Chapter 41 (1/2)

Raising My Fiancé With Money

Chapter 41

My Heart

TL: Jasmine At Karhan’s words, Lilia stiffened in an instant. Then she got up from her seat and shouted.

“Can’t believe you are hopeless!! Then everyone in the world would be garbage!”

Karhan shrugged his shoulders without realizing it.

“Where else can I meet a good man like you?”

Although she hadn’t known him for a long time, Lilia knew Karhan’s good-naturedness. Even when he was misunderstood, he steadfastly helped others. He was such a good person that it was frustrating to watch.

“…… The only person who says I am good is Lilia.”

“No. My eyes are pretty accurate.”

Lilia, who had said that much, added,

“Except for Richard Tersian.”

Back then, she was head over heels for him. Richard pretended to love her and threw her bait, and she picked it up and ate it without realizing it. Suddenly feeling bad, Lilia shook her head and said,

“Anyway, you’re a really nice person to me, so don’t say that.”

“You’re undermining my eyes.”

Karhan’s face, who had been silently listening, became softer.

Good person.

The word penetrated deep into his heart.

Karhan wanted to be a good person, but he felt he had failed. Even Tession would say that he was not good, but foolish.

Negative words that had been frozen for a long time slowly melted away. The moment Lilia acknowledged it, he seemed to have become a really good person.

“Do you know how crazy I was when I was a kid?”

Lilia began to talk, saying it was a secret to others.

“I was reading a book, and there was a scene where twenty ships were launched. As soon as I read it, wanted to copy it.”

So, Lilia took all her toy boats and tried to float them in her back garden pond. Toys made of gold or silver sank, and the rest floated like lotus leaves. Later, her parents saw it and told her,

– From now on, we’ll let the real ship float.

Recalling that time, Lilia spoke her words.

“I left them alone for a while, and then it rained so much that it eventually all sank.”

She was so young that she had no idea that she was accidentally creating misadventures. In addition to that, Lilia told him one story after another. Making the kitchen covered with flour after making a fuss about cooking. Doodling on her father’s beloved masterpiece…..

“It was a disaster when I started walking, huh?”

The corners of Karhan’s eyes, who had been listening quietly, loosened. His eyes slowly lowered and turned to Lilia. He looked at Lilia without knowing what expression he was making.

“Anyway……I think the Duchess misunderstood.”

At Lilia’s words, Karhan came to his senses.

“You’re a family, but there are a lot of things you all don’t know about each other.”

Lilia, who thought Karhan was being alienated by his family, said cautiously. Karhan, in particular, must have been out on the battlefield for a long time and had little time to spend with his family. In addition, after beating the eldest son and becoming the successor, he might have become more uncomfortable.

“If there’s anything I can do for you, just tell me.”

It’s a family thing, so it’s difficult to actively intervene, but Lilia said she would help if she could. Karhan glanced at Lilia like that. After a while he opened his mouth.

“…….I don’t know why you’re helping me.”

From their first meeting until now, Lilia has always helped Karhan. Lilia was the first person to help out like this with no cost. Not knowing what kind of answer he would get, Karhan was a little nervous. And Lilia replied with an uncaring tone,

“It’s only natural since we are on the same boat.”

When Lilia mentioned their contract relationship, his heart pounded. A numb sensation ran down to his fingers. Karhan unknowingly clenched his fist. It was a natural answer, but what did he want…. (To hear)

Karhan imagined what would happen if Lilia suddenly found out that he was abandoned by his family and that he was an empty shell successor.

Will Lilia still treat me well?

He wondered if he should be honest now. Karhan raised his head to face Lilia. Clear purple eyes looked back at him.

He became unable to say anything. He didn’t want to see those eyes tinged with disappointment. Karhan already knew how sweet Lilia’s warmth was. The sense of loss he had felt when he didn’t know warmth compared to losing it after knowing how it felt was as different as heaven and earth.

He was only holding onto Lilia’s hem. If Lilia shook it, he had no choice but to fall off. Then he would no longer be able to stand back up.

Karhan rolled his eyes. Contrary to what Lilia said, he wasn’t a good person. (T/N: because he can’t confess about his family issues)

“Karhan, what’s wrong?”

As Lilia worried that his expression looked serious, Karhan slowly lifted his eyelids. Ignoring the numb feeling in his chest, he relaxed his expression

“I was thinking about something else for a while.”

Karhan stood up and said.

“I’ll show you around the room.”

The space where Lilia and Karhan were now was a drawing room connected to the hallway. There were three more doors around the drawing room.

“That room is a bedroom and the other side is used as an office.”

In fact, it was common for successors to have their offices completely separate. Heinley also had a separate bedroom and office.

“How about the rest of the room?”

“It’s storage.”

It was also the first time that a bedroom and a storage room were shared. It seemed that Karhan was not being treated properly at the Duke’s residence

‘If you had lived in our house, we would have given you an entire floor altogether.’

As she thought about that, Lilia found something she was familiar with. It was the item that she had recommended at the music box store directly that day.

“Isn’t this the gift I suggested?”

“That is……”