Chapter 67

Oscar hugged him before Ian could understand what he said and entered his carriage.

“You may proceed!” He pleasantly spoke to the coachman and his escort.

Laritte waved her hand at the leaving carriage as it disappeared beyond the path between the fields.

She stared blankly at the field where she could see butterflies fluttering their wings before she turned to Ian.

He was standing so still, she wondered what the Crown Prince told him before he left.

Laritte was so quiet that he couldn’t hear her approach.

“What did His Highness say? A secret between friends?” She looked up at him.

The answer took a long while to come back.

“…..Yes, it’s a…. secret,” he was staring over the horizon as well.

Laritte shrugged when his eyes fluttered strangely.

“If you don’t want to say it, don’t. I also have friends.”

Only then did Ian, who had frozen like a stone statue, look at Laritte. Jealousy started raging inside him again because of what she said.

He tried his best to press down his jealousy and ask, “Who’s your friend?”

“Hmm, Sir Mason? Lady Redra? And Bertrand……”

“……Oh, yeah.”

Laritte found it strange that Ian took a beat to understand.

But soon, she shrugged it off and went back to the mansion, “hurry up.”

“I’ll follow you soon.”

Yet he found it difficult to catch up with Laritte.

His ears were bright red.

“You indeed like her, so don’t whine anymore and confess your feelings to your wife,” he kept recalling Oscar’s words again and again.

Since he really likes her……

Stop!

Ian screamed to himself.

If his skin was fair like Laritte’s, he would’ve been in trouble trying to hide his condition from her.

All of a sudden, his thoughts went somewhere else.

Indeed, Laritte looked beautiful because of her snowy skin.

‘No. It’s not the time to think about this.’

But he could not get control of his thoughts.

He kept remembering various aspects of his wife the longer he kept pruning.

The heat gradually reached his head, and now his neck was flushed red.

fell to his knees on the ground. He buried his face in his

a long time

of flowers swept past his burning head.

in the distance, he could hear the faint echo of the

was taken by an old memory.

when the former Ducal couple

that the footing of everything

love, and it’s because of love that you worry about your mother’s illness. Every morning the Duke kisses me because

felt uncomfortable when a passerby stroked

“K-Kiss?”

mean you’ve never

sighed jokingly as she hugged a much

The Duke

That’s not

clearly recall

of Ian,

always harbored a straight

Ian thought he wouldn’t be able to do that to

could. For

also in

terribly intertwined

grabbed

would he confess? He wouldn’t be able to do it even

time when Laritte was afraid of revealing her name to

from being taken away after she

and shouted proudly to

you

great

he not shy

can’t,” Ian calmed down as he stroked his fingers

just him acknowledging his feelings for Laritte had been a big

in

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The Exchange Ceremony was a 10-day event that only invited the higher 30 aristocrats from the Empire of Iassa.

began with the further distribution of the harvested goods in the first half of

it spread to the capital city,

May was the second

attend the exchange event

inside a castle in the capital with a friend.

lady who arrived in the capital before

the castle where the party was generally held, only 30 aristocrats, their companies, and foreigners were allowed

to enjoy a separate

of the grand meeting, the children continued their stroll

nobles stared at only one place. As did the officials who

was time for the

a lot from a simple hello from the guests. Such as if the person is important,

wagons with the utmost curiosity,

a

them, aren’t they?” the young

very obvious.

family bearing the crest of a lion. They have always been famous

Reinhardt, who rarely appeared

Laritte, who was known to

other nobles were curious to

changed his mind after his absence in the exchange for three

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