It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 85

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21. The Beginning of a Flirting Reversal Drama

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The most famous dining restaurant in the capital.

In the interior that had been emptied for just one table, Prince Saxen sat in his uniform.

And across from him was me, Serenthia.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I am Serenthia Kairozen, Archduchess.”

Ah, what a beautiful name no matter when I say it. Kairozen Archduchess…

“Nice to meet you. I’m Saxen.”

He smiled with his eyes curving. A handsome man with a cool impression, blonde hair and red eyes, extended his hand to me.

Though it was our first meeting, he had a strangely familiar impression.

I observed him while having light conversation with the prince.

I could gradually obtain detailed information about the Princess’s Palace while collaborating.

The priority in this meeting was to figure out what kind of person Saxen was.

At the same time, the second task was to appeal to Saxen that I was a completely harmless person and induce intimacy.

And after exchanging a few words of conversation with him, I realized.

This person is a goldmine, isn’t he?

“Hearing stories about Raphael’s childhood is really fun!”

“You seem to like the Archduke very much.”

“Yes, I like him tremendously.”

Saxen’s eyes stared piercingly at me, then he chuckled.

“Truth.”

“That’s right, 100% pure truth.”

“Surprisingly, there hasn’t been a single lie among everything you’ve said so far.”

“Yes, of course.”

“…Oh, really? Usually people around the Archduchess’s age don’t readily admit it even when they like someone, because of their pride.”

“There’s no such thing as pride when it comes to love, for me.”

The prince laughed “Ahaha,” then suddenly stopped laughing.

“But why is that?”

“Pardon?”

‘…Why are you suddenly serious? Scary. I was about to gradually shift to talking about the Princess…’

The prince rested his chin on his hand and stared intently at me while muttering.

“You have silver hair.”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“And why, after hearing about you two, do I feel bad…?”

“…”

“It’s my intuition, but somehow I’ve started to dislike Raphael. Ah, don’t misunderstand. It’s not that I’ve developed personal feelings for you, young lady.”

“Ah, I understand. You don’t seem like that at all, so don’t worry.”

When the prince’s gaze met mine, I thought I should gradually change the topic.

“And I know why you’re feeling bad.”

“What is it?”

I gestured toward his tableware and said carefully.

“There’s hair in your soup.”

“…Ah, how unfortunate.”

The prince’s expression became subtle. It was a somewhat bewildered look, as if wondering whether he had this side to him.

“You have good observation skills.”

“I hear that a lot.”

Anyway, the conversation with the prince was quite enjoyable, but I hadn’t forgotten the task I was assigned.

“Shall we start talking about the blueprints for the Princess’s Palace now?”

The prince stared intently at me, then moved his lips.

“…I see. We agreed to discuss that.”

It was as if he had forgotten what he was supposed to be doing until now.

That appearance was quite puzzling, so I tilted my head and looked at his mouth.

He muttered while eating the soup with hair in it with a dazed expression.

“I don’t know why I’m acting like this, but…”

I thought to myself. To think the prince likes soup with hair in it, the future of this empire is dark…

But Saxen, as if he didn’t care about such things, stared blankly at me with quite a dazed expression before opening his mouth.

“…At our next meeting, let’s enter the Imperial Palace and have a direct conversation.”

“That’s not bad. I need to search the Princess’s Palace too.”

I had only been to the Imperial Palace once, but it wasn’t a bad memory.

I had to go anyway since I needed to compare and analyze the newly discovered blueprints with the actual Princess’s Palace.

As I nodded nonchalantly, Saxen moved his lips as if something was bothering him, then opened his mouth.

“For reference, I’m not trying to make moves on you. I have absolutely no intention of hitting on a wife who has a husband. I’m proposing that we have a conversation in a healthy manner in a place where the sun shines and everyone can see, not in some dark secret room.”

I stared intently at Saxen.

“I didn’t misunderstand at all.”

Having said this much, I thought it was slightly strange.

For reasons I couldn’t understand, I could speak more casually to Saxen in a different way than with Raphael.

Somehow I felt comfortable.

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Before I knew it, it had become deep night.

On the way back to the Kairozen mansion in the capital.

While staring intently at the sparkling lights between countless streetlamps, I thought.

Earlier, I wasn’t pondering Prince Saxen’s strange behavior.

‘They say royalty is originally strange. And he felt familiar somehow.’

Even though he was someone I had never encountered in my past life, strangely, it felt like my wariness was crumbling.

I was thinking of someone else rather than Prince Saxen.

Namely, the man who would be waiting for me at the Kairozen mansion, Raphael Kairozen.

And…

As the carriage gradually slowed down, and the familiar Kairozen capital mansion came into view.

There was only one sentence that pierced through my mind.

‘…I have a home to return to too.’

In my first life in Korea, home was the only existence that warmly embraced me.

But since I had no family, it was a bit awkward to turn on the lights alone when I arrived home.

My second life was worse. The Rosemary family wasn’t a home to me. It was a snare.

Only now, after my regression, did I seem to realize the meaning of a place called ‘home.’

In my previous life, and in this life too.

I always needed a home that would wait for me with warm lights on, and the person inside it.

The carriage stopped with a creaking sound.

Seeing the mansion door I had grown accustomed to, I felt it anew.

‘I never had a place to return to.’

Now the fact that Raphael was waiting inside that door.

Though objectively thinking, he probably wasn’t waiting for me to return like a loving family member…

Still, I was okay with that.

Thinking of him as my home, my heart began to brighten little by little.

I got out of the carriage and entered the mansion.

Since it was late, servants with oil lamps lit stood in a row to greet me.

As I greeted them and passed through the corridor, I saw some suspicious person at the end… ah, no, my husband.

“Did you have a good meal with Prince Saxen?”

At the end of the dark, gloomy corridor.

Raphael stood tall.

“Oh my, you startled me.”

My eyes widened.

While I hadn’t expected the manor’s servants to wait for me, I certainly hadn’t expected Raphael to be waiting.

But Raphael’s expression was a bit strange.

“Just the two of you.”

Somehow, strangely…

I stared at him with wide eyes.

“No way, could this be jealousy?”

It is, it’s jealousy!

Of course he’d say ‘absolutely not.’

But Raphael gave no answer.

‘What, what is this?’

Could it be…

“If it happens to be jealousy, please tell me anytime.”

I looked up at Raphael seriously.

Then he whispered low.

“What if it is jealousy?”

“Pardon?”

“I regretted it a bit. …Sending you alone.”

My eyes widened. Raphael grabbed my wrist and whispered as he climbed the stairs.

“Wash up, then come to the bedroom.”

My mind went blank.

Of course it would just be the literal meaning.

…Obviously he wouldn’t do anything like that…!

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