I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 236

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke

Side Story Episode 6

“If you’ve been rude enough, I’d appreciate it if you would leave now.”

A cold command fell from Oliver, who had always treated her with a smiling face.

Lady Ana glared at him with displeased eyes.

No matter how secret a secret he claimed she had discovered, wasn’t she still clearly a Lady of a Count’s house? She was far above him, who was merely a Lord of a Viscount’s house.

“Ha, just because you serve His Grace the Duke doesn’t mean you are His Grace the Duke.”

At that moment.

Thud. Surenne, who had roughly set down the wine bottle, poked one ear and grumbled.

“Squeak squeak squeak. There seems to be a mouse somewhere, Oliver.”

Oliver widened his eyes and turned his gaze toward Surenne.

It was the first time she had called him Oliver instead of Oliver Yu.

“What nonsense are you-”

Lady Ana was about to say something with a sneer, but Surenne interrupted her by pointing under her dress.

“Squeak squeak, isn’t it passing by over there?”

“Kyaah!”

Lady Ana jumped in surprise, grabbed the hem of her dress, and hurriedly ran out.

Oliver chuckled at the sight.

That Lady would never dream that the mouse was referring to herself.

“I’m sorry, Surenne.”

“No. It’s not Oliver Yu’s fault that Lady suddenly came looking.”

Surenne said nonchalantly while tilting her wine glass.

When she called him Oliver Yu again, Oliver’s lips naturally curved upward. Now that title felt like a pet name.

After the brief incident passed, the meal naturally continued.

“Excuse me. This is our restaurant’s special cake.”

A waiter approached carrying an elegant plate. It was the chocolate cake Oliver had ordered in advance.

Surenne particularly loved chocolate. Sure enough, Surenne couldn’t take her eyes off the chocolate cake.

The waiter made eye contact with him and then set down a heart-shaped chocolate cake in front of Surenne.

On top of the chocolate cake was a ring that Oliver had personally chosen. It was an amethyst ring that resembled Surenne’s purple eyes.

“Then please have a wonderful time.”

When the waiter bowed and left, Surenne widened her eyes and leaned toward Oliver, whispering.

“This restaurant is crazy, isn’t it?”

“Pardon?”

Oliver also leaned slightly toward her to hear her words better.

Their faces came so close they almost touched, and their gazes met.

Surenne’s appearance with her eyes wide open in surprise was so cute that Oliver couldn’t take his eyes off her.

“Oliver Yu! Don’t look at me, look at this! Where is there a place that gives jewelry as dessert?”

Surenne hurriedly picked up the proposal ring he had prepared, as if afraid someone might steal it away.

“Do you like it?”

Oliver looked at her with a gentle smile.

“Of course I like it. This jewelry is top grade. The gem crafting is excellent too. This must be incredibly expensive, can I really take it? No matter how I think about it, it seems like someone accidentally left it behind.”

Surenne examined the jewelry with an expert’s eye, then glanced around nervously.

Oliver put down his worries that she might not like the ring.

“Of course you can take it since it’s Surenne’s ring.”

“Huh?”

Surenne looked up with a puzzled expression.

“Because it’s Surenne’s ring that I prepared.”

“Huh?”

Surenne blinked slowly with a dumbfounded expression.

Oliver gently took hold of her hand that was holding the ring.

“Surenne, will you marry me?”

Surenne’s purple eyes widened larger than he had ever seen them.

“Wh-what are you saying right now?”

Surenne’s face turned red like the sunset as she avoided his gaze and stammered.

“Please marry me, Surenne.”

Oliver looked at her and spoke once more with earnest feelings.

Surenne rubbed the back of her neck as if embarrassed and slowly opened her mouth.

“I, I am…”

But then, Lady Ana appeared again with the manager in tow.

“Oh, I’m telling you it’s true. I said there’s a rat here.”

Oliver gritted his teeth and stood up abruptly to block their way.

“What do you think you’re doing right now?”

“Earlier that person who claimed to be Young Master Leon’s friend-”

Lady Ana pointed behind him.

“I told you he’s my lover, not a friend.”

Oliver cut off her words with a cold gaze.

“Wait, is it okay to publicly say you’re dating a man like this?”

Lady Ana sneered at him with an incredulous expression.

Oliver realized that when anger rose to his head, his chest turned ice cold.

As he approached Lady Ana with a chilly expression, she stepped back with a frightened face.

An ice-cold voice fell from his lips.

“Lady Ana. If you don’t have a thinking brain, then just don’t say anything, don’t do anything, don’t go anywhere, and just stay quietly at the manor.”

“My goodness, Young Master Leon. How could you say such things to me…”

Lady Ana covered her mouth at the harsh words she had never heard in her life.

“Manager, does this restaurant barge into other customers’ tables so unreasonably like this?”

“I apologize. The lady kept pressuring us.”

The manager bowed and quickly apologized.

“Young Master Leon! Apologize to me right now.”

“Why don’t you apologize to my lover and get lost from our sight, Lady.”

“Eeek. Ah, my head….”

Unable to defeat him with words, Lady Ana collapsed toward the manager.

The manager quickly caught the lady who was pretending to faint, supported her, and retreated rapidly.

“That lady is interesting, isn’t she? She was pretending to faint while watching me with squinted eyes until the very end.”

Oliver, who sat back down, bowed his head toward Surenne.

“I’m sorry.”

To think the good atmosphere would be ruined like this.

He should have reserved the entire restaurant to prevent other customers from coming. His stomach burned with belated regret.

“Why are you sorry, Oliver? Don’t just apologize for anything and everything.”

Surenne, with an indifferent expression, swirled her wine glass around and downed the remaining wine before standing up from her seat.

“Surenne?”

Oliver quickly stood up following her.

“The meal was good, Oliver. And this.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, Surenne pressed the ring back into his hand.

“Surenne….”

Oliver was so shocked he couldn’t move. The ring she had pressed into his hand felt infinitely heavy.

As he stared at Surenne in a daze, she looked straight at him.

“I can’t marry you. I’m a commoner, I’m not ladylike, and if you stay with me, Oliver— no, Oliver, you’ll keep experiencing situations like this.”

As Surenne finished speaking and was about to take a step, Oliver urgently grabbed her hand.

“Surenne. I don’t mind.”

Surenne looked down at her caught wrist and slowly removed his hand.

“I mind.”

“Surenne.”

When he called out desperately, Surenne weakly lifted the corners of her mouth.

“We got along so well together. Now we won’t be able to hang out anymore. What a shame.”

“Surenne, don’t say such things.”

“Thank you for everything.”

Surenne stood on her tiptoes, lightly kissed his forehead, and turned around.

“Surenne.”

Oliver used all his strength to grab her hand once more.

But Surenne gently pushed away his touch.

The two people’s hands moved a span apart. However, that span of distance felt incredibly far.

“Don’t hold on anymore. If you keep holding me, I’ll run away, okay? You know what? I’m a woman who ran away even from my own empire. If I hide, you’ll never be able to find me.”

At her frightening warning, Oliver couldn’t bring himself to hold onto Surenne any longer.

Just the thought of never seeing her again made it hard to breathe.

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