The Male Lead’s Father Refuses To Break Off The Engagement
Chapter 136 (Special side story Chapter 1)
(If) Side story. The Male Lead’s Father Accepts To Break-off Of The Engagement
I can do it. I can do it.
Evelia looked at the man sitting across from her and clasped her trembling hands together.
Cassis Adelhard.
The head of the Adelhard Dukedom, one of the few Sword Masters in the Empire, cold-blooded, without blood or tears.
He’s been called many things, but lately there’s been one more.
Evelia Vanein’s fiance.
Yes, the two people facing each other in the splendid drawing room were definitely engaged.
However, the atmosphere lingering between the two was as fierce as if they had met their enemies.
To be exact, Evelia was very tense, and Cassis was unilaterally wary of her.
In the continuing silence, Cassis spoke first.
“What brings you here unannounced?”
Evelia took a deep breath to calm her pounding heart.
Now that she had come this far, she had no intention of backing down.
“I’m breaking off the engagement.”
Once she cleared her throat, her voice was thicker than she’d feared.
“… What are you talking about?”
“I know Duke doesn’t like me, and I don’t want this marriage, so….”
Evelia looked at Cassis, who was slightly agitated, and emphasized once more.
“We should break off the engagement.”
It wasn’t something she had decided to do easily. She had thought about it for days before coming here alone.
A noble family’s marriage contract was a family promise, even if it didn’t reflect her will at all.
They could not be broken as easily as the flip of a palm..
Even knowing all that, she had to break off the engagement with the man in front of her.
‘That’s how I can live.’
As soon as she realized that she was possessed by a character from a romance fantasy she had once read, and that the character was actually the hero’s evil stepmother, she tried to find a way to prevent an unhappy future.
The annulment was just the beginning.
Cassis was silent for a moment at Evelia’s words. He looked at her with sharp eyes, as if trying to figure out her true intentions, but he didn’t take any particular action.
After a long silence, he spoke in a low voice.
“Is that Count Vanein’s will, or lady’s will?”
“It’s my will. Count Vanein… No, my father doesn’t know.”
Cassis frowned slightly.
With a bad feeling, Evelia hastened to add.
“But I’ll make sure nothing happens that the Duke worries!”
But it seemed to be the wrong choice. Cassis’s expression grew even more murderous.
“You know what I’m worried about, and you’re talking about breaking up the marriage, and what can Lady do about it?”
“I know I’m not trustworthy. But I can tell you this for sure. I can give you the information you want, and I can also shut my father’s mouth so that the information doesn’t leak out.”
“…….”
“But if I just tell you that, you won’t trust me, either, so I’ll give you a little hint: yes, Prince Adelhard’s biological father is…”
“He’s from the Kingdom of Cecia. That’s why you couldn’t find him.”
“……!”
“Perhaps the veracity of this information will be revealed when ‘He’ finds out if there was actually an international student from the Kingdom of Cecia during her time at the Academy, though of course, the identity is fake.”
“What will you do if your words turn out to be wrong?”
“… Yes?”
“If you made up the story to break off our engagement….”
Evelia waved her hand.
“I wouldn’t do that against the Adelhards, let alone any other family, and I value my life, at least the information I’ve given you is correct, unless the information I got was wrong in the first place.”
And I’ve already read the novel, so I know better than anyone who Lucius Adelhard’s biological father is and why he didn’t come back.
Evelia swallowed her words and smiled lightly. Then she slowly got up from her seat.
“I didn’t think the Duke would give me an answer right away anyway, and I know you can’t break off an engagement so easily, even if you didn’t want to.”
“…….”
“So please contact me after you’ve thoroughly researched the information I gave you. But I hope it’s not too late. I have my own circumstances.”
Evelia slightly bent her knees to greet him, but Cassis didn’t move from his seat.
“I can’t interrupt the Duke’s precious time any longer, so I’ll take my leave for today.”
Evelia left the drawing room, leaving Cassis behind, who was lost in thought with a serious expression.
As she walked down the hallway, she met Ruth, whose cheeks were flushed peach.
-Lady Evelia! Would you like to have some tea with me?
I turned down his invitation, which was filled with excitement, and felt bad all the way to the mansion.
In fact, from the moment she ended her life as Han So-yoon and became Evelia Vanane, she felt low every moment.
“Where have you been?”
Her mood sank further into the mud as soon as she saw Derek Vanein, Ivelia’s half-brother.
She tried to ignore him, but Derek persistently followed her.
“Why are you ignoring me now? You’re probably being arrogant about being engaged to Duke Adelhard, but that won’t change anything.”
Haa. Evelia sighed as she watched Derek, who was showing more hostility than Cassis.
A part of her wanted to snap at him, “Why won’t it make any difference if I became Duchess Adelhard?” but she restrained herself.
‘If this continues, we can easily break off the engagement.’
Although he didn’t give her an answer today, if he had no intention of breaking off the engagement, he would have firmly refused.
But the way he was mulling it over at the end suggested that he was quite open to her proposal.
Under the circumstances, it was not right to sell Adelhard’s name.
Instead, Evelia ignored Derek, who was running wild, and went up the stairs.
At that moment, she felt Derek grab her hair and her vision became dizzy.
Evelia rolled down the stairs and fell to the floor in an instant.
* * *
The next day.
Evelia was summoned to Count Vanein’s office, her body screaming in pain.
“What on earth have you been talking to the Duke about!”
As soon as she opened the door and stepped inside, a glass ashtray flew out and struck her in the head.
My head felt like it was burning. Evelia struggled to straighten her staggering body and felt the place where she felt extreme pain.
Red blood flowed out from her fingertips.
Count Vanein ignored her appearance and shouted with blood running down his neck.
“What on earth did you do to get a divorce letter from Adelhard! Do you know how much I struggle to put you in that marriage?”
“…….”
“Useless things! I pitied you for growing up under a lowly mother and took you in, but instead of repaying the favor, you ruined everything!”
You didn’t take me in because you felt paternal love or pitied me, did you?
Even if your mouth is crooked, you should speak straight.
Evelia barely swallowed the words that were rising to the tip of her tongue.
“Go to Duke Adelhard’s residence right now and change his mind. Kneel down and beg, or capture his heart with that lowly face, or whatever!”
“I can’t. No, I don’t want to.”
“… What?”
“I’m grateful that you’ve kept me from starving to death, but isn’t that what parents are supposed to do?”
And to be frank, the person who has been living in this Count’s mansion all this time was ‘Evellia Vanein.’
It has nothing to do with Han So-yoon, who was unfortunately possessed by her body one day.
“If you still want me to pay you, shouldn’t I be able to repay you in some other way?”
