The Male Lead Is Trying To Tame Me With Money - Chapter 167

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Side Story 01-2.

Autumn was slowly coming to an end, and the sky looked as if sleet would start falling at any moment.

It had already been about a month since Rozelita Salice had sent her letter, excited at the thought that she could finally offer even a small amount of help to her benefactor.

Casian Artez realized he had to finally accept the truth.

‘…That I was rejected.’

One day, two days after sending his reply. Even up to a week later, he had been filled with hope.

While waiting for her kind response, he had even harbored expectations that perhaps, if things went very well, he might become somewhat close friends with her.

‘Ian, is it really Ian?’

If she would just look at me and smile brightly, that alone would make me happy for a lifetime…

But as the days passed, Casian’s mood gradually sank.

Unable to accept reality, he had sent an informant to the Salice Domain again and received a report just a little while ago.

‘She’s saying all sorts of scammers are coming around these days, and she’s firmly instructed the villagers that when such letters arrive, they should never be tempted, never even open them, and burn them immediately…’

The informant spoke while barely managing to suppress the corners of his mouth.

Casian couldn’t bring himself to blame him.

After sending the informant away and thinking quietly, he had no choice but to admit that he had arbitrarily imagined the little lady’s personality as soft and gentle.

‘You know, Ian? Proposals that are too good usually have traps. You can’t just trust them blindly.’

He picked up his pen while recalling her words one by one.

Though he had sent it with good intentions and kindness, there was no way the little lady would readily accept such unconditional generous help.

Then he had no choice but to offer something else that might tempt her.

He couldn’t deny that his hand had hesitated several times while writing job duties that she might like.

“…Is this really repaying a favor?”

Bringing the little lady to this jungle-like Imperial Palace—wasn’t this actually fulfilling his own selfish desires under the guise of helping?

Even after Casian had written and completed both the job posting and the contract with working conditions, he hesitated a little.

But his contemplation didn’t last long.

‘Why take responsibility for everything? People should take responsibility for what they do themselves!’

No matter how he thought about it, he wondered who was worrying about whom.

After the posting went out and some time passed.

Casian Artez was finally able to meet his little lady, whom he had drawn countless times only in his mind.

Unlike before, she seemed somewhat tense and fearful, but there was clear determination in her beautiful green eyes.

Casian calmed his heart that seemed ready to run to her with joy and slowly welcomed her.

“I’ve been waiting for such a long time. Miss Salice.”

While suppressing his emotions and putting them into his greeting of reunion.

*

“So you manipulated me like that?”

Rozelita showed an incredulous expression at Casian’s long reminiscence filled with sincerity.

“It’s unfair, Rose was the one who made me that way.”

“That’s also my fault?”

At that reaction, Casian drooped his eyebrows and made a pitiful face.

But Casian Artez spoke to Rozelita with a truly innocent heart.

“I really intended to treat you like a gentleman.”

“Hmm?”

“I changed myself as you wished. Think carefully. During the interview, and certainly during the early days when you were working, I treated you very faithfully and politely.”

He whispered while holding Rozelita’s hand tightly and meeting her gaze.

The story of how she completely changed the atmosphere of the Imperial Palace was only just beginning.

*

A new advisor had entered the Winter Palace.

When people heard that the protagonist was the young lady of the Salice Baron family, the palace people quietly put their heads together and soon reached a conclusion.

A young lady from an estate of unknown location—she must not be aware of the situation and jumped in just seeing the status of prince.

Some clicked their tongues, some pitied her, and others even placed bets.

“Let’s bet on how long this Winter Palace advisor will last, starting from 10 silver.”

The organizers were the advisors of the Summer Palace.

They had great privilege consciousness about being advisors to the First Prince, who was likely to be the next emperor.

Not only was it difficult to find advisors for the Winter Palace, but even when they came, they couldn’t endure long and left quickly—their harassment and disregard also played a part.

Of course, the biggest reason was Empress Scaletti’s scheming.

Therefore, the Winter Palace knights who heard their excited chatter had no choice but to grit their teeth.

They were the ones who had shared life and death with Casian and traversed all the rough battlefields.

Knowing better than anyone how much effort the Prince had made and how much he had suffered, they always wished for him to be even a little more comfortable.

But to see them acting so arrogantly while doing easy work under the protection of the wicked Empress Scaletti!

Please, somehow let the newly hired advisor be a strong person who could endure that harassment!

They didn’t want to see those people so triumphant anymore.

But the Winter Palace knights’ thoughts had no choice but to melt away and flow into water the moment they first met Rozelita.

“Hello, I’m Rozelita Salice.”

This young lady, like the ripples of a spring dawn, was supposed to stand against the Summer Palace advisors who used all sorts of petty tricks and Empress Scaletti?

With her delicately pretty face and gentle impression, plus her small stature like the palace maids—to those who had only seen rough men on battlefields, Rozelita seemed like someone who couldn’t fight anything.

Moreover, knowing their lord Casian’s temperament, they had no choice but to abandon their conscienceless hope that she would endure.

Of course, Casian Artez was definitely not a bad person.

But after returning alive from his childhood, the Prince had abandoned his soft parts and armed those parts with inhuman thoroughness.

The superficial working conditions and his attitude toward subordinates weren’t malicious.

It was just that he had so much work and the surrounding environment was so pressuring that the level he demanded from his subordinates was higher than other places.

‘How can that delicate young lady endure life in the Winter Palace…’

‘Let’s help her avoid harassment at least. What circumstances led her to such a terrible workplace…’

The knights were knowledgeable people, so they subtly protested to Casian.

There was no need to create a terrible chapter of life for such a fragile flower-like young lady from a greenhouse.

When he was someone who endured well by himself!

‘Rather than bringing in an advisor and making him suffer, it would be better for me to work a little more. After all, His Majesty the Emperor does give me a manageable amount of work.’

Hadn’t he said this just a few months ago!

But to completely ignore those words and hire someone who looked like a princess who lived on dew from another world—it was truly unconscionable.

“Your Highness, we know you’re struggling and that we’re of little help with desk work, but we’ll try to join our strength.”

“We’re worried that a precious young lady will only suffer and return to the capital with terrible memories. Is there a need for such people to increase?”

However, even at the knights’ words, Casian only tilted his head with a lukewarm expression.

The knights cursed their lord’s devilish nature with one heart and mind.

But it didn’t even take two months for their considerate prejudices to shatter.

“…The salary came on time?”

“Even the strangely missing allowances are all there?”

The wages that were usually delayed for at least three months were paid cleanly and on time without any omissions.

“Huh, delay interest, what’s this?”

The amount was even slightly more, and when everyone in the knight order—no, all the Winter Palace servants—fell into confusion, one knight returning from shift duty shouted in surprise.

“A-Advisor Salice completely turned the Rose Palace upside down?!”

“…Huh?!”

That fragile and delicate advisor did what, where, and how…?

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