“We are hosting a New Year’s party at our house this time. It would be nice if you could attend and share the news.”
Mrs. Hans extended an invitation card adorned with a red ribbon.
Adel politely declined without hesitation.
“Thank you for the invitation, but it would be uncomfortable for everyone if I go.”
“No. In fact, everyone wants to get closer to you. It could be a good opportunity to clear up any misunderstandings.”
Then Mia whispered quietly.
“Adel, accept the invitation. It’s a good opportunity to reenter society.”
“I have no such intention.”
As Adel shook her head, Mrs. Hans added.
“Please bring your friend as well!”
“Me?”
Mia, surprised, pointed to herself.
“Yes, if a close acquaintance is with you, Mrs. Oswald will feel more comfortable.”
Mia’s eyes were gleaming with emotion.
“I’m grateful just for the invitation. But I’m quite busy, I don’t know if I can make it. Ho ho ho!”
She glanced at Adel while pretending to be polite, but she didn’t mean it.
Actually, Mia had always been interested in social circles. But there was no social party that would invite a poor and insignificant viscountess.
Knowing this from the start, it was not easy for Adel to ignore Mia’s desperate expression.
“Please come! And I hope we can continue to interact in the future.”
Mrs. Hans, who noticed the situation, firmly held Mia’s hand and asked politely.
“I wonder…….”
Mia looked at Adel once more with all her heart,
“Alright.”
And Adel reluctantly accepted.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“It was going well. I was subtly looking forward to you and the Earl. A younger brother…….”
After everyone had left, Tanya spoke with a disappointed face.
“It was good. If we could supply desserts to the royal family, we could live without worrying about money.”
As she changed the water in the flower vase, Adel comforted her.
“Still, I wanted you to get along well with the Earl and make Oswald eat humble pie.”
“Don’t worry. I will revenge by living well.”
“But if you had a brother like the Earl, wouldn’t you have asked for help earlier? Then you wouldn’t have had such a time in Oswald’s house…….”
“Ah!”
A faint scream and red blood formed on Adel’s finger. She had been pricked by a thorn while arranging the roses in the vase.
“I’m sorry. I brought up a pointless conversation.”
Tanya quickly wiped Adel’s blood with a handkerchief.
“No. I was just thinking about something else. I’ve forgotten all about Oswald, so don’t worry.”
Adel smiled as if nothing happened, but Tanya knew.
She would never be able to forget what happened in Oswald’s house.
How could she forget it?
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]A few days later.
In front of Mrs. Hans’s mansion.
“Adel, am I okay?”
On the way to the mansion in the carriage, Mia had asked that question dozens of times.
“Yes, you’re pretty.”
“Should I have made my lip color a bit deeper?”
“It’s deep enough as it is.”
“Then should I erase a little?”
Watching the unusually tense Mia, Adel laughed. Then she took the makeup case in Mia’s hand and gently pressed the loud eye makeup and lip makeup.
This was Mia’s first social gathering in a long time. For today, she had rented an expensive dress and coat from a clothing shop in town. She had also carefully polished the jewelry she had inherited from her grandmother and bought expensive cosmetics with great resolve.
“Adel, you should also put on some makeup. I should have borrowed yours when I rented my clothes.”
However, unlike the highly adorned Mia, Adel was dressed no differently than usual.
She wore a dull wool dress buttoned up to the neck with an old ash coat over it, and her hair was let down and tied with a ribbon.
“I’m fine. If I show up all dolled up, it will only stir more gossip, right? And you promised not to listen to what people say. Understood?”
“Of course! Do I look like someone who would easily be cowed?”
With a hearty response, Mia gracefully descended from the carriage.
However, the moment she saw the mansion grandly lit in front of her, she flinched. Not only that, but large, splendid carriages with servants gathering around them were lined up to enter the mansion.
“What brings you here?”
A man gruffly asked the two people getting off the small carriage. He was a servant in a luxurious velvet jacket.
When Adel showed him the invitation, he glanced at the two of them and cocked his head.
“Did you really get invited?”
In response to his dismissive tone, Adel answered,
“If I hadn’t been invited, I would have no reason to come.”
He made way for them with a nervous face. Then, as Adel tried to enter the mansion with Mia, he stopped her.
“The maid goes through that door.”
Mia, who was walking ahead, came back and shouted like a fire,
“Hey, a maid!”
It was then.
“Oh my, I didn’t expect to see you here.”
Adel turned around at the familiar and unpleasant voice.
The beautiful woman draped in a luxurious fur coat was escorted by welldressed servants as she got out of the carriage.
She was a beauty with dazzling blonde hair and blue eyes, fitting her nicknames ‘Jewel of the Empire’, ‘Flower of the Social Circle’.
Before she knew it, a few noblewomen had gathered around her. They too were dressed in expensive furs.
Seira and her minions.
That’s how Adel referred to them. Of course, only in her mind.
“Did you arrive, Your Grace!”
The servant of the mansion who had treated Adel as a maid bowed as if his head was going to touch the ground.
Ignoring him, Seira scanned Adel from head to toe. Then she said, smiling slyly…
“You must not have heard. The dress code today is fur.”
“…!”
Mia looked around in surprise.
Indeed, everyone attending the party was wearing fur.
“Oh my, you’re here!”
It was then that Mrs. Hans’s voice was heard.
Mia barely held back her teary face and said,
“Thank you for the invitation, Mrs. Hans. But you didn’t mention the dress code today.”
“Well… I didn’t mention it because I thought you might feel burdened and couldn’t come if I told you beforehand.”
As Mrs. Hans answered with a troubled face, a snickering sound was heard around.
It meant that even if she had told them, they would have had a hard time getting fur.
Fur was so expensive and rare that even the average nobles couldn’t easily get it.
‘Is this why she called us?’
She had forgotten that Mrs. Hans was also one of Seira’s minions.
“Mrs.…”
When Adel, unable to watch any longer, was about to open her mouth,
“That’s why I prepared a dress with fur for both of you! I told the maids, so hurry up and change.”
Mrs. Hans grabbed Adel and Mia’s hands and spoke as if she was doing them a favor.
“That’s okay. We should be going back…”
As Adel firmly said, Mia shook her head.
She didn’t realize how desperate her expression was.
Mia had been excited for days preparing for this party. Knowing that, Adel couldn’t cruelly turn back.
“I’m fine, so if you could lend some clothes for Mrs. Bonita to change into, I’d appreciate it.”
Adel decided to step back.
“Will you?”
As if she knew she would, Mrs. Hans grabbed Mia’s hand and led her away.
And Adel warned her quietly but coldly, standing behind.
“Please ensure a pleasant return.”
Adel was infamous for having poisoned a marquis.
So even Mrs. Hans had a slightly tense face.
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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