Chapter 47

Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi

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Chapter 47

Then, Elliot asked a question with a puzzled face.

“What’s going on, Mom?”

“No, nothing.”

Anriche shook her head, and with her hand brushed away the crumbs from Elliot’s cheek. She then threw jokes at him in a mischievous voice.

“If you walk around covered in breadcrumbs like this, would Liliana hate you?”

“Mo, Mom! Be quiet!”

At that, Elliot’s face turned bright red.

Alexei looked intently at the two friendly people in front of him.

Elliott no longer avoids Anriche’s hand. Rather, he naturally gives his cheeks, and even bickers together.

It was very nice to see that.

Suddenly, Alexei’s lips had a faint smile on them.

***

After about an hour.

Anriche walked into the parlor.

Far away, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony, sitting in her seat with a nervous expression, came into view.

“Are you here, Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony?”

At that call, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony lifted her head brightly. She got up from her seat as if bouncing, and pointed towards Anriche.

“Anriche!”

“In my current position, it seems more appropriate to call me ‘The Duchess of Valois’ rather than ‘Anriche’.”

At her elegant reply, the face of the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony was distorted.

She continued to speak in a soft voice.

“Because I am here now as the Duchess of Valois.”

Anriche, who had thus spoken, slowly moved her steps, and she sat down in front of the grand madam of the Marquisate of Saxony.

A sharp roar erupted.

“Before the Duchess, you are my daughter!”

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony opened her eyes wide to her daughter as she kept on raising her voice.

“Yes! It was all thanks to your mother’s support that you were able to stand there!”

“….”

“….”

A heavy silence passed.

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony felt a strange sense of incongruity.

‘What, what?’

If it had been the usual Anriche, she wouldn’t have been able to look into her mother’s eyes, unable to do anything with just one of these shouts. However, now she was just facing her mother with a subtle face.

She didn’t look away or shrug her shoulders.

“Well, Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony…”

After a while, Anriche tilted her head and looked straight at her mother. There was not a single ounce of warmth left in her violet eyes.

“You always tried to treat me like ‘the daughter of the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony’.”

“…What?!”

“When will you be ready to respect me as ‘Duchess of Valois’?”

At that calm voice, the grand madam of the Marquisate of Saxony shrugged her shoulders. She was ‘Anriche’ and ‘The Duchess of Valois.’ So, the weight of the two names was clearly different.

“Even if it is not a family-to-family visit, I am already a mistress in charge of a family.”

Anriche continued to speak lowly.

“It could be that I’m having some private time with my family, or maybe I’m doing something else.”

“Bu, but. That’s…”

“In such a situation, how many times like this, without even contacting you, you come to the townhouse…”

She stared into her mother’s eyes, and she finished her words with strength in each word.

“Even so, it seems to me that there is no respect for the Duchy of Valois?”

At those words, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony opened her eyes. However, there was no room to protest in Anriche’s logic.

It was because she cleverly magnified this problem.

It was not simply a matter of a mother and daughter, but a matter of respect for the Duchy of Valois.

‘That b*tch is really…!’

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony clenched her teeth.

Nevertheless, Anriche’s words were not over yet.

“And, you told me about the support that the Marquisate of Saxony gave to me.”

“Yes, how dearly did we raise you…!”

“Is that support really for me?”

At that calm question, the Grand Madam felt her words choked.

Still, she spoke her words with a faint smile. “Isn’t it to help my brother’s social life by making me form a good marriage?”

“Oh my God, what the hell does that mean!”

At that, she jumped out of her seat as if she had been subjected to a terrific conspiracy.

As she looked at it, Anriche could not help but feel the bitterness in her mouth.

‘Well, I didn’t think she’d just admit it.’

However…

“Of course, thank you for raising me, but I think that grace ended by sending my private money.”

“Anriche…!”

“As the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony knows it well, it was a considerable amount, wasn’t it?”

Saying that, she shrugged her shoulders lightly.

The Grand Madam clenched her fists. The anger had made her head white with fury, but she knew it.

No matter how angry she was, she shouldn’t touch ‘Valois’ itself. If problems between families escalate, Saxony would be the one to lose in the end. Therefore, she swiftly changed the direction of her attack.

“Anriche, I know you’ve been saddened by this mother in many ways, but…”

In the direction of comforting her daughter as an adult.

“Everything, all we did for you.”

The Grand Madam spoke her words in a voice that was as sad as possible.

“Honestly, you’re my daughter, but you haven’t been faithful to your family life until now, have you?”

“….”

“I thought you might find the wrong teacher, so I purposely introduced you to Viscountess Ivan.”

‘Oh, look at that?’

Seeing how cleverly she went over Anriche’s previous actions, she narrowed her eyes.

“There may be parts of the Viscountess overreacting, but you shouldn’t be raising a child and wrapping around her like that either.”

The Grand Madam broke her words and made a pitiful tone.

“If the child is not good enough, wouldn’t it be the tutor’s job to scold her?”

“Well, I don’t think that’s what the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony would say.”

At that moment, Anriche answered casually.

“The present Marquis of Saxony, has never once been scolded by you so harshly, have you?”

“….”

Speechless, she glared at Anriche with ferocious eyes.

‘Oh, you can’t do this.’

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate, who quickly adjusted her face, opened her mouth with a look of disappointment. “Really, Anriche. I didn’t raise you like this.”

The voice was so mournful that it felt like it was going to shake her chest.

“How did you end up being so spoiled?”

“Am I a spoiled person?”

“Yes. Isn’t that what you did to Viscountess Ivan?”

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony shook her head as if she was tired of it.

“She’s the teacher who taught you. You cut off such a person, and you even sent a letter of complaint to the family!”

Right.

Anriche narrowed her eyes.

‘Haha, when your son is the most precious child in the world.’

The way she pretended not to hear the comments about her son was just boring.

“Cough, cough.”

Meanwhile, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony, who had coughed a couple of times, straightened her back and faced Anriche. It was as if she was dealing with even the most heinous criminal in the world.

“Besides, where did you learn of taking money away, such a vicious thing?”

A thin, trembling voice rebuked Anriche.

In addition, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate grabbed her hand and clasped it.

“Anriche, you know that? I’ve done everything I can to raise you into a dignified lady.”

A dignified Lady…

Anriche felt disgusted.

Wasn’t raising that lady itself a ‘work for Saxony’?

Married to a great family, so that she can be of some help to the Marquisate of Saxony.

“My daughter is being pointed at by people… Really, it breaks my heart just imagining it.”

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony spoke desperately. As if she were a mother who really values ​​her daughter.

“If you act like this, it’s like you’re painting the face on me who raised you.”

Constructing her worried eyes, she posed the question to her daughter.

“Do you know how bad the rumors about you are in the social world right now?”

“Mo, mother.”

But, Anriche cut off the vulgar words of the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony with a light sneer.

“Do you think I don’t know that?”

“…What do you mean by that?”

“I’m just saying I don’t care about rumors like that.”

At that gentle voice, the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony rolled her eyes. As she pulled out her hand that had been held by her mother, Anriche gave a smirk.

“Anyway, I’m a wicked woman, so even if there’s one more scandal… Would you care?”

“How, how can you say that! If you are a lady, you should pay attention to your dignity…!”

“… Mother-in-law.”

Suddenly, a calm voice called the Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony.

Startled, she looked back.

“…Duke of Valois?”

It was Alexei.

Why did the Duke of Valois come all the way here?

Obviously, she heard that her daughter and the Duke of Valois didn’t get along very well… The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony could not hide her confused expression.

Alexei spoke her words in a voice that sounded softly at first glance.

“I’m sorry to interrupt you in the conversation, but I think you’ve misunderstood one thing, and I think you should correct that.”

“What, what is that?”

“My wife is not a wicked woman.”

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