To You, So Noble and Vulgar (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 93

Duke Obelier was hosting Duke Lanster White’s family and enjoying a pleasant time.

Averster, Piershin—the son of Duke Obelier—and Wiona headed together toward the stables to see the horses, leaving only the two dukes and their wives in the drawing room, engaged in quiet conversation.

Watching Lanster speak about an incident that had occurred in some territory, Duke Obelier suppressed a smile inwardly.

‘He has no idea— not even in his dreams—that his niece is dying right now.’

Duke Obelier had no intention of letting Ariana go peacefully to the Northern Territory.

He had already been uneasy about the seemingly close relationship between Ariana and the Northern Marquis. The Northern Marquis, whom even the Emperor couldn’t easily touch, might one day become a great asset to Ariana.

If Ariana went to the Northern Territory and further strengthened her bond with the Northern Marquis, and then repeatedly pulled him in whenever Dongryeong faced a crisis to overcome it—

‘Ariana’s popularity would skyrocket.’

Jeor’s position was still far from secure.

People knew Jeor wasn’t the biological son of the Eastern Marquis. Rumors were already spreading everywhere that the position of Eastern Marquis might change hands, yet Jeor seemed utterly indifferent to it all.

‘So I have no choice but to act.’

The farther one moved from the capital, the lower the loyalty to the king became. People were too preoccupied with making a living to care about palace affairs—whether the king had found his long-lost daughter, that her hair was sky-blue, or that she was heading to the Northern Territory.

‘Just 10 gold.’

For Duke Obelier, it was pocket change—yet enough to move them.

He had chosen peasants precisely to prepare for the possibility that things might go awry.

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