When the Main Protagonists Broke Up

As I turned around and escaped them, I felt a warm gaze from behind me.

The eyes looking at us from earlier were felt from all directions.

‘I saw it, I saw it.’

Well, even I can’t miss this fun spectacle.

The breakup of marriage, engagement, and breakup of marriage between the three ducal families, who are said to be the descendants of the empire.

‘It’s an interesting story.’

It didn’t matter because I knew it was going to happen anyway.

I took one step at a time, raising my head even more stiffly to show a confident and open-minded appearance.

Then, as I looked around, looking for someone to formally say hello to, I suddenly met eyes with familiar faces.

‘As expected.’

Adela Byrne and Aiden Byrne.

Adela’s eyes were where I had just been, Aiden’s eyes were on me.

I deliberately avoided Aiden’s gaze and looked at the two for a moment.

Adela was beautiful today too.

The pale cream-colored dress that contrasted with the ebony-like hair made her beauty stand out even more.

Aiden next to him was also wearing a nice, well-groomed tailcoat, and if you didn’t keep your head straight, you would be instantly captivated by his good looks.

When I thought it might be true, I suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

So, after hastily turning her head, she approached a group of young ladies who came into view.

I quickly searched Belita’s memories just in case, but no one knew.

Judging from Belita’s actions so far, they seemed to take it for granted that I wouldn’t know them.

I greeted them first, and they immediately introduced who they were, so I was able to easily carry on a conversation.

After a short greeting with the people in the banquet hall, I looked for a place to rest for a while due to the sudden fatigue I felt.

A cursory glance revealed that most of the few terraces had already been occupied by someone, and the curtains had been drawn.

I walked towards the place that was expected to be empty because the curtains were not drawn and looked at the terrace.

Fortunately, the terrace was empty.

I drew the curtains so no one could see and shut the door.

It was a sign telling no one to come in.

Now, this was my own perfect space where I could rest comfortably away from the eyes of others.

“Oh, it’s hard.”

The body wasn’t too hard.

But mentally I was very tired.

Even though I knew that, I had to avoid land mines everywhere.

I exchanged conversations with quite a few people at the banquet hall, and someone’s gaze followed me throughout that time.

I wasn’t sure who it was, but I guessed.

Come to think of it, Adela and Aiden saw me with Kane.

It was easy to be misunderstood if you made a mistake.

“It seems like it’s getting more and more twisted.”

Taking a deep breath, I looked outside the terrace for a while.

The night sky was full of stars.

“Wow, pretty.”

My heart was disturbed, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it because the otherworldly land that came into my eyes was so beautiful.

During my travels, I saw countless night skies.

Among them, the night sky seen from the sea in the coastal city of Yullita was by far the best.

‘Can I see you again?’

Can I go there again later?

At that time, I thought I would never come again, so I tried to keep it in my eyes, but now that I think about it, there was no reason why I couldn’t go.

If I had my will, I could go anywhere.

If I have the will, I can do anything.

Thinking that way made me feel a little better.

It was then.

I was admiring the twinkling night sky for a while, when I heard the door open behind me.

‘Huh?’

Someone was trying to enter the terrace.

I just kept staring at the night sky, thinking that if I tried to turn around and knew there was a person, I’d step back right away.

There was the sound of a door closing.

‘It’s gone.’

I thought I had closed the door, but suddenly I heard the sound of footsteps slowly approaching me.

The terrace wasn’t that wide, so I would have known immediately that someone was inside. There’s no way you haven’t seen me ‘What.’

I looked back with the thought that I should send it back after saying a harsh word about the rude behavior that came in despite the presence of people.

There stood a person he did not want to see face to face even for a second.

“Gongnyeo.”

It was Kane.

As soon as I saw Kane, I was dumbfounded and looked at him with an absurd expression.

“Now, what are you doing?”

A cold, shrill voice came out of its own accord.

“I have something to say to the princess.”

What to say

You keep saying that we have something to say?

“I have nothing to say to the Duke.”

“Gongnyeo.”

Kane called me again with his signature low, low voice, with no emotion at all.

“I just want to have a quiet conversation with the princess.”

When he came home, he said he wanted to talk to me, so what on earth was he trying to say?

No, I didn’t want to hear anything.

There was no reason for me to listen to this man.

“Duke.”

Calling out to him, I straightened my posture.

I didn’t want to show even a single trace of emotion in front of Kane.

“I told you when you came to my house, but I don’t know why I have to talk privately with the Duke. Our relationship ended 2 years ago. Of course, the responsibility for all of that rests with the Duke.”

With determination, I continued to speak.

“We are no longer in a position where we can talk face-to-face like this. Oh, of course, it wasn’t a comfortable relationship from the beginning.”

Belita and Kane.

Kane and Belita.

From the beginning, it was a relationship in which one side had clearly bowed down.

Belita wanted Kane’s heart, but Kane didn’t even look at Belita.

And that relationship ended with Kane’s betrayal.

“I am very uncomfortable with the Duke. I don’t even want to be in the same space unless it’s a public setting.”

Kane’s expression slightly distorted.

“Does that mean I have no heart left?”

Did you really think I was still in love with you?

Really?

Ha, I was speechless at the absurdity, but I didn’t want to show it either.

So I answered him with a blank expression again.

“Yes, not at all.”

Could it be that the heart that was not there in the first place is now?

After my answer, there was silence.

We both stared at each other without opening our mouths.

It was like having a snowball fight.

“I can’t believe it.”

And after a long time, Kane opened his mouth.

“Yes?”

It was so unexpected and so absurd.

“I just can’t believe that the person who said he had a crush on me for over 10 years changed his mind in just that short period of time.”

Kane vomited incomprehensible words without pause.

I knew he was a shameless and self-aware person, but I didn’t know he was really this low.

I couldn’t help but laugh at his continued absurdity.

“Let’s start over.”

I’m really, what is this….

“What did you just say?”

I wondered if I had heard it wrong.

“I said let’s start over.”

“What?”

“From now on, I will only focus on Gongnyeo. So our relationship-.”

“Duke.”

I cut him off quickly.

I couldn’t listen any longer.

“Why are you doing this to me?”

I was really curious.

I was so curious about why he was doing this to me all of a sudden, why he was doing such useless things now.

But do we need to know why now?

It was a completely meaningless question.

All I had to do was cut this man out of here.

“Are you really only this much?”

In order to do that, it was not good to respond emotionally.

Judging from the man’s words and attitude now, it seemed as if he knew that if I asked him to start over, he would just like me and wag his tail.

I was furious at how he treated me and Belita in this way, but I tried my best to control my emotions.

‘I need smoke, I need smoke.’

I am a person who has just returned from the pain of a broken heart.

However, there is a man standing in front of me who is talking nonsense about starting over.

I have no heart for this man anymore.

So, we need to get rid of this man.

Thinking so, the words to pour out on the man in front of me came to mind at once.

“The Duke asked me to break off the engagement, so I broke it off with tears in my eyes. Do you know how I felt at that time? You wouldn’t know. If you don’t know, you must be showing me this behavior right now.”

“….”

“And I came back after two years. Two years is not a short time, but it was an extremely difficult and long time to organize my mind.”

“So now-”

“No, there is no such thing as ‘Now’. Nothing more remains between you and me. So please stop here so that I don’t disappoint the duke any more.”

You don’t mean anything to me anymore.

For a moment there was silence on the terrace.

“Let’s go out first.”

Thinking that this was enough for him to understand, he turned around.

Until then, he had been just staring at me without saying anything.

“Gongnyeo.”

And just as I was about to start walking, Kane called me again.

“I will wait. I will wait forever until the princess returns to me.”

Ha, true

Laughter erupted at the words that came from behind.

I really didn’t want to ask, but I guess I should.

“Is it because of the diamond mine?”

“What does it mean?”

“I asked if you were doing it because of the diamond mine you gave me as alimony.”

Of course, even if he answered yes, he had no intention of returning it, but this was the only reason Kane could think of.

Still, if not, wouldn’t that be too strange?

Yes, if the word came out of his mouth that it was because I had a heart, I would really despise him.

“No.”

“No?”

“That’s right. It was only after I broke off the marriage with the princess that I could feel the size of her heart for me, so I just want to start over.”

And he gave me an answer I never wanted to hear.

“It is so easy. And you are so selfish.”

“….”

“When you threw me away, and even now, the duke is not thinking about my heart at all.”

“No.”

“No? Then, did you know that if the duke said he wanted to start over, you’d say you’re good? Rather say it’s because of the diamond mines. It would be much more human.”

How easy would it be to think of me like this?

The anger from before had gradually turned to anger.

“I fully understand why the princess is angry. But things will be different in the future. From now on, I will only look at the princess and not look at anyone else.”

“No, don’t do that. Please don’t.”

“Don’t you like me? I know that the princess’ feelings for me are not so easily erased.”

Wow, look how shameless that man is.

“What? That heart ended 2 years ago. My feelings for the Duke were already gone by then. You know who made it.”

“I was foolish at the time. So from now on-”

“Please, Duke.”

Where is the future for us and what is the use of the future?

I had no feelings for him in the first place, and he was Adela’s man from the beginning.

I don’t know why the back story of the novel turned out like this.

Was the story that everyone dreamed of ‘They lived happily ever after’ was all a lie?

In fact, is this the end of all happy fairy tales or stories?

Above all, I didn’t do anything to him, but why is this man doing this now?

I didn’t try to change Kane like any other novel.

He acted like Belita had done, and he successfully broke up the engagement.

But where the hell did it go wrong?

When and where did Kane’s heart change?

‘Ha.’

Now that I have gone through something I was careful about because I never wanted to go through it, I let out a sigh in my confused and frustrated heart.

‘Did I really have to die?’

I finally came to the idea that the actions that I changed because I didn’t want to die and that I thought were trivial ended up changing the original work.

But who in the world knows the future of their death and can’t avoid it?

I was right I was just doing what I could.

Even though I wanted to comfort myself like that, when I looked at the man in front of me, my heart was gone.

‘No, come to your senses.’

You have to stay alert and act properly.

The original work has already been finished.

The story from now on was a completely new story and a story I did not know.

But even so, the original work was over, but the characters remained.

There was Kane, there was Adela, and….

Aiden was there.

He was the one who willingly killed Belita for Adela.

Judging from the current situation, Adela still had feelings for Kane.

And I really don’t know why, but Kane’s heart was towards me.

In the end, it meant that Adela could be hurt and fall into despair.

Could Aiden just watch the situation?

While his older sister, whom he loves, has fallen into a broken heart and is in great pain.

“I don’t want to talk with the duke about this one more minute. I think you’ve got enough of what I mean. Let’s go out first.”

I don’t know why that person is looking at me with such a hurt face, but I turned away from him.

And, without waiting for his answer, I got out of the terrace as it was.

After barely getting out of the terrace, I carefully looked around.

The center of the banquet hall was full of people dancing.

There were some people who glanced at me, perhaps because I had

reappeared after I hadn’t been there.

I quietly left the banquet hall, ignoring their gaze.

After walking outside the banquet hall for a bit, I saw a garden.

It was a different place from the garden I saw at dinner.

At that time, the garden where I had a conversation with Aiden was filled with all kinds of trees, so I felt like I was in a forest.

On the other hand, the garden in front of me was very colorful and pretty, filled with fragrant and various flowers.

Looking into the garden, I saw several men and women walking in pairs.

I walked past them into the deepest part of the garden.

When I came in quite far, I could not hear people talking at all, but only the sound of birds.

When I saw a bench, I sat down on it.

Then I closed my eyes for a moment and tried to clear my mind of what had just happened.

But it wasn’t easy.

When I came back from my trip, the future I envisioned became completely uncertain.

Judging from Kane’s expression before he came out of the terrace earlier, it was clear that today would not be the end.

‘Why the hell is that?’

What made that man change?

What the hell happened in those two years?

I thought I didn’t want to know the reason or need to know, but my heart was so stuffy.

I didn’t think I could escape the situation by continuing to ignore and turn away, so I could only sigh more.

‘I need a way.’

Kane needed a way to get himself out of the way.

But it was a problem because I couldn’t think of a way to do it.

It was a time when I was lost in thought about how there would be no better way.

I heard footsteps as if someone was approaching near where I was.

‘Who is it?’

Maybe again?

Just as Kane entered the terrace earlier, I felt annoyed at the thought that he might have followed me this time and came this far.

I got up from the bench first.

It was to get out of this place at any time, no matter who came.

I kept looking at the corner of the street to see who was coming this way.

And finally, an unexpected figure appeared at the end of the corner.

It was Adela.

As soon as he saw Adela, he was surprised and managed to keep his eyes wide open and greeted her.

But looking at Adela’s expression, unlike me, she didn’t look surprised at all.

He probably came to know that I was here.

But I didn’t want to mix too much with Adela either.

“I’ll leave your seat.”

So I gave her the space I was in and tried to leave.

“Wait a minute. I want to talk to the princess.”

Then, before I could move my foot, Adela grabbed me.

There are a lot of people who want to talk to me like this today.

I put the foot I was trying to move back in place.

Then he looked at Adela with a questioning face and said,

“Do you want to talk to me?”

“Yes, so could you give me some time?”

When I asked for time, I couldn’t refuse without reason, so I forced myself to nod.

“Thank you, Princess Heitz.”

Adela replied with a bright smile.

However, the smile seemed somehow miserable, which made my heart feel strange.

However, the person who wanted to talk first somehow didn’t say anything.

I didn’t know what to say to me, but I waited for her as I seemed to be organizing my thoughts.

After a while, Adela opened her mouth.

“It’s nice.”

Unexpected words came out of her mouth.

“Yes?”

“As you know, Princess, I’m not feeling well. So coming to such a banquet has been my lifelong dream.”

“Ah yes.”

“My father said he would let me go when I was just a little bit, healthier, so I wanted to be healthy no matter what.”

“….”

I don’t know why I have to listen to this, but I couldn’t stop talking when I saw the expression on her face as she talked to me.

She was looking at me with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

So I couldn’t stop her talking.

“But health wasn’t always on my side. I couldn’t even have the debutante prom that everyone else does, and even after I became an adult, I couldn’t even have a proper coming-of-age ceremony.”

Adela was not a person to feel sympathy for Belita.

Even so, when she was recognized as a sick person, she couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.

I tried to replace that feeling with continuing to listen to her.

“And I met him at the first banquet I went to. Until then, the world was only my father and Aiden, but it was the first time I met a different world.”

As she said that, Adela seemed to be remembering that moment, and had an ecstatic and thrilled expression on her face.

I couldn’t understand why he would make that kind of face while thinking about Kane even though he was unilaterally breaking up his marriage.

I tried to be patient, but it seemed like I couldn’t.

“What do you want to say to me?”

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