I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 127

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But there was currently a temporary building erected on the podium.

It looked like it could be easily demolished, so they thought it would be torn down before the Marquis arrived?

There were also workers who seemed to be mobilized for the demolition, walking back and forth near the area with tools in hand.

So the Marquis was naturally expected to appear only after the temporary building was demolished.

“What reason do I have to trust you?”

Everyone looked at each other with bewildered faces.

The Marquis’s low and calm voice continued from inside the temporary building.

“Isn’t Judith your own daughter?”

This wasn’t a speech, but a conversation!

The Marquis must be having a conversation inside that temporary building without knowing what was happening.

Who was Judith and what was this talk about a daughter… However, a woman’s voice could be heard responding to the Marquis’s question.

“But you can’t really call that child and me mother and daughter. I’m the one who left her when she was seventeen, knowing full well that all the loan shark debts would fall on her.”

She must be a vicious and heartless woman.

She dumped debts on her seventeen-year-old daughter and ran away? Everyone began murmuring and whispering among themselves.

“What, what? That voice, isn’t that the woman who was kicked out when she tried to enter the Marquis’ estate looking for her daughter last time?”

“That’s right, I think so!”

What was certain was that this conversation was much more interesting than the previous lord’s speeches.

People began listening with fascinated faces. As silence began to flow through that vast square, the content of the conversation became increasingly clear to everyone.

When she saw the Marquis arriving at the 【Grey Information Guild】, Elizabeth exclaimed inwardly.

‘That’s right, that’s right! My prediction was correct!’

It was indeed that man who had come to find her back then.

The jet-black hair, dark red eyes, gloomy and eerie impression. Even the cold and chilly gaze was exactly the same as that vivid memory from back then.

“So.”

Having just returned from annihilating the barbarians, there still seemed to be a murderous aura flowing from him.

“Let me hear why you wanted to meet me. For reference, I really hate wasting time.”

“Of course.”

Elizabeth quickly explained.

Wouldn’t an ex-wife be somewhat burdensome when meeting a new duchess, she had raised that child Judith so she knew she would definitely become a future problem, she wasn’t a child who would quietly watch her ex-husband live happily, even His Majesty the Emperor had wanted to deal with Judith first out of concern for the Marquis and there were reasons for all of that…

So wouldn’t it be good for the new duchess and the child to be born to eliminate that child? She, as the birth mother, would take on that role.

Then the Marquis looked at her steadily with an unreadable expression.

That gaze was so distant that her spine grew cold and she involuntarily swallowed dry saliva.

But just coming out to this place was close to success, wasn’t it?

Otherwise, the busy Marquis wouldn’t be sitting in front of her.

“Shall we move to another seat for a moment? The chair is uncomfortable. And from now on, let’s not mention Judith’s name for security reasons.”

Instead of answering, the Marquis suddenly said that, and Elizabeth nodded, thinking that noble people must find even such chairs uncomfortable.

They moved to a room further inside following the guidance of a guild staff member.

The corridor was quite long and winding, making it difficult for Elizabeth to grasp the structure.

Soon they arrived at a somewhat cluttered end room. Just as she was thinking it felt somehow open, the Marquis suddenly asked.

“What reason do I have to trust you? Isn’t she your own daughter?”

It was naturally a question she had expected. Elizabeth quickly answered. The only thought filling her mind was that she had to somehow say she wasn’t on Judith’s side.

“But you can’t really call that child and me mother and daughter. I’m the one who left her when she was seventeen, knowing full well that all the loan shark debts would fall on her.”

The Marquis remained expressionless.

Elizabeth spoke quickly, feeling impatient.

Since she had already realized that Judith wasn’t going to be the new duchess, there was no reason at all to pretend to be a mother who regretted her mistakes.

“If I had even a little maternal affection left for that child, would I have come all the way here to say such things to the Marquis? To be honest, the fact that she somehow paid back the money and became free is disgust…”

She was about to say ‘disgusting’, but suddenly the Marquis stopped her words.

“Stop.”

The Marquis’s eyes looking at her were sharp. Overwhelmed by that short word, Elizabeth shut her mouth. The Marquis said curtly in a low voice.

“I’ve heard enough.”

That’s when it happened.

With a crash, the temporary wall behind Elizabeth collapsed completely.

Elizabeth involuntarily screamed and fell over ungracefully.

“Uh… ah…”

She couldn’t believe the scenery that began to appear behind her after the wall disappeared.

In what looked like a square at a slightly lower elevation, the estate’s people were packed densely together.

She hadn’t known because of the temporary wall, but this was a space that looked like a stage.

The gazes of countless people focused on Elizabeth.

“That, that’s…”

Elizabeth stammered and then shut her mouth in shock. Ridiculously, her voice was being amplified and echoing through the square.

Then… did all those people hear her conversation with the Marquis?

Then one of the Information Guild members approached and helped Elizabeth up.

“Please leave. Crown Prince has said he no longer wishes to continue the conversation.”

“What, what?”

When she came to her senses and looked ahead again, the Marquis had already disappeared.

The Information Guild member grabbed the arm of the stunned Elizabeth and dragged her out.

“Oh, and let me give you one more piece of information as a final service. You could call it a service.”

Into the ear of Elizabeth, who still seemed unable to grasp the situation and was just looking around with a bewildered face, he whispered.

“Aren’t you curious about the real name of ‘Teacher Yus’ who is staying at the Marquis’ estate?”

Elizabeth couldn’t understand the current situation well.

While she was being dragged away without even answering, he whispered.

“It’s Judith Ailan.”

At those words, Elizabeth’s eyes widened.

Her mind began racing instantly.

‘Judith Meius is not in the Marquis’ estate.’

That’s definitely what they had said.

So the surname was different!

Of course, since Judith was now divorced, she had reclaimed the Ailan surname.

“We didn’t lie about anything, did we?”

The man grinned.

“Clearly, we told you exactly whose mother you were.”

Elizabeth felt like she was going to faint.

‘Aren’t you Judith Ailan’s mother? You would naturally want to meet her.’

As she stared wide-eyed in bewilderment, she saw the Marquis leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

“Don’t do anything foolish and get lost.”

The Marquis’s red eyes stared directly at her.

“You won’t be able to stay in my estate any longer anyway.”

Only then did Elizabeth realize that everything was planned by this man.

He must have already figured out Elizabeth’s true intentions.

Now, even if she cried and made a fuss in the estate and clung to Judith, Judith wouldn’t be labeled as a ‘bad daughter who abandoned her birth mother’ among the estate residents.

Because it was as if she had babbled with her own mouth that ‘that child and I can’t be considered mother and daughter.’

“Be grateful to Judith. It’s only because you’re Judith’s birth mother that I made things this difficult.”

The Marquis spoke bluntly.

“Making one person disappear would be an easier task for me.”

It was more chilling because it was a calm tone stating facts, not a threat.

“Then… did the people hear all of our conversation?”

“Only the conversation after we moved rooms.”

The Marquis answered with his arms crossed.

“It’s Judith’s most painful spot, so is there anything to brag about to the whole neighborhood? Judith will hear all the rumors later too.”

Only then could Elizabeth understand why they had moved rooms in the middle, and why he had stopped her when she was about to say something worse.

He had even prevented her from saying Judith’s real name when they moved rooms.

The Marquis had adjusted things so that Elizabeth could only say that ‘she abandoned Judith while in debt and has no affection for her daughter.’

How much… how much he must love her, and therefore how careful he must be.

How much he must have wanted to remove her from Judith’s life without leaving a single scar on Judith’s life…

“I don’t see any reason to reveal that she’s Judith’s birth mother in this situation. She should be smart enough to understand that much.”

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