The Secret Circumstances of the Fake Ducal Couple

Purpose of marriage

“Cain ordered it.”

Jane let out a sigh. She was sent to her by Cain, so she couldn’t treat her carelessly, but she didn’t want to be swayed by the maid.

“Ka, ka, ha! If you call my master’s name carelessly… … .”

Jane raised her hand, while interrupting Michelle.

“Michelle, I’m fine. as you know.”

There was a lot of meaning in those short words. Michelle’s face
turned blue when she realized what it meant.

As Jane expected, Michelle was not territorial but jealous.

Cain was also a sinful man.

“What are you doing? It doesn’t come up quickly.”

Michelle turned around.

Jane let out a soft sigh of her own.

It was still beyond Jane’s authority to directly scold Michelle. Because Michel was Cain’s property.

Over the past seven years, Jane’s self-esteem has been undermined and destroyed countless times. She has experienced this kind of neglect countless times.

Michelle was jealous of Jane, but she realised that until just a few hours ago, Jane lived a life as bad as Michelle’s.

So I wasn’t angry. But now was the time to get angry.

Because things have changed. She is now the future duchess. So advicing her not to be rude would be fine.

Jane thought deeply about how Mrs. Whitney had treated her
misbehaving ladies-in-waiting.

“Michelle.”

Jane withdrew her smile. She then went up to the same stairs as
Michelle. Jane, who was tall for a woman, naturally looked down at Michelle.

Her cool gaze was full of majesty.

Michelle’s shoulders were weighed down even though she was

only a few centimeters above her.

“Your job is to help me live comfortably. So, you are supposed to do that.”

Jane grabbed Michelle’s chin and lowered herself down.

“Keep your eyes down.”

She tapped Michelle’s thigh.

“Walk as lightly as a butterfly.”

Finally, Jane pointed to her lips.

“Please refrain from talking.”

“Ah… … .”

“Keep the answer short and concise.”

Michelle, unable to bear her humility, raised her head and bowed her waist the moment her eyes met with Jane’s.

The woman she saw in front of Cain’s office and the Jane she saw now were completely different people.

At that time, she was overflowing with weakness, as if she would break if touched, but now she has the appearance of a strict owner.

‘Even if she fell, a noble is still a noble, right?’

Although her stomach churned, Michelle said,

“I’ll be careful,” as she replied quietly.

Although she is light and frivolous by nature, she is not stupid enough to not to see a knife in front of her and avoid it.

Jane saw Michelle who was calming herself down and went upstairs.

“I can go alone, so don’t follow me. This is an order.”

Jane quickly moved away from Michelle.

I tried imitating Mrs. Whitney, but wouldn’t it have been obvious that I was acting?

Her heart was pounding.

* * *

As soon as Jane reached the bedroom and closed the door, she slid down. The contract she was clutching on, fell to the floor.

When she scolded Michelle, she thought of Mrs. Whitney. She tried to imitate her, but when she thought back, she found it extremely awkward.

Come to think of it, the former Lady Hastings was also overflowing with dignity.

Jane was worried that she would not be able to do half as well as her mother did.

What kind of expression would Cain make if he found out her true
feelings?

Would he laugh as if he knew that would happen? Or will he get
angry at me for saying the same thing twice? Should I just be relieved and say I’m glad we broke up 7 years ago?

Whatever it is, it won’t be a good reaction.

Jane let out a sighing laugh and straightened her disheveled hair.

Even though it was midday, the room was dark without the sunlight. She was a world away from Cain’s office, which was covered in brilliant light.

Naturally, Jane thought of Cain.

As he puffed on his cigar and was looking at…. her cheeks heated up as she remembered the lowered eyebrows and the sagging cheeks.

When did he start smoking cigars?

Her Cain, who is two years older than her, was still an adult
when she was separated from him.

He didn’t smoke cigars at that time. Come to think of it, he didn’t
even go out to gentlemen’s clubs back then.

But now, smoking cigars and going to gentlemen’s clubs seemed like a daily routine for him.

Jane’s solar plexus rang. Jane rubbed her solar plexus with both her thumbs.

Every time she saw something different from their past self, a slight pain arose in her.

She felt like if she thought about it any longer she would ruin the
evening completely, so slapped herself on the cheek. She saw Jane get up, walk purposefully and briskly, and open the tightly

closed window.

She was going to find something to do right now.

However, contrary to her plan, she stopped while holding on to the window frame.

“ah… … .”

An exclamation flowed from between Jane’s lips.

The scenery outside her window was pretty appealing to her.

The greenery created by the large beautiful tree refreshed Jane’s heart.

The sound of leaves hitting each other whenever the wind blew was like the song of a nymph, and the carpet-like lawn looked so soft that you wanted to roll around right away.

There was a white bench under the shade of the tree. Tears welled up in Jane’s eyes when she discovered it.

“He didn’t sell that one.”

Cain and Jane shared their first kiss on that bench in the garden,
which is not often visited by people in the garden.

Cain must have forgotten. So I guess they would have left that bench as is.

Whenever Cain and Jane wanted to hold hands or hug each other, they stopped by there, but that place could be seen right from the room!

Although Cain had merely put Jane in the corner, but still he felt like a gift to her.

She suppressed her desire to go down immediately. It was like eating delicious candy later.

Jane secretly promised herself that she would clean up that bench before Cain caught on that place. She would do that so she would go when she was really having a hard time, thinking about it she took out her pen and paper.

Jane soon began writing her letters.

* * *

“She called a footman and asked him to post this letter.”

Nathan placed a light green envelope on Cain’s desk. Jane’s name was clearly written on the sender space.

“Where is she sending it?”

Cain took her letter and she opened it without hesitation. Nathan
furrowed his brow.

‘If you tear it like that, it’s hard to restore it to its original state.’

“This is to the Kayden family. This is a letter to Madame Merce.”

“Is this where Jane worked as a governess?”

Just before Cain went to see Jane, he recalled the report he heard from Nathan.

“Yes, that’s right. Do you want to read it?”

“Would I open something I wasn’t even going to read?”

“Are you censoring even though the destination and purpose of
sending is clear?”

“People are more thorough and wicked than you think.”

Yeah, it didn’t look like it.

The Jane, whom Nathan saw was pure and clear.

She had large, strangely raised eyes that gave her a dangerous look. But that was because she was dangerous in seducing the opposite sex, and she was not a type of danger who would be causing an incident.

Although Cain had told him to keep an eye on Jane’s every move, he brought her a letter, but he didn’t understand why he was keeping such close watch.

If he asks Cain, the answer he will get was obvious.

‘Is this head of yours for a decoration because your brain seems to be empty?’

To prove he wasn’t just an idiot to his superior, Nathan eagerly rolled his head.

Cain had already told him why he married her, her family history, and the reason for his close surveillance on her… … .

“Your Excellency, by any chance, Lady Jane…… ?”

“Shut up.”

Nathan was unnecessarily quick to notice. Cain clicked his tongue.

Nathan’s brows immediately furrowed. My guess was correct.

Cain is trying to catch the remnants of the Rose Sect through Jane.

Rose faction.

Contrary to their romantic name, they were traitors who denied the current system and even organized an army.

Helena called them terrorists, scum, and a plague on society.

‘This is what the old raccoon asked his excellency to do.’

Did she tell him to choose between marrying the princess or wiping out the remnants of the Rose Sect?

The inside of Nathan’s mouth was bitter. I think I touched the
wrong one, but now that the story is out, I need to know everything.

“You got everything sorted out, right? Your Excellency went through hardships in a foreign land for several years in order to carry out the order to eradicate the Rose Sect.”

“I did.”

Seven years ago, the Rose faction, which called for the dissolution of the royal family and raised an uprising with the slogan,

‘Rose in the right hand, bread in the left hand,’ organized an army and threatened the royal family.

Although they could not advance to the capital, several collateral
relatives of the royal family who ruled as kings in the provinces were captured by them and suffered hardships.

They argued for an equal world. In a small way, they called for career freedom for women, and in a big way, they called for the dissolution of the royal family.

The movement towards freedom and equality existed before then, but there was a direct reason why it caught fire seven years ago, as if tinder was added to a powder keg.

While the kingdom’s citizens were starving to death due to several
years of drought, the queen and nobles indulged in extravagance.

Eventually, some farmers could not stand it anymore and condemned the queen and nobles, so they cut off their heads and displayed them in the square.

That incident concentrated the scattered anger.

But their dream ended up as only a dream.

A week before the grand opening, someone handed over to the Queen the Rose Sect organization chart and a list of their sponsors.

The Queen had her bloody purge.

The Whitney family was ruined for providing military funds,
influential families were disbanded just for associating with them, and those who led them were hanged.

It goes without saying that the head was displayed on the castle wall.

For over a month, blood was shed day after day in the square.

People became angry at the mere mention of the word ‘rose’, and the Rose faction completely disintegrated. But Queen Helena did not stop.

She was thorough. She hoped to completely erase the remnants of their hidden settings everywhere.

Cain became the person responsible for the ruthless search

operation because he almost had ties to the Whitney family.

〈Prove it with your own hands. Hastings’s innocence. Then let’s
consider the Whitney family’s lottery.〉

At that time, Cain still loved Jane. Although he could not save Count and Countess Whitney, he wanted to at least get rid of the label that would be attached to Jane as the child of a rebel.

He therefore accepted this commission from Helena.

For two years before voluntarily leaving for his battlefield, Cain
searched for the hidden mole.

He never got his hands dirty, but his mouth had to dictate many
things.

In the meantime, his parents died and his love ended.

Cain’s humanity was chipped away little by little.

“I knew she was done sorting things out.”

“The old raccoon said there was smoke rising.”