Chapter 64

Chapter 64

“…Ah! Found it!”

How many more minutes did she walk?

Resisting the temptation to go back and go around the corner she encountered over and over again, Min-ha kept walking forward until she saw the open door. Finally, she found the door leading out of the building. If she went out that door, it seemed that the path would continue outside.

With that thought, Min-ha was delighted and ran out of the wide-open door.

“…What? It’s not the way out.”

However, the first thing that caught her eyes as she walked out the door was a garden full of roses. It was white roses, but at the end of it, there were hundreds or thousands of roses dyed in pale pink.

Nevertheless, no matter how much she looked around, Min-ha could not see a path for people to go in and out of what she could see, perhaps because roses that shone softly in the moonlight seemed to surround the surroundings.

‘…What should I do? I can’t wait for people to pass by here… Since it is like this, I am sorry to the owner of these roses, but shall we move it around a bit to make a way?’

Yes, since the situation was like this… She was not a princess who was in a crisis, so she could not just wait to be rescued and do nothing.

And so, Min-ha looked for a place where she could pave the way around the garden, which was full of roses that seemed like a wall.

Gradually walking into the depths of the garden without knowing it, she was finally able to find a place where there was a slight gap between the rose trees. And, fortunately, she could hear people’s voices and soft music in the distance.

‘This is great. If I could get through here, I would somehow be able to get to where there are people.’

With that thought in mind, she carefully put her hand through the thorn-studded rose tree.

“Mina!”

But then, she heard a man’s voice calling out to her from behind. Min-ha turned her head in surprise at the voice calling herself ‘Mina’ instead of ‘Minase.’

“Kyaak…!”

At that moment, Min-ha screamed loudly in shock.

All of a sudden, a man taller than her grabbed her from behind. Min-ha hurriedly hit the hand of the stranger holding her and quickly turned her head to check his face. Even though he was a little smaller than Seth, he was a lot bigger than her. The man was looking at her passionately with red eyes like ruby.

Even under the dim moonlight, as if out of a western painting, his blonde hair, large, thick lines of eyes and nose, and a stubborn mouth made the man look incredibly handsome.

Nonetheless, in her eyes, he was nothing more than a harasser who embraced her freely regardless of her will. Min-ha asked, slowly stepping backwards from the man who was approaching her and staring at her with a hot gaze.

“…Who, who are you?”

“What…? Mina! What is that…”

“Who are you? To suddenly hug me like that… Is, isn’t this a crime?”

It was late at night, especially in an unfamiliar place, that she was suddenly embraced by a stranger. Because of that, she was trembling with fear and dread.

Meanwhile, the man’s expression when he heard her words were distorted. Looking at his expression, he seemed quite surprised by her words… No, he was more than simply surprised, he even looked at her like it was absurd.

Min-ha was shocked to see the man with a look on his face like he was embarrassed by her words.

‘No. Who is the one who should be embarrassed now…!’

If it was Korea, it would be a criminal offense right now, but what was the point of being embarrassed after doing such a thing? Thinking that it was ridiculous, she continued to stare at him with a wary look on her face.

Nonetheless, when he saw Min-ha’s expression staring at him, he immediately let out a short sigh before smiling loosely and slowly coming closer to her.

As Min-ha stepped back quickly at the sight, turning her back and trying to run away, the man immediately approached and grabbed her wrist. At that, she nervously shook off his wrist. However, as soon as Min-ha was afraid to shake off the hand holding his wrist, he grabbed her shoulders with his big, strong hands and gazed down at her with sorrowful eyes.

Slapping his hand on her shoulder, she shouted loudly.

“Let go of me!”

“I’m sorry, my love. You must be very angry, right?”

“…Yes?!”

“It’s no wonder that you’re angry. I should have gotten you out of that hellish Persen mansion right now… That damn bastard put elite knights around you, so I couldn’t get close… Damn it! I went into the mansion to see you on the day he left the mansion on the subjugation, but that stupid girl couldn’t get one of his knights away, so I had no choice but to go back.”

“…What?”

“I’ve been looking for a chance to meet you ever since, but the surveillance of the lowly has gotten worse as well. Besides, I was also preparing to get you away from him completely… However, all of this must sound like an excuse to you. Please…forgive me, my love, Minase.”

“Why did you want to meet me? I don’t know you, and I’ve no reason to meet you.”

“…You must have been very angry. Minase, why do you keep saying you don’t know me? Look carefully, your man in front of you… It’s me, Rupert Guinivis. The man who swore eternal love to you!”

The more she renounced his relentless grip on her, the more he begged for Min-ha. Then, as he grimaced at her words as if his heart was hurting at the words she said, Min-ha, who was more cold-hearted, felt her body harden the moment he mentioned who he was.

‘…Is this man Rupert Guinivis, Minase Persen’s lover?’

At that moment, she was able to understand the current situation to some extent. So, was this person right in front of her the man who gave the final blow to Seth and Minase Persen’s precariously endangered arranged marriage?

Min-ha looked back at the man, Rupert Guinivis, with blank eyes. At that, the man in front of her uttered a happy expression on his face.

“…You’re finally looking at me properly, Mina.”

Rupert’s red eyes stared at her with passionate gazes as if possessed were burdensome, so Min-ha averted her gaze.

Seeing that, he gazed at her with an even hotter gaze and slowly brought his face closer. This was an obvious kiss attempt. Because of that, Min-ha shouted as she quickly covered her own mouth with one of her hands and pushed Rupert’s chest with another.

“Wait a minute!”

“Why are you doing this, Mina…?”

“Why? Do you ask because you don’t know?”

“Avoiding eye contact like that… I thought you wanted a kiss.”

“That’s not true!”

“Are you still angry?”

When Rupert asked if she was still angry, Min-ha glanced at him with an absurd face. Was it not natural…? In any case, she was now very displeased with the physical contact he was doing and him.

As he yielded a hundred times in front of her, she could understand that the man in front of her was the lover of this body owner, Minase Persen. However, as long as she was not ‘Minase Persen,’ any future contact with him was physically and psychologically impossible for Min-ha.

The next moment, she hurriedly widened the distance from him, preventing him from getting closer. Meanwhile, Rupert glanced at her with the gaze of a puppy abandoned by his master.

“…I’m sorry, Mina. No matter how many times I apologize for not being able to see you, it won’t be enough. Still, this sincerity of loving you hasn’t changed at all. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have risked my life like this to come to meet you, right? So, please let go of your anger. Don’t look at me with those unfamiliar eyes, and don’t act like we’re strangers by using honorifics… Yes?”

“….”

Min-ha looked at Rupert, who repeatedly apologized with her sorrowful gaze, with a complicated feeling.

Even though she hated and felt burdened by Rupert’s constant running towards her, his actions were not completely incomprehensible. In fact, if you think from his point of view, his lover, whom he loved, suddenly turned cold one morning, so he must have thought that she was upset and avoided his mouth… That part made sense.

Nevertheless, there was no room for sympathy for the love that was a false affair, especially since he had devised a plan to injure many people to protect that love.

Min-ha made an impression as she recalled the love story of Minase Persen and this man, Rupert Guinivis, which she had heard from Ella when she came to this world. On the other hand, Rupert’s eyebrows drooped even more as he saw her, probably thinking that she was staring at him.

At the sight, she let out a short sigh.

‘Oh, that is a bit pathetic… No. Minase Persen, why is this woman so complicated?’

It was understandable that she had an arranged marriage with Seth because of his wealth. Then, at least, she should be faithful to him, or if she was not happy, she should have broken up with him sooner.

They had a heartless marriage, so it was understandable that she had no feelings for Seth at all. Well, let’s say that she understood by yielding a hundred times to the fact that she spontaneously fell in love with someone else.

To be honest, as ‘Kim Min-ha,’ she does not know how she could fall for someone else when she has such a warm, kind, attentive, considerate, and handsome person by her side, although not everyone could have the same heart as her.

Nevertheless, she should have met after breaking it off cleanly. Why did she bring the situation to this point without letting go of Seth’s fortune and Rupert…?

Min-ha clicked her tongue inaudibly. If it was herself, she would never have done this. Since money is something that could be earned somehow, she should have put that matter aside and decided which one of the two was the most in her heart before clearing up one of them.

Thinking like that, she came up with a surprisingly simple answer.

‘Okay… I would rather fix this now.’

…Let’s get rid of this man, Rupert Guinivis, and simplify this entangled relationship.

After all, she does not want to break up with Seth, whom her heart was connected with anyway, so there was no reason to hang around Rupert needlessly. But before that, she wanted to hear a little bit about how this man hid in Loengram Castle without being noticed by anyone and what plans he had in the future.

So, Min-ha spoke to Rupert, recalling the conversation between Seth and Gawin before coming to the castle.