I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 49

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Huyd was actually attending a banquet for the first time. This was because he had grown up as a commoner all his life.

The Soden Marquis and Marchioness, who had been revealed as his birth parents, had bought and sent him plenty of fine clothes for the banquet, but anyway, a banquet where so many nobles gathered was like a new world to him.

Even though splendid and magnificent people had gathered, what they did was no different from the commoners they so despised. No, it was actually worse.

Despising, envying, yet at the same time yearning.

The criticism poured on Judith was lower in quality and harsher than expected. So much so that Judith eventually couldn’t manage her expression and had to step out onto the balcony for a moment.

“Judith, are you alright?”

When he finally went to find her, Judith smiled brightly at him.

“Of course. I’m fine.”

Since she smiled like that, he couldn’t even offer comfort.

“I accept anything well. I’m really positive, you know. Anyway, enduring this much was part of the employment conditions, so if you think about it that way, the hourly wage is tremendous, isn’t it?”

Then she said “Oh my,” and showed him exaggeratedly wide eyes.

“Well, I guess I can’t talk about such things with Huyd anymore. Huyd has now become the heir of the Soden Marquis who doesn’t need to worry about his employer’s mood. Congratulations once again on being liberated from worker status.”

Was that drawing a line?

Anyway, when they returned to the banquet hall, thanks to Isabella, the atmosphere had completely reversed.

Isabella hadn’t done anything except say a few cold words.

Seeing that scene, Huyd realized.

To protect Judith in this world, power and authority were necessary. Just being by her side couldn’t help her at all.

He could only make Judith ‘accept things well.’

Hadn’t he tried to give up on Judith before because of that tremendous difference in status?

But now he too had noble status. If he wanted, he could protect Judith in that way.

He couldn’t grasp it yet, but once he officially entered the Soden Marquis Estate and began receiving education.

He couldn’t know how Judith’s future path would unfold.

One thing was certain. He wanted to be helpful to her and continue to stay by her side.

From the very beginning, since the time when he didn’t know his own status, he had wanted her to see him as a man.

Huyd firmly suppressed his desire to confess his feelings.

Being sincere as she was, she would faithfully play the role of Ekian’s wife until she was divorced anyway.

Thinking that way, it was also true that jealousy toward Ekian, whom he had never even seen, surged up. After all, Judith had said she also had feelings for Ekian.

“Please tell me, Judith. Later, if you need my help after leaving Meius.”

Huyd emphasized repeatedly. Judith smiled even more brilliantly in the glittering banquet hall.

“I understand.”

The answer was light.

“Of course, right? I’m the benefactor who found Huyd’s birth parents, after all.”

The reason was equally light.

Of course, objectively speaking, it wasn’t a light reason at all, but it was clear that the weight Huyd wanted wasn’t conveyed.

Yes, she was light. So she would probably smile brightly just like now, saying she could accept this much, and drift away somewhere with a positive attitude.

Judith was like warm sunlight on a spring day.

Warm and mood-lifting, but impossible to hold onto. As if the seasons would change without notice and she would leave.

“Oh, it’s such a pity that Teacher Judith is quitting. She loved our child so much.”

“Teacher Judith is quitting? My goodness, but it did seem like she would… Such a sincere and capable teacher couldn’t look after our child forever. Still, it’s really regrettable.”

He had once delivered letters to the homes of students Judith used to visit for tutoring in her place. They all expressed regret, and they all said, “But it did seem like she would.”

Perhaps everyone had unconsciously felt something similar to what Huyd felt from her. That essential color of drifting that existed within her.

“Judith, I’m being sincere.”

In the end, Huyd had no choice but to say that.

“This is my mailbox number.”

As the dance music was ending, he took out a small note from his pocket.

“Contact me anytime you need my help.”

A mailbox was a private postal service frequently used by nobles. Since servants checked it regularly, even if the sender didn’t know the recipient’s exact location, letters sent to the mailbox could always be delivered to the owner.

“If you call for me and wait, I’ll somehow rush to you.”

“Ah.”

Judith again accepted it lightly and smiled.

“The maintenance fee for this would be worth a year’s salary… As expected, after becoming a marquis’s heir, your spending has become noble too! You already have servants.”

She giggled and laughed.

“Please tell me your thoughts on going from employee to employer later.”

“Yes.”

Anyway, Huyd was satisfied that she had accepted it.

“If you contact me, I’ll drop everything and come.”

“I’ll call you if I need the world’s best doctor. Huyd is the most skilled doctor I’ve seen.”

Thus the first dance ended.

“Well then, let’s go.”

When the dance music completely ended and Huyd and Judith returned, Isabella snapped her fan shut and said.

“We’ve made our presence known, it’ll all be known in high society, and all the rumors about Meius lying will spread too.”

Who would go this far for a fake daughter-in-law, Isabella said about herself and smiled with satisfaction.

“Well then, heir of the Soden Marquis.”

As they left the Imperial Palace, Isabella also smiled at Huyd.

“Thank you so much for everything until now.”

The Soden Marquis and Marchioness were waiting for Huyd at the back gate of the Imperial Palace.

His official work as the ducal house’s personal physician was until today, and from tomorrow he would quietly begin receiving heir lessons at the Soden Marquis Estate.

The reason for hiding this fact even until the banquet was because Huyd had said publicly that he was ‘still awkward with his family and didn’t want to attract attention from others at places like banquets.’

However, in truth, Huyd simply wanted to partner with Judith and dance the first dance. It was such a simple and earnest heart.

“I’ll see you often in the future.”

Huyd politely greeted Isabella and smiled at Judith too.

“The Meius Ducal House is like home to me.”

The Soden Marquis and Marchioness also approached and hugged Judith tightly.

To them, Judith was literally a benefactor.

“See you again.”

Judith also greeted cheerfully and lightly as usual.

“Congratulations once again on finding your family.”

Huyd waved while keeping her in his sight from beside the Soden Marquis and Marchioness.

Thus the Meius Ducal House’s carriage began returning to the ducal house, carrying only Judith and Isabella, unlike when they came.

Inside the returning carriage.

‘I’m certain.’

Isabella was lost in thought with her arms crossed.

‘Huyd Soden definitely likes Judith.’

She hadn’t just mindlessly kept her place at the banquet hall. She had observed Judith and Huyd at the banquet hall more carefully than anyone.

‘Even when dancing the first dance, he almost… couldn’t hide his gaze.’

Huyd was a bookworm who had only studied at a rural academy. He couldn’t hide his expressions at all.

‘The Soden Marquis and his wife probably noticed too.’

As far as she knew, the Soden Marquis and Marchioness had a fiancée in mind for Huyd. But Isabella already liked Huyd.

‘Honest, sincere, decent looks, likes Judith… Wouldn’t that be better than finding some random guy?’

But Judith’s status and such things were a bit lacking for a marquis’s heir.

‘Should I adopt her as my daughter?’

Isabella thought seriously.

‘As Meius’s adopted daughter. Then even if she’s been divorced once, her status wouldn’t be inferior to the Soden Marquis’s heir. Plus we’d give her plenty of dowry…’

Thus Isabella was thinking of adopting as her daughter the daughter-in-law who had divorced her son—a thought that would make Judith faint if she heard it.

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