The Circumstances of Being Chosen as the Villainess’s Favorite - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120

Why am I even having such thoughts!

Then Lady Claudius looked at me with concern.

“Larit, your face is red. Are you alright?”

“O-of course. It must be because it’s hot inside the department store.”

“That’s strange, it’s not hot enough for that though?”

Lady Claudius tilted her head in confusion.

And my face kept getting hotter and hotter…

“Let’s go out for now. I think something other than clothing would be better.”

I felt like my face was going to burst at this rate.

I hurriedly dragged Lady Claudius outside.

Just then.

‘Ah.’

I suddenly stopped in my tracks.

I saw a wristwatch displayed beyond a glass case.

It had a classic design made entirely of silver metal, and the watch face was a light sky blue that reminded me of Lord Claudius’s eye color.

‘Come to think of it… Lord Claudius always wears a wristwatch, doesn’t he?’

Perhaps because he’s always pressed for time, he tends to check the time quite frequently.

More importantly, if it’s a wristwatch…

‘He can always carry it with him in his daily life.’

Every time he looks at that watch, even if just for a brief moment, if he could think of me.

If only he could remember the fact that I am Lord Claudius’s lover…

“…”

At that moment, I made up my mind.

“Evangeline, let’s look at the watches for a moment.”

I stepped into the store.

* * *

That evening.

“Stay at our house tonight.”

Lady Claudius quickly grabbed me as I was about to return to the Ansi Family Townhouse.

“We should spend Saint Laila’s feast morning together. Right?”

Unable to resist those sparkling eyes, I decided to stay overnight at the Claudius Family Estate.

Well, I had to give Lord Claudius his gift anyway.

Lady Claudius was extremely excited.

“Actually, there’s something I really wanted to do with Larit.”

“What is it?”

Lady Claudius pointed to a large, still bare fir tree installed in the drawing room.

“That tree. Let’s decorate it together, okay?”

It seems she had been planning to decorate the tree with me from the beginning.

The box placed on the floor was filled with decorative items for the tree, including stars, ornaments, and wreaths.

Lady Claudius picked up a sparkling ornament and smiled faintly.

“When I was little, we used to decorate the tree together during Saint Laila’s feast.”

When she was little.

From those words and that hazy smile.

I realized that Lady Claudius was reminiscing about the past when the previous Duke and Duchess were still alive.

“…Is that so?”

“Yes. But after my parents passed away, Her Brother was so busy.”

Lady Claudius shrugged and hung the ornament on the tree.

Unlike Lady Claudius’s subdued voice, the ornament sparkled beautifully, holding light within it.

“So I had to decorate the tree all by myself…”

Lady Claudius soon smiled brightly at me.

“This feast, I’m really happy that I can spend it with Larit.”

Hearing those words.

I suddenly recalled the childhood portrait of Lady Claudius I had seen before.

I imagined that small, angel-like child hanging decorations on the tree with a dejected expression.

“…”

Oh, what should I do.

Our Lady Claudius, how can I bear seeing her so pitiful?

My heart feels like it’s going to tear apart…

“I’m also happy that I can spend the feast with Evangeline.”

I answered in the brightest voice possible.

At my response, the tips of Lady Claudius’s ears turned bright red.

“Well, at the top of the tree.”

Lady Claudius deliberately turned her head, pretending to be nonchalant.

“We absolutely must put a star decoration. That’s the key point.”

“Is that so?”

“Of course. These days, many people don’t put star decorations, but I think it looks prettiest with a star.”

We chatted warmly while busily moving our hands.

And so, as the sun was slowly setting.

Lord Claudius finally returned home.

“Her Brother, you’re back?”

“You’re home?”

Lady Claudius and I, each holding decorations in our hands, greeted Lord Claudius side by side.

Lord Claudius, who was taking off his coat to hand to a servant, spotted me and habitually curved his eyes.

“Ah, Lady Ansi.”

After the incident at the charity party.

Lord Claudius and I had become lovers, but even so, hardly anything had changed.

Lord Claudius was still busy with work.

Lady Claudius and I continued to go out and have fun together as before.

Still, if I had to point out what had changed, even slightly…

‘That gaze.’

Wherever I am, whatever I’m doing.

When I suddenly look up, I meet eyes with Lord Claudius, who is quietly watching me.

Each time, Lord Claudius gives me a gentle eye-smile.

That single brief smile makes my heart flutter so much that I’ve been seriously worried about my heart health lately…

“Her Brother, come here for a moment.”

Lady Claudius roughly pulled Lord Claudius’s arm toward the drawing room.

Then, with a proud expression, she pointed to the fir tree that Lady Claudius and I had painstakingly decorated.

“How is it, isn’t it pretty!”

Lady Claudius raised her nose triumphantly.

“Larit and I decorated it together!”

The fir tree, adorned with various decorations hanging all around it, was objectively quite splendid.

But Lord Claudius’s gaze wasn’t on the fir tree, but somewhere else.

Lord Claudius seemed to be quietly looking at me, then,

“Yes, it’s pretty.”

He smiled softly.

My face instantly flushed, so I pretended to be distracted and fiddled with the tree decorations with my hands.

“…”

Lady Claudius looked back and forth between Lord Claudius and me with an annoyed expression, then,

“Enough, enough.”

He shook his head from side to side as if he was fed up.

“Let’s go eat dinner.”

Then he strode off toward the dining room first.

“Evangeline, wait a moment!”

“I wasn’t looking at Lady Ansi, no, I did see her, but still…!”

Lord Claudius and I, who had been watching her retreating figure with embarrassed faces, hurriedly followed after Lady Claudius.

* * *

Dinner was absolutely wonderful.

Especially in commemoration of Saint Laila’s feast day, there was a roasted chicken dish stuffed with various nuts and fruits.

It melted so smoothly on my tongue that I thought it was cotton candy instead of chicken…

After finishing our meal like that.

We each took a cup of tea and sat around in the drawing room.

“Just one cup of coffee, please.”

Lord Claudius, holding documents in his hands as always, spoke to the maid.

I narrowed my eyes.

“You’re going to drink coffee again?”

At my sharp voice, Lord Claudius flinched and stiffened his shoulders as he turned to look at me.

“I’ve been feeling this for a while, but it seems like you drink too much coffee, Lord Claudius. It’s bad for your health.”

“L-Lady Ansi?”

“You collapsed from overwork before, and now again…”

I was rattling off complaints when I suddenly realized my mistake.

‘Hmm, was I too stern?’

There was no need to speak so sharply.

At the same time, Lord Claudius’s eyes curved gently.

“Are you worried about me?”

“…”

I swallowed nervously.

‘What should I do.’

Every time Lord Claudius looks at me like that so intently, my heart keeps fluttering…

“Oh, really!”

At the same time, Lady Claudius looked disgusted.

“There are other people here too, people watching! You know?”

Lord Claudius and I, startled, hurriedly moved apart.

Lady Claudius raised her voice again.

“You two being all lovey-dovey, fine! It’s fine! But do it when I’m not here!”

Then she glared at Lord Claudius with sparkling eyes.

“Especially you, Her Brother! Don’t look at Larit with those eyes!”

“What kind of eyes?”

“You know, those greasy eyes like you’ve eaten a hundred sticks of butter!”

Lady Claudius even shuddered her shoulders as if she was dying from the greasiness.

But honestly, I was a little dissatisfied with Lady Claudius’s reaction.

‘That’s not right.’

Lord Claudius’s eyes aren’t like he’s eaten butter, but rather gentle, kind, and warm…

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