The Male Lead Is Trying To Tame Me With Money - Chapter 106

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106.

I suppressed my desire to lean into Casian’s embrace a little longer and pulled away from his arms.

I had realized just how catastrophic the consequences could be for matters I had somewhat carelessly postponed.

Casian also accepted my actions readily rather than showing his usual reluctance.

He must have felt something too.

If I had disappeared and the original Rozelita had come to this side.

I hadn’t given the original Casian any words or information, but Casian might have conversed with her.

The original her was quite a dependable person, and someone who would seek solutions rather than remain idle when faced with problems.

‘Of course, this place might not have been too bad for the original Rozelita.’

As much as Casian had become cunning, she might have found it comfortable since it required less of her attention.

But I was certain that the current Casian would never be to her taste.

Though I didn’t particularly like the original Casian, hadn’t she loved him enough to risk her life?

Enough to abandon the peace of Salice Barony and overcome all manner of hardships and adversities.

She was a very bold person befitting a ‘protagonist,’ so she might have found some solution on her own even before the family fell into debt.

Since she was someone with a completely different personality from mine.

As I thought of the original Rozelita and opened the slightly warm scroll, there was a different kind of message than usual.

That is, it was in the exact same format as the first one that told me to resolve the trials.

As soon as I read the scroll, I frowned immediately.

These crazy bastards!

If they caused an accident, they should think about helping me instead of giving me penalties.

At the same time, I became suspicious.

‘Don’t tell me the worlds mixing just now was also shock therapy?’

Because they thought I wouldn’t listen quickly if they just sent it by message?

I’m not someone who’s that negligent about my duties, nor do I have any intention of becoming a fraud.

As I thought this and looked around, I could see text that faintly read ‘…’

I hurriedly opened the corresponding summary.

Unlike when I was thrown into the original story, there was no hesitation.

Because the one next to me now was Casian, whom I knew very well.

However, unlike the properly displayed content above, the part that tried to explain the reason for the strange phenomenon was corrupted as if there was an error.

Still, the lower part was normally intact, so I could check it without difficulty.

After reading through to the end, I realized.

The real penalty for not properly resolving this series of phenomena wasn’t me becoming a fraud.

Though the pot-stirring slave hadn’t stated it outright, that part was rather like telling me they could somehow prevent it.

‘…Though that doesn’t make my determination to resolve it any weaker.’

After directly experiencing the worlds mixing, I felt I understood even more.

The fact that this was a terrible disaster.

‘So this scroll isn’t meant to threaten me, but rather was sent to guide me.’

In a way that would be easy for me to understand.

Even though I pulled the shawl Casian had wrapped around me tighter, a chill crept in eerily.

My hands trembled involuntarily, not by my own will.

Of course, it was something that could be resolved.

It was a matter of putting my neck on the line in a life-threatening crisis and surviving.

Though I’d experienced near-death situations, I’d overcome them several times so far, so this time too—

“Rose.”

At that moment, a large hand firmly grasped mine as if to reassure me.

“…Ian.”

Despite responding calmly, I was truly scared.

The fear I felt when I first realized I was the protagonist of an angsty novel had been softened by Salice Barony and my parents.

The terror I felt at being pushed to center stage when I came up to the Capital had been blown away by my demon-like boss and heavy workload, unlike in the original.

But this bone-chilling sensation made me feel more exhausted than ever before.

“It’s okay, Rose.”

But Casian spoke to me with trusting eyes despite my pathetic state.

“You’ll do well, and I’ll help you too.”

Even though all the pretenses that had surrounded me seemed to have crumbled, he whispered to me without a trace of doubt.

“So what can I do for you?”

Telling me to use him, as always.

*

That day, I told Casian everything I had been thinking without hiding anything.

As he had always done, he listened to my words without casting even a shadow of doubt that they were absurd.

And as I had suspected, Casian said he had met the original Rozelita.

“She looked confused too, though probably not as much as I was.”

Sitting on the garden bench, Casian spoke while comforting me.

“At first she asked me several things as if testing me, then soon honestly sought my cooperation.”

His face looked a bit displeased.

“It was a strange feeling. There was clearly someone with your appearance before my eyes, but she looked at me with different eyes than yours.”

“What kind of eyes were they?”

At my words, Casian gently stroked my hair as he spoke.

“The complete opposite of how you trust and rely on me now.”

At those words, I was able to smile faintly.

At the thought that even though the original Rozelita loved Casian, she still couldn’t trust him deeply.

Of course she would have trusted him in some aspects, but when it came to dealing with people or devising schemes, she probably couldn’t trust him as much as I did.

“So were you offended?”

“I can’t express it with such simple words.”

At my question that seemed to echo his sentiment, Casian shook his head firmly.

“She wasn’t you. That one fact alone…”

Casian stopped speaking as if emotions had surged up for a moment.

Soon he looked straight at me, sending me a desperate gaze as if he didn’t want to lose me.

“You really have no idea what thoughts I had during that not-so-long time.”

“Why wouldn’t I know.”

To him who spoke with certainty, I leaned closer and shook my head.

“I felt it too, so how could I not know.”

Because Casian Artez, who wasn’t cunning and only had decent martial prowess, might have been cool as a novel protagonist but wasn’t at all appealing to me.

Casian hesitated for a moment at my words.

“May I ask you something?”

At his hesitant appearance after revealing all his feelings, I quietly nodded.

The anxious feelings I’d had until just moments ago had faded thanks to Casian expressing his honest feelings about my absence.

So I too wanted to tell him, even if it might be embarrassing and somewhat unseemly.

“I was going to run away if I couldn’t return.”

“…That’s.”

“My promise to stay by your side was because it was next to the Ian who’s here.”

The boss who was shrewd and thorough, and who steadily filled the space beside me without avoiding desk work, was only the one before my eyes.

I wanted to convey that feeling to him more effectively than anything else.

“…You really have no idea how relieved I am right now.”

He accepted my emotions without leaving a single bit behind.

I carefully leaned into Casian’s embrace and offered a small rebuttal.

“Don’t make assumptions about my feelings, because I was also comforted by Ian’s words.”

*

Thanks to calming our anxious hearts through conversation, we two were able to discuss earnestly what to do next.

I pointed to the phrase about forced progression and shared several theories, and before long, those theories became reality.

Among the remaining three trials, the subject of the one I thought had the lowest possibility revealed their name before us.

“…Look at this, they really have a nasty personality, don’t they?”

Whether they’re the mastermind behind this world, or the one who orchestrated this whole affair from the shadows.

Either way.

My supervisor who had reviewed the application clicked his tongue and spoke.

“I was hoping that side would get their personnel reinforced first, and I as well.”

And instead of worrying, the two of us shared our usual cunning smiles.

While discussing the thoroughly efficiency-focused plan to exploit this application for the advisor recruitment exam.

And so, with body, mind, and intellect alike.

The day of upheaval dawned before us who had made every preparation.

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