Raising my Fiancè with Money - Chapter 66

The Tersian Family

Chapter 10

Richard stood up holding his head. The hangover was so severe that his head seemed to be split in two. He lifted himself up and sat on the edge of the bed. He sat there blankly, remembering the previous incident again.

About a month ago, Richard, who learned of Karhan Evantheon’s weakness, went to visit Lilia. He believed that this time he would be able to change Lilia’s heart. However, the reality was different from what had been imagined.

— So what does that mean?

When Lilia learned the truth, she coldly retorted.

— I knew for a long time that you were trash, but I didn’t know that you would do a background check.

The face of Lilia, who had been criticizing him, was still vivid. Eventually, Richard returned to the mansion without any benefit.

After that, he waited for news that the two of them had broken up. However, he only heard that Karhan visits Bloden’s mansion every day.

“… Are you really in love with him?”

The heinous man who pretended to be the heir until now?

Richard still believed that Lilia had him in her heart. But if Lilia’s heart was moved by Karhan….. There was no more corner to fit in. Even though he had kneeled down and apologised, she didn’t accept it, but how can he change her heart?

Richard, who was sitting in bed for a long time, looked around. The bedroom was full of Lilia’s gifts. He hesitated for a while and opened a drawer that he hadn’t touched for a long time. He saw a letter kept in the corner. It was a letter written by Lilia to him.

He read it quietly. Lilia’s heart remained intact in a small, square space. The times they spent together, the emotions they exchanged……. He folded the letter in half and put it down.

Lilia, who was standing next to Karhan, came to mind. Whenever he remembered that image, he felt like he was going to flip. Emotions stained with resentment, belated regret, and jealousy burned like flames. He felt like he was going to be swallowed up by the surged emotions. Then someone knocked on the door.

“Young master, everyone is waiting.”

His reason returned belatedly after hearing that. Richard breathed out slowly. Today was the day family, even from every branch, came together to meet.

After putting on his coat roughly, Richard left the room. When he arrived at the conference hall, he saw several familiar faces. In the upper seat, there was his father as a household owner, his mother who was a marquis wife, and Siona, who was already married. Below them, people from the branch family sat down.

“Aren’t you late?”

When the Marquis Tersian rebuked, Richard bowed his head slightly and sat down. With him seated, the family meeting began.

A quarterly meeting of the Tersian family discussed a number of important issues centered on the Marquis. Most of the conclusions were bound to flow about money.

“That’s why we need capital…….”

(T/N: money)

If it was as usual, it would have been time for Richard to step up with confidence. But today, Richard stayed quiet. While everyone was watching, one of the people in the room opened their mouth.

“Anyways, what happened to Richard’s wedding?”

When one person asked, everyone looked at Richard with a curious face. Everyone was interested in Richard’s marriage. When Richard didn’t answer right away, the Marquis Tersian answered.

“Yes, I left all the wedding preparations to them, but I haven’t heard from them.”

They stared at Richard and asked,

“When will you set the date for the wedding?”

There was only one reason why the Marquis wanted to hurry the wedding. It was to raise his business capital through the Bloden family. Richard’s elder sister, Siona, immediately continued.

“Yes, you have to tell us in advance to prepare for the wedding.”

They begged Richard with greedy eyes.

“There is new land that my husband has his eye on, and it will be much easier if you get married sooner.”

Everyone was busy expressing their own desires. Richard clenched his fist when he received their excited looks. He, who had been quiet for a long time, muttered quietly,

“The wedding won’t happen.”

In an instant, the surroundings became quiet. Soon after, the Marquis, his wife, and Siona shouted at the same time.

“What are you talking about?”

“No, why…!”

“Are you kidding me?”

He spoke in a discouraged voice to his family that looked at him with shocked faces.

“Blodens are asking for a breakup.”

The Marquis of Tersian couldn’t hold back his anger and slammed the table.

“Marriage is not a joke!”

It seemed that he was very upset that they had unilaterally talked about breaking the engagement. The marquis’ wife, who had had a look of disbelief, quickly hardened her face. She quickly retorted with a scary face as if she was possessed,

“Why? Did you make a mistake? Go to Bloden’s mansion right now and apologize.”

“Don’t you have pride?”

“Is now the time to protect your pride?! How many businesses did you have?”

The business jointly conducted with the Bloden family was also temporarily suspended. They are in danger of losing the money cushion they have been sitting on happily ever since.

“You both weren’t going to break up your engagement? What happened?”

Siona did not hold back and began to argue. The Marquis also belatedly grasped that the situation was serious and stared at Richard.

“Even if you neglected to study for the successor’s class, I passed it…. Pathetic bastard.”

The branch family members were also quietly blaming Richard with their eyes. Most of the people of the Tersian family were parasitizing Lilia through Richard, so they took a huge hit.

When the family became one and criticized, Richard felt suffocated. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the Marquis kicked all the people out. Only the Marquis, his Wife, Siona, and Richard remained in the conference hall.

“So why does she want to break up the marriage?”

Only then did Richard open his closed mouth.

“I met other women for a while……,”

“Are you crazy?”

The Marquis’ wife shouted. Then Richard roared back.

“I’ve already knelt down and apologized!”

“…….”

“No matter how many times I visit her, she won’t accept me at all…….”

Richard’s voice gradually diminished. The face of the authoritarian Marquis hardened when he heard that his only son knelt down in front of a woman. However, the Marquis Wife was busy pecking at Richard.

“Will that work? You have to pretend to die in front of her!”

“Noisy!”

When the Marquis shouted, the Marquis’ wife closed her mouth only then. Richard struggled to cover up his mistake even a little.

“I tried to do a good job, But Lilia also met a new man right away.”

“What, a new man?”

Richard stopped talking. He couldn’t decide whether to talk about the opponent being Karhan Evantheon. When Richard was silent, the Marquis went silent.

“Now that it’s like this, I don’t think we can pursue marriage with the Bloden family anymore.….”

After thinking about other things, the Marquis twisted his lips. It was because Heinley Bloden came to mind.

Previously, he had asked Heinley to make Lilia and Richard reconcile, but he didn’t listen until the end. In the meantime, the relationship between Richard and Lilia seemed to have completely fallen apart.

In addition, Heinley himself handled all the work he had placed, very well and was about to be promoted in recognition of his contribution. As long as the two could not be married, it was time to devise other means and methods.

“……I’ll have to find a way to tear it down one last time.”

When the Marquis talked to himself, the whole family looked at him. Marquis Tersian said with a slimy smile.

“I have a pretty good idea.”

***

Two days have passed since Lilia went to the meeting hosted by Stella. That day, she did not return to the tea party but returned home. She realized once again that she did not fit in the social gatherings.

Since then, Lilia has been having a busy daily life. She managed the Bloden mansion on behalf of her mother and studied economics from time to time. It was also one of the routines to meet Karhan, who visits Bloden’s mansion every morning.

Lilia, who was looking at the documents in the office today, suddenly remembered Karhan.

‘Shall we have lunch together?’

Since it was still in the morning, she thought he would be in the gym. Lilia, who got up from her seat, immediately headed to the gym. Upon arriving at the gym, Lilia looked around. She saw knights practicing in full swing, but there was no Karhan.

“Did he go to the annex already?”

Lilia, who was walking towards the building located in the corner of the gymnasium, stopped. There was Karhan, who curled his large body under the eaves of the building. He was dozing off with his knees up and hugging a sword.

Lilia approached Karhan. He was so tired that he slept without knowing that someone had come. He didn’t seem to have slept well due to his tight schedule.

Llia bent her knees and looked into Karhan’s face. Under the eyes where the black eyelashes fell densely, it was slightly dark. Perhaps because he lost a little weight, his impression looked sharper.

His nose that glides down without bumps and lips with a slight gap. The skin, which looked pale, was a bit tanned.

Her gaze slowly descended. Karhan was wearing only a light shirt, and his collarbone was visible under the straight neckline. There was a dent beneath his straight, prominent collarbone.

Lilia quickly looked away from him and looked closely at the back of his hand holding the sheath. It was a hand that looked twice as big as hers.

Karhan was taller than her, so she had to raise her head when talking. So, when Karhan was always with her, he bent slightly and looked at her.

“Why are you sleeping so curled up when you’re so big?”

He looked pitiful for no reason. No matter how hot it was, he was likely to catch a cold if he slept in a shady place after sweating.

“Karhan.”

Lilia called him quietly. His eyebrows flinched for a moment. However, Karhan showed no signs of getting up.

Lilia, who was agonizing over it, entered the building and came out with a summer blanket. While covering him with the blanket, her finger touched Karhan’s hand. Perhaps in his sleep, Karhan grabbed Lilia’s fingertips.

Lilia paused for a moment. Just as a baby held a finger and wouldn’t let go, he held Lilia’s fingertips and exhaled. Then his lips slowly opened up.

Looking at his mouth, Lilia stopped doing what she was doing. The pulse beat from the tip of the gripped hand. As if raindrops were falling, a constant pulse rang. The sound rang slowly from her hands to her chest.

“…Lilia.”

(P/R: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

Lilia was startled by Karhan’s murmuring and withdrew her hand. However, Karhan’s eyelids were still closed. She thought he talked in his sleep.

Lilia’s face, which was motionless, turned red. Lilia left immediately after roughly covering him with the blanket.

And after a while, his dark eyelashes trembled lightly. Karhan, who opened his eyes slowly, was absent-minded and found a blanket covering his shoulders. He looked around with a puzzled face, as he had no memory of sleeping with a blanket covered.

“Who covered…….”

Karhan, who was wondering, lightly grabbed the blanket. A soft and warm scent flowed faintly. He thought it smelled very good, and Karhan grinned.

(P/R: DOUBLE AHHHHHHHHHH)

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