Chapter 47 – 46. The Elf Princess Accepts the Arranged Marriage
“Why are you here so late?”
Iris glared at me and spoke bluntly to Leila.
“The story is getting a bit long… You know it’s not something to talk about easily, Iris.”
“What’s so hard about commoners?”
Iris also speaks as if she knows the story of arranged marriages…
What’s hard about that…?
I’m talking about breaking up with Luane, but are you saying that because you’re a commoner?
A little annoyed, I looked at Iris and she met Iris’s eyes with hers.
“What are you looking at? If you don’t clean up those filthy eyes right away…”
“Stop Iris..!”
Leyla speaks loudly, so she says Iris too, then she stops and glares at me.
I want to keep staring at you and have a snowball fight… But still, the Duke of the Duke’s family, it’s better to be as careful as possible.
I’m going to have to get out of here for a while.
Iris slightly smiled as if satisfied when I averted my gaze and lowered her eyes.
I’m sure it sucks, but that pure white face and smiling face is so beautiful… What.. Is it natural because she’s Philia’s mother?
She was admiring Iris, glancing at her appearance, when Layla looked at Luane and started talking.
“..Loane, I have something to tell you.”
“Yes? What are you talking about, Mother?”
“That.. Jung..”
“Ah…! I will talk to Queen Luane first before coming!”
I stop Layla talking with a bad expression and leave her room with Luane.
Iris makes a puzzled face and tells Layla about her personality.
“Are you going to let a commoner act like that, Layla?”
“I’m fine, Iris.”
“Haa… I really don’t understand Layla… But… What’s that next to her mouth?”
Iris, sighing, points to the twisty thread-like thing attached to Layla’s side, she says.
“..!!!!”
Layla, startled, quickly removes her hair from the side of her mouth and tells Iris nonchalantly.
“It’s nothing, it seems… It was buried in the building behind the mansion..”
“Hmm.. Is it? She’s been a little dazed since earlier and her face is a bit red.. Isn’t she feeling a bit unwell?”
“I must be feeling a bit unwell today…”
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“Seo, what are you talking about, Seo?”
Luane looked at me and asked if she was embarrassed when she was suddenly dragged out.
“Huh.. Luane. The Queen said earlier.”
“Yes…”
“Luane said you were getting an arranged marriage.”
“Um, an arranged marriage..?”
When Lua asked if my words were real, she sent an incredulous look.
“Whoa.. So the queen wants us to break up and let you have an arranged marriage.”
Upon hearing my words, Luane’s expression darkens rapidly from her bewildered expression.
“I don’t like it, Mr. Seo.. You didn’t say anything about an arranged marriage…
“I don’t know either… But the queen lowered her head and asked for it, so I gave her permission.”
“…”
At my words of permission, Luane put on a look of great despair, her eyes moistened as if she were about to shed tears, and her body began to tremble slightly.
“You… Did you…”
Luane spoke with her head bowed in a completely drained voice.
“I gave permission, but only for now.. I will never let my woman go, I agreed because it was the queen’s word anyway, so it was hard to disobey it, Luane. I will somehow stop the arranged marriage.”
It was only then that her darkened face smiled brightly and shed the tears she had been holding back little by little and came to me in her arms.
“Huh… I’m… Seo Bang-nim has other women too… Huh…”
“I’ll throw you away just because of that, Luane? You won’t let me go even if you ask me?”
As if relieved by my words, she rubs her face against my chest, then raises her head and smiles brightly at me.
“Never… Never let me go, Mr. West…”
“Sure.”
After stroking Luane’s hair, when Luane felt a bit relieved, she told me my plan to call off the arranged marriage.
When she hears my plan, Luane makes a surprised face, but she laughs, saying she’s really like me, and she accepts the plan.
“Then let’s go back in, Luane.”
“Yes, Mr. West.”
When she finished talking with Luane, she went back into the room and Luane looked at Layla, she said.
“Mother.”
“Yes, Luane.”
“A marriage of convenience… I will accept it.”
Surprised by Luane’s firm answer, Layla looks at me, but I deftly shrug her shoulders and smile at Leila.
“So.. Who is the arranged marriage with?”
Luane looked at Layla, who was staring at me, she said.
“Kuhmm… I’m the eldest son of the Replion family, one of the three great families in my kingdom.”
“Are you from the Replion family?”
“You’ll be fine because your skills are excellent and your looks are outstanding. Luane, it’s not a bad opponent, so I accepted it.”
What if you accept it because you think it’s not bad… Luane’s will is important…
When Luane glanced at me, she smiled, and she replied as if Luane was determined.
“Okay, then when will your mother get married?”
“Maybe… In three weeks I will go back and hold the ceremony right away.”
“…Is it right after 3 weeks?”
“I couldn’t help it because I wanted the ceremony to be held as quickly as possible in that family… Please understand, Luane.”
“Okay, Mom, it’s okay.”
Layla approaches Luane apologetically and she gives her a tight hug.
“By the way, I have a request for you, mother.”
“What is it, Luane?”
“Seobang… No, can you invite Inhyeok to the ceremony?”
“That’s…”
“Don’t worry, I won’t cause any accidents, I’m just wondering what kind of man Luane will go to.”
She looks at me like Leyla can’t believe it, but she couldn’t refuse, since Luane accepted her arranged marriage and then she did it.
“Okay.. In three weeks, let’s go together.”
“Thank you mother.”
“No… I won’t be able to do this much, Luane.”
Hmmmm… If you can’t do it, you can’t do it. Luane is like selling herself, but if you can’t do this much, I can’t tolerate that.
I had done all I had to do, so I was about to say goodbye and go back to visit.
“By the way, Princess Luane, come to think of it, where is Filia?”
Iris suddenly asked about Philia.
“Philia couldn’t come because she wasn’t feeling well and went to the dormitory to rest.”
“Hmm.. Is that so..? I understand, Princess Luane”
I was slightly surprised to see Iris with a sad expression on her face.
Wasn’t Philia abused by the Duke of Venice? What are the eyes that are sad because they can’t see that daughter?
Thinking it strange, I nodded to Layla and Iris with Luane and went out of the mansion after visiting.
I went out of the mansion and walked with Luane, worried about why Iris had such an expression, so I couldn’t help but ask Luane while walking with Luane.
“Hmm… Didn’t the Duke of Venice abuse Philia? Did that cold duke put on a sad face when he talked about Philia?”
“Ah…That’s it…”
Luane hesitates and finally tells me.
In the words of Luane, when Philia was young, she thought that the Duke of Venice was natural, and that what she did to Philia hurt her greatly.
From what I’ve heard, it’s probably that the man hatred was also caused by the Duke of Venice.
“Now the Duke of Venice regrets what he did, but Philia…”
Hmm.. I could have avoided it..!! After doing that to Philia, is that bitch, the Duke of Venice, pretending to be sad?
Is it the specialty of the Venetian family to cosplay as victims without knowing what they did?
Still, I feel sorry for Philia, so I need to talk to her and comfort her.
You need to talk to your body…
“Then Philia will be in a bad mood… Luane!”
“Yes Yes? West?”
When I suddenly said Luane’s name out loud, Luane responded in surprise.
“Let’s go to Philia Dormitory!”
“Yes.. Kyaa, West, wait a minute!”
I took Ruane’s arm and ran to Philia’s dormitory.
