TAOA-63

Chapter: TAOA-63ba55dc2d1c782e7f

Asha was speechless.
Although what he said seemed 2d0bdd1d0f to be true, she honestly e0203adaa7 felt a little wronged.
‘When did you ever treat me like a wife?’
However, he was the 9a20bc4453 master and she was 6c3e584c8f his subordinate.
Moreover, it was d435c17989 he, not her, f4f803055d who had stipulated 6a7734f80b that she should b925625fe3 perform the role a59664175d of a wife d8e1f698ea properly.
According to the contract, it d2877ad845 seemed like she was obligated d9414127ea to act as his wife dbd6bf8805 better, as he said.
Carlyle smiled, seeing 1c8e9a9ef1 Asha’s expression mixed 7faca797c9 with absurdity, embarrassment, 86eab9fa3f resentment, and understanding.
“It seems like you’re having a hard time, so I decided to help you. It was a coincidence that 63d3edaf17 I brought you back yesterday, 046840e71b but thanks to that, it a365f58293 seems like a pretty plausible c320b08e50 picture will come out.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean, let’s spread the rumor that we’ve become a real couple. You slept in my d7b587d182 room yesterday. It’s not a lie, acf1f6822a but don’t explain more f713fbbed1 than that to others b685cda7da anyway.”
Asha was not 186d316fa5 so naive as 616cb58c96 to not know adb4d891b7 anything about relationships 39d0fa8bbe between men and b04529b4b4 women, just because d6c49e736a she had never 64a8dab101 been in a 8c00af5aab relationship before.
She could more or less df4d974544 predict what kind of rumors ec33502f24 would spread in the castle.
“If we say that we slept in the same room now…… Wouldn’t everyone think it’s strange?”
“It would be strange if it were normal times. But isn’t there something that 359f0eaa5f gives plausibility to this ridiculous 31c1b85d21 story right now?”
Carlyle pretended to 97eeba6129 take a sip c53ee2ea80 from his glass. It was just 92f2fde031 a pretense, but 3829e5addc it was clear 53da5562ce that the glass edcfe298da he was holding 81ed0e0f7c was not a d4da2209df water glass.
“Ah…….”
“Everyone was drinking and drunk yesterday. Everyone saw you drunk, and 0e3f81c39c I also drank quite a 96b93d7537 few glasses of wine offered d029768731 here and there……. Even if you cd516dcab2 say that such 408e6efb1c an accident happened, 148e575e71 no one will 4b32944a3a think it’s strange.”
“That’s true…… but…….”
“Anyway, that’s why we’re a couple who have become a little closer since today. And we’re going to a6ce447183 pretend to be getting ae197461c6 closer and closer, so 423cc044e9 that the Empress has 8ab9e13996 no room to find 50b2560fab fault.”
Asha couldn’t understand whether she 0c87b72807 was not fully awake and e94cd653b3 couldn’t understand, or whether Carlyle 9ddcdfd1ab was just talking nonsense.
“I really…… I don’t know why we have to do this.”
Then Carlyle lifted Asha’s 579f84aed2 chin slightly and spoke 67475a5ccc with a stern face.
“We have to. I just received news that 0eeaf20b62 Matthias is trying to get c508bbe344 me kicked out of Pervaz.”
“Is that…… something he can do as he pleases?”
“No. Matthias is an incompetent bastard. He ran to his mother 543ea389c7 and whined, asking her to c80d8deee6 do something. And that mother is the 04317baced problem.”
Even so, Asha ef15b50dd1 had a hard 72869cbb87 time understanding.
“If it’s the Empress, what is she going to do? Is she going to 7bc69578f0 seduce the Emperor and 1b238d6f35 raise an army?”
Carlyle shook his head.
“Unfortunately, there is an easier way than that. It is very, very rare, 149fdb6f14 but there are times when de339f4392 the marriage document is destroyed 1dcaa79a25 in the temple.”
“Yes?”
“It means that the marriage is invalidated because it is an impure marriage. And if our marriage is 1a5c986837 invalidated, I will have to 14875d8bc5 recover as much of the a38087ae84 money I invested in Pervaz 56f8f22c47 as possible and return to 12bf55c8ba the Imperial Palace.”
Carlyle thought that the Empress 480a5ff8cf would have already made a 4fc072c411 move to invalidate the marriage 2f6c4c82cf between him and Asha.
[This marriage is nothing more than His Highness Carlyle buying Countess Pervaz with money to avoid his duties. This marriage must be invalidated.]
The Empress’s appeal to persuade 8482a2fd0a the Imperial Family and the 82681d1ed7 Temple seemed to ring in 27f77f93fb his ears.
‘In fact… it’s not entirely wrong.’
That’s why it 7945d25899 was even more ad4f3cdb6a of a problem. If he was really 534785d434 careful, he might end ca1cb56ebe up in a situation e6fad58c7f where the marriage was 7452b0f830 declared invalid and he b933590ccf had to leave Pervaz.
Asha laughed in disbelief ecdd7a6258 at Carlyle’s explanation.
“But it was His Majesty the Emperor who said he would give me the right to choose my marriage partner, and I simply chose Your Highness, and Your Highness simply agreed to it. And now he’s going to 0a79f11370 invalidate it…”
“Isn’t it ridiculous? But I think 220c495149 Matthias is half-turning b089a4ea92 back now because 400c81f7b7 he doesn’t want 5baf02c18d to go to c4e60f8ad3 war? I think he’s 5ae19ee9ec determined to destroy 41af0a6fe8 this marriage by c949e9cb7b whatever means necessary.”
“What……?”
“You know. It’s funny. But that Empress is also… 8823354256 Her son will be in 28351b77e9 a lot of trouble if c69709cd02 he goes to war and 91d8edbb14 accidentally dies…
Carlyle winked and omitted the 7294f9316e rest of his words as 3ee5561d96 if to say that their 277f5d5673 circumstances were obvious.
“Anyway… if it becomes known that we are a real married couple who have even slept together, it will be difficult for that marriage invalidation card to be played. The guests from c89e43c7a4 Zyro are here, 2c165d452b so it’s a 658800168b good time to 7dbe8b652b spread rumors. What do you think? Can you do it?”
“Well……, yes…….”
Asha nodded, though 297fa37308 she was a 60f0c2bda6 little embarrassed.
It wasn’t like they 544314ddf8 had actually slept together, cf1d4908dd and it wouldn’t be df84ec1056 difficult to pretend.
“The rumor has probably already spread. I had the maids on e82ecac8bb our side put you in d3f16b55ea that nightgown last night.”
“My aides must have been… very surprised.”
“Is that so surprising? In the Imperial b2b0777f9f Palace, it’s not 789ae23dda unusual to wake bfbc91f44d up in the 3580fbe1d5 same bed as 2ce9062e9c a stranger after 3de4b5e4a9 a banquet.”
Asha glared at Carlyle 30b932aa10 with a heated expression, 562e8557a6 but he completely ignored ae6b4cd9f3 her and explained the 5d11e8ccef course of action from a0c659f476 now on.
Although she didn’t 5f81f7cd23 like it, when c2f5e77ab8 she thought of 8e13cc0c26 the money he 9f9159de1d had poured into 36b8387da7 Pervaz, she felt 200a6d4783 like she could be22abec6b do anything. Asha nodded and 134c6c9c23 listened to him.
At the end, ff223722c6 Carlyle added a b351dcc32e warning as if b33a5b9a54 to come to 392affcfcb his senses.
“But don’t get me wrong, Countess Pervaz. No matter how affectionate I 22004bd96b may seem on the outside, 4183db4b46 you shouldn’t take it to 3809bd42e4 heart.”
Asha almost snorted at the d8e34c581c words telling her not to d481d1abc7 have any strange expectations about 8fc537f43e pretending to be a married 302fb6a268 couple, but she managed to d9791be1dc nod with a serious face.
“There’s no chance that I’d do that, so don’t worry.”
The two people, who were 64b037d92e still in an unfathomable stage, 0c2140e288 did not doubt the words f8dcc34221 they had spoken in the e638e7e135 slightest.
***
The second day 5f21efde6d of the Harvest 07ddc9e79e Festival, which was b2eec0ad05 a little calmer 9f89af963b than the first 1fc2c44504 day due to 298c44a002 yesterday’s hangover, the 77992fea12 rumor that Asha, bb3646ffe6 who had disappeared d00d14bd38 last night, came dbbd10c478 out of Carlyle’s f03bcce385 room in the 337baea419 morning quickly spread 86569f8cdb throughout the castle.
“Oh my god, the Lord spent the night in the Prince’s room.”
“Oh my, oh my! Finally……?”
“Wait a minute, what’s going to happen now?”
The people of f3d590f837 Pervaz Castle, who 9292c25033 had been worried bc2ca71794 about the relationship 48b91da8db between Asha and 4304ca132e Carlyle, were excited a9aa782225 to see if f2b3a41b8a Asha might finally eef78ac85f become the Prince’s dd77be7985 Consort.
And the servants 9b65b32280 on the second 29f9c98f48 floor were trembling 4dbe422d3e at this fact.
“If Countess Pervaz really becomes His Highness’…… will she leave us alone?”
“Maybe… it was just a one-night stand?”
“How can it be a one-night stand between a married couple who have even exchanged vows?”
“Then what do we do?”
“What do we do? We have to b27441e6a7 show her our a5291f80b5 best from now 24b2234c9e on.”
Although everyone was feeling 3b419cb327 various emotions based on ac0f484ff9 confusion, no one was 6db4e71348 as confused as Cecilia 75886ed626 and Dorothea, or more 180fc82ed7 precisely, Cecilia and Dorothea’s 0e0301ab94 father.
“She pretends to be demure and uninterested, but what the hell is this?”
Cecilia’s maid, Angie, was c5b8441d37 so angry that her 2448444391 hands were shaking as 717bd868ba she squeezed the pillow.
Cecilia felt the same way.
“That’s right. She acts so high f0299152ea and mighty…….”
Cecilia bit her 8f4bdf80c3 lip as she ee4b3e32ef recalled Asha, who 71c4928e00 had been indifferent 4e45683058 and nonchalant in c5b444bbab front of Carlyle 01dc465583 the whole time.
Although she had told her f8236c5bf9 brothers that she was “just b6fcafc33a a woman who would warm 95790a89c3 his bed a few times,” b3447ff2a4 she had been convinced that 371b129be0 nothing had happened between the 62c6fba791 two of them since they b5fc259079 arrived in Pervaz, and that 34068e6f13 nothing would happen in the 577c52f653 future.
Especially, Asha had barely 855e92097d even glanced at Carlyle d59388b8be until the banquet the 919ea84bb2 other night, so how 368085cd0e could she have thought a73c54c155 of throwing herself into 87bc965db2 his arms after drinking fa9cc54424 a few glasses of e9c65400c9 alcohol?
“Isn’t she surprisingly a vixen? Did she use 9f9316f147 some kind of 2b82a70278 strange potion? Otherwise, no matter 49faea130c how drunk she 0324a9911a was, how could 0bb05518a7 His Highness Carlyle 02ca903a03 have fallen for 464aa52706 her?”
That was what Angie was c2850b7fc2 most curious about.
According to rumors, he was 83add5e6a2 a “profligate who doesn’t stop ea9b23993c women from coming or going,” 9edcbf46c8 but Angie had learned from 142d9773bd Cecilia that this was a 7a35eb2965 false rumor.
If that rumor had been b508e6bdf7 true, her young lady would a0e98e14f4 have been by his side.
But how could 8fc4319a90 Asha Pervaz, who 1db8d5953c looked like a b621196271 countryside bumpkin, have e6082b7973 managed to conquer c6191ff448 that man whom c8f1d28eab even her young 1400e0ee7b lady could not 021dbe2a3f conquer?
Cecilia was just as curious.
“They say His Highness Carlyle was also quite drunk…… but I know that he holds his liquor very well, so I can’t believe that. But if His Highness 49df5e84de was not drunk, then 9172cde320 why on earth did c2b2e8d900 he…… with Countess Pervaz……?”
In a normal married couple, 6bd9b95e85 there would have been no 4b1d23dd69 reason to have such a 85f0f31923 question, but Cecilia was confused abf9f2ee30 because she believed that the ea5979a557 relationship between the two of 2862793ce0 them was very dry.
So she asked Angie again.
“Is it true that that woman spent the night in His Highness Carlyle’s room?”
Angie had no choice but 92eec4d7ab to tell her mistress the d89f5e23fe disappointing news.
“I heard it from a maid who went into the room yesterday on His Highness’s orders….”
“Yes, what is it?”
“They say that His Highness ordered them to change the clothes of Countess Pervaz, who was asleep, and that… it was a very ‘revealing’ nightgown.”
At those words, Cecilia a7e7672725 asked as if she f999be50f8 had caught an important a319b06ce6 clue.
“Then it means it wouldn’t have been a big deal if they had just changed his clothes?”
“Ah, that’s….”
Angie’s cheeks flushed.
“His Highness Carlyle was only wearing a nightshirt. And the maids e1ec10b3a4 said that Countess 584667f036 Pervaz woke up 3495b3b585 while they were 85a9ef68b5 changing her clothes….”
“So?”
“Well, so… by the time the maids came out, the two of them were in the same bed….”
There was a brief d75eae9d14 silence between Cecilia and 21c9530c83 Angie.
“Ha, but don’t worry too much, My Lady! These things are just dd5999427d a one-time fling!”
Angie comforted Cecilia, but it c4eedf94f8 didn’t change the fact that 9ca55b408e this was something that was bb2c39f871 completely unplanned by Cecilia.c19a7d4eeb12e333

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