The Reason I Got Engaged to My Ex-Boyfriend - Chapter 59

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Episode 59

In truth, the amount of work Chad was currently handling could be described as nothing short of torturous.

Not only did he have his duties as the Emperor’s aide, but he was also dealing with the Security Bureau who kept teasing about whether to give him overtime or not, and he was even handling the aftermath of the Observation Tower lighting accident.

Adnet thought back over the past three days.

‘Has he even been home?’

While there were shower facilities in the Imperial Palace, they weren’t for servants to use, so he must have been going back to his estate every dawn.

‘Still, he really couldn’t have gotten any sleep…’

Despite enduring such an impossible schedule, Chad’s condition looked surprisingly fine.

Had he been worked so hard that he evolved into a body that transcended human limits…?

And it wasn’t just Adnet who thought this way – when lunchtime came, the bureaucrats flocked to Chad in droves.

“Count Chad, are you taking any kind of tonic?”

“No, how are you fine? If it were me, I’d be drawing a reincarnation waiting ticket in the afterlife by now.”

“Please, if you have something good, share it with us.”

At the group’s sudden barrage of questions, Chad tilted his head.

That was understandable, since he wasn’t doing anything special for his health.

He had just been processing work and three days had passed, and he only just realized he hadn’t slept even 10 hours in that time.

“Well, I really don’t have any good methods for building stamina?”

“Come on, that can’t be true. The fact that you’re not getting angry when we’re all rushing over to talk to you like this means you’re not in a state of having worked nights for three days, right?”

“Hmm.”

He really didn’t have any special methods, but since he’d be branded a traitor for keeping good things to himself, Chad tried hard to think.

Well, if there was anything that had changed recently…

“My younger sister has been getting up half-asleep every dawn for the past few days to spray some kind of perfume on me. Oh, and she was making a fuss about promoting it to other people, but I’ve been too busy lately…”

“…”

“That’s really the only thing that’s changed.”

Chad said with a smile and firm conviction.

‘No way, that makes sense? Just perfume?’

Adnet’s face was colored with confusion at this unexpected material.

But it didn’t seem like a lie either. Chad, with his easygoing personality, was someone who shared good things even without being asked.

Adnet hesitated before speaking.

“…Then could you ask your sister for the name of that perfume?”

At the voice full of lingering hope, Chad smiled brightly and nodded.

The next day, Chad brought the name of the perfume as promised.

A single product from the premium perfume brand ‘Dun Like’.

‘…Oh.’

Even from the name, he could feel it was a very luxurious women’s brand.

Adnet recruited colleagues to conduct biological experiments together.

The idea that perfume could keep your body fine even after working nights for three straight days was absurd.

But there were many like Adnet who craved fun in this rigid bureaucracy, and the hypothesis that perfume had fatigue recovery effects breathed life into their existence.

Adnet and two other bureaucrats bought the perfume thinking they had nothing to lose. Though the price was brutal for a trial purchase, so the three of them split one bottle.

And the review from civil servant Adnet, who suffered from chronic fatigue, after using the perfume for about a week was this:

‘Is this even possible?’

His physical condition had noticeably improved.

His mind was crystal clear, and his work processing speed was much faster.

He wondered if he was mistaken because he was subconsciously thinking about the ‘fatigue recovery effect’, but he also frequently heard people around him say he looked particularly energetic today.

A somewhat very expensive perfume that allowed him to live an energetic daily life without caffeine.

The rumor about the so-called ‘fatigue recovery perfume’ began to slowly spread from the Imperial Palace.

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‘…Really, is that even possible?’

Such amazing effects of my perfume that even I didn’t know about.

Actually, when I heard Relini’s explanation, I was half-believing.

“Well… theoretically it’s possible, right?”

And Angelica unhesitatingly erased my doubts.

I had finished my business in Semaphelaz and come to find Angelica in the form of ‘Mary Blin’. Along with a paper listing the perfume’s ingredients.

As far as I knew, the most tight-lipped doctor was Dr. Henri.

Angelica was enjoying her ruined but personally satisfying life today too, wearing only underwear with a cigar in her mouth.

“Can it really have fatigue recovery effects and such?”

“Yes, if you combine the ingredients listed here well? Why, are you thinking of getting into the medical field after the boutique?”

Angelica said while chewing on her cheap cigar.

“Let me advise you in advance – never try it. Honestly, it’s not hard to come up with the idea of combining these to make a fatigue recovery remedy, right? But why do you think no one has made it until now?”

She tapped the paper with the ingredient names with her index finger.

“Benoit grass – this plant is very tricky to control the amount of. No, not just this, but if you mess up the amount control of other ingredients too… forget fatigue recovery remedy, it just becomes something that smells nice.”

“…”

Something that smells nice. I felt a pang without realizing it.

“From researchers’ perspective, there’s a world of research to be done, but they wouldn’t have the luxury to invest time in research that produces useless results if you mess up the amount control even slightly.”

“You know this really well.”

“Yes, though I may not look it, I was a genius scholar from humble origins who majored in medicine at the Academy on a full scholarship, and after graduation was sponsored by some noble lord for research.”

But why is that genius scholar living like this now?

Looking at this shut-in who hadn’t changed from when I met her with Ransel, I resolved once again. I’ll never gamble even if I die.

Then Angelica changed the subject.

“But really, aren’t you going to use the mine investment information I told you about?”

“Mine?”

“You know, what I mentioned before. Among my poker opponents there’s an investment scammer who’s planning to make a killing with the Dallas Mine up north. I told you to bring up investment talk if Young-ae has someone she dislikes?”

“Why do you keep telling me to become a fraud accomplice?”

I turned my gaze away pretending not to be interested.

‘Actually, I already did what you said.’

Leaking false information to someone I dislike to encourage investment.

The protagonist of this major scam was none other than Louis Chartinez.

And the person who would catch the big fish with the bait I prepared was Chris Moore.

‘I may have been too busy to even hear rumors about fatigue recovery effects, but it’s not like I did nothing during that time.’

At first, I only planned to send one person to Selia’s Boutique.

According to Chad, it seemed Seria was involved in the attack on Arviente.

Then I suddenly remembered the fraudulent investment information Angelica had told me, and I thought Chris was the capable person who could keep all these secrets while doing the assigned job well.

Of course, if Chris, who had been employed since my poor days and was my close associate until recently, suddenly submitted his resignation, it would arouse suspicion, so I decided to create an appropriate conflict.

“That’s enough, enough! I don’t want to work while being treated like this either!”

So Seria immediately hired Chris who had submitted his resignation, and by now Chris would be working half-heartedly while targeting Louis.

I didn’t know if Chris would be able to find clues to catch Seria by the scruff of her neck, but honestly I wasn’t worried about scamming Louis.

‘He’s a former con artist.’

Also, according to rumors, Louis’s dignity maintenance expenses had recently been cut in half.

In such a situation, it would be difficult to resist Chris’s temptation and not make a big investment.

That’s how most people who get scammed are.

With the desire to live just a little, just a little better.

‘Father was a typical case like that.’

Actually, Father hadn’t originally been interested in things like art investment.

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