The Villain Family Opposes Independence (13 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 28

Themis Ferdia’s greenhouse garden was famous.

It was not only her most renowned laboratory as a master toxicologist, but also because it cultivated all sorts of rare plants absent even from the Imperial Grand Garden.

Poison and antidote were inseparable, so Themis held considerable influence in the field of medicine as well.

Thanks to this, scholars from every discipline considered entering the Ferdia greenhouse garden, even once in their lifetime, the greatest aspiration of their lives.

Yet, however consumed they were by research, they still knew the value of their own lives.

No one dared knock on the Ferdias’ door, so Themis’s greenhouse garden remained known only through rumors.

Moreover, the mother and daughter of House Angelos never imagined they would be invited into the greenhouse garden.

“To come all the way here without even sending word—what brings you, Dolcinia?”

Themis Ferdia, the garden’s owner, personally poured tea before the Angelos pair and smiled gently.

Duchess Angelos, Dolcinia Angelos, replied with a warm smile.

“I did send word—it seems you didn’t receive it. I tried several times but got no reply. Were you busy?”

“Oh, anything not deemed important gets filtered out by the steward.”

Not that I was busy.

At Themis’s softly added remark, Duchess Dolcinia’s expression momentarily twisted.

Wasn’t that just another way of saying your letters aren’t worth receiving because they’re unimportant?

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