CH 38

Lily was responsible for preventing Blake from sending the letter like this.

“You can’t send this. It will heat up the newspaper all year round. That would be more chaotic than the case of a Count 10 years ago when he secretly met his lover with his wife’s necklace and was shot and killed by his wife.”

“What a mess.”

“It is the content that heats up the newspaper. Anyway, I am against it.”

“But… .”

Blake looked dissatisfied.

Sure enough, Count Fox had no reply, and he must have been charred by now.

Like adding oil to fire, Blake had to make fun of Count Fox. Only then his firm will would be conveyed.

Well, for no reason, he just wanted to make fun of him. D*mn Count.

“It’s good if the case moves on quickly. If he’s mad at the top of his head, he’ll file a lawsuit against me sooner. Don’t you want to get a legal divorce as soon as possible?”

“It’s over the limit. My husband is going to have high blood pressure that he doesn’t have, and it’s going to put him down. If he dies, your plans will be disrupted.”

“Your husband?”

Lily raised her head at the sudden remark. Blake asked again fiercely.

“Your husband?”

“…… He’s not my husband?”

“Isn’t he your ex?”

“Oh, of course he’s my ex. But administratively, it is a problem because we are still married.”

Blake grunted nervously as he turned the quill he was holding. “I understand what you mean. Anyway, don’t call him your husband in front of me. It’s annoying.”

Lily lifted her head and stared at the man opposite her.

The man was reflected in her blue eyes, resembling a sense of maturity, not suitable for his young age.

“….?”

Blake noticed Lily’s gaze with the sharpness of a beast.

At first, he pretended not to know but somehow he felt ticklish, so he made eye contact with Lily.

Just for a moment, then he looked away again. Blake tapped his fingers.

“…?”

“Anyway.”

After Lily saw him getting hot, she looked down at her as if nothing had happened.

Even after a brief silence, Blake felt strangely long.

“I understand your fussiness. You should be more careful in choosing words than in front of the Empress. Anyway, let’s fix the contents of the letter. I don’t know the law very well, but it’s good to avoid getting caught in court later.”

Lily edited the content of the letter to be more sophisticated. Although she put a red line on every sentence, Blake’s intention remained intact.

“If Lord Blake agrees, how about changing the content like this?”

Blake didn’t seem to like it, but without a word he pulled out a new piece of paper and dictated the proofread.

Lily had nothing to do while he wrote the new letter.

Gianna hid it tightly, saying it was her “lethal weapon,” but walked around drinking apple flavored black tea that she gave only to Lily.

Lily sat across her window and looked at the man’s back. It was a backside that would make many women’s lips dry. Sensually woven skin, not flesh, but a stone-like neck.

Aristocrats would evaluate him as vulgar like a commoner, but in fact, it was only in public places. In fact, not long ago, there was a craze for muscles among the ladies.

In unofficial clubs created by ladies, only waiters with ‘such’ bodies were hired on a daily basis.

So Blake was definitely ‘the type.’

It wasn’t just the appearance. He was stubborn, ruthless, and at times a little bit less than a sea pirate, but he was a good man.

At least the most of everyone Lily has ever met.

‘If the saying that luck comes after misfortune is true, then I’ve met Lord Blake because of the life I’ve been through.’

If Blake really rescued her according to plan, she would never be able to repay the kindness.

Moreover, Lily had no money and she was far from being able to repay the help. If she had to think of one thing Blake would like to do, it would be…

‘Lord Blake will need a wife. There must be a successor.’ 

If she asks if he wants to marry her, he will be happy.

‘Even if I say that I am a divorcee, a child with half of my blood has a high probability of becoming a sorcerer, so it would be a good offer for him.’

But for Lily, her marriage was the worst from start to finish.

New marriage?

Lily continued to stare at Blake’s back. He wore no fancy design, but a well-ironed white shirt.

She was very sick of the word marriage until she gave her husband a divorce letter.

But it wasn’t that uncomfortable to look at Blake and think about marriage now.

She wasn’t really suggesting Blake marry her, but Lily’s transformation surprised herself.

‘He’s a great man. In many ways, as well as business performance and power.’

Lily laughed quietly, then touched her lips in disbelief.

She felt strange.

“….?”

Blake, on the other hand, was a superhuman who felt Lily’s gaze even through the back of his head. His office felt like a cold sweat, despite the moderate temperature thanks to the fireplace.

‘Why are you looking at me? What are you thinking? Why are you smiling now? Does my back look funny? I’m sure I called someone from dawn and trimmed my hair well.’ 

Moreover, he had done good grooming. Only his black hair that wasn’t decorated.

So, were his clothes the problem?

Blake turned his head as agilely as he did when he led the battlefield, which had a clear atmosphere of defeat.

Was there a tear on his shirt? He felt like his right shoulder muscles were tight in his clothes earlier in the morning.

‘I must have taken the wrong size.’

But when he lightly touched the sewing line on the shoulder, it wasn’t like that.

Then, the next possibility was…

As Blake couldn’t concentrate on writing the letter, Lily sensed something strange beyond the window where she sat.

“Oh?”

Lily sat across the window, and cast her gaze outside the snow covered field.

The ground beyond the frosted window.

I saw the knights scratching the snow and drawing a giant heart.

‘What are they doing?’

But before she could look closely, the knights threw themselves on the snow and covered it.

“Hey, Miss Lily has appeared!”

“Hide it everyone!”

A bizarre human figure drawn inside the heart appeared and then disappeared. Lily turned her eyes back to the office when the knights grinned and saluted.

She had a strange feeling that the human figure in the snow painting somehow resembled Lily.

Anyway, it was a peaceful winter.

***

The letter with the bomb was taken by train and loaded onto a wagon through the post office operated by the country.

Finally, it was safely transported to Count Fox’s mansion.

If only Count Fox had read the letter, nothing would have happened. Blake thought that as soon as the Earl received the letter, he would be very furiou.

The letter ‘I won’t send your wife back’ was very provocative, so it was a natural inference.

However, contrary to Blake’s expectations, Count Fox also had a weak side.

Lily knew her husband well…

“Why don’t you just send a letter, but send it in a parcel containing food?”

“If the recipient is an aristocrat, all parcels of food are tested for poison.”

In this case, the post office has the right to check the contents of the letter as well. So if Count Fox tried to hide the letter, it was already seen enough for Blake’s message to leak to the world.

“What if the food won’t work? What if the post office workers don’t read the contents of the letter? I heard they are obsessed with mannerisms and do their job roughly.”

“I heard rumors that there was such a thing, but… Well…”

Lily didn’t say they would inspect it very thoroughly if it was a parcel from the Duchy.

Because the discriminatory meaning was clear.

Anyway, their plan worked. A post office worker retired after leaking the contents of the letter to the media for a large amount of money.

It didn’t take long for everyone involved in the press to get access to the leaked version.

[Exclusive! It is known that the missing Countess Fox has entrusted herself to the winter castle… 」

Blake’s letter adorned the low-level newspaper almost immediately upon its arrival to Count Fox. Then, famous newspapers, which had been quiet due to legal issues, started to publish them on the front page, citing rumors.

[ Count Fox knew all the facts from the beginning? The maid, who requested anonymity, testified: “The Countess left a divorce paper and fled.]

[It could be a complicated love triangle between the men and the woman.]

[Duke Upus is going to be the guardian of a married woman. It’ll be a big scandal.]

This news quickly spread to the social circles and occupied the mouths of the nobles.