“Well, well, your highness and I are here in broad daylight…”
“Okay. Shall we go to the chapel?”
“Yes, in the chapel?”
“I have to do it in front of God.”
“What?”
“Oh, Hazel doesn’t know because she had never seen it.”
Well, who could see something like that…
“Here, people get married in front of God.”
“Ah… marriage… yo. What?”
What was he thinking? She guessed she did not possess a witch but a lustful devil. She answered quickly, pretending not to have imagined that it would be 39+ in broad daylight and that it would be impossible to watch even at her age.
“Yeah, that’s right. But are you going to marry me?”
“Huh.”
“I am a witch.”
“Yes, I know.”
“I heard you didn’t marry a witch.”
“…”
The Grand Duke looked like he had been hit.
“Luna, the Grand Duke does not marry a witch. Not even with a babysitter.”
He probably hadn’t forgotten what he said before, right?
“And you don’t even do it with a babysitter…”
“Hazel.”
He strengthened his arms around her.
“That was an immature and foolish thing to say. I’m truly sorry for hurting you.”
“It wasn’t a wound…”
“I will pay for this mistake as your husband by your side for the rest of my life.”
“Yes?”
She looked blankly at the man with a bad complexion and cupped her cheeks. She felt intense heat. Was it a fever? Did he get a fever and ruin his brain?
“Where does it hurt?”
“No.”
“Then, did you happen to pick up some elixir by mistake in my cabin and drink it?”
“No, it’s not?”
“Nonsense.”
“What?”
“There is no way the Grand Duke would be sane to marry a witch!”
From then on, they bickered.
“Last night, you said the nanny should quit around here.”
“I told you to quit babysitting my younger siblings. The Grand Duchess can’t be the nanny for her in-laws.”
“Great. So you agree that I won’t be your babysitter from now on?”
“…”
The Grand Duke must have thought there was a trap in my words, so he narrowed his eyes and just stared blankly. He nodded only after she tilted her head and urged him to answer.
“Then there is only one contract left.”
She clicked her fingers and brought out the fake love contract. Either party to the contract may terminate this contract at any time by oral notice to the other party. At this time, the other party must unconditionally comply with the request to terminate the contract.
“I want to cancel the contract right now.”
So, respond unconditionally. She declared the termination, showing the terms written in the Grand Duke’s hand.
“What are you talking about? From the moment we had our first kiss, our fake relationship was over.”
“…”
That’s right. From then on, she couldn’t deny that her relationship with him was no longer a fake relationship. So the real love that you thought was already over wasn’t over yet?
“Why are you suddenly leaving? Why are you breaking up?”
The Grand Duke asked her in a confused tone. She was confused.
“You were waiting for me to leave, weren’t you?”
“No. Why?”
“Then the list is…”
“That’s a list of tutor candidates. You said I should hire you?”
“Ah…”
That’s right. Even the tutors were nobles.
“Then did you misunderstand that I was abandoning you and planning to marry another woman?”
“No, it’s not because of that.”
From the beginning, she never even thought that the Grand Duke would marry her.
“But nobles don’t marry commoners.”
“It’s just a custom that has been passed down for a long time. It is possible to marry people of different social statuses as long as you can obtain approval from the Pope. You know. The Pope is my friend.”
Still, the reason people didn’t break customs was probably because there was a good reason. She knew this because she had followed the Grand Duke into social circles, but it was not easy to break down the walls between nobles.
“It will be a laughing stock.”
“Let them do. I would laugh too.”
The Grand Duke looked down at her and smiled. He may be able to smile like this now, but someday he won’t be able to smile like her.
“That’s not all.”
The biggest problem was that the world knew her as ‘Hazel, the evil witch of the Black Forest.’ One day, the entire empire would be turned upside down if it was discovered that the Grand Duke was planning to marry the woman who killed his parents.
“You know better than anyone else.”
It was clear that the Grand Duke knew, as he was listening to her in silence.
“So I thought you were waiting for me to hand in my resignation first.”
“Hazel, I have an idea about that too.”
“Are you trying to spread a rumor like you did with the Duke that I’m not actually that witch?”
The Grand Duke nodded his head.
“Who would believe that?”
“They might not believe it at first. Just like people didn’t believe you were good at first. But they believe it now, right? One day, when they find that witch and the whole truth is revealed, your truth will naturally be revealed as well.”
“…”
Wasn’t the Archduke being too optimistic? She looked at him worriedly, and the Grand Duke, who had been waiting for her answer, sighed.
“Why did you act so happy as if you had been asked to marry the Grand Duke when asked to become a nanny, but then act like someone who had been asked to become the Grand Duke’s nanny when asked to marry him?”
She covered her sullen face with both hands.
“I know best that Your Highness is a good man.”
“Yes, so marry a good man.”
“If you’re doing this because you’re sorry for cutting off our relationship because of affection, then you don’t have to feel sorry for me, so just marry a girl from a good family.”
The daughter of a family with the right reputation and power.
“Hazel, how can you tell the man you spent the night with to marry another woman?”
“Just because you slept doesn’t mean you have to get married.”
“…Are you going to eat me and throw me away now?”
It was only when the Grand Duke looked like a stone had been dropped on his head that she realized. Oh right. It’s a bit conservative here.
“Wow, you eat it and throw it away. It’s not like that!”
The Grand Duke suddenly released his arms that were tightly wrapped around her waist and strode over to his desk. Was he angry? She thought he meant he wouldn’t argue anymore, but he took something out of a drawer. It was a ring box.
“Omg!”
It’s a marriage proposal! The moment the Grand Duke came in front of her and was about to kneel down, she reflexively snapped her fingers. The box in his hand suddenly disappeared, and the resignation letter on his desk appeared in its place. The Grand Duke immediately threw in her resignation letter and reached for his desk. As he was about to pick up the ring box, his limbs popped out of his box and ran away into the distance.
“Hazel, stop.”
“Think rationally! Don’t do this impulsively!”
“What an impulse! I’ve been waiting for this day ever since the battlefield!”
“They say that when war breaks out, everyone is overcome by the urge to get married!”
So, she learned at school that during times of war, the number of marriages and births increases dramatically. The ring box that was running around the office to avoid the Grand Duke rushed towards her and started climbing up her leg. As she picked up the box, the Grand Duke walked leisurely in front of her.
“Yes, Hazel has it.”
He grinned mischievously, brushing away the hair that had fallen from his forehead from chasing the box.
“As the owner of the ring, I also have it.”
When he took her hand again and tried to get down on his knees, she snapped her fingers and sent the ring into the safe.
“What ring?”
“You started dating me and became quite sly.”
So she slyly turned around.
“Then I’m not the babysitter… I’m done…”
It’s an inconclusive argument. She was trying to leave to give the Grand Duke time to calm down and think carefully, but he stretched out his arm and blocked her path.
“Oh, I have one more contract left.”
The Grand Duke’s hand reached into her apron pocket and took the manual. He opened the last page and held it in front of her as if she was looking at it carefully. What was written there was a contract.
“No, you just fired the nanny. So this is now a blank page…”
The Grand Duke tapped the title at the top of the page.
‘Contract’. The title was ‘Contract’ and that was it. As he headed towards his desk, she followed him, feeling foreboding.
“Ji, what are you doing now?”
The Grand Duke grabbed a quill and scribbled something on the contract.
‘Marriage contract.’
“This is invalid!”
This time his finger tapped the article under the title.
♡ I will give you lots of love ♡
“To the chestnuts!”
I will give my husband ♡ lots of love ♡
The quill that added ‘To my husband’ to the clause went further down.
♡ I will raise you well and protect you well ♡
“I mean the chestnuts!”
I will raise my children well and protect them well ♡
“Wait a moment! Look at the contract period!”
Until the Grand Duchy no longer needs a nanny.
This couldn’t be fixed. When she looked at him triumphantly, the Grand Duke smiled without changing his expression.
“As long as our children continue to be born, there will never come a day when the Grand Duchy does not need a nanny.”
“…”
“Never.”
“…”
“Forever.”
“…”
“You should have carefully looked at the wording of the contract.”
The Grand Duke, who was looking down at the speechless her, smiled like a winner. This man’s flawless obsession made her dizzy.
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