The Reason I Got Engaged to My Ex-Boyfriend - Chapter 63

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Episode 63

After Yudite left, I returned to my room and put the stickers back on.

“Mary.”

Ransel, who had been watching me intently from the side, asked.

“What exactly did the Young-ae, the Viscountess mean earlier?”

“About what.”

“About an Academy senior confessing to you.”

Ah, that.

It was probably the greatest dark history of my entire Academy days.

I explained nonchalantly.

“Yudi had a crush on Senior Aldein back then and kept talking to me about it. But that senior bought a whole bouquet of roses and publicly confessed to me right in the middle of the first floor of the Humanities Building.”

“….”

“I thought it was presumptuous since we’d never even had a proper conversation, and I wondered how lightly he must think of me, so I rejected him immediately. But Yudi said how could I betray her like this when I knew she liked him? When I was the one who was truly dumbfounded by receiving that confession….”

As I continued talking, I became exasperated.

I could excuse Yudite since she was young at the time, but I still couldn’t understand that crazy bastard Aldein Karziel.

I was trailing off in an exasperated tone when I looked at Ransel’s face and stopped short.

‘What, why is he like that.’

Ransel was wearing that crooked smile he occasionally showed whenever something about me displeased him.

“It’s been over five years since you graduated from the Academy, yet you call the name of a senior you never had a proper conversation with quite familiarly. If it’s Aldein, would that be Karziel? I’ll have to show him what hell looks like if I meet him privately later.”

I said I rejected him immediately, so what’s he talking about.

I just looked up at Ransel innocently, finding his words not even worth responding to.

But Ransel, as if he wasn’t bringing this up for no reason, opened his mouth again.

“I wasn’t going to say this.”

“Then don’t.”

“Why do you get so close with the Navy guys in Semaphelaz?”

At his sudden words, I tilted my head.

I’m already busy to death, so who got close with whom….

‘Well, I have been talking with them a lot lately because of the boutique gloves.’

I thought of the Westport crew members I met in Semaphelaz and said.

“I only talked to them when taking orders.”

“Using orders as an excuse to talk, hovering around for no reason, making themselves noticed? Hey, that’s exactly what I used to do when I was trying to win you over.”

Ransel sighed softly and continued.

“Listen carefully, Mary. There’s no one in this world who wastes time hovering around someone without any purpose. Those are the cunning things that men are – pretending to have no ulterior motives, pretending to just strike up a conversation, pretending to have no romantic interest, while secretly looking for any chance to get physically close.”

“Is that a self-introduction?”

I responded indifferently.

As I listened to Ransel’s frustrated complaints with one ear and let them pass through the other, dawn quickly passed.

***

The next day.

In the village where port city construction was in full swing as usual.

There was a man grinning foolishly there.

“…Heh, hehe….”

Louis was in a good mood even though he had come to work for the first time in a while after his forced leave ended.

‘Now I just have to wait.’

The Dallas Mine auction in the north.

He had worried belatedly whether it might be a scam as he traveled all that way from Tererrosa, but when he actually went, there were many people there to invest, which reassured him greatly.

As Chris had said, it was definitely a business that wouldn’t result in losses.

“Hey there, Strawberry.”

Seeing Mary after a long time, Louis smiled brightly and struck up a conversation.

Mary, who had turned her head unconsciously, immediately scrunched up her face.

“It’s been quite a while, hasn’t it?”

“Yes, so it was nice for a while, but it’s regrettable now.”

“Haha, how shy of you.”

Louis let out a hearty laugh.

Today he was overflowing with leisure.

“Miss Strawberry, do you know why it was so hard to see me lately?”

“I don’t really want to hear it.”

“I made a mine investment this time. I was busy looking into this and that, so I couldn’t be seen.”

Actually, Chris had done all the research, but anyway, that’s how it was.

Mary’s eyes widened at the mention of investment.

‘Well, look at that.’

Despite pretending otherwise, she was ultimately a materialist obsessed with money after all.

Louis said smugly.

“It’s an investment where you can profit at least ten times over. I think I can earn about thirty thousand gold.”

“Only thirty thousand gold?”

However, at the displeased voice that followed, Louis raised his eyebrows.

“…What? Only?”

“Yes, that’s much less than the inheritance my father left me? And if you earn thirty thousand gold with a ten-fold profit investment, that means you only invested three thousand gold.”

“….”

For Louis, who couldn’t receive maintenance fees for the time being, three thousand gold was a fortune.

And he had originally planned to spend only two thousand gold, but was persuaded by Chris to add another thousand gold with great determination….

Louis looked at Mary with a dumbfounded expression, then cleared his throat.

I, Louis Chartinez, am a man who is nothing without his pride.

“Of, of course I wasn’t planning to invest ‘only’ three thousand gold, Miss Strawberry.”

“Then?”

“Well, there are probably still places that haven’t been auctioned yet…I’ll do at least twice as much?”

“Ah, yes.”

Mary nodded primly.

His pride was still strangely hurt….

‘I really should invest twice as much.’

For the insufficient money, well, he could borrow from Seria or take out some private loans using his father’s name.

Having thought that far, Louis licked his lower lip.

Mary might be acting difficult now, but if he amassed enormous wealth through mine investment, she would see him differently.

How could a mere commoner ignore a handsome man whose very touch produced gold coins?

Louis cleared his throat.

“Miss Strawberry, I heard you’re doing some kind of business lately. How can a woman do such things? Why do you need money when you can just spend your husband’s money.”

“….”

“Of course, I’m a progressive and sophisticated man, so I can generously accept running a brand as a hobby. But anything more than that….”

Louis, who had been grinning and lecturing, had no choice but to shut his mouth.

“Well, Lord Louis. It’s been a while?”

Before he knew it, Melvin and those Navy ruffians had approached.

“But why are you here? If you’ve returned, I think you should meet me or Viscount Remington first?”

“…Ha, really treating me like his subordinate-“

Melvin ignored Louis’s words and grabbed his left arm. His right arm was already caught by another guy.

“What, what is this. As fellow nobles, some dignity…!”

“Let’s work hard for the Empire’s honor today too, Lord Louis.”

“Let go of this right noooooow!”

Whether Louis wailed or not, Melvin winked at Mary with a grin even while dragging him away.

‘…Why is he acting like that?’

Watching Louis being dragged away by a navy officer who seemed to be lacking magnesium for some reason, Mary stood there with an incredulous expression.

Running into that bastard as soon as she arrived in Semapelaz—she had a feeling today was going to be unlucky.

“By the way, where are you going, Miss Berry? Let me carry that for you.”

Just then, Derek, who had been standing nearby, spoke to her.

He must have noticed the bundle that Mary had been struggling to carry.

“I won’t refuse your help. I just need to get to that estate over there.”

At Mary’s response, Derek grabbed the bundle with a confident expression.

“….”

And immediately had no choice but to be flustered.

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