Becoming Number One with Confession Attacks - Chapter 76

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#76

Sonnet didn’t hear any particularly offensive words, so she remained still for now. As she quietly ate her sandwich, people around her murmured.

“I didn’t think she looked like that, but she must be quite good at seducing men.”

“Right. How could she covet a man who already has a fiancée?”

“It’s probably because she’s a commoner. Trying to make something of her life by going after a noble…”

Sonnet abruptly stood up from her seat. She didn’t really care about others glancing at her and whispering among themselves. At least she hadn’t heard words that directly pierced her ears.

But when they chattered so loudly as if wanting her to hear, she couldn’t just sit still. As Sonnet trudged toward the dining table, those people looked at her in surprise.

Sonnet looked at them and spoke calmly.

“It seems you don’t know the full story, so let me tell you. When I attended Rosefield, Aiden liked me first, and I was the one who confessed first. Back then I thought Aiden would reject my confession, but unexpectedly Aiden accepted it. I knew Aiden had a fiancée, but we tried to break off the engagement at the charity gala, but it didn’t work out well. And after Aiden lost his memory, we broke up and then I met Aiden again, but Aiden had always intended to break off the engagement with the Princess, while the Princess kept trying to use Aiden to maintain that relationship.”

They stared at Sonnet with their mouths agape. Sonnet caught her breath for a moment and continued speaking.

“Does it look like I seduced Aiden here, or approached him to make something of my life because I’m a commoner?”

No one dared to speak first. Some avoided eye contact and couldn’t look Sonnet in the face.

Sonnet spoke particularly to the person who wouldn’t make eye contact. He was the one who had been speaking loudly earlier.

“Now that you know the truth, don’t speak carelessly. If you speak carelessly, I won’t stay quiet here anymore.”

Some bowed their heads and apologized. Sonnet spoke to the person who still couldn’t look her in the eye.

“Do you understand?”

Only then did he turn to look at Sonnet. He smiled awkwardly and bowed his head.

“I was mistaken. I’m sorry.”

Sonnet turned around just like that. The surroundings had somehow focused their attention on Sonnet, and it seemed like various eyes followed her every step.

As soon as Sonnet sat down in her seat, someone sat across from her. When she looked up, Gellen was smiling brightly at her.

“What brings you here?”

“With what happened to you, senior, I thought I should be by your side…”

Sonnet spoke while taking a bite of her remaining sandwich.

“There’s no need for that.”

“But you still need to pack your things…”

“I already did.”

“You already did?”

“Yes.”

“Then is there anything else you need help with?”

“What about organizing the materials I mentioned before?”

“I already finished all of that.”

“Then try deciding on a topic based on what you organized. That’ll be helpful later.”

Gellen couldn’t voice his words and just looked at Sonnet. Sonnet had always disliked that kind of gaze. It seemed like he was looking at her with pity.

“Gellen, I’m not struggling at all, so you don’t need to help me like this.”

“Ah, I…”

“It feels like our research would continue better if at least you were at the Dungeon Temple. Go ahead.”

Originally, Sonnet preferred researching alone, so having Gellen by her side wasn’t particularly helpful.

Gellen nodded with a dejected expression.

“If there’s anything you need my help with, please let me know anytime.”

When Sonnet silently nodded, Gellen diligently ate his salad.

After greeting Gellen, Sonnet went to the dormitory. As she organized materials for a while, the more she thought about it, the more resentful she felt toward the Rosefield Duke.

He had forced her and Aiden to break up from the beginning, and was the very person who had created this situation.

Staying still in this situation would only make her feel frustrated, so she stopped organizing materials and left her room.

As Sonnet was leaving the dormitory, she suddenly noticed a letter stuck in the mailbox. Wondering if it might be a letter for Aiden, she hurriedly checked it.

[Sonnet, you haven’t even written a letter all this time, have you truly forgotten us?

No matter how you graduated from that school by yourself, seeing that you haven’t said a word to us, we thought something was seriously wrong.

We tried to contact you urgently because of the heavy snowfall, but they said you had already graduated.

At least Aiden helped us put out the urgent fire, but how is it that you haven’t contacted us all this time?

If you receive this letter, contact us immediately.]

It was a letter that skipped the opening and closing greetings. As if they had sold off courtesy and just kept saying what they wanted to say.

Sonnet’s hands holding the letter trembled. Just from the roughly scrawled handwriting, it was obvious her mother had written it.

Sonnet didn’t want to get involved with her parents if possible. Moreover, if she got involved now, it would obviously become even more troublesome.

But Aiden had already helped them. She could fully imagine how unreasonably her parents must have behaved during that time.

They probably kept bothering Rosefield Academy and tried every way to find out her address.

She didn’t know how Aiden found out about the situation, but seeing that there had been no contact with her, it seemed Aiden had resolved it as quietly as possible.

But seeing that they even knew this address, she could roughly guess how much her parents had pestered them.

Sonnet hated her shameless parents. They had never properly helped Sonnet. She had attended Rosefield Academy with money her grandmother had saved.

Originally, they wanted Sonnet to live helping with farming and housework instead of going to Rosefield. They said learning too much would only make her troublesome.

Sonnet disliked such parents, so she deliberately moved far away and rarely visited them.

She had been living peacefully, having forgotten about them, but suddenly her mind became complicated.

When her parents got involved, situations became quite noisy. Her parents weren’t particularly kind people. Rather, they were the type to make situations worse.

‘Why didn’t Aiden say anything?’

Did her parents tell him not to say anything? That seemed likely. Considering what they had done so far, her parents would definitely not stay quiet.

Once they received help, they would act as if they naturally deserved to receive it a hundred times. Moreover, since Aiden had a lot of money, her parents probably gladly asked Aiden for help.

Aiden seemed to have deliberately not mentioned it.

Sonnet felt uneasy inside. They were still her parents, and the fact that Aiden hadn’t mentioned it all this time bothered her.

‘They’ll definitely keep making demands.’

Sonnet’s worry started from there. Her parents were definitely not the type to keep their mouths shut and stay quiet.

Just then, someone entered through the dormitory door. That person glanced at Sonnet and walked past her.

Sonnet crumpled up the letter and put it in her pocket, then left the dormitory.

First, she had to put out the urgent fire.

When she left the dormitory, fortunately a public carriage was waiting.

“Please take me to Delrod.”

Delrod was the manor where Aiden had lived. She would ask there where the Rosefield Duke was.

She had things to discuss with him. About the researcher dismissal issue as well.

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The carriage Sonnet took arrived smoothly at the manor in Delrod. Perhaps because Aiden had spoken in advance, there were no difficulties with entry.

As soon as Sonnet got off the carriage, someone came out. It was the butler she had seen before. He looked quite flustered.

“Miss Sonnet, what brings you here?”

“I’m here to meet the Rosefield Duke. Where is he?”

“He’s here right now, but…”

Sonnet immediately walked past the butler and entered the manor. Actually, she had resented the Rosefield Duke for interfering with her relationship with Aiden.

If it weren’t for the Rosefield Duke, Sonnet would be happy with Aiden right now. Without having to pathetically try to forget her past with Aiden.

As Sonnet looked around searching, the butler hurriedly approached.

“Miss Sonnet, you can’t do this. Right now the Duke is…”

“What’s the matter?”

When Sonnet turned around, she saw the Duke with a gaunt face. He was wearing loose clothes and a shiny silk robe.

Sonnet went toward the Rosefield Duke. As soon as he saw Sonnet, his eyebrows furrowed.

“I heard you’re even dismissing me from my researcher position, and I absolutely couldn’t stand it.”

“If you can’t stand it, there’s nothing you can do about it right now, is there?”

“I’ve been living quietly all this time. But do you think it makes sense to suddenly do this?”

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