The Heroine Had An Affair With My Fiance - Chapter 11

Chapter 2

Episode 11

~*~

After Duval and Tyrael left, Reynos’s clothing selection went smoothly.

The staff moved in unison with their eyes, wishing that they would go quickly together.

As a result, we obtained clothes that did not harm the dignity of the Crown Prince, but kept a neat atmosphere.

‘I think you will look good with anything you wear.’

“How have you been engaged to a guy like that for over 10 years?”

After a satisfying shopping experience, Reynos asked, just getting into the wagon.

I sat down on the carriage chair and tucked my skirt and answered.

“It’s a family promise. Is there anything special?”

“Even so, it is strange that you endured it. You have great patience.”

It’s not me, it’s the original Ciela’s patience.

Raynos  frowned as he crossed his arms and leaned back against the backrest.

“I don’t think Essit will let you go.”

“Ah, he’s the one who said that he was going to break the marriage first. I also recorded it.”

Duval’s main specialty was speaking two words with one mouth.

So, I always carried a magic tool for recording, and I made sure to record anything that could be evidence.

Thanks to that, alimony will be given, so the talk about breaking the marriage was well recorded.

So my breakup wasn’t a problem.

Rather-

“Have you not known about Tyrael?”

“…No.”

With a strange expression on his face, he answered slowly.

Hmmm, as I expected, the engagement story went back and forth without even seeing her face because of her purification ability.

So, wouldn’t it be less cumbersome to use Tyrael’s bad behavior as an excuse to cancel the engagement than to have an affair with me? He doesn’t even like Tyrael.

That’s what I thought, but, well, you’ll figure it out

There was something else I was really curious about.

I subtly closed the corners of my eyes and said in a playful tone what I really wanted to ask.

“By any chance, you haven’t changed your mind after seeing her face, have you?”

In the original story, Tyrael fell in love with Reynos at first sight.

Reynos’s narrative also describes his first meeting with her as “his heart had never pounded so hard”.

When Tyrael announced that she would be engaged to Duval, the probability of going with the original story converged to zero. But looking at her expression, she seemed to have fallen in love with Reynos at first sight.

So what about Reynos?

Reynos blinked slowly at my question. With a languid expression that can’t read what he’s thinking.

I asked again, giving specific examples of the behavior.

“It was because she was prettier than I thought, so maybe your heart was racing.”

“My chest rate…did increase.”

Reynos spoke slowly and placed his right hand near his heart.

In that state, when he gently lowered his gaze, the long, pretty golden eyelashes created a shadow under the eyes, creating a mellow atmosphere.

Reynos spoke slowly and placed his right hand near his heart.

Huh?

Without realizing it, the smile faded away. I looked at Reynos with trembling eyes.

Then he looked at me and gently rolled his eyes, and whispered in a voice dripping with honey.

“Because I was with the young lady.”

“Me?”

As he pointed his finger at me, he nodded softly.

“Yes. I was happy to be able to say that I was the young lady’s lover.”

“It’s an honor.”

How can he choose only such sweet words? I smiled prettily along with Reynos.

“I was happy to be able to call His Majesty my lover too.”

“…Yes. We are lovers.”

He spoke softly and grabbed my hand. And with his lips pressed against the back of my hand, he looked at me with his enchanting golden eyes and whispered a little.

“Are you okay? I heard you were friends with Miss Puritina.”

“Yes, I’m okay. I got it all sorted out.”

It was really good, so I smiled broadly in a sense of reassurance.

Nevertheless, the shadows cast on Reynos’s face were not removed.

We were just people who have just got to know each other, and he worries too much.

I turned to change the mood.

“I hope it all ends sooner, both for me and for your Majesty.”

“…I know.”

A hot breath tickled the back of my hand. The feeling of his lips passed through my skin.

I could feel my face heat up in the golden eyes that did not fall off easily. Feeling a bit embarrassed, I muttered as I remembered what had happened a while ago.

“As soon as we get the break-up letter, I will sign it and send it to you.”

It’s ridiculous to say that the person I love the most is me no matter who I meet. There are people who will be newly engaged, and I thought that I would talk about breaking up with nothing else.

~*~

“Breakup? I have no intention of doing it.”

The next day after going to the boutique, Duval, who had been coming since early morning, said something like this.

‘Oh, what kind of bullshit.’

My head was dazed because I was not awake. At the front door, they were screaming to call me right away, so I was just coming out in my pajamas and a robe.

I downgraded Duval’s rating from ‘a man who still knows common sense’ to ‘a man with no answers’.

Duval twisted the corner of one of his lips sarcastically.

“Aren’t you okay with hearing that we are going to break up the marriage? Did you want to cry?”

Looking at his face, I think that was the correct answer.

It was so amazing that I burst out laughing.

“Why me?”

This, too, was not the expected response.

“Who am I doing this for…”

Duval clenched his teeth while talking to himself incomprehensible. Then he roughly shook his head and said as if he was showing great kindness to me.

“Who are you doing this for…”

“Yeah, I’ll take care of my lover.”

“That’s what you’re going to say to your fiance?”

“You are my fiancee.”

“What about Tyrael?”

“Tyrael is just…”

He bit his lips.

But I could easily imagine the backstory.

I taunted him.

“If Tyrael hears it, she will be upset.”

“I do not care.”

“I care. As Tyrael’s friend, I can’t get over it, can I?”

“Friend?”

Duval burst out laughing.

“Are you serious?”

I smiled sincerely. Duval stared at me with an incomprehensible look.

“I thought you changed a bit, but the naive-ness is still the same.”

“Send a breakup letter.”

“I can’t let you go.”

“Then I will send it.”

“Do you think I will sign it? No, do you think the Marquis of Labyrinth will allow it?”

“What does my father have to do with you?”

“You might think it would be fine because of your superiority, but I promise. If you break your marriage, you will be kicked out of Labyrinth. If you don’t want to get kicked out, do it right.”

Duval unraveled the words roughly. Even so, his voice was unwavering and he seemed to firmly believe that a dignified person would never break the marriage.

Well, I could understand why Duval was coming out like that.

Twenty years ago, Labyrinth was like a beggar. It was said that the previous marquis was doing business and invested in scammers, and then they all rolled up.

The former marquis committed suicide, leaving only the estate and the capital’s mansion left from the imperial family.

Therefore, my father, the present Marquis of Labyrinth, suffered from a sense of duty to rebuild a ruined family as soon as he took over the title.

‘It was Duval’s father, Count Essit, who helped him.’

He was a merchant and a person who bought a title with money, but he did not see his will because of pressure from other nobles.

However, when he joined hands with Labyrinth, who had a strong political position because he was the descendant of the hero who defeated the evil dragon but with no money, he flew like he grew wings.

Well, actually, Marquis Labyrinth made the right choice. Because he saved the crumbling family by joining hands with the Count.

If it were me, I would have done the same.

It would have been great if I had just made it there.

‘Why did you even make your child engaged?’

As they have been doing business together for a long time, Essit and Labyrinth have become inseparable.

To be each other’s strong helpers means, in other words, to not become enemies that can stab each other’s heart when you turn your back.

So, Labyrinth and Essit engaged young Ciela and Duval to forge a lasting friendship.

In fact, Count Essit was a lustful man, and his son Duval also inherited the Count’s blood from an early age, and there were rumors that he was throwing flirts at the maids. This seems to have been more serious.

‘Besides, before I possessed Ciel, she wanted Duval, so no matter how much Duval cheated on her, she would just cry about it.’

In other words, Duval deserved the critique.

However,

“I’ll give you three days before I tell the Marquis of Labyrinth. Get it sorted out.”

“Do not be ridiculous.”

I wasn’t the Ciela Labyrinth of the past.

“What?”

“You are the one who should send a breakup within three days, that is, if you want to walk around in the social world.”

“You fell in love with that man. What about it makes that man so good?”

“Everything.”

Duval’s face hardened as I spoke with a slight twist on the corner of my lips. 

He then uttered a threatening remark.

“A final warning. While I still say nice things, break up right away. Even if you get hurt and regret later-”

“Master, you have a guest.”

“Open the door.”

I ordered the butler who was fidgeting behind me as a sign that I had nothing more to say.

Duval grinded his teeth.

“You’ll regret it.”

“Send the breakup as soon as it’s ready.”

I turned my back on him after cutting off the conversation. I should go to sleep. I wasted my time.

Behind, an angry Duval cried out, ‘you’ll regret it, Ciela!’ 

Yes, do whatever you want. I tapped my yawning mouth and heard it with one ear and let it out in the other.

~*~

And after a few days.

I could see why Duval warned that I would regret it.

“I got a request from the Count of Essit.”

Leather, who was looking at the list of clients of Ciel’s Love Manipulation Guild, said nervously.

“He wants the affair to be solved. What should I do?”