Resetting Lady - Chapter 122

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01. The lady on the book

Father caught her on the bed with Dulan. And Lord Hyer called Karen to his study separately. Karen felt burdened by the lord’s gaze. Because she was like a child caught doing something wrong. Actually, that was right.

Though the level of wrongdoing wasn’t breaking a flowerpot or something, but trying to strike down with a knife.

‘What excuse should I make?’

Karen felt burdened by the lord’s eyes. Could she insist that she was having ‘that kind of conversation without clothes’ with Dulan? Maybe she could have succeeded. But Karen had a knife in her hand and a gun had rolled out from her skirt. It was a bit much to call it a conversation between an engaged couple.

The lord stares intently at Karen. A long silence flowed in the study.

“Karen.”

“…Yes.”

“It’s been a long time since we talked alone like this.”

“…Yes. It has.”

But the lord couldn’t easily bring up words either. A little more silence continued.

Eventually, it was Karen who started speaking again.

“I was wrong. I won’t fight with Dulan Lloyd like that anymore.”

From now on, I should torture him to death without getting caught for sure. No, I need to get answers first. Karen kept correcting the reversed order of priorities.

Seeing the continued failures, it seems acting during is too much. Then I need to be more patient. When would be the best time to call Dulan?

Should I take him somewhere like the forest instead of home? Or would it be better to try at the temple? I really should cut off his lower parts.

“Karen.”

“…I’m truly sorry.”

I shouldn’t have gotten caught. Karen lowered her eyes. Lord Hyer sighed.

“Fortunately, there are no serious injuries. Apologize to him later.”

“…Yes.”

Though this wasn’t something that could be resolved by mutual apologies, Karen reluctantly answered. Karen couldn’t be satisfied with just killing Dulan. Even cutting his whole body to pieces wouldn’t satisfy her. Even tearing him apart, she wouldn’t stop until she got the answers she wanted. Let’s see how far that sinister man will go.

“Karen.”

“Yes.”

“…Why do you hate Dulan so much? He’s quite… yes, he’s reasonably decent.”

He doesn’t even say he’s a good marriage prospect, even as empty words. Karen felt she could understand the lord a bit now. Karen shrugged and said.

“I know very well that he’s my attending physician.”

“Yes… what?”

The lord is confused. Oh right, I haven’t properly talked with Father at this time. Karen felt frustrated with herself for having to start from the beginning again.

“You said Mother entered into a book. I thought I entered into a book too.”

Karen said one by one the things he hadn’t told her, once again. It’s tedious but ultimately must be done. This is her job. Just like with Nancy.

“Do you believe that I’m living again, that Mother lived again?”

“Of course I believe it.”

But he didn’t immediately stake his life on it.

Anyway, she had no intention of questioning her father further than that.

“Is true love pregnancy and childbirth?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Or do you think that if Mother and I build a family and create a household, everything will vaguely work out?”

Do you believe that building a normal family will solve everything? Are you that naive?

Lord Hyer looks at his daughter quietly. He gets up and takes Karen’s hand.

“I always believe. That belief is that you will eventually fall in love and become happy.”

But not enough to stake his life on it.

“I think Dulan isn’t the true love who will solve my problems.”

Karen doesn’t know why she keeps wanting to defer something to her father. Maybe Catherine didn’t love Lord Hyer. Maybe she just found a suitable provider and got pregnant.

“What meaning does that have?”

The one shocked by that question was her mother’s face rather than herself.

“My memories, not all of them but little by little, are returning.”

“…So you were very shocked.”

No, that’s trivial. I was much more shocked than Father thinks. Father, they say it ends when you get pregnant and give birth. But I’m infertile. So I’m living in an eternally repeating life.

But isn’t it strange? What if Dulan, that man who says he’ll help me, is the one who made me infertile? Aren’t you suspicious?

Karen swallows the questions she can’t voice. She doesn’t know how much to tell Lord Hyer. Even if she tells him everything, how much would he help?

“Do you believe in the repetition of life?”

“…I believe it.”

The lord sighed deeply while touching his forehead.

“Karen.”

“Yes.”

“You didn’t like Dulan much even when you were young.”

“Did I?”

“Yes. Locking the door and releasing the pack of dogs was too harsh.”

But the lord smiled slightly.

“But I understand that you still don’t like Dulan. Let’s consider the engagement never happened.”

“…”

“Let’s slowly look for a suitable groom.”

Time was flowing again before she knew it.

So this is how the broken engagement with Dulan happens this time.

“I’ll speak well to Dulan about it.”

“…Yes.”

Documents were piled on the desk in the study. Karen looks at those documents while thinking about the future times she’ll repeat again. Now Isella and Verdick will come again.

Welcoming Isella, and the estate falling into Verdick’s hands. That kind of year will repeat again.

She was tired of that, so she wanted to get answers quickly even if it meant dying several times early on. But shortcuts don’t seem to work well.

Time flows again.

Karen ultimately couldn’t get answers from Dulan during this time period.

Then what should she do with Isella this time? Did she decide to become friends? Karen searches her memory. What would be good to do with Isella?

“Karen.”

“Yes, Father.”

“How about taking a trip? You’ve been staying at home for too long.”

Karen’s eyes widened. What is Father saying right now?

“With Father?”

“I have too much work, so it’s difficult.”

Then with whom?

Karen thinks.

“Don’t tell me with Dulan…”

“No, I’m not saying to improve your relationship in this situation. Just go and rest. See new things too.”

Ah, I see. So it flows in that direction this time. Karen understood. It wasn’t frequent, but sometimes she had stayed at the vacation home with Isella. That place isn’t bad either.

“With Miss Isella?”

Karen recalled the trip she took with Isella. Accompanying her as Isella’s maid, serving her and being mistreated again. Would that daily routine repeat again? It’s about time for Isella to come now. Will she wear that necklace this time too?

If Nancy were also there, it would be interesting to watch Nancy steal Isella’s necklace. Come to think of it, Isella should have arrived by now. Is she running a bit late this time?

“Miss Isella?”

“Yes. Please let me know when we’ll depart.”

The lord asks with a strange expression.

“Who is Isella?”

“What?”

Karen asked back blankly.

Isella. Isella Evans. Her rival. Verdick Evans’s daughter.

The people who will take the estate. People Father couldn’t possibly not know. Why is Father saying such things?

Karen felt a bit scared. Karen tried to speak urgently but instead spoke with a trembling voice.

“Ver, Verdick… Evans’s daughter.”

No way.

Her heart trembles. Is Isella Evans a fantasy? Am I mentally ill? Is all of that just my dream and am I just a girl who can’t stand her pathetic fiancé?

Anxiety strikes again. The fear and déjà vu repeated many times rises up. What if Father says no such person exists in the world?

“Ah, that man’s daughter?”

But when the lord heard that name, he nodded his head with an “ah.”

“He sent a letter saying he’d come with his daughter… Yes, I think that was the name. But how do you know that name?”

“…Well.”

Because I’ve been with her constantly throughout all my previous lives.

“I… heard it… through rumors.”

The lord looked at Karen’s face and didn’t ask further.

“They won’t be coming. I’ll assign you a maid and coachman, so go stay at a relative’s house.”

“…Yes.”

Something was strange.

Karen asked again.

“Weren’t our household finances… lacking?”

Everything was strange. Karen had never traveled alone before. Their finances had drastically declined. And women rarely traveled alone. Whenever Karen moved, Isella was always beside her, or Dulan or Raymond were there.

“Don’t I lack the means… to travel?”

Lord Hyer shook his head. His expression seemed light.

“The business we were planning to expand has been completely scrapped. There won’t be any strain for the time being.”

“What?”

“Come to think of it, there’s something I’d like you to do for me on your way.”

Isella wasn’t coming.

That was something that had never happened once in 100 years.

Some massive flow was changing.

* * *

“Miss, are we still far from ready?”

“Just a moment, let me finish organizing a little more.”

Karen was reading what her father had asked her to do.

“Let me just finish reading this.”

“I’m all done preparing.”

Nancy comes carrying three large bags. She’s strong as expected. Good strength and good abilities. She’d be a decent maid if only she didn’t have bad habits with her hands. Except for occasionally trying to brainwash me. That last part is a major flaw.

Nancy placed Karen’s small bag on top of her own luggage and asked.

“What do you need to do?”

“I need to go to Verdick Evans and get him to sign the business termination agreement.”

Though there was a change in that Isela Evans and Verdick Evans weren’t coming, it seemed they wouldn’t avoid meeting entirely. But even that was such a huge change that Karen felt bewildered.

“Go directly to Verdick Evans to stamp the seal and sign it. All the discussions are already finished, so you just need to do that.”

Even so, not reading the contract properly made her anxious. Perhaps this time it was an even bigger trap by Verdick.

‘…I can’t find anything.’

But no matter how much Karen read, she couldn’t find any flaws. It was a cleanly written document.

‘…Why on earth?’

Karen knew the overall aspects of the business. For Verdick to withdraw at this time was impossible.

He had tried to continue the business even to the point of taking Karen as his adopted daughter. The Hyer Estate wasn’t a place that produced a lot of money, but it was a place with considerable prestige. And there was the amount he had invested so far. To just abandon all of that?

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