To You Who No Longer Want Me (7 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 28

As the autumn social season approached, many nobles who had been residing in their estates returned to their mansions or townhouses in the Arcan capital and began unpacking.

Viare, too, was spending busy days with the help of her servants, preparing for both the social season and her birthday ball.

Though hosting parties was no difficult task for her—having organized many in the past—this time she couldn’t help but feel pressed for time.

She had been so preoccupied with recent events and affairs that she’d neglected preparations for her own gathering.

Moreover, she had just received a letter from Ushua Genshao Ti, her sole close friend.

Having forgotten that Ushua had visited the Marta Empire around this time in previous years, Viare now felt an urgent need to prepare meticulously for both the ball and her guest’s arrival.

Ushua was the daughter of the Genshao Ti family, an immensely wealthy merchant house from the Eastern Kingdom, whom Viare had befriended as a child during a visit to the Chaello Grand Trading House.

As the legitimate daughter and heir apparent to the head of the trading house, she was fluent in the languages of the Western, Southern, and Northern Kingdoms.

Her bold and open personality—unseen anywhere in the Northern Kingdom, where the Marta Empire lay—ensured that time spent with her was never dull.

Moreover, the fact that the Eastern Kingdom had abolished its noble class hierarchy long ago had always intrigued Viare.

A few years prior, Viare had accompanied Gaisen and their father on a visit to the Eastern Kingdom and had vaguely sensed how distinctly different it was from the Northern Kingdom.

There, broadleaf trees—normally found only in the southern regions of the Marta Empire—lined the streets, and she encountered vibrant cultures entirely new to her.

Within the Eastern Kingdom, the Genshao Ti family possessed such extraordinary financial acumen that anyone unfamiliar with them might suspect them of being spies; they could make money simply by breathing.

Just as Viare was fascinated by foreign cultures, Ushua found the aristocratic customs of the West refreshingly novel and had long hoped to attend a social event in the Marta Empire.

In her letter, alongside complaints about her father overworking her, she wrote that she wished to stay for a few days at Duke Ruschef’s estate during the social season.

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