## Chapter 197 – Dragon’s Nest (5)
What does it feel like to live as a noble?
It probably means enjoying most of the wealth and glory in this world.
Regardless of the country, there are only differences in degree and method.
Except for a few who have unavoidable circumstances as humans, nobles can be seen as those who reign, dominate, and enjoy in most cases.
From their perspective, is the world really the same as it appears to commoners?
Most would definitely say no.
She, Laura de Grenot, was one of those who would say so.
“Laura de Peneroma,” a young lady from the Peneroma family, a marquis family of moderate standing in Groden.
She was a typical young lady who had enjoyed everything from food, clothing, and luxury goods.
But if you think about whether such a young lady’s personality would be beautiful, that was not the case.
“M-Miss…!! You can’t do this…!!
I… I’m just a lowly thing…!! And you’re a…!!”
“Shut up. What’s wrong with me tasting what’s mine?
Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and undress.”
“Aah… M-Miss…!!
N-Nooo…♡
T-There is… Hngg…!!”
In the meantime, Laura, who had unfortunately opened her eyes to the vice of homosexuality, instantly floored the accelerator on the troublemaker steps she had been gradually climbing.
The marquis family’s young lady causing accidents day in and day out.
Imagine the rumor that such a young lady is now harassing other women spreading throughout the royal capital.
Naturally, she would instantly acquire the title of “Family’s Burden,” and there was no way that marriage proposals would come her way.
Naturally, Laura, even when she reached marriageable age, had no one to take her, and as a tomboyish, troublemaking old maid, she was eating all the family’s insults and becoming the family’s burden.
“Laura!! Please stop…!!
You have to get married, don’t you?
So what man would take you!!”
“Marriage? I don’t have to get married, do I?
Live with a man and rub bodies?
Am I crazy to do that?”
“Laura…!!”
Whether this should be called fortunate or unfortunate.
Her parents, who cherished their daughter, were inadvertently condoning her behavior while scolding her.
No matter how much a hedgehog loves its own child, it would be angry if it caused such a ruckus.
As a result, there was no one around her to correct a twisted woman with no chance of redemption.
In fact, even though she was approaching thirty, the age when she should have a small child up to her waist.
Laura, as an ill-mannered young lady without a child to care for, was living a colorless and odorless life, seeking only pleasure every day, just like a holiday, without any change.
But then one day.
“Is that really true…?”
“Yes, sir…
They say the Grenot family is looking for a marriage partner…
I heard that their mistress passed away early?
So it seems they’re trying to remarry?”
“Let’s put in a marriage proposal for now.
You never know… Sigh…
Even so, we have to make her at least act like a human being…
So that we have a face to show our ancestors…”
Frankly, it was a desperate possibility.
It wasn’t just the fact that his daughter wasn’t young.
Now, even if she had a child, it would be a geriatric pregnancy.
Moreover, since scandalous rumors were circulating about Laura, even if a marriage proposal went out, there was no one who would accept it.
But.
“They said they want to meet?”
“Eh… Forget it… I know what it’ll be like without even hearing it…
Wait, what did you just say?”
“So… they said they want to meet and do that thing?
That’s what it sounded like to me?”
Even though the other party was Grenot, one of the top five prestigious families among the marquis families.
Unbelievably, Grenot seemed to be showing a positive reaction to the marriage proposal.
The superficial reasons were the family’s status and the age difference with the other party.
“Since they’re the same marquis family, they can just do that thing.
I guess the Marquis of Grenot is getting old…
He doesn’t like soft, young girls.”
And since the young lady is too young to be the right age, they’re trying to take Laura, who is older.
“What are you doing!!
We have to go even if we can’t eat!!
Hurry up and do that thing!!”
What couldn’t they do if they actually received a proposal from Grenot, which is at the center of the political and business world?
There were many families who would immediately send even a young lady who couldn’t even read properly as a marriage partner for the marquis, who was an older man with a daughter who was almost grown up.
In the end, Peneroma’s head of the family, who couldn’t let go of the lifeline that had come down to his daughter, let alone his family, was making his choice as quickly as lightning striking a bean.
“Now you’re going to be the mistress of a household.
You have to be on your toes from now on, Laura?”
“My daughter… Sniff… Hehe…!!
Is getting married and becoming a wife…!!”
“Huh…? Uh…”
As soon as she finished a meeting where she only faced each other once, Laura could see herself sitting in the bride’s seat at the wedding ceremony in less than a month.
“Wow… The day has come when our miss is getting married…”
“I was really curious who would take that miss…?”
With a quiet wedding ceremony that didn’t attract much attention, she became “Laura de Grenot” from “Laura de Peneroma” in the blink of an eye.
Although she was quite old and past her prime, she ended up becoming the wife of an older man who was even older than her.
Moreover, she was the wife of a married man with a daughter who was almost grown up and looking forward to becoming an adult.
‘Oh… How did this happen…
To an old man…!?’
But on the contrary, life became more comfortable.
Strangely, her husband, the head of Grenot, didn’t pay much attention to her.
It was different from her parents, who nagged her about everything.
She could sleep in if she wanted to, and she could have everything she wanted to eat and have.
Unless it was something that would cause problems in terms of the family’s honor, he would even cover up her mistakes.
Moreover, unlike Laura’s worries, who hated being held by a dark-skinned married man because she liked the same woman, the head of the family didn’t even come to hold her for years.
After she got married, she was so nervous that her door would open at night for years that she lost her tension to the point where she left the door open and slept.
However, there was one thing that was given to her.
“Become a mother to my daughter.”
“E-Excuse me…?”
Become a mother to a girl who is now old enough to not listen to her, just like herself a few years ago.
For Laura, who had spent her time in vain without even having a child of her own, it was something she couldn’t even imagine where to start.
She just nodded her head at the head of the family’s serious atmosphere.
But as expected, it wasn’t as easy as it sounded.
Was it because of her innate or acquired strong and selfish personality?
Instead of getting close, she ended up fighting and blushing every time she talked.
“What are you going to do with studying?
It’s easiest to just get married, right?”
“To say that, it seems like the stepmother who came to marry late is ‘old’.
I have to be helpful to the family, so I’m not going to do that.”
“You… You said everything…!?”
Since she was a woman, she couldn’t help but be sensitive to age.
Moreover, half-baked adults who haven’t even learned the余裕 of adults are all like that.
Was it an unavoidable instinct of a childish person to get angry at the girl’s words about her age?
“Who taught you to hold a spoon like that?
You have to hold it like this, right?”
“That’s etiquette in public.
Our family has different private etiquette?
Well, you wouldn’t know unless you came down for breakfast.
Do you hold it like that in your dreams?”
“Th-This…”
In the meantime, the words that the clever girl threw out were not wrong, and they were even prickly.
So naturally, when she met her adopted daughter, she might have started picking fights with her out of spiteful feelings that she didn’t even want to see.
How many years had passed since she had been bickering like that?
In the meantime, it was the moment when she ran into the head of the family at night, who had finally come to see her once.
Was it because she had been living without tension for years?
“Ugh… Hiss… Aah…
Hic…!! Hot… I… I don’t like it…”
‘Ugh… Old man’s smell…
I don’t like it… I feel nauseous… Hic…’
He silently threw her on the bed and violated her supposedly pure vagina, which no one had ever taken (?).
Everything was different from the ticklish and soft pleasure that the maids of the Peneroma family or the village girls around the family’s mansion had given her with their tongues or fingers, which made her wet like a drizzle.
“A… Aaa…!! It’s hot…
Please… Don’t do this…!!”
All she remembered was that the feeling of him planting a baby seed in her womb was hotter than she had imagined.
After spending such a mentally difficult time, when Laura woke up in the morning after falling asleep as if she had fainted, he had already disappeared from her room.
Although the other party was nominally her husband, she was a virgin who had never taken in any man, so was it because of the futility of being defiled by a man she had no feelings for?
“That… Madam… Please don’t do this…”
“I won’t eat it!! I said I won’t eat it!!”
But with the single thought that she didn’t want to see her husband’s face, she forced herself to sleep in late for a month to avoid him.
Even so, the head of the family didn’t say a single bad word to her.
Still, Laura thought that there must have been some change in the fact that he was looking for her.
Then, on the contrary, she was only increasing her resentment, as if he was not caring for her at all, even though he had taken her body in the name of his wife, and she was only accumulating feelings of resentment.
“Bastard… I’m going to say something…!!
I’m also a precious daughter from a loved family!!”
Then, one morning, her annoyance reached its peak.
It was on the stairs where Laura was about to go down to the dining room, where he was having breakfast, with thumping steps.
“Ugh… Ueeeck…!!
Wh-What… Why… Gueeeck!!”
After she was found by the servants while holding onto the stairs railing and vomiting in her empty stomach.
“You’re pregnant.
Congratulations.”
“Uh… Uh…”
The news she received through the doctor who came to examine her not long after was the somewhat dazed news that a new life had taken root in her womb.
The atmosphere in the Grenot family was festive, but Laura, the main character, was just dumbfounded.
Nothing had happened for years.
But in those few years, she got pregnant with just one night’s relationship.
Even though she felt like she had been raped against her will, what was the difference between carrying the child of that rapist?
The annoyance and resentment that felt like something was stuck in her throat only grew, and she even considered taking medicine or hitting her stomach to get rid of the child.
But when it came to making a decision and putting it into action, she was just a cowardly and childish person.
“Crap… Crap…
What do I do now…”
But in the end, the more she postponed her decision, the more her belly grew.
From a certain point on, she couldn’t even make such a decision, and she had reached a stable period.
