When The Count’s Illegitimate Daughter Gets Married

Chapter 2

1. Laritte and the new house

620 years ago, the Iyasa continent unified and the Empire was born.

The Brumayer family supported the Imperial family in their rise to power and accumulated enough accomplishments to be considered a founding contributor to the Empire.

However, the current generation of Brumayers lacked power, as seen in their current status of Count.

But now, with a daughter married to Duke Reinhardt, a man second in power only to the Imperial family, the Brumayers hoped to see the light once more.

‘…That’s what I thought.’

Count Brumayer felt regret when he thought of the current situation over dinner.

On the table was the family chef’s ‘Beef Steak’, magnificent enough to be called one of a kind. It shone brightly yet he couldn’t bring himself to lay his hands on it.

Rose, too, felt depressed about their situation.

Everytime she closed her eyes, she could see Duke Reinhardt’s shimmering form, just like how he had appeared to her three years ago.

When the continent of Iyasa had unified for the first time in history, the Empire prided itself so highly that it kept the name.

In the heart of the palace laid the first banquet hall.

The ceiling in the corridor leading to the banquet hall towered above the banquet goers. The intricate carvings on the ceiling was, in royal fashion, decorated brilliantly with gold.

Below that ceiling, Rose encountered the Duke for the first time.

‘…Ah!’

His hair was so black it seemed to absorb all the light, standing out in that bright corridor. Beneath his hair were the world’s purest gold eyes, appearing aloof and detached. Though his eyes were narrow, their masculine beauty matched well with the finely tanned muscles outlined by his shirt.

“I can’t believe such a Duke passed away…”

Rose lamented and tormented the steak with her fork.

Although there were some women who had never seen the Duke, it was said that all women who’d met him would fall in love with him.

The few swordmasters in the Empire were nicknamed ‘the murderers’, but the Duke did not care for such things as others did.

I could have

not even be using

had been quietly eating, put down her salad fork as a

He was killed by a barbarian in the western sea!

various circumstances involved in his death. We have to let him go. Your father was

“Ahem!”

his throat. The Countess wiped her mouth with her napkin

lowly wench none would consider a Brumayer could be so useful? She resembles that crude dancer from head to toe. With her fulfilling the contract, we won’t have to return the Duke’s money

no reason other than to allow the Brumayers keep the

must be rotting in a

villa in some corner of a mountain. Laritte had been sent there with

was extremely

only stain on the otherwise happy Brumayer family.’

an illegitimate child, but she loathed Laritte even

her dancer of a mother with her pale skin and silver hair.

that,

was that cold look, as if she

can’t wait to get

But still, no one scolded her

abandoned house needed was: firewood to fight off the chill of the night. So, with all the money she

a complete fool,

Rose told her as she was leaving. Rose was aware that she was heading to the mountains where trees

ignored Laritte until the very end. In truth, Rose was the one who didn’t know what the outside world was

Laritte were to pick a branch off the ground, even the smallest bit of dampness would have made

that happened, Laritte would be fighting the cold on her very first

autumn and already this cold…’, Laritte thought as she entered the house and lit the fireplace using her

had already realized this fact when

her birth mother, Laritte had to pick herbs from the mountains in

it. The alternative was to

Laritte had gotten lost in the mountains.

But one day, a violent storm

branches for dear life, succeeding in lighting them and starting a fire only when she

“Phew…”

very dusty and had a spooky feeling. The furniture was old, so

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