I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 55

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 55

“Wow! Duke, did you just say diamond?”

Surenne’s purple eyes widened.

The Emperor of her homeland, Sanders Empire, had melted gold to build a golden palace.

But diamond? Making a carriage out of something several times more expensive than gold.

“The diamond mine will go bankrupt.”

Sebastian stroked his beard, trying to maintain his composure.

“You’re insane.”

Zeromian bluntly voiced his honest impression.

“Can you do it?”

The Duke asked Surenne again, as if he didn’t care about the three people’s reactions.

“If it’s made of diamond, it would be very sturdy and sparkly. Wow, I’ve never even thought of that. Handsome alchemist, what do you call this kind of thing?”

Surenne’s eyes sparkled with amusement.

“Money. Waste. Ing.”

Zeromian slowly informed Surenne with a kind smile.

“Duke, you’re really good at money wasting.”

Surenne sincerely admired and praised the Duke.

“Surenne, you shouldn’t say such things.”

Sebastian stopped Surenne with a pale face.

“Why not? I’m good at giving compliments.”

Sebastian let out a deep sigh.

Oliver’s absence was keenly felt. Originally, it was Oliver’s job to stop Zeromian and Surenne when they acted so recklessly.

“Zero. Research a way where you can see outside from inside the carriage, but can’t see inside from outside.”

Gerald, who had been keeping his head fixed toward Surenne the entire time, spoke to Zeromian for the first time.

“Why on earth do you need such a strange carriage?”

“For my fiancée.”

“Wowwww. Money wasting, love wasting.”

Surenne stuck out both thumbs toward the Duke with an admiring face.

“Surennne!”

Sebastian hurriedly covered her mouth.

“Right. Double wasting.”

Zeromian looked at Surenne as if she had done well.

A slight smile appeared and disappeared on Gerald’s indifferent face.

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Flutter flutter. Countless birds carrying secret messages flew vigorously into the sky.

The places the birds reached fastest were the Imperial Palace and each ducal house except the Western Region.

A hawk landed on the shoulder of the Southern Duke, who was hunting in the forest.

While the hawk groomed its feathers, the Duke untied the note knotted to the hawk’s leg.

After causing that commotion in the south, the Western Duke was getting engaged?

A cold smile formed on the Southern Duke’s lips as he crumpled the note tightly.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Duke was still bedridden due to illness.

Instead, a white-haired woman who read the note in the Duke’s office while slowly stroking her teacup smiled mysteriously.

And Aide John entered the Northern Duke’s laboratory.

The Northern Duke immediately stood up upon seeing the note John presented.

“Oh my. I’ll have to contact my son whether I like it or not.”

“Don’t you always contact him anyway, even without that excuse?”

Aide John pointed out the son-obsessed Northern Duke’s behavior.

“What are you talking about? I haven’t for two whole days. And since something important happened, I naturally have to contact him.”

The Northern Duke quickly left the laboratory, contrary to his stern expression.

Finally, the Emperor of the Empire received a report about the Western Duke’s engagement news in his office.

“The Western Duke is getting engaged.”

“Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor.”

The old Chief Attendant who finished his report quietly awaited the Emperor’s command.

“Interesting. What do you think, Chief Attendant?”

“I believe the Countess’s death might have been the cause.”

“Tsk. The Countess was a useful pawn, but I thought too simply…”

The Emperor tapped his desk while organizing his thoughts.

“The Western Duke and the Countess never met even once after the Countess married.”

“That’s right.”

“The Countess only had one son. With no nephew to inherit the ducal title, I think he’s thinking more about succession.”

The Chief Attendant carefully continued his opinion.

“Tsk tsk. That’s the worst-case scenario. It would be best if the Western Duke died without an heir. Look into that fiancée.”

“Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor.”

The Chief Attendant bowed deeply and left after answering.

The Emperor, left alone in his office, tapped his desk while lost in thought.

After that, the nobles who saw the information brought by the scattered birds couldn’t help but be shocked.

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News of the Western Duke’s engagement and party struck Western high society like a thunderbolt.

Whenever Western nobles gathered, they chattered about the Duke and his fiancée.

The fiancée’s status. The fiancée’s appearance.

The nobles who had gone to the jewelry store obtained information through Yoreri’s chatter that the Duke cherished his fiancée and that the fiancée was full of charm.

The Duke had known his fiancée for a long time. The Duke had dedicated an entire jewelry store for his fiancée. The Duke was so infatuated with his fiancée that he couldn’t distinguish between public and private matters.

The inflated rumors even spread to the ridiculous story that ‘the Duke loved a Viscount’s daughter of low status so much that he went blind.’

The topic of conversation among the young ladies enjoying a tea party in the greenhouse was also all about the Western Duke’s engagement and party.

“I thought His Grace the Duke would never marry.”

A round-faced young lady expressed her disappointment with a gloomy face. She was one of the Duke’s usual admirers.

“Oh my, what are you saying? Considering His Grace the Duke’s age, he’s already quite late.”

A young lady who took a sip of tea next to her scolded.

“I know. I know that, but still. He’s our eternal His Grace the Duke. Don’t you think so, Lady Susan?”

Susan, who hosted the tea party, quietly drank her tea and then put down her teacup.

Her blonde hair sparkled even more brilliantly in the sunlight pouring through the greenhouse window.

Everyone suspected that Susan might be the young lady rumored to have secretly entered the Western Duke’s bedroom. That was because Susan’s unrequited love for the Duke was famous. However, unless she revealed the truth herself, it was just a baseless rumor.

“Now he’ll become His Grace the Duke for only one person, not for all of us…”

Everyone looked at Susan with surprise at her calm tone.

People who knew Susan’s usual fiery personality expected her to cry and make a fuss.

Some had gathered partly to watch that spectacle.

“But has anyone seen that fiancée?”

Amanda, who had been quietly sitting as if uncomfortable with this topic, looked around and asked.

She had to be the center of attention everywhere. But everyone was getting excited about the Western Duke’s engagement.

In that case, she had to bring the central figure of that topic to get attention for herself.

“No.”

“I heard she’s a Viscount’s Daughter. They say she hasn’t attended Young Ladies’ Gatherings very often in the past.”

The eight people invited to Susan’s tea party were central figures in the Western Social Circle.

If they didn’t know, then nobody knew.

Amanda, who had met her most recently, wore a satisfied smile. Of course, it hadn’t been a pleasant encounter, but the Young Ladies here didn’t know that fact.

“Actually, I recently….”

“I know about it.”

Christine, who was sitting at the very end of the tea party, interrupted Amanda mid-sentence.

Amanda glared at Christine with an unpleasant look. She had told her to come since she was desperately trying to fit in with the group by offering jewelry.

She didn’t know when to join in and when to step back.

“Christine, do you know about that fiancée?”

“Yes. I’ve heard about her.”

“You haven’t met her though. I did a few days ago….”

As Amanda was about to add her story boastfully, Christine interrupted again.

“My fiancé told me that That Woman is exceptionally skilled at seducing men to gain advantages.”

The impact of Christine’s words was tremendous.

Even Amanda, whose words had been cut off, was too shocked to get angry.

Susan, who had been calmly drinking tea, deliberately set down her teacup with a sound. The Young Ladies’ gazes focused on her.

“Lady Christine. Could I hear more details about that story?”

Susan’s green eyes gleamed with a sharp, cold light.

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