Chapter 43 (1/2)

Raising My Fiancé With Money

Chapter 43

Always

TL: Jasmine

Lilia began to build the tower with bread as if proving what she had just said. The boy, who was watching as if possessed, suddenly shouted as if he remembered,

“I need to buy bread!”

“Bread?”

“It’s for my sister.”

When Lilia made a face asking why it had to be bread, the hesitating boy replied,

“My oldest sister… She draws pictures.”

“Really?”

Lilia picked up a piece of bread without asking any more. It was like drawing a picture using coal. She thought she would have a lot of trouble drawing in the slums, but she was too nosy to pay attention to that.

After filling three trays, the calculation was completed. The children were seated at a table prepared in the store and bread and cake were squeezed in. She also ordered a drink to prevent indigestion.

The siblings must have been very hungry, so they ate the bread without breathing. Then she (child) repeatedly admired that it was delicious.

“It’s more delicious if you rip it apart.”

Frances taught her how to eat bread. Malek quietly left the store and bought medicine at Lilia’s request. It was an ointment applied to wounds.

Lilia applied medicine to the girl’s thin knees. She frowned at the sting and flinched, but she was calm because she was distracted by eating.

After some time, the tray was empty, and the brother and sister’s stomach became full. Lilia said, putting the remaining bread in the children’s hands,

“If you’re hungry from now on, come to this store.”

“Thank you!”

The children who thanked them rushed away. The siblings who got bread looked happy as if they had received the whole world.

Lilia smiled lightly as she watched them go back. She thought it was a good thing she didn’t give the money, This was because it was not possible to know what kind of person the brother and sister’s guardian was, No one could guarantee what anger losing the money would cause. All Lilia could do was keep the children from going hungry.

“I wish we could meet again…….!

Lilia got up from her seat. In the past, when she didn’t know anything, she took them one by one to her house. Frances was brought to the mansion as well. But now, Lilia knew. There’s no end to it.

Lilia could not reap all the slums. It was because even if it started in a good way, it always ended badly. And they blamed Lilia for not helping, or their parents asked for more money from their children.

No matter how much she donated and helped, poverty did not disappear. Even if the Bloden family

comes forward and eradicates the slums, poverty is born elsewhere. Just as life and death coexist, poverty and wealth are inseparable.

These children were just lucky. Like a person who suddenly won a lottery.

Lilia left the store after leaving enough money to the bakery owner.

“Shall we get the pen now?”

If she went now, she thought the time would be right.

Lilia, who left the slum, visited the store and found the pen. Even the engraving felt special as if it were the only one in the world.

“Let’s go back home now.”

Lilia got straight into the carriage and headed home. The day was already coming to an end because the outing was longer than she thought.

Lilia, who was looking at the crimson sunset burning in the sky, recalled Richard. She often thought of Richard even if she didn’t want to, but these days, it was much less. A lot of Richard seemed to have been washed away in her daily life.

“Isn’t it too quiet?’

Seeing that he had yet to give consent to the breakup, he seemed to have been up to something. In the meantime, Lilia was looking for a weakness in which Richard had no choice but to accept the breakup. A few came to mind, but they were all weak. She needed a shot to push him to the corner.

‘If she broke up the engagement safely…… She will make sure it is impossible for him to step into her life again. Lilia, immersed in thought, recalled what the Duchess had said.

– I think we should set the date for the engagement ceremony first, what do you think?

Lilia brought in Evantheon to break up the marriage safely with Richard. This was because she needed a shield in case he retaliated.

When she suggested a contract relationship, she thought Karhan was about to get engaged to Stella because he lacked assertiveness. So she thought if she instilled confidence and taught him how to voice his opinion, he could end his relationship neatly at the end of her contract.

However, contrary to expectations, Karhan was too weak in the Duke’s family even though he was the successor. The engagement story brought up by the Duchess this time also felt like coercion, not a proposal. It was not a matter of only fixing his personality.

“Can I break up safely in a year?’

She thought she might really get engaged to Karhan while trying to avoid Richard.

In fact, Karhan himself would be a great husband. He had a little bit of a pushover-like personality, but he was a good person and a man who would become a Duke in the future.

It’s not that she didn’t like him. If she had to pick one, it was close to attraction. However, Lilia was no longer confident in liking someone sincerely.

She pretended to be okay and forgot everything, but the wound created by Richard’s betrayal was deeper than she thought. It was so scary to even look back at it that she turned a blind eye to it.

Even if she started a new love, she would hesitate because of the wounds she received from Richard. Endlessly suspicious and anxious…… Eventually, she was afraid, so she didn’t know she’d cut herself off.

Before that, Karhan didn’t even like me. If you find someone you really like, you should let them know.

Thinking that far, her mood subsided as if it was raining. She didn’t know why she was like this. Didn’t she start with an ending that she decided from the beginning?