The Male Lead Is Trying To Tame Me With Money - Chapter 168

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Side Story 01-3.

Until that point, everyone in the Winter Palace had simply thought Rozelita was admirable for always greeting them with a gentle smile and conducting herself with dignity.

If she could just endure a few more weeks, she would become the longest-serving Winter Palace advisor to date, so they sincerely thought that making it this far alone deserved applause.

But she turned the Rose Palace upside down?

That place was even the palace of Empress Scaletti, who hated Casian like a thorn in her eye!

“…That demon-like His Majesty! Just because he’s leaving soon, did he use that fragile Salice Advisor as a shield when dealing with Her Majesty the Empress?”

“What if she suffers great emotional wounds! He must have had the wicked idea of solving everything with the money he earned from war!”

“What if we all get branded as bad people too? Shouldn’t we go comfort her?”

All the Winter Palace servants who reached this conclusion prepared protests for Casian and comfort for Rozelita.

But as soon as they visited the office, they were dumbfounded by a scene they had never witnessed before.

“Hmm, so now you’re telling me to go to the Sun Palace?”

“Of course Your Majesty should go. I solved the Rose Palace issue, so Your Majesty needs to handle the Sun Palace side. That way future work will proceed smoothly.”

“But that seems like stealing your credit.”

“What does that matter? If Your Majesty uses that to downwardly adjust my salary increase rate, then I’ll think differently.”

“You even prepared all the documents so I can’t back out?”

“Work must be done properly. Verbal contracts are still contracts, but I know very well that they’re unstable enough to be swayed by the presence or absence of power.”

From the mouth of someone so delicate and seemingly ready to melt away like snow, words flowed without a tremor or moment’s hesitation.

They nearly popped their eyes out at the sharp eloquence they could never have imagined during casual greetings.

They nearly dropped their jaws at the sight of Casian listening to Rozelita’s words with apparent pleasure.

Could our terrible, demon-like superior really make such generous eyes…?

Even though he’s being scolded, why does he look so happy?

When everyone was confused, Rozelita noticed and addressed them.

“What’s wrong, everyone? Are there people whose salaries weren’t paid again? Or are there people whose delayed interest calculations for overdue salaries came up short?”

Her spirited yet businesslike voice showed the determination to immediately go overturn the Rose Palace again.

The Royal Guards, who could distinguish opponents’ strength and weakness with animal instinct from their long battlefield experience, finally realized.

That Rozelita’s beautiful appearance and usual gentle demeanor had fooled even their instincts.

They immediately straightened their postures and properly showed respect for that strength and gratitude.

“No, Salice Advisor! We only came to express our thanks!”

“Thanks to you, I can buy my child’s entrance gift!”

At this sight, Rozelita’s eyes widened before she smiled gently.

It was such a beautiful smile, truly like a precious princess from some book, that the Royal Guards nearly lost strength in their shoulders again.

“Thanks? Rather, I should apologize for not properly taking care of things until now.”

“No! Thank you!”

At their disciplined greeting, Rozelita shook her head once more.

And behind them as they left, Casian muttered somewhat sulkily.

“You’re really only cold to me.”

All the Winter Palace servants honestly thought:

Your Majesty the Prince, she works as an advisor without being intimidated at all, yet you ask for so much.

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The gratitude that settled in the Winter Palace servants gradually changed from respect to awe.

Making their desire to protect her seem pointless, she easily evaded or countered the schemes of the Summer Palace and Rose Palace.

“Those Summer Palace advisor bastards got properly hit, right? Salice Advisor took overwhelming first place in this work performance announcement!”

“The Summer Palace First Aide was muttering that he only fell behind in performance because he had fewer working days?”

“Losers always have a lot to say.”

Until Rozelita came, the Winter Palace was a place of enduring cold and hardship, just like its name.

But the warm breeze Rozelita brought made courage bloom among them.

Not only that, even the administrators she selected didn’t back down in minor arguments in the officials’ dining hall, having received some kind of training.

After Rozelita entered, the atmosphere of dealing with the Winter Palace within the palace had changed considerably.

“You really do exaggerate daily life. That’s why despite the gap in months of service, there’s not much difference in performance between you and us.”

“The difference between our Summer Palace First Aide’s performance, who works three days a week, and our Winter Palace advisor’s performance announcement is natural. But when that multiple is about 10 times, are you converting that to time too?”

“Even when the Rose Palace petty excluded all results outside regular working hours when calculating performance charts, it was still like that, right?”

“Ah, are you trying to talk about the greatness of your family now? Wouldn’t that be more embarrassing? Our Salice Advisor is from what you call an Empire corner baron family’s daughter, yet performed much better than those who received great and noble education.”

“Do we need to spoon-feed you an explanation of which is more impressive? It can’t be helped if that’s the Summer Palace’s level.”

The atmosphere of overcoming difficulties with humility and patience when facing the Summer Palace or Rose Palace had completely disappeared.

These were people who had looked somewhat scared with faces like ‘Is this that Winter Palace?’ when they first entered the Winter Palace, but in less than three months of work, they had become the palace’s best combatants.

Moreover, when opponents tried to find fault, Rozelita would search palace regulations and legitimately write up reports citing palace harassment and various other reasons.

Thanks to this, existing Winter Palace people once again came to respect and appreciate their new advisor.

The fear and shrinking toward other palaces that had naturally existed in their hearts was melting away like winter snow meeting warm sunlight.

The previous Winter Palace without Rozelita Salice?

They could never return to those times.

If the advisor quit, they would definitely submit their resignations too.

“Your Majesty, you must treat the advisor well.”

“I brought wine made by our family because I heard the advisor likes alcohol. We selected the finest fruits and my father with 50 years of experience personally made it, so the taste will be exceptional!”

“I asked my brother going north to get the best coffee beans! Won’t this reduce one of the advisor’s worries?”

“Your Majesty, can’t you work more directly? It seems like only the advisor is suffering!”

At such attitudes from the servants, Casian smiled bitterly while also feeling puzzled.

“Why don’t you give them directly?”

“What if the advisor gets scared and runs away because we look fierce!”

“We heard the advisor likes pretty things.”

“We think the prettiest person in the Winter Palace is the advisor, and Your Majesty comes next, so decorating Your Majesty more has higher odds of success.”

“Isn’t it good to use the most efficient tactics, as Your Majesty has said many times?”

They firmly believed it was truly rational judgment.

Moreover, it was because day by day, Casian and Rozelita’s relationship seemed to grow closer and more intimate.

Until now, Casian had taken an attitude of disliking others approaching him.

While cherishing the Royal Guards, he drew lines preventing the usual battlefield physical contact.

Rather than feeling disappointed about this, the Royal Guards felt sorry for him.

His growth process was so difficult that he had no choice but to be wary, they thought.

However, perhaps because she was an advisor who stayed close and worked together for long periods, he never pushed away Rozelita’s touch.

Far from it, he would shake his body to show his loosened tie as if asking her to fix it, or when his hair was disheveled, he would naturally tilt his head and make the ridiculous unseemly gesture of asking her to arrange it.

Moreover, when Rozelita’s hair or clothes became disheveled, he would casually tidy them for her.

Perhaps because of this, after Rozelita came to the Winter Palace, they often had to disguise themselves as couples or engaged pairs for various work purposes, and the two looked like they were truly in such a relationship without any sense of discord.

Of course, Casian had a lot to say about this too.

Truly, he hadn’t intended to act so spoiled toward Rozelita.

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“Are you going to continue working in such a troublesome way, Your Majesty?”

That was about a month after Rozelita entered the Winter Palace.

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