I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 202
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 202
“No matter how false a rumor may be, don’t you have the common sense to be careful in front of the person involved?”
At those words, Helena’s eyes turned cold.
A mere Viscount’s Daughter daring to lecture her, a Marquess’s daughter, about common sense? If not for the Western Duke, she wouldn’t even be worthy of speaking to her! This is exactly why she had deliberately lowered her status.
Helena lowered her eyes to hide her true feelings and answered meekly.
“Nothing has been proven about whether it’s real or just a false rumor, has it?”
“That’s right. Nothing has been proven.”
When Marine readily agreed, Helena sneered inwardly.
She’s walking into the trap herself.
“Then let’s prove it. Will you apologize if I do?”
“Yes. Since I said it, I’ll take responsibility and apologize.”
Helena responded even more actively on purpose.
There’s no way she could prove pregnancy here and now.
“Elmis.”
At Marine’s call, Elmis, who had been standing in a corner of the garden, quickly approached and took out something palm-sized from her bag.
The bowl with a hollow interior gleamed with a subtle black color, and inside it was a clear liquid.
Seeing it, all the Young Ladies widened their eyes in surprise. What is that?
“You all know what this is used for, don’t you? I’ll prove with this that I’m not pregnant.”
Continuing the family line was a very important virtue for Nobles.
When the Northern Region, which always created amazing inventions, announced this, Noble Society was literally turned upside down.
Naturally, any Noble couldn’t help but know about that thing. And everyone was shocked that Marine had casually brought it outside.
That one item costs as much as a decent manor, so everyone keeps it preciously stored inside their houses.
“Dia.”
“Yes.”
Marine pricked Dia’s finger with a needle.
When Dia dropped blood into the bowl, the clear liquid turned blue.
Red meant pregnancy, blue meant not pregnant.
While everyone couldn’t hide their surprised expressions, Marine looked straight at Helena.
“Please apologize.”
Helena’s eyes darted around with a bewildered expression.
The reason she had invited so many Young Ladies from High Society was to humiliate Dia, not to be humiliated herself.
“Lady Scamzo?”
When Marine called again, Helena gritted her teeth tightly.
Who would have thought she’d bring such an expensive thing here.
Looking around, everyone was focused on her.
Helena clenched her fists and turned her gaze to Dia.
She didn’t want to bow her head to that woman even if it killed her, but now was the time to retreat.
“I’m sorry, Lady Adriana. I brought up false rumors today. I also heard this story from someone else, so please don’t misunderstand.”
Dia’s clear eyes looked directly at Helena.
Under the strange pressure, Helena averted her gaze from her.
And Marine had no intention of letting Helena escape with just an apology.
“Lady Scamzo, who did you hear that false rumor from?”
“…Here and there.”
Helena spoke quickly, trying hard to hide her anxious expression.
“I heard that Lady Scamzo was the one who spread that rumor.”
Marine drove the point home with a calm voice.
“What? Who dares to insult me like that?”
Helena deliberately raised her voice, trying hard to ignore her trembling heart.
“The Western Duke.”
When Marine spoke plainly, Helena’s eyes wavered.
“Why would the Western Duke insult our family?”
It changed from ‘me’ to ‘our family.’
Marine shrugged as if to say how would she know that.
“If Lady hasn’t lied, then there’s no problem, so don’t worry.”
“What… does that mean?”
Helena flinched at Marine’s meaningful words. The anxiety that had risen from the bottom finally reached up to her chin.
“Did you perhaps lie?”
Marine asked, tilting her head.
“No!”
Helena jumped up.
Her family was very deeply involved in Western trade. If her family suffered damage because of the false rumor she created, her father would never forgive her.
Helena turned her gaze to Dia, who had an indifferent expression, instead of Marine who was hostile toward her.
That attitude of acting like it had nothing to do with her throughout. She was similar to the Empress.
Even the sickly Empress had gone into seclusion after giving birth to the Crown Prince, and high society was now dominated by noble ladies.
If only she could manipulate that Dia who resembled the Empress to her liking…
Third Imperial Consort was also a marquis’s daughter, but hadn’t His Majesty the Emperor accepted her as an imperial consort later on?
The Crown Prince was also the Emperor’s seed.
Surely someday that woman’s promiscuous nature would be revealed. Then her opportunity would come too.
First, she had to sweet-talk that woman and get out of this situation.
“Lady Adriana, I’m truly wronged.”
Helena’s large eyes filled with tears.
Dia looked at Helena, who was pretending to be pitiful, with quiet eyes.
Now it was her turn.
“What are you wronged about?”
“I don’t understand why the Western Duke believes false rumors. Please speak well to the Western Duke for me. That it’s all a misunderstanding.”
“Then, you just need to prove that it’s a misunderstanding.”
“What?”
Helena asked back with a dumbfounded face.
“I proved the false rumors about my pregnancy wrong right here in this place. Lady Marquess can prove her innocence in the same way.”
“Pregnancy can be proven, but there’s no way to prove false rumors.”
Helena said with a pitiful expression still on her face.
“What could be easier than that? Lady Marquess just needs to tell us here who first told you those false rumors about me.”
Helena’s orange eyes trembled violently.
It was a rumor she had created herself, so who could she say she heard it from?
Helena quickly scanned the young ladies participating in the tea party.
Everyone was desperately avoiding her gaze.
Even the young ladies who had been on her side were the same.
Helena unconsciously bit her lips.
If she couldn’t say anything like this, her lies would be exposed.
At that moment, her eyes caught sight of Priana from the humble viscount family.
Just as she was about to say her name, Marine blocked Helena’s line of sight.
“Lady, don’t try to cover lies with more lies. What you’ve already done will make your future far from smooth.”
Overwhelmed by Marine’s stern gaze, Helena moved her lips but ultimately couldn’t say anything.
“Teacher, not being able to say anything means it’s true, right?”
“That’s right. If she felt wronged, she should have quickly denied it.”
“I don’t think there’s any need to stay here any longer.”
Dia, who had been coldly staring at Helena, approached Marine.
“I think so too.”
Soon the two left together amicably, and the young ladies rushed out after them.
Helena, left alone in the empty garden, bit her nails with a pale face.
She had become the woman who created false rumors about the Crown Princess. How would she handle this situation?
That’s when it happened.
“Helena!”
Her father’s booming shout echoed.
Startled, she turned around to see her father hurriedly entering the garden.
“Father.”
Her father, who rarely raised his voice at her, glared at her with a reddened face.
“What on earth have you done!”
“What? Why, why?”
“Because of you, all the Western trade deals have been cut off. All the people who invested in our business are pulling out and demanding their money back right now!”
“What are you talking about right now? What happens if that’s the case?”
“Our family is ruined now. Even this manor will be handed over to the bank! Why did you do it! Why!”
Helena recalled Marine’s warning with a pale face.
Was this what she meant when she said the future wouldn’t be smooth? That our family would be ruined?
“Why is that my fault!”
Helena shouted back with a face drained of all color.
She had just told one lie out of jealousy toward that woman who would become the Crown Princess.
A family gets ruined because of one wrong word? Where in the world does such a thing happen?
“Didn’t you run your mouth carelessly!”
Father pulled out a crumpled letter from his back pocket and threw it at Helena.
Helena hurriedly picked up the letter and read it.
It was densely filled with details of what false rumors she had spread to whom.
Below that, she could see content stating that all business dealings were being canceled because of her.
At the bottom was the Western Duke’s seal.
Helena read and reread the letter while trembling. Before she knew it, her legs gave out and she collapsed to the floor.
Father looked down at her coldly.
“I’m thinking of expelling you from our family. Then His Grace the Duke might consider showing mercy.”
Helena was shocked and grabbed onto Father.
“Father! Expulsion, you say!”
“That’s what you get for running your mouth carelessly! The family comes before you.”
Father harshly shook off her hand and left.
Helena stared at Father’s retreating figure with empty eyes.
Everything was truly over.
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