The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151

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One month later.

The Empire’s capital, Highroost.

“Did you hear? The Duke of Bakahun’s daughter succeeded in 【Purification】!”

“Indeed. I heard she received exceptional treatment in the Western Region.”

The summer social season had begun in earnest. With it, nobles began gathering one by one at their townhouses in the capital.

This season’s greatest topic of interest was the Duke of Bakahun’s daughter, Isabela.

“But did you know? After going missing during the civil war, she lived as a commoner and worked as a kitchen maid at the Petanan Count’s household.”

“What? How could that be possible? Living as a commoner? She wasn’t so young that she couldn’t tell up from down when she went missing.”

“Mental confusion… something like that, I suppose. It’s possible. The Northern Region was in complete chaos.”

The nobles clicked their tongues in dismay.

“The Petanan Count’s household says she was literally just like a maid.”

“Without any noble bearing at all… they said she lived quite vulgarly, just from looking at her.”

The rumors spreading about Isabela couldn’t exactly be called favorable.

“I heard Marquis Sears broke the Duke’s curse. And through that, he became acquainted with Lady Brisa as well.”

“Well, they’d get along well.”

One of the nobles smirked.

“Didn’t you say earlier that the Duke’s daughter had symptoms of mental confusion? Those are symptoms quite familiar to Lady Brisa… aren’t they?”

Amid the atmosphere full of malice, Isabela’s first schedule was set. It was a garden tea party at the Petanan Count’s household.

The Petanan Count’s household inviting her was natural in some ways, but among gossipmongers, it was bound to become a laughingstock.

And the Petanan Count’s household had also invited Brisa.

The official reason was to express gratitude for the box of Sears strawberries sent last winter.

However, most people judged it as ‘trying to use Brisa to make Isabela a laughingstock.’

They could naturally bring up the topic of ‘the situation where Isabela, as a maid, went all the way to Sears to get strawberries.’

Thus, one day before the tea party date, rumors arrived that Alpheus, Brisa, and Isabela had arrived at Bakahun’s townhouse.

Along with news that the Sears siblings would also stay in the capital during the summer social season.

“The House of Sears’ townhouse was gambled away by the former Marquis! So I heard they’re staying together at the Bakahun Duke’s townhouse?”

“Well… A mercenary-born marquis and a maid-born duke’s daughter… They suit each other well.”

“In the middle of all that, only Lady Brisa’s reputation seems likely to fall. How pitiful.”

Amid the sharpened malice and the negative public opinion someone was intentionally creating.

Finally, the day of the Petanan Count’s household tea party approached.

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