Resetting Lady - Chapter 217

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Guiz planned to make one of his subordinates Karen’s husband. He wouldn’t make the same mistake as with Catherine. Karen’s husband candidate had to be of even lower status, a man who had absolutely no charm whatsoever.

He planned to grant a title without territory to one of his corpse handlers and have him marry Karen. He could gain his subordinate’s loyalty while ensuring she could never escape to her husband’s territory using marriage as an excuse—killing two birds with one stone. It would be even better if the man was violent too.

“Who is that man?”

“…Sir Sion Electra, Your Majesty.”

But the man next to Isella was a young knight with clean skin and a solid build. He wasn’t the type of man Guiz would give to Karen. Guiz searched his memory. He was a knight quite popular with the ladies in high society.

“Karen Hyer, have you decided on the husband you want?”

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

Unlike with Catherine, Guiz intended to make Karen walk a different path. When it came to Catherine, Guiz had chosen a man with a gentle disposition out of consideration for her. His appearance was decent too.

But Catherine betrayed him and fled to Hyer. He planned to pair Karen with a filthy man. If Karen tried to choose another man like Catherine did. If she tried to escape. Guiz’s smile deepened.

“I shall respect your choice.”

In life, people sometimes wonder what would have happened if they had made different choices at crossroads in the past. They also sometimes regret their actions. Prince Guiz occasionally regrets not killing Catherine, who had betrayed him.

“I shall permit you to marry whoever you choose.”

If Karen chose that handsome knight and harbored cunning thoughts of fleeing to him, just like Catherine. Then shouldn’t the daughter pay for Catherine’s share as well?

“I am grateful for Your Majesty’s grace.”

Karen slightly bent her knee to thank Guiz, then smiled as she surveyed the banquet hall. Her gaze finally stopped on Isella and Sion.

Guiz didn’t miss that. But Karen didn’t call out Sion Electra’s name.

“Please summon Dulan Lloyd, who is not present here.”

Prince Guiz felt a slight freshness at his predictions being wrong one after another, but more than that, he felt displeasure. It seemed his plans were going awry, and confirming that his thoughts kept being wrong was an irritating matter.

“Who is this Dulan Lloyd again?”

“Karen Hyer’s former fiancé.”

“Haha, well now… How brazen. Are you planning to escape with your lover’s cooperation?”

“…I understand what you’re thinking, but it’s not like that, Your Majesty.”

Karen even shook her head while denying it, but Prince Guiz didn’t believe her. Looking at the paper his servant handed him, the engagement was broken just before coming of age, right before coming up to the capital. Having been close as relatives since childhood, whatever form it took, they had an intimate relationship. A relationship more intimate than anyone else’s.

“I will not permit it.”

“It’s not the kind of relationship Your Majesty thinks. He is a doctor who… can cure Your Majesty.”

“You want me to entrust what the royal physicians couldn’t cure to your fiancé?”

“…If Your Majesty entrusts your body to him… you will surely… be cured.”

“Those are completely untrustworthy words.”

Prince Guiz tapped his forehead, finding it amusing to toy with Karen’s clumsy schemes. Since he had decided to kill her anyway, he felt like playing with her a bit more. She struggled to live and spouted nonsense, but it was so inconsistent like this. How should he make this foolish young thing cry?

“Please believe me, Your Majesty. There probably isn’t anyone in this world who knows as much about infertility as he does.”

“He may be called a prodigy, but he’s just a 25-year-old priest—how much could he know? The doctors around me are people who have accumulated several times his knowledge. And you want me to trust an unverified priest’s words and receive treatment? He’s someone who could easily toy with my lifeline. This seems like part of your process to take revenge on me.”

“…So, um… Your Majesty loves me…”

“Ha, haha, hahahaha.”

Prince Guiz giggled as he laughed. She’s still saying such things.

What amusing words. Prince Guiz laughed as if gasping for breath, then abruptly stopped laughing. Karen faced him with an expressionless face.

“So you’d better not expect that priest Dulan Lloyd to give you freedom. Do you think I’ll quietly watch that spectacle? Do you think I’ll just leave you alone when you ask your lover for help?”

“Lover…”

Karen’s face was dark.

“That’s why I’m saying the person I love is Your Majesty.”

And she continued speaking somewhat through gritted teeth.

“You’ll know when you see Dulan.”

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Dulan accepted the letter from the royal palace that designated him.

The intense curiosity that had seized him simply wouldn’t let him go. Karen Hyer was calling for him. She had designated him as her husband. What could she be thinking?

Catherine chose Lord Hyer as her husband. Because she was carrying his child. But Dulan knew that Catherine didn’t have absolutely no feelings for Lord Hyer either. Catherine maintained a decent relationship with Lord Hyer until her death.

Lord Hyer loved her, and she willingly accepted his love.

Karen had designated Dulan as her husband.

What did she expect from him?

‘Why?’

Dulan wanted to ask their past selves.

What had happened between Karen and himself? What kind of relationship had they built? He was curious about the times he couldn’t know as his current self. Perhaps. Perhaps.

“Dulan Lloyd has arrived, Your Majesty.”

“Let him in.”

Dulan stepped into the splendid room.

Though tension, anticipation, and anxiety were mixed together, he couldn’t refuse the prince’s summons.

“Raise your head.”

“…Yes.”

Dulan raised his head.

In the splendid room, two people were looking down at Dulan. Dulan’s breath caught. Karen seen up close was truly, overwhelmingly beautiful in such a dazzling way. It was incomparable to her appearance at the church that he had seen from afar.

Dulan felt crushed by the splendor that was even intimidating. He felt like he was becoming miserable. And next to Karen sat a cruel-looking middle-aged man who was watching him.

“…Du, Du, Dulan Lloyd… it is.”

Dulan barely managed to introduce himself. Still, he had come here. To this place…

“Keu, pu, keuhahahaha! This is truly a masterpiece! Yes, Karen, I should apologize to you.”

“I told you so.”

“Even so, I didn’t know it would be to that extent!”

Prince Guiz laughed like a madman. And after a long while, he said to Karen.

“Good. I’ll let you take that thing as your husband.”

That night after confirming Dulan’s face, Prince Guiz called Dulan separately. Dulan, sitting in Guiz’s drawing room, looked like his already pale face might turn blue.

“Have a seat. Your feelings must not be very comfortable.”

“I, I… I am Your Majesty’s faithful servant.”

“Everyone on this land should be.”

Guiz raised his hand to call a servant.

“Let’s talk over a drink.”

Red wine was poured into wine glasses.

“Don’t worry so much. I didn’t put anything in it.”

“…No, sir.”

The red wine was wrapped around spider-like fingers. Dulan slowly drank the wine in front of Guiz. Despite it being quite expensive liquor, he couldn’t taste anything.

That was understandable. What business would an ordinary priest have meeting Prince Guiz in audience?

Dulan, occupation: priest. And from Albern Monastery, also qualified as a doctor.

The next lord of Hyer Estate. Karen’s fiancé.

“I apologize for laughing so loudly earlier.”

“…No, no sir.”

“No, it was too unexpected so I ended up laughing, but it was certainly rude behavior toward you.”

He raised his hand meaning not to argue further. But in that situation, he couldn’t have endured without laughing. When he heard about Karen’s former fiancé, who was also the next Lord Hyer, Guiz’s head went cold. It was a situation repeating Catherine’s past choice.

It was obvious that Karen was scheming, but this choice was so pathetic that instead of being cute, it was irritating. He had definitely thought a smooth and gentle-looking young man resembling the young Lord Hyer would appear.

A priest with medical qualifications—wasn’t it obvious? She had chosen someone who would be on her side. But there was something Guiz hadn’t expected.

“It was too unexpected, you see.”

“…”

A man who looked like a corpse.

He was lacking in many ways, both in appearance and attitude. Guiz became more interested in Dulan. More precisely, in his emotions.

“What kind of relationship do you have with Karen Hyer?”

“We’re relatives… related.”

“I heard you were also former fiancés.”

“We weren’t… anything that significant. It was just because I’m the next lord… just in case, that’s all.”

“You don’t need to tremble like that. It’s not like I’m trying to kill you for being my mistress’s husband.”

If he had resembled Lord Hyer, I might have vented some anger. The wine goes down his throat. The aroma and taste were exceptional today.

Guiz had seen many people like Dulan Lloyd.

People who had nothing but couldn’t give up their greed. Especially men who harbored anger toward women. People who couldn’t escape from anger and lust. Guiz both despised and liked such people. Because they were good pawns to use and discard.

Dulan remained expressionless, but Guiz knew. That although he constrained his lust with priest’s robes, he was lusting after Karen. A woman who had become a powerful man’s mistress and was now harder to break. So he would desire her even more.

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