The Military Doctor Excels at Being a Contracted Duchess - Chapter 51

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【Chapter 51】

For all the extensive preparations, the wedding ended quite quickly.

Ebel gazed up at Victor quietly.

Now he’s truly become my ‘husband.’

Victor, meeting her gaze, gently took hold of her wrist.

“Even if this marriage doesn’t become a glamorous story, may it be the most solid choice for each other.”

Those words were a verse from a poem written by Guevre.

When receiving a poem, it’s proper etiquette to respond with a poem in return.

Victor lifted up the prepared ring.

It was a diamond ring large enough to be talked about for ages.

And it was a canary diamond that matched her eye color exactly.

Generally, clear diamonds are valued higher, but at this size, things were different.

Ebel felt the weight on her finger and whispered softly.

“I will become the reason you can return to whenever you waver.”

Reporters were already positioned in place. Their conversation would become an article and spread beyond the south to the capital.

‘Considering there’s an interview scheduled right after the ceremony. He must want to help sell Guevre’s poetry collection.’

Soon Ebel smiled brightly and turned to receive the people’s applause.

She made eye contact with Guevre, who was watching from afar unable to continue speaking, and smiled with happiness more genuine than ever before.

“Now, please throw the bouquet.”

Having somehow dealt with the spider, the colonel returned the bouquet to her.

The ladies stretched out their hands hoping to catch it, and Ebel threw it far away, high into the sky.

Who caught it was anyone’s guess.

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Afterwards, she was completely occupied receiving congratulations from countless people one by one.

She wanted to see where the children were and what they were doing.

Fortunately, Damian had behaved quietly throughout the wedding ceremony without causing any particular disturbance.

“Congratulations!”

“Truly congratulations.”

Having finished greetings with the important people, Ebel simply nodded to the others and went straight to the interview.

“Elroy. When you find Ebel’s Brother, check if he ate properly. And check where he is too.”

“Understood!”

After giving instructions to her close maid, Ebel grabbed her skirt hem and walked hurriedly.

It was fortunate that Ebel’s Brother hadn’t released spiders everywhere.

At the same time.

Damian was sitting on a tree branch, swinging his legs back and forth.

In his small hands was a bottle full of spiders.

Damian tightly screwed on the lid and peered into the bottle before setting it down in a tree hollow.

Actually, Angelm had released spiders in various places besides the one he put in the bouquet.

Damian had simply discovered them with his animal-like senses and caught them one by one.

Since he caught them before the adults noticed, the wedding proceeded safely.

No one knew that Damian was a hero, but the young boy was proud by himself.

‘I acted like the wonderful heroes in the books Ebel read to me. I’m amazing.’

Being quite proud of himself, Damian didn’t cause any particular trouble today.

‘Ebel. Good.’

Before Ebel came, Damian had plenty of things he disliked but not much he liked.

So he was always angry.

He hated that his mother abandoned him, hated not having a father, and hated the nasty old witch who frowned whenever she saw him.

But after meeting Ebel, many things changed.

The gentle voice reading books to him. The fluttering sound of pages turning.

The touch stroking his head.

The voice calling ‘Damian’ affectionately.

Riding horses was fun too, and he liked being held when he asked to be carried.

‘Yes, I like Ebel the most.’

So Ebel being sad won’t do.

He didn’t like fighting with Ebel’s Brother, but he disliked Ebel being startled by spiders even more.

What if Ebel looked at him and said ‘I hate you’?

Damian looked down below and laughed like a cat with a “hehe.” It was a day that made his shoulders rise with pride.

“?”

It was about 30 minutes later when Damian’s eyes caught someone doing something suspicious.

‘He’s a newly hired servant. But why is he watering the tree?’

And it’s water with a foul smell.

Damian, who had been thinking blankly, jumped down from the tree.

He planned to go find the smart Ebel’s Brother and tell him.

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The interview ended briefly.

The reporters persistently asked about what it was like when the two first met and whether it was love at first sight, but since they had already coordinated their stories, they could handle it well.

“Could we know which foreign medical school you graduated from?”

There was such a question too, but the conversation easily ended when Victor showed signs of discomfort.

Having finally gotten about 30 minutes to rest alone, Ebel returned to the bedroom with Dominique, who would be taking on guard duty from today, and collapsed onto the sofa.

Even though it was autumn, it was still hot, and her face was flushed red. Sitting there, she suddenly remembered a certain foolish man who used to cool his hands with ice and press them to her forehead.

‘Like the protagonist of some romance novel.’

Honestly, Ebel wasn’t the type who liked romance novels.

She couldn’t understand why she should read something that wasn’t necessary for living.

How difficult it had been to read classics like Jane Austen’s Emma or Pride and Prejudice.

Each episode left her full of questions because she couldn’t understand it.

‘But now… it’s strange. Anyway, it’s strange.’

Ebel let out a light sigh and pressed the back of her hand to her hot forehead.

She wanted to find a fan, but whether heat stroke was setting in again, she didn’t have the strength to get up.

‘I want to change out of this dress…’

Breathing heavily, Ebel barely managed to reach behind her and loosen the tightly laced corset.

Seeing her breathing become increasingly labored, it was time to be freed from this damned thing.

But her hands, beaded with cold sweat, kept missing the ribbon.

The people she could ask for help were all outside now, and she was alone here.

Dominique was standing outside, but she couldn’t ask an unrelated man to help her untie her corset.

After trying several more times, Ebel decided to just give up. It was hot and stuffy and chaotic…

“Ebel.”

Just then, a most welcome voice was heard.

“Victor…”

“Oh my.”

There was no strength at all in the voice calling his name.

Victor, who had come carrying a bowl, put a slightly frozen grape into her mouth.

“…!”

So cool!

Ebel opened her eyes wide and chewed and swallowed the grape eagerly. Then immediately another grape popped into her mouth.

She knew she should sit up properly and eat with her own hands, but the dizziness wouldn’t subside, so Ebel decided to just stay still and be fed like a child.

“What is… this? How can grapes be so sweet and cool?”

Grape juice filled her mouth completely.

The skin was so tender and soft that she could swallow it without any problem.

The texture that melted smoothly like sherbet was so good that Ebel unconsciously opened her mouth again.

“You seem to have a constitution that easily gets heat stroke, so I had the chef prepare this. I wanted to present it on our wedding day.”

“It’s so delicious.”

“I’m glad. I had them hollow out the ice and place grapes inside. It took quite a while to freeze to this extent, but I’m glad I ordered it.”

“Ah… I really love it. It’s the best dessert.”

Watching her flushed face light up with joy, Victor chuckled low in his throat.

He had thought of the ice grapes when Ebel had suffered from heat stroke before.

It happened to be around the time when fresh grapes were ripening.

He had expected it would make a good gift since Ebel liked sweet and sour fruits and was sensitive to heat, and his prediction was right.

“The children should have some too. Give some to my brother as well.”

“There’s plenty, so I’ll do that.”

Watching someone you care deeply about rejoice is a delightful thing.

The process of thinking about what to do and how to do it for that person, and imagining their happy face, is also wonderful.

Only today did he realize that life could be this magnificent.

“You’ve got some on you.”

When he wiped away the grape juice on her lips with his fingertip, Ebel flinched and trembled.

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