Chapter 110 (1/2)
Chapter 110: Chapter 110
“I don’t like it.”
“Think about it carefully. Do you want to live behind your brother all your life when you are much smarter than him?”
“… ”
“If you join our faction, we will guarantee you the status of a duke. Isn’t it a reasonable deal? You get the duke status, and we get the intelligence we want.”
“… Let me think about it. ”
When the anti-emperor noble factions discovered that I violently resisted when the successor of my family was decided, they tried to strike a deal with me behind the scenes. It was not a bad deal. Under the deal they could collect intelligence about the pro-emperor factions when they hired a son of the noble family like me, and I could get the status of a duke in return.
But it was also a very dangerous deal. The current emperor was not a doormat that they could deal with easily, and my father, who was not as a genius as me, was regarded as a very smart noble. That’s why I delayed the decision to join the nobles factions and walked a tightrope.
“Tia.”
Since I heard that the prince was going down to the estate of the Monique family, I have had no reply from Tia. Although I was consumed by a gloomy foreboding, I didn’t know what to do.
My mother and elder brother desperately stopped me from going down to the estate. I really wanted to cut them with a sword. If it wasn’t for my father who strongly dissuaded me, I might have cut them and ran away.
One day when I couldn’t calm down with nervousness, I heard that Tia had returned to the capital. Of course, I thought she would contact me in a few days.
But even after one week passed she didn’t send me a letter, let alone visit me.
Initially I thought she might be sick, but given the rumor that she took the initiative to put out the fire, she was obviously not sick. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I sent her a letter, but I received no reply from her. In the letter, I carefully asked if she was busy, but she didn’t reply.
My heart was pounding nervously.
‘What happened, my lady? Why aren’t you coming to see me? You always thought of me first. You needed me. I was everything to you. But why are you not even replying? Did you forsake me? Do you no longer need me? Are you trying to leave me? Is that what you want, Tia? ‘
The letter from her father around that time was the last straw. Refrain from meeting her? The crown prince’s fiancee? Tia was already everything to me. She was my life.
‘Oh, bullshit! I don’t care.’
As he was my lady’s father, I tried to treat him to the best I could. For the sake of my lady who had to be absolutely loyal to the emperor as a daughter of the Monique family, I tried to keep a low profile and stay on the side of the pro-emperor factions, but I changed my mind.
‘I will break the Monique family.’
As she was left alone as a result, it would be easier for me to take her with me.
In fact, I didn’t like her father because she had to share her blind obsession with him and me.
“I will join your nobles faction!”
“Good! You will not regret it. ”
So, I joined the noble family factions, smiling brightly at the welcoming people.
‘Wait a little more, my lady. I’m getting ready to bring you little by little. ‘
One day when I started collecting information on the pro-emperor factions by stealing my father’s papers little by little, my young lady, who I had been waiting for earnestly, visited me.
At first, I thought I was dreaming, but when I heard her calling me calmly, I had some hope she didn’t yet leave me.
When I finally realized that she was indeed my lady and reached out, my heart sank when I saw her stepping back. As soon as Tia extended her hand to grab my stiff hand, I realized that the woman standing before me was my lady, but at the same time, she was not my lady anymore.
The deep darkness, madness, and blind obsession in her golden eyes, which always fascinated me, had disappeared. It didn’t disappear completely, but it was not as strong as I remembered. What happened to her? How come she changed so much? Who are you, Tia? You are not the same girl that I used to know.