Supporting Characters Also Need Some Love

SPECIAL CHAPTER 5

Part 127

 

She woke up with a chill on her shoulders. Rubbing her eyes, she saw that the blanket covering her bare shoulders had slipped down. As she pulled up the blanket, Adrian’s arms wrapped around her from behind and hugged her warmly. She fell asleep again and opened her eyes. 

 

‘Oh my god, it’s the middle of the day, isn’t it? No. It’s already been three days, I can’t just stay in my room again today.’

 

As she was trying to get up, Adrian’s hand, which was wrapped around her, touched my waist. She felt his lips touch the back of her neck. Her lips trailed down his neck and then licked his wing bones. He was sobbing, barely able to hold on as the strength began to drain from his body. At some point, she slapped the back of Adrian’s right hand while he was fiddling with her stomach. When she turned her head, Adrian looked up at her with the face of a child who had been unfairly scolded. As she looked at him with a puzzled expression, her right hand, which had been hesitant, came back to her waist. Then he smiles brightly. She was in a stupor.

 

‘No, no, I fell for that face and was stuck in bed for three days straight.’ 

 

She shook her head and looked at Adrian with a cold face and said.

 

“Rice cake!”

 

“Rice cake?”

 

While making a bewildered face, she escaped from Adrian. She rolled out of bed, but where were her clothes? It looked like they had been thrown somewhere, but she couldn’t see them. When she put on the gown that Adrian had taken off and looked around the room, she saw that the room was in terrible shape. Not only was the shape of the room terrible, but her condition was also terrible. She needed to do yoga again or something. ‘Oh my, my waist.’

 

As she was patting her waist, Adrian came up to her at some point, kissed her shoulder, and asked.

 

“Would you like me to give you a massage?”

 

“You said you would give me a massage yesterday, but you ended up doing a lot of stupid things.”

 

She said it softly, and Adrian smiled, curling the corner of his eyes.

 

“It’s because Damien bit my finger while I was massaging you.”

 

“I don’t know why the finger that was supposed to give me a massage came into my mouth?”

 

“That’s it, Damian was on top of me…”

 

“Stop.”

 

There was no benefit in complaining, so she fucked Adrian’s mouth. He was still smiling and biting her finger covering his mouth. ‘Ah, this handsome man.’ She got out of Adrian’s arms and opened the window. A pleasant spring breeze blows into the room. The scent of flowers made her feel better.

 

“Today I will take a walk and eat at the dining hall.”

 

“As you wish.”

 

After kissing her forehead and holding her for a while, Adrian returned to the room. She glanced at the mess of the room one more time, sighed, and tugged at her leash. Before she could pull and release, there was a knock on the door. She always wondered how she knew, but was she waiting in front of the door?

 

Jenny came in with an emotional look on her face, looked around the room, and sighed when she saw her wearing a large Adrian gown.

 

“Ma’am, would you like to take a bath first? Or would you like to bring a meal?”

 

“I want to take a shower.”

 

“I will prepare it.”

 

Jenny was given a ride while Millie and Louise were called in and given bath water. She drank a cup of fragrant tea, lay down in a warm bathtub, and got a massage from Jenny who relaxed her shoulders. This was heaven. Of course, heaven was heaven until last night, so what could she say? It must have been a spectacular paradise, like bungee jumping between clouds. She felt like Super Mario, it was nice to do a boop and fly up into the sky, but there was no ending to that game.

 

As Jenny was giving her a scalp massage, she couldn’t help but moan. Jenny asked with a smile.

 

“What did you do when you took a bath?”

 

“I’m not a child. I know how to wash by myself.”

 

“Did you wash by yourself?”

 

“Adrian helped me.”

 

“What about wearing a dress? Are you afraid you won’t be able to get dressed by yourself?”

 

“Adrian helped me.”

 

It’s not that she didn’t know how to do it on her own, but Adrian looked happy. Taking a bath, yes, taking a bath was a bit like being a teddy bear. Since he was hanging out, he soaked him in warm water, washed him, and then shook him out and dried him. It’s not because she couldn’t do it. She had no strength. And as for the dress, she actually never really wore it. She tried it twice, but the person who was supposed to tie the ribbon kept untying it…

 

Jenny gave her a massage without asking any more questions. She seemed startled every time she found traces left by Adrian, but she thought about making an excuse that she seemed to be very restrained, but then he quit. She was about to say that she didn’t lose and bit him, but she also quit. When she came out of the bath, her body was limp. As she was with the person who was flying through the sky after the main buck was launched, she became acutely aware of how poor her physical strength was. But the bigger problem was that she would never be able to reach a similar level even if she exercised a little.

 

‘Oh my, I’m dying.’

 

After spending some time with massage angel Jenny, she came to her senses and went down to the dining hall, where Adrian greeted her with a heartbreaking smile. She didn’t think she should make this comparison to the Duke, but it’s like a white rice cake dipped in honey. It’s very smooth and has sweet things flowing out of it. weird. She hadn’t really gotten out of bed for three days, so why was she so sleepy, and why did that person who lived in the same cycle as her for three days look so refreshed? It feels unfair. She was so upset that she stole a piece of meat from Adrian’s plate, who was eating well. He smiled and put the stolen meat in his mouth. He just ate it with a happy face and then brought the plate in front of her. As he smiled and reached out to drink the wine, she poured plain water into Adrian’s wine glass, and he drank the wine mixed with plain water with the look on his face as if he were drinking the sweet water of life.

 

‘I’m sorry, Adrian, but I’m being rude to someone who can be grumpy.’

 

She put his plate back in front of him and asked Ethan to pour her a new glass of wine. Ethan poured wine into her glass with the expression of a grandfather watching his grandchildren play on the face of a grandchild who needs to be entertained. He asked her why she filled her glass and looked up at Ethan to bring him more meat, when she said she needed new wine, not his. He was watching her play around with Adrian’s wine. Adrian instructed him to do so.

 

Now she had to live in this strange house for the rest of her life. After eating, she stopped by Adrian and went for a walk in the garden. She didn’t know if it’s okay to say it was a walk since she didn’t walk with her own feet, but anyway, she went to the garden. She was surprised again when she saw the marble pillars, floor, and platform where the ceremony was held.

 

“What are we going to do with this now?”

 

“It’s a historic place, so I want to leave it for generations to come.”

 

Adrian was seriously talking nonsense. She thought about renting the wedding hall for a rental fee, but then she realized that it would be nice for her children to get married here. Since it’s a duchy, people could only get married here unless they were marrying into the royal family, right?

 

‘Adrian’s child will definitely be tall and pretty. Oh, what should I do? It’s Adrian’s child.’

 

Even though she was intoxicated by her imagination and punched Adrian’s arm, Adrian was smiling as the flower petals fluttered around. She would be really happy if she could give birth to a child who could smile so beautifully.

 

‘Okay, at least I’m giving birth. Then Adrian will carry one baby in each arm, and I will be able to walk on my own feet. Put it down a little bit.’

 

After hanging out with Adrian all afternoon and having dinner as soon as the sun set, it was time to go to bed again. Weird. She didn’t think she was the type of person who went to bed at eight, but the duke said so, so what could she do? She quickly got ready to go to bed, too. After moving around a bit, she felt like her stamina had recovered, and the longer the meal, the better.

 

Jenny complained about not being able to do her hair pack today, but she calmly took out her pajamas. 

 

“Jenny, having too many buttons is counterproductive. Adrian said it makes him motivated.”

 

Jenny flinched, and she cleared her throat and put on another pair of pajamas. Of course, Adrian was also fired up by her new pajamas.

 

* * *

 

The sweet week went by quickly. Today was Monday, the day she had to go on a business trip as a minister. Ailene, who had decided to head to the East together, came to their house in the Donovan Duke’s carriage. Then, she was embarrassed to see everyone, from the duke to servants and knights, coming out and standing there. Adrian stood gloomily with the look on his face like a wife sending her husband to war.

 

‘You did the expedition. I’m going on a business trip, so don’t look so serious.’

 

Of course her bodyguard, Franz, would follow, and the four knights who were added as guards after the kidnapping incident also showed up in full force. Franz greeted Adrian with a trusting face and the courtesy of a knight. Adrian more seriously ordered him to escort her. After all, Franz was originally her bodyguard, but weren’t the two of them going to assassinate the enemy king? Wasn’t he risking his life to solve a dangerous mission? What was that majestic atmosphere? And Jenny, still unable to let go of her regrets, walked around the carriage holding her luggage. It wasn’t a trip he was going alone, but he was on a business trip with other administrators, and she tried to stop him from asking how he could take a personal maid with him, but he didn’t seem to understand it at all. He put out his trunk, saying it was clothes he would wear on a business trip in the morning, but she thought he had just packed his moving luggage. On a huge business trip with five personal escorts and five trunks, she was so embarrassed to see Ailene that she kept clearing her throat, and her friend smiled sweetly, saying she felt loved. After appeasing Adrian, who looked like he was going to follow along with Greenie at any moment, the carriage finally set off.

 

Two more Ministry of Finance administrators decided to accompany them, and they departed yesterday, and the escort knights assigned by the Capital County went down to the east with them. It takes about four days to get to Nodovan Territory, and half a day from Nodovan Territory to Viscount Blancha. We need to deal with it as quickly as possible and come back as soon as possible. As she left Adrian, who was swallowing his words without being able to hold her, she too couldn’t move.

 

Ailene, who was sitting across from them, smiled and said.

 

“I thought the duke wouldn’t let me go.”

 

“If you followed me secretly, you would follow me, but I’m not the kind of person who would stop you from doing what I’m doing. You’re not really following me secretly, right?”

 

As she was talking, she became anxious, so she opened the carriage window and looked behind her, but fortunately, no one followed her. As she sighed and closed the window, Ailene laughed.

 

“The news that Duke Bigor is infatuated with you reached the Nodovan estate. Today, I saw that your appearance was poorer than it actually was.”

 

“Huh? I also heard a report from Donovan’s estate. There was also a report that the duke was going to the estate to check on someone?”

 

She smiled and asked Ailene about her boyfriend, who she has been dating since last year, but Ailene’s face darkened and she spoke in a low voice.

 

“I broke up with that person.”

 

“Huh?”

 

The atmosphere seemed good in the last letter they exchanged before the wedding, right? The rumor that Duke Donovan couldn’t win over Ailene and ended up looking for a commoner son-in-law has become true. It seemed like he thought the most important thing was for Ailene to be happy, so she cheered him on with all her heart, but why? Ailene, who had been pausing for a while, raised her head and asked.

 

“Have you heard of Cocone Kingdom?”

 

No matter how blind she was to the situation abroad, Lorenta knew the surrounding countries. The Kingdom of Cocone, which was a fairly strong neighboring country, was invaded by the Principality of Gatan 30 years ago and was driven to the brink of annihilation. She understood that it was a small country that was difficult to call a kingdom, as the former Duke of Bigor went out with the Laurentian army and only its name survived thanks to the victory after a long war. Laurentyne’s eastern border was quite complicated thanks to the mess made by the Duchy of Gatan. Small kingdoms and principalities similar in size to the Cocone Kingdom were working hard to restore their former glory. From Laurentine’s point of view, it seemed like they were just waiting and watching because there was nothing good about them growing too big, but why was the Kingdom of Cocone all of a sudden?

 

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