And when he said that, he meant to break up the engagement.
“What are you talking about now….”
On the outside, I put on a look of astonishment, but on the inside, I was cheering for joy at the thought that I had done it in the end.
The extent of this feeling was to the point where I had to consciously stop my body from shaking without even realizing it.
But from now on, it was really important, so you shouldn’t relax. I had to be very careful with all my answers, actions and facial expressions so that my acting would never go unnoticed, but somehow I could achieve my goals.
“Are you trying to break off the engagement just because I put a bottle under the duke’s bed? Do you think it is possible to break up the engagement just because of this?”
“I have someone to love.”
“Yes?”
I looked at him with a confused expression, as if I had heard some
Nonsense.
“Duke… Did I hear wrong? Yes?”
Kane was silent.
“This is nonsense. I must have heard wrong. Or a dream.”
I continued to pretend to deny reality and shivered slightly.
‘Wow, I really smoked.’
Even if I think about it, my appearance now is not acting, but it looks like the real thing.
“Princess Heitz.”
“I can’t. I’m so tired I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to go home.”
Saying that, I went to the doorway while covering my ears to mean that I didn’t want to hear any more.
However, the walking speed was not fast at all, and I was desperately crying out to please catch me.
“The conversation isn’t over yet.”
Phew, glad i did
Kane reached out and tried to grab me to keep me from opening the door. Then he hurriedly withdrew his hand and stood in front of the door.
‘Do you hate me that much?’
He seemed to really hate me to the point that I didn’t even want to touch him for a second.
‘It’s good.’
Anyway, I was tired of coming here every day, and every day was a waste of time.
And thinking that I didn’t have to see that face today made me feel better.
“How, how could you do this to me?!”
I had to end the whole situation within today. So I decided to push him even more.
“You know my heart. It’s already been over 10 years since I fell in love with the Duke. But how… how….”
“From the beginning, I had no feelings for the princess.”
Good job, good job do more, do more
“Know…. I knew. That the Duke doesn’t like me…. That only I, I was the only one who put the Duke in my heart. I’m fine though. I can endure everything! I don’t care if the Duke stays by my side like he is now. So-.”
“Princess, we are finished now.”
What ends when you haven’t even started?
“Are you Princess Adela Bayern? Who does the duke love?”
I lit a double wick in my eyes and questioned Kane.
A shock passed through his eyes for a moment, as if he didn’t know that I knew about Yeoju’s existence.
“How did you know?”
“I know everything about the duke. The people the Duke meets, the places he goes, at least what he ate today, what time he got up and what time he went to bed.”
Kane frowned as if he was fed up with my words, but it was what I wanted, so I continued talking without paying any attention to his expression.
“Duke, it’s not uncommon for married nobles to meet their mistresses. I’m not that tight-knit. It’s just the wind. Fleeting wind.
You’ll come back someday So I can wait until the Duke comes back to me. Because the last of the duke is me.”
If you are an obsessive person, you should recite at least these lines.
Moreover, if you treat someone you love as a mistress, there will be resentment that wasn’t there?
I recited the lines I had prepared one by one, recalling the many novels I had read so far, so that he could learn more from me.
“So please stop saying that we are breaking up. Yes? Duke. I love you. I love you so much. I will only love you until I die. No, if the Duke goes first, I will follow and be buried alive next to the Duke.”
‘Was it a bit harsh to be buried alive?’
Nope, i have to do this That makes it even more disgusting.
As expected, Kane’s expression distorted as if he had heard something terrible, as if the expression ‘Alive’ had worked.
I approached him bit by bit, making a desperate false confession of love with a hint of obsession.
There’s nothing I hate more than seeing someone I hate approaching me.
Then Kane, apparently realizing my intentions, raised his hand to stop me.
“Do not come closer.”
“Duke…!”
“If you know, then I will tell you. My feelings for Princess Bayen are absolutely not the same as the princess says. From the moment I first saw it, I fell in love with Princess Bayon. Now she is everything in my life. From that day on, my world revolves solely around her and I can’t imagine a world without her. So there is no room in my heart for anyone else.”
As if against my confession of love, he poured out his heart for Adela to me word by word.
He seemed to be deeply in love with Adela, to the extent that I could see at once the ecstasy in his eyes as he talked about Adela.
‘He was a very loving person. He was a very loving person.’
“This mindset will never change in the future. The first and last for me is not the princess, but the princess of Baion. So, Princess, please let me go now.”
As soon as he finished speaking, I pretended to be in too much shock and slumped to the floor, pretending my legs were weak.
“I can’t do this…. If the Duke has the slightest respect for me, you cannot do this to me….”
Then, with a face that seemed like the world was going to collapse, he spat out words one by one with a voice filled with despair.
“Princess, wake up.”
I did it just in case, but Kane just told me to get up, as if I was lying on the floor as expected, but didn’t seem to have any intention of grabbing me and lifting me up.
“How could you do this to me?! Duke, what am I missing? What could be lacking more than the Princess of Bayon! uh huh…!”
Feeling unfair and unable to stand it, I slammed to the floor and cried out even more.
But he still didn’t budge.
I didn’t give up and kept muttering in a voice mixed with tears, ‘I can’t do this’.
Hoping to look like someone who was shocked just by looking at it….
However, my head was lowered earlier, and my hand, which was hidden in the flowing hair, was moving very busily.
This situation itself was acting for me, so I couldn’t even cry because I wasn’t sad, but I had to look like I was crying.
So, I couldn’t help but poke my eyes out without Kane’s knowledge. After a while, I felt that I had done enough.
After some tears came out, I decided to get up.
In fact, the real reason I decided to get up was that my feet were going numb and I was losing feeling.
It was unacceptable to show an unsightly appearance of stumbling and falling with numb feet.
I stood up helplessly from my seat with my head still hanging down. I didn’t forget how I nearly fell over to see how he behaved when I got up, but as expected, Kane pretended not to see me.
It was fortunate that this man was such a heartless and heartless man.
If Kane had shown even the slightest amount of compassion for Belita, he might not have come this far.
But he was a cold and cold person as I expected.
Now is the time to put an end to this smoke.
For a beautiful finish, I changed my expression, which had been filled with sadness, despair, and futility, to feelings of anger, rage, and anger, and glared at him with my eyes wide open as much as I could.
“You’re really too much!”
And with a very exaggerated gesture, I let out a laugh.
“I knew from before that the Duke was a calm and cold person, but I didn’t expect him to be this level. If you don’t even look at me even though I’m down, has the Duke ever tried to look at me properly?”
There were no words coming back.
“It looks like you don’t want to talk to me anymore.”
After saying that, I straightened up my body, which had been deliberately slouched just now, in order to appear intimidated.
Then, I erased all the expressions I had on him and lifted my head a little higher to straighten up my momentum.
‘It’s finally over.’
Thinking so, I opened my mouth to say the words that had been my only goal ever since I came here.
“Be great. Great. I lost. I will break off the marriage.” It was then.
A look of surprise and wonder passed across Kane’s face at my words.
‘Oh, was it too fast?’
Did you think I gave up too easily?
Isn’t it like that?
In order not to give the impression that they would break up easily, I thought I did my best to cling to it, to the extent that I would have done this if it was the real Belita….
I just kept talking nonstop so as not to give him a chance to make him feel that something was wrong about me.
“In exchange, you will have to give me an amount of alimony that I can understand.”
Give me the money, Namjoon. You have a lot of money
Fortunately, when the question of material compensation came up, the doubts and doubts that had lingered on his face for a moment disappeared.
And instead, the ridicule that seemed to have known it spread more and more.
“Great. If you tell me the amount you want, I will compensate you enough so that the princess is not disappointed.”
He hurriedly accepted my terms without first hearing what and how much I wanted, perhaps because he feared that I might change my mind.
Done.
I thought all along.
If it was the real Belita, she probably wouldn’t break off Kane even if he gave her money in the millions.
It was because she, too, as a princess of a duke’s family, had enough wealth that she would not be able to use it up even if she spent her whole life.
With that thought in mind, somehow, in order to justify the breakup and convince everyone, it was absolutely necessary to receive a suitable, enormous reward that anyone could understand.
Of course, I was going to use that excuse to get a good portion out of him this time.
As compensation for all my hard work.
After making that decision, whenever I had time, I secretly investigated the property of the Duke of Maxius.
It took more time and money than expected because it was about digging up one of the largest families in the empire, the Duke of Maxius.
However, since I was also a member of a family that could not be defeated by him, there was nothing I couldn’t do if I wanted to.
As a result, I found out how much the Duke of Maxius’ wealth was. And based on that, I was able to calculate how much I could get. I intended to ask for the most valuable thing he had.
At that level, I was sure that no one would have any doubts about the fact that I, who loved Kane more than his life, broke off the engagement.
No, some might do it, but if you find out that you’ve been rewarded for that, you’ll say ‘Ah!’ I will agree with you.
Because it was really worth it.
“I want estates, not money.”
“…Young, right?”
His brick-like expression slightly cracked when he said Youngji, as if he knew he could only ask for money or a few pennies.
Seeing that, I got a little excited because I thought I had given him a good shot.
‘No. Calm down. It’s not over yet.’
Reminding myself that it’s not over until it’s over, I opened my mouth, trying to calm the excitement as much as possible in my heart.
“I heard that there are lands in the Duchy that contain diamond mines. Give it to me.”
Even in this world, as it was where I lived, diamonds were one of the most expensive gemstones.
So having a mine of diamonds, not just a few diamonds, meant having great wealth.
My family, the Heitz family, also built up wealth for generations, but unfortunately did not have a diamond mine.
So, I thought that if I broke off the engagement and took the mine as alimony, my parents would understand and welcome it to some extent.
“You mean the diamond mines…?”
“The land there, including the diamond mines, to be exact.”
It was not a limited amount of money, but he seemed to be shocked when he asked for a land that gave almost infinite money whenever he earned it.
Kane was silent for a moment.
I didn’t have anything to bow down to him anymore, so I held my head stiffly and stared at him confidently.
“Don’t you like it? Are you sorry? You don’t want to pay that price for our breakup?”
I laughed at him lightly as I turned around and asked if your love wasn’t that much.
“If it’s a waste, you can cancel the engagement. I don’t care either way. No, I’d rather just say something that the Duke came to his senses and come back to me, and I can make it happen. And I’m thinking of setting a wedding date right away. I am afraid that something like this will happen again.”
I deliberately brought up the topic of marriage and pressured Kane to make him nervous and not think carefully.
Although I went out strong, I was also anxious that Kane’s love for Adela would really be only that.
Because if that happened, the breakup would go over the water, and I could have had to live terribly for the rest of my life marrying the cheating man.
But I kept my expression, trying never to show my nervousness outwardly.
However, after Kane kept his mouth shut for quite a long time, his heart became impatient.
So when I was about to open my mouth to press him again, Kane opened his mouth first.
“…great.”
It was fortunate.
As soon as I heard the answer I wanted, I clenched my fists without Kane’s knowledge.
I looked at his face and he had an expression that he was totally unwilling to give me the diamond mine.
What if you don’t like it?
Still, I’ll admit you’re my lover.
Giving up diamond mines for love, what a love. Fully acknowledged!
“Can I trust you?”
However, from what I’ve learned, it was clear that giving away the diamond mine would be quite a blow to even the richest Duke Maxius in the empire.
So I asked him for confirmation once again.
“Yes that’s right….”
“I’ll trust you, you’re not going to say anything else later.”
He has a bad personality, but he’s not one to lie, so I thought I could trust him.
“Even the princess should not change her mind about this matter.”
He also demanded the same reassurance from me, fearing that I would change my mind later.
“I also do not speak twice with one mouth. I swear on the honor of a Nobleman.”
I used the honor of a nobleman to show him my absolute will.
Then his expression seemed more relaxed.
‘Did I swear for no reason?’
I didn’t like it again, so I regretted it a little.
It wasn’t bad to see that man doubting and trembling with anxiety.
No. Done.
Anyway, this person was over with me.
From now on, it will be all about saying hello for a while at an official event.
There will no longer be any strings attached to us.
“Then, I will prepare the details in a document through the family representative and send it to you. I hope the Duke achieves what he wants.”
I got what I got, so I had nothing to do here.
After saying that, I turned around and headed for the door.
Somehow it felt like he was watching my back until I left, so I left the drawing room without even looking at him.
And as soon as the door closed, I was so happy that I let out a cheer of joy inside.
You did it. I did it!!
I read to myself all the time that I could do it, but the uneasy mind of just in case was always inherent.
However, when I finally finished it, a sense of accomplishment and a sense of freedom that I had accomplished began to fill my heart.
However, this was still the Duke of Maxius.
It was an unsuitable place for full enjoyment.
I walked to the wagon, barely trying to calm my shaking shoulders.
However, throughout the walk, I couldn’t hide my pleasant steps, and my feet were so light that I felt like I was walking on clouds.
‘A diamond mine…!’
I’ll be rich until I die, even after I die.
As long as I had this diamond mine, I could do whatever I wanted to do, eat what I wanted to eat, and do anything without anyone noticing.
I must have successfully broken off the engagement. As I was contemplating what to do in the future, I arrived in front of the house before I knew it.
“My lady, are you here?”
When I got off the carriage, the butler and servants were there to meet me.
“Mother, where is your father?”
I spoke to an older man among them.
He had been working as a butler for the Duke of Heights for several decades.
“The Duke is in the office and the Duchess is in the study.”
“Okay? Okay.”
I wanted to tell my parents what happened today, but I needed a moment to think about what to say.
So, first I went up to the second floor where my room was.
Still, after living here for six months, the voices of mother and father came out without hesitation.
Fortunately, they were people who truly loved their daughters and gave them just as much affection.
The father was hot-tempered and hot-tempered, befitting the head of the fire family, but the mother was a calm and positive person in everything.
But they didn’t even know that my daughter had changed. After watching for six months, fortunately, neither of them were so quick-witted.
‘Still, I’m glad they’re good parents.’
I sincerely thought so.
‘If you look at the novel, you meet malicious parents or you don’t have them at all….’
I’d be sad if it wasn’t there again. It wasn’t from the beginning, but now the two of them were my family.
Seeing them treat me as their daughter and treat me well, a feeling of sorryness came to me out of the blue, and sometimes I felt a sense of distance.
However, as we kept bumping into each other, I too opened my heart more and more, and now we are becoming a family.
I went into my room and rested for a while, organizing what I would say to my parents in my head.
It happened anyway, but I had to tell my parents properly because it was an arranged marriage that had been made from family to family.
And it was entirely up to me to convince them and lay the groundwork for me to live comfortably in the future by creating an advantageous situation for me.
While I was lost in my thoughts, not knowing how much time had passed, Mary’s voice came from outside along with a knock on the door.
“Ma’am, it’s time for dinner.”
“Okay.”
I went down to the dining room to have dinner.
When I went down, my parents were already sitting at the table. I sat in my seat and looked at them for a while.
My father was a likable man with blonde hair and green eyes, and my mother was a beautiful woman with red hair and blue eyes.
And Belita inherited half of her father’s golden hair and half of her mother’s blue eyes.
In terms of appearance, I could say they both resembled each other, but fortunately, she resembled her mother more, so I could say that Belita was a beauty, although not as much as her.
Soon the food came out one by one.
I had a light chat with the two while eating.
The food always tasted similar, but it was the most delicious thing I
had ever eaten, perhaps because it was a day.
However, since it was in front of my parents, I ate it while saying, “It’s delicious.”
“Did you have a good visit to the Duke of Maxius today?”
As I was about to break open the bread and dip it into the soup, my mother asked me.
Knowing that I went there every day, it was not a new question since it was normal for my mother to ask me if I had been well during dinner.
“Yes. I came and went well. However….”
I paused for a moment and darkened my expression slightly. It was time to start acting again.
“Why, what’s wrong?”
“Belita, what is it?”
As my face darkened, my mother and father teased me with a worried tone.
“…I have something to tell you after dinner. I hope you will give me some time.”
In response to my serious and calm voice, the two of them nodded slightly in agreement.
After that, I continued to eat while maintaining a gloomy expression on purpose, and my parents stopped talking to me.
After dinner, I headed to my parents’ office.
Smart.
“It is me. This is Belita.”
“Come in.”
I heard my mother’s soft voice from inside.
I opened the door and went inside.
My parents were waiting for me sitting side by side on the sofa.
I carefully sat down in the seat facing them and sighed exhaustedly at the same time.
“I’m sorry… mother, father….”
And first of all, I opened my mouth to apologize to them.
“What is it?”
“Belita, talk now.”
“…I have decided to break off the engagement with Duke Kane
Maxius.”
The two people’s faces were instantly stained with embarrassment at my unexpected bomb declaration.
“…Broken marriage?”
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