I Ended Up Snatching a Marriage With the Male Lead! - Chapter 37

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I’d ended up in a flash marriage with the male lead.
Chapter 37

Emilia glanced away from Lucas’s gaze.
She hadn’t created the scene before them, yet somehow she felt like an accomplice.
Fortunately, Lucas didn’t press further about the goalposts and the tree.
Instead, he propped his chin on his hand and watched the children at play.
In the quiet, the sound of their laughter rang clear—bright and unguarded.
Lucas suddenly turned to her with a question.
“What do you think of this Park?”
“This place?”
She wasn’t sure what he was getting at, but it wasn’t a difficult question to answer.
“It seems like a good place.”
Emilia recalled the things the children had said earlier.
Certainly, there were moments when commoner children regarded noble children with caution.
Yet she thought they might grow far more healthily here than if they were confined entirely to their own separate worlds.
‘Perhaps it’s too idealistic a notion.’
Still, the mere fact that a space existed where they could come together seemed meaningful.
As she offered her thoughts simply, she felt his eyes on her.
Lucas had turned to look at her, wearing a broad smile.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“No reason. I just had a feeling you’d think that way.”
Her answer seemed to have pleased him.
“Those clueless nobles kept criticizing why anyone would build such a pointless place.”
Lucas frowned, his voice tinged with annoyance as he muttered.
“They say if there’s money to waste on luxury nonsense like this, they should throw some bread into the Slums instead. Yet those same people don’t give a single coin to the children there.”
“That’s absurd logic, really.”
Emilia replied matter-of-factly.
“Relief funds for the Slums fall under the Welfare Department’s purview, while this Park is handled by the Urban Affairs Department.”
She narrowed her brow as she continued.
“The budget doesn’t transfer between departments, so what kind of nonsensical argument is that?”
She wondered whether the nobles had even studied basic administration.
If they knew less than she did, what were they even trying to accomplish?
At her expression—so exasperated it bordered on scornful—Lucas burst into hearty laughter.
“Why are you laughing?”
Emilia was still puzzling over what had amused him.
“No, it’s just… that’s a new way to comfort someone.”
He muttered almost to himself.
“My master would find you entertaining too. He cares for this Park more than anything.”
Lucas’s eyes darkened as he spoke again.
“But this makes me even more curious about who you are.”
“My identity?”
Emilia’s brow creased at Lucas’s insinuation.
What did this man expect her to be?
“Well, wouldn’t you be curious too? Someone who trembled over buying a Dessert can’t be the one who hired all those knights protecting you.”
“I never trembled with my hands.”
Emilia replied curtly to Lucas’s exaggeration.
“Your eyes shook like you’d been struck when you saw the price.”
……
She’d genuinely been shocked by the outrageous cost, so she didn’t refute him further.
“Anyway, I ate the Dessert you gave me well. The child I teach especially loved it.”
“A child you teach?”
“Yes. I work as a tutor.”
Emilia answered freely when asked about her identity—there was no reason to hide it.
Being a tutor wasn’t something shameful.
“And those knights earlier were my employer’s people.”
“Quite a wealthy employer, it seems.”
“Well, yes.”
Emilia nodded.
Then Lucas interlaced his fingers behind his head, leaning back, his tone turning playful and dismissive.
“You sure give up information easily, don’t you?”
But soon he grinned slyly and asked her something new.
“So what kind of person do I seem like to you?”
“You, Lucas?”
Emilia studied his upturned lips and recalled their meetings.
The first time was in the afternoon, the second at midday, and now before sunset.
When she thought about it, there was no pattern to the times or days.
From the way he moved, his claim to be a knight seemed plausible enough, but……
Emilia then recalled their conversations.
‘Curfew, master?’
As she turned over his words in her mind, she suddenly hesitated.
“What? Do you have an idea?”
He asked playfully, his eyes alight with anticipation.
“Hmm.”
But as she studied him, her gaze made him swallow hard.
“What’s with that look?”
The warmth that had lingered in his pale green eyes moments before vanished instantly.
Now they held the disdain of someone looking at discarded trash in the Park.
Emilia shifted to the far end of the bench.
As though there were a heap of filth right beside him.
“Are you a married man?”
“……What?”
Lucas blinked at her question, as if his mind had gone blank.
“No?”
But even with his denial, Emilia’s suspicion remained unchanged.
“Where on earth did you get that idea?”
He asked, bewildered.
“You mentioned curfew, and there’s someone you call master……”
Emilia spoke less confidently than before.
“Phahahaha.”
Lucas burst out laughing at her absurd misunderstanding.
“Master? What, is that your taste? Do you want your husband to call you master?”
“That’s not what I meant!”
Emilia flushed and quickly denied it.
“Or am I charming enough to look attached?”
“Charm or whatever—just please move away.”
The way she dodged his question only deepened his suspicion.
So her expression remained cool, unmoved by his seductive smile.
It was rude enough that he casually touched other people’s hair, but for a married man to behave that way……
She found it unforgivable.
“I don’t talk to married men who paw at women.”
Sensing her resolve, Lucas dropped his playful expression.
“I swear it’s true—I’m not.”
……
But Emilia’s skeptical eyes didn’t waver.
“This is the first time I’ve gotten this kind of misunderstanding.”
He muttered, sounding slightly deflated, rubbing his jaw in thought.
Then his eyes suddenly gleamed with mischief.
“Would you marry me?”
“……Excuse me?”
Emilia stared at Lucas as though he’d lost his mind.
“Did you get heatstroke?”
It seemed the man beside her was the one who needed fanning, not her.
When she rephrased her concern as a subtle insult, Lucas only laughed harder.
“If we go through with a Marriage Registration, you’ll be able to confirm whether I’m married or not, right?”
Emilia found herself at a loss for words.
Of course, if they actually married as he suggested, she’d know immediately.
The empire upheld Monogamy by law.
But who would actually marry someone just to verify such a thing?
“No one marries on a whim like that.”
Emilia rebuked him.
Her bewildered expression seemed to amuse him, and he simply chuckled.
When Lucas finally stopped laughing, he spoke slowly.
“Aren’t you the one who’s attached?”
“Me?”
Emilia’s expression grew confused, and Lucas leaned back, gesturing with a nod toward the Men’s Jacket beside her.
“Whose clothes are those, then?”

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