I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 144

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 144

“Just become my woman.”

Tan smiled sweetly with his eyes as he flirted.

He was truly a man who never missed an opportunity.

He had the talent to dampen her growing gratitude in an instant.

Tan, who read her expression, burst into loud laughter.

“You know Sweetie is the only one who looks at me like that?”

“Yes, yes.”

Marine answered half-heartedly and racked her brain.

How should she escape from this tiger’s den?

Tan’s eyes softened as he watched her lost in thought alone.

As expected, she’s adorable.

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The next day, News came at exactly the promised time.

“The woman currently in 3rd Prince Your Highness’s room is the Western Duke’s fiancée. This is super-ultra-top-secret information. To find out this information, I had to—”

Gerald cut off his words while trying to hide his desire to rush to the palace immediately.

“What about the second request?”

“Right now, 2nd Prince’s people are strangely mixed in at 3rd Prince Your Highness’s palace, so it might be difficult to infiltrate secretly…”

Gerald leaned forward from the chair’s backrest and silently waited for News’s next words.

“Can you use a sword?”

“Why?”

“3rd Prince Your Highness is secretly seeking guards from foreign countries. It seems to be to find people who aren’t 2nd Prince’s spies.”

“I’m extremely skilled with the sword.”

“Good. Then I’ll try to arrange a position.”

“The sooner the better.”

“Yes. Understood. I’ll contact you soon.”

News left with a chuckle.

Gerald swallowed the appearance-changing pill that Zeromian had given him.

He had to take it once a day at the same time for a 24-hour effect.

His existence must not be revealed yet.

Soon he would be able to meet Marine.

Gerald closed his eyes and hid his anxious gaze.

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“Don’t worry too much. I’m already looking for guards to protect Sweetie.”

Guards?

Marine felt frustrated and her voice came out gruff.

“No, wouldn’t it be better to just let me go instead?”

“Didn’t I tell you? Patients should be respected.”

“I’m all better now.”

Marine looked at Tan with suspicious eyes, wondering what he was talking about now.

“I’m the patient. Hmm, I’ll probably die soon.”

At first, she couldn’t quite understand what he was saying due to his nonchalant tone.

Marine blinked slowly, then opened her eyes wide.

“What?”

“I’m a patient who’s going to die soon. So stay for my sake. I’ll let you go right before I die.”

He said this with a calm expression while chuckling.

Marine was speechless and stared at him.

Of course, she knew from reading the original novel that he would die caught up in the succession struggle.

But she didn’t know exactly when or how he would die. It wasn’t in the original.

Actually, she had been feeling guilty about pretending not to know while already knowing about his death.

But when she learned that Tan had been protecting her all this time, her guilt turned into pain.

Does the grateful crow have to work hard here too?

Marine examined Tan’s face carefully. He looked fine on the outside, but he definitely seemed thinner than before.

“Where does it hurt?”

“…You believe me?”

“Were you lying?”

“No. I’m just surprised.”

“About what?”

“Normally people wouldn’t believe it, right?”

He stared at her with suspicious eyes.

Ah, did I believe him too readily?

Since she knew his fatal ending, she had believed him immediately.

“Oh my. How surprising.”

At Marine’s awkward acting tone, Tan covered his eyes with his palm and burst into laughter.

Who would have thought such an interesting woman would appear in his boring life? He was becoming more and more greedy for this woman.

“Where exactly does it hurt?”

Even her worried voice was sweet.

“Sweetie, do you know about lilies? They’re flowers that don’t bloom in our empire.”

“Yes, I know them.”

Why that flower suddenly? Lilies were beautiful flowers but poisonous herbs.

Tan shook the candy box briefly.

It was the candy he had been eating continuously.

“It’s such a beautiful flower. I even shed tears when I first saw that flower in the Oman Empire.”

Marine couldn’t understand why Tan suddenly brought up lilies and quietly listened to his words.

“Do you know who gave me this?”

He took out a candy from the box and threw it into the air to eat it again.

“Who gave it to you?”

“My beloved mother. My loving mother who wishes for my death for my elder brother’s sake gave me candy made from lilies as a gift.”

Tan smiled cheerfully.

Marine’s light green eyes widened greatly.

That candy was made from lilies?

“Lilies are poison that can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration…”

Marine couldn’t finish her words and stared at him blankly.

While staying in the same room, she had seen him drink water frequently. She thought it was because he was hot, but it was due to dehydration?

Tan’s black eyes sparkled.

“Our Sweetie is even smart?”

Marine jumped up from her seat. Then she reached out to snatch his candy box.

But he quickly hid it behind his back.

The 3rd Prince who met his death in the succession struggle. That was all she knew.

But was it suicide?

Of course, the Imperial Consort had given him that candy, but wasn’t he eating it knowing it was poison? So it was suicide, not murder.

“I can’t give you this. It tastes terrible.”

“No, I’m not saying I want to eat it, but you’re eating it knowing it’s poison right now.”

When Marine looked at Tan with an angry face, his smiling expression slowly hardened.

“Why are you angry?”

He asked slowly as if he couldn’t understand.

“Why am I angry? Right now a grown adult man is throwing a tantrum with his own life because he didn’t get enough mother’s love, and you think I wouldn’t be angry?”

Tan’s black eyes sank deeply.

“Words can hurt too.”

“Yes. Feel the pain. I’m saying this so you’ll hurt. I thought you were sick somewhere for real, but now you’re hurting your own body with your own hands. Give me that candy box right now!”

Marine grabbed his shoulder and snatched the candy box from his hands.

“I survived even though Father and Brother died because of me. I survived and saved Mom even though she was kidnapped because of me. I overcame it because I wanted to live, even when I thought I would die in a desert crawling with Demon Beasts. I’m someone with a very, very strong will to live. So I can’t stand watching a grown man throw tantrums like this! You’re so pathetic, really.”

Marine opened the candy box with a snap and shook it out, throwing away all the candies. Then she stomped on the candies that fell on the floor with her feet.

“If you’re grown up, even if Mom doesn’t love you, you should find someone else who will love you instead of Mom. Do you think Mom will look back at you if you eat the poison she gives you? Why are you acting pitiful in front of me! I won’t care whether you live or die. There are so many people struggling to live!”

Tan suddenly embraced her tightly from behind.

Startled, Marine froze in place.

He hugged her waist tightly and buried his face in her back.

“Stop it. I said it hurts…”

Marine panicked and tried to remove his arms, but her back gradually became wet.

Sigh, really. You should love your children equally. What kind of mother loves only one and tells the other to die.

She only felt sorry for this person who was under such a mother.

But he had to endure. A true adult doesn’t give up on everything and wait for death, but survives to the end and overcomes it.

Marine clasped both hands tightly together and whispered softly.

“Live, please. If you live, good days will surely come.”

His hands holding her grew stronger.

Even though he was a grown man, the way he clung to her desperately looked just like a Young Child. Just like Peridot.

“Stop having unrequited love for Mother. Please don’t let yourself suffer anymore. Think only of yourself. Then someone who will love only you will appear. I believe it.”

“I’ve been alone since my childhood memories began. And now they tell me to die. …Are you sure about that?”

His tearful voice sounded desperate.

She could picture his childhood when he must have yearned for his mother’s love from a young age.

Poor person. Just how long had he been lonely?

“Yes. Luck always comes suddenly.”

Marine sincerely wished for this pitiful person to live, and hoped that good fortune would come to him.

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