her thoughts. The man who was monitoring Leia and the Belarus Duke.
‘Maybe there’s no need for a separate investigation.’
If it’s Dmitry, he probably already knows the answer.
Having arrived at the Belarus mansion, Akia followed Button’s guidance to the Duke’s office.
“You’ve come.”
Dmitry, who was sitting at the office desk, looking at documents, stood up and gestured for Akia to sit.
“You’ve been respectful. Have you been well?”
“It’s always the same for me. So, are you planning to hold a wedding for Leia?”
The reason Akia visited the Belarus Mansion today was to discuss the wedding with Dmitry.
“Yes, I think we can’t delay it any longer. How about holding the wedding here at the Belarus Mansion?”
“I’m fine with that.”
Dmitry quickly agreed as if he was eager for Akia’s suggestion. He had been upset that his only granddaughter couldn’t even have a wedding.
If the wedding took place at the Belarus Mansion, he felt satisfied that he could oversee every detail from one to ten.
‘I’ll be busy from now on.’
As the wedding schedule was tight, Dmitry’s mind began to get busy with thoughts of the many preparations. The Duke, who was scrutinizing Dmitry’s face as he seemed preoccupied, asked.
“By the way, it seems a guest arrived before I did.”
“A guest?”
“Yes. I saw a man passing by on the way to the mansion….”
Akia observed Dmitry’s expression with a blurred ending to her words.
Although it seemed indifferent on the surface, she saw Dmitry’s eyebrows twitch ever so slightly.
“He must be here temporarily for the restoration of the Belarus territory.”
“…I see.”
The mansion in the Belarus territory was currently under restoration. And the main supporter of this restoration was the Magnolia Council.
That meant everyone involved in the restoration work in the Belarus territory was known to Akia.
‘He seems a bit flustered….’
Even though Dmitry’s response was unconvincing, Akia decided not to pry any further. It was pointless to delve too deeply here, as Dmitry would probably try to conceal that man.
While Akia pretended to be indifferent, when she was about to sip her tea, a maid came in with a trolley.
And just as the maid was about to set down the teacup.
“Oops!”
With a brief sigh, the teacup slipped from the maid’s hand, fell to the floor, and as a result, a little tea splashed onto Dmitry.
“I-I’m sorry!”
The maid apologized, examining Dmitry to see if he was hurt. Fortunately, Dmitry, who had been splashed with tea, calmly responded.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine, so stop fussing.”
Dmitry smiled kindly, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and casually wiped his clothes. However…
“That handkerchief is….”
“Hmm? Oh, this?”
In response to Akia’s question, Dmitry unfolded the handkerchief he was holding. Then, the yellow wildflowers embroidered on the handkerchief caught Akia’s eye.
“It’s a handkerchief my deceased daughter gave me.”
He lowered his gaze as if lost in memories.
“When my wife embroidered, she had a unique habit at the end. And my wife and daughter always embroidered these yellow wildflowers for their loved ones….”
As Dmitry spoke, Akia noticed that the end of the embroidery was uniquely curled. And as she stared at it, her eyes began to shake.
‘Surely.’
Suddenly, the words of Sanpa that had come to Akia’s mind without warning passed by.
[Didn’t you know? Madam’s father is alive.]The father of Leia, whom they thought was dead.
And.
[Grandfather said our father passed away in an accident a long time ago.]Dmitry’s claim that contradicted Sanpa’s words.
Finally, Akia stared at Dmitry’s handkerchief. The white handkerchief with yellow wildflowers embroidered and the man who dropped it.
‘Then that man is….’
The scattered puzzle pieces came together in a confusing way.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
