“That doesn’t matter. You just have to do what I ask.”
Apparently, he didn’t hear her inner voice.
“For example, what kind of work will I be doing……?”
The Duke pondered for a moment and then slowly opened his mouth.
“If I wake up late in the morning, you wake me up, or help with some simple tasks, or help me bathe, you can do these kinds of things.”
He mentioned things that were not very important and that anyone could do.
But there was a word that was incredibly bothersome……
“Ba, bathing……?”
Nelia’s eyes widened. Duke Hart saw this and covered his mouth with his hand, laughing.
“It’s a joke. I usually bathe myself.”
Nelia calmed her startled heart.
This man, really……!
“But what I said earlier is true. Just stick by my side and do what I ask.”
The Duke looked at his bandaged foot.
“For some time, I’ll have to ask for your help a lot due to this inconvenient foot.”
“Yes……. Since I caused this, it’s only natural that I help.”
Nelia awkwardly stared down at her teacup, and a white box was placed on the table.
The white box had a familiar design.
When Nelia raised her gaze, she saw Duke Hart smiling subtly.
“At the party, it seemed you liked strawberry tarts, so I brought some.”
“Uh…….”
Surprised, Nelia stared at the box in front of her.
The beautifully packaged box was from Pashu Bakery, where Layton had thrown a tantrum asking her to buy strawberry tarts.
Who would have thought the Duke would buy Pashu Bakery’s strawberry tart?
‘The strawberry tarts here are incredibly tasty….’
During the party, while she was eating a strawberry tart, she caught Duke’s eye several times, and he seemed to remember that.
Thinking about it, why was he staring at her like that at the time……?
Could it be because he had some connection with the past Nelia?
For whatever reason, Duke Hart turned out to have a better memory and be a more considerate person than expected. It was enough to make one momentarily forget about his horrifying character in the original work.
Nelia, who had been staring blankly at the box, looked up at the duke.
Ah, right. She should say thank you.
“Thank you, Your Grace. I’ll enjoy it.”
Nelia mumbled quietly, looking at the strawberry tart she hadn’t seen in a while.
“I went to this bakery to buy a strawberry tart last time, but they were all out so I couldn’t get one.”
“Is that so.”
Duke Hart smiled gently, like the whipped cream on the strawberry tart.
“But you won’t have to go through that trouble anymore. You can have it whenever you want.”
Nelia thought for a moment that she had heard wrong.
“You’re going to bring it……?”
“Yes.”
However, Duke Hart’s answer was firm.
Duke Hart opened the box. Inside was a lovely strawberry tart.
When the Duke extended a fork that had been placed inside, Nelia unknowingly accepted it and asked.
“How did you……?”
“This bakery, I bought it.”
The fork that Nelia had been receiving clinked to the floor.
“What……?”
Duke Hart kindly picked up the fork again, cleaned it off with his hand, and put it back into Nelia’s hand.
“I told you, I bought this bakery.”
It felt as unreal as saying he had gone to the neighborhood market and bought an apple.
This bakery was the largest and most famous in the capital.
The owner of the bakery was so proud that he neither belonged to any nobles nor sold the store.
Even if they were nobles, they had to wait without any special treatment to buy a tart.
“……Why all of a sudden? Have you always been interested in bakeries?”
Duke Hart shook his head with a smile.
“No, it’s just that I happened to.”
How on earth could one casually buy a bakery?
“So, if you want to eat this tart, just let me know anytime.”
“Yes…….”
Nelia managed to reply with a shocked expression.
The tart she used to wait an hour for and could hardly get, she could now easily have.
Was this a Duke Hart fastpass?
‘He must be really rich.’
She was reminded of a conglomerate drama she had seen when she was a child. There was a scene in the drama with four handsome men that felt like this.
‘If I’m not the female lead, that is.’
Then Duke Hart pushed the tart forward in front of Nelia.
“Please have some.”
Duke Hart was looking at her expectantly.
Responding to his sincerity, her hand naturally moved the fork.
And then, poke!
……However, she suddenly remembered the identity of the man in front of her.
‘Come to think of it, why is he being so nice to me……?’
She had not only stepped on his foot, but also bruised it. And it must have been very inconvenient for him that his chief servant was on sick leave.
But why was he, of all people, offering her this tart?
“Why aren’t you eating? Maybe you don’t want to eat it now……?”
When Nelia hesitated with the fork firmly in her hand, the Duke asked, seeming puzzled.
His expression was too innocently clear for her to anticipate any trickery hidden within.
However, she soon came to her senses.
He was the villain.
‘There could be something in this.’
After talking about the bakery and letting down her guard, he planned to feed her this strawberry tart.
After staring at the tart for a while, Nelia eventually jabbed the tart with her fork.
And then,
“You first.”
Nelia, with a resolute expression, held out the fork in front of his mouth.
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
