The Blackened Second Male Lead’s Wife - Chapter 2

You idiot! Don’t tell me you’re going to miss this opportunity?!

The way I spoke unconsciously out of frustration stood out sharply.

“How come?”

“In fact, I love her so much.”

There’s no way he’s going to bring out his innermost thoughts. I’m just going to hear some lame excuses.

But what followed was completely different from what I expected.

“I’m not a good dancer.”

What are you talking about?

I looked at Lucian with my eyes wide open.

With his eyes slightly lowered, he bit his lips. It seemed to me that his eyes were a little red.

“I’m actually not good at dancing.”

I didn’t expect it at all because it didn’t come out in the original.

I can’t believe a man so beautiful like a prince in a fairy tale can’t dance.

But if you think about it, it makes sense. Lucian’s an orphan, and he’s been living on the battlefield since he was 12.

He couldn’t afford to learn to dance because he had been holding his sword since he became an adult.

Even more, ever since, he rarely attended banquets.

As my silence grew longer, Lucian’s face became even worse.

Dancing was a must for the nobility.

When he said he couldn’t even dance properly, he must have thought about how pathetic he would be to a noble lady.

Eventually he uttered a word in a heavy voice.

“I’m sorry, Lady Pernia.”

I’m the one who was embarrassed by the sudden drop in the atmosphere.

I can feel that his favorability, which was 0.01 percent higher with the bandage attached to his neck, was rapidly falling.

No, no, no!

“Don’t apologize. Of course, there are things that people are good at and things that people are bad at. Lord Kardien, you’re good at playing with your enemies on the battlefield with the dance of death, aren’t you? Even if you’re not good at dancing around the hall…”

No. Not this one.

It’s not comforting, it’s sarcastic.

I rapidly turned this conversation around..

“How about this, then? I’m teaching you how to dance.”

“Yes…?”

“You have to dance with me at the engagement ceremony anyway. And you wouldn’t want to look for a dance teacher since I’m here.”

Take advantage of this momentum, Pernia, before he changes his mind!

“You’re not rude enough to refuse your fiancee’s sincerity, are you?”

Lucian’s red eyes shook.

I’m certain.

The fish took the bait!

*  *  *

“It’s been a tiring day.”

I came back to the mansion with a tired face.

As soon as I entered the mansion, my father greeted me with a glowing face.

“You’re here, Pernia. Have you met Lord Kardien? It must have been awkward for you to meet someone for the first time. I know that feeling really well. I was like that the first day I met your mom. It was so awkward and my mouth was dry that I ordered tea five times. When your mom saw it, she asked me if I was sick, hahahaha. I thought she was going to break off our engagement if I had an illness.”

My father, Marquis Lilac, is a rare talkative person.

I cut off my father’s words because I didn’t have the inclination to listen to them well.

“Yes, it’s good to see you.”

My father, who stopped talking, raised his eyebrows.

Then he hurled another attack.

(T/N: attack is asking questions to pry into what happened)

“Was Lord Kardien healthy without injury? No matter how brave the knight was, he was on the battlefield for such a long time.”

“He was fine.”

Again, I succeeded in an early defense.

My father looked at me with resentful eyes because the attack had been blocked twice.

If you look at me like that, the bruise in my ear wasn’t good enough to accept my father’s over-talking.

“Oh, ···.”

This time I defended the moment I opened my mouth.

“I’ll go into the room because I’m tired.”

The moment when I passed my father, who was pouting because he couldn’t say what he had to say,

“Don’t forget, Pernia. You have to capture Lord Kardien so the Lilac family can live.”

Funny, really.

Marquis Lilac is in fact just a family name. It’s been a long time since the business collapsed one after another.

On the contrary, Lucian was a hero of an empire whose future was filled with the favor of the emperor.

So Pernia was engaged to a man who was so despised.

The problem was that even after her engagement, Pernia didn’t hide her disdain for Lucian.

That has always made my father anxious.

He was worried that Lucian might get upset with his arrogant daughter and break the engagement.

Dad, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Because before he breaks off this engagement, I will break it off.

When I get a little closer to him, I am going to tell him about cancelling the engagement once the opportunity comes.

No matter how much I love the second male lead, I never had any interest in marrying a man who desperately loves another woman.

He wouldn’t want to marry a woman he was forced to marry.

Therefore, it was necessary to advance the relationship between him and the saint.

“Anne.”

“Yes!”

The maid, Anne, came rushing in.

Thanks to Pernia’s viciousness, Anne’s movements were as quick as a trained assassin.

“Get me a letter and a pen.”

“Yes!”

Anne quickly prepared the finest smelling letters and pens.

There were two letters I wrote.

One to the saint Estelle.

It was a letter asking to dance the dance of blessing together with me and Lucian at this engagement ceremony.

This may harm our relationship since I’m doing this without him knowing, but she’s close to Lucian, so he’ll listen, right?

And the other one was a letter for Lucian.

<I’ll visit your mansion tomorrow.

-From your fiancée Pernia,

who knows how to dance>

No, this seems to appeal too much that I’m your fiancée.

It doesn’t need to be like that.

I wrote the letter again.

<I’ll visit your mansion tomorrow.

-From your side Pernia,

who has a good sense of dancing>

I asked Anne to deliver the completed letter right away.

I have to take the iron out while it’s hot.

* * *

The territory that Lucian had won in war was far north.

So he said he would stay at the mansion provided by the emperor while he was in the capital.

I chose that place as the place for the dancing lesson.

Upon arriving at the mansion, I opened my eyes wide.

There was a huge mansion with a well-groomed garden and the finest marble.

It struck me again that he was favored by the emperor.

There’s nothing to be scared of.

I was walking down a steep hill, but then came the high marchioness.

That’s a beautiful woman.

Although her raised eyes were a little bit fierce, Pernia was a beauty with blue purple hair and green eyes.

But the confidence disappeared magically as soon as the door opened.

“Welcome, Lady Pernia.”

“…..”

Wow, I almost cursed.

Because it’s so pretty.

I thought naturally, the butler would come out so I was being carefree, but his sudden appearance was a big blow.

“What’s that appearance?”

It was totally different from when I saw him at the cafe a while ago.

At that time, his hair was tightly combed, and he was dressed in a suit with no wrinkles.

It was too perfect.

So his beauty was rather less touchable.

It was like seeing a famous painting or a statue on display in an art museum.

But now…….

Silver hair that is disheveled over a white face. A white shirt with a couple of buttons unbuttoned.

The stimulus was too much for me, who was weak to the second male lead, and even more weak to beauty.

At the unusual look on my face, Lucian said, with a embarrassed expression,

“Actually, I’m not used to wearing a tight suit. If you’re offended, I’ll dress up properly.”

“No, it’s because I’m afraid I’m going to have a nosebleed.”

“……..huh?”

“You look great right now.”

I walked past him with my eyes wide open.

He stared at me and smiled with his eyebrows down.

What a sinful man.

There weren’t many employees in that house, out of proportion to its huge size. I was put off by it, and the banquet hall was so desolate.

It was just me and him in the huge hall.

I grasped his condition first.

“Can’t you dance at all?”

“I can ask for a dance.”

His face turned a little red in response.

It was quite a shame that he couldn’t dance properly.

He needed to be comforted not to run away under the pretext of shame.

“There’s not much of a social dance. It’s a basic waltz. It’s not difficult at all unless you want to be a dance king who will heat up the society. You can master it in a few days.”

“Yes.”

I stood before him, nodding my head with a serious face.

“Come on, the first step is standing face to face.”

I was taller than average (beside, I’m wearing shoes), but I had to raise my head to the fullest to make eye contact with him.

He’s bigger than I saw from the side.

While admiring him in my mind, I continued to speak.

“Now make eye contact…..”

“…..”

Wow, vivid red eyes.

It looks like Ruby.

Why did some say that he was cursed by the devil when he’s so pretty?

No, I mean, it’s true that he was cursed by the devil later on, but he’s not now, is he?

The red eyes of not blackened Lucian was only as pretty as a jewel.

After a while, he lowered his eyes with a troubled look.

“Lady Pernia, do you have to keep staring at me like that? I’m very uncomfortable with that kind of look.”

“Ah…….”

His low voice makes me want to roll my eyes. But soon my gaze returned to him.

(T/N: meaning she’s turned on by his voice OvO)

“But the basics of dancing are making eye contact. So I can’t help it. Hang in there.”

He opened his eyes wide at my words. Blinking with a puzzled look, he nodded with a resigned look.

“……I see.”

I thought you said that because you were offended by my staring, but it wasn’t.

Seeing his slightly red face, I know it was because he was shy.

That was so cute that I squealed in my head.