CH 15

“…..”

The Grand Duke remained silent with a calm face.

Well I can’t deny that I had less conscience when I said those words.

This cold-hearted man in front of me will never help me unless I can prove that I’m useful.

No, to be precise, he will pretend to help and lie to me as he watches me die.

It’s better to mention my foresight and frankly seek cooperation than to take such a risk.

‘If it’s like this, I have to stick on the winning side as well.’

The long fight between the Emperor and the Grand Duke ends with the Grand Duke’s victory.

The Grand Duke greatly weakens the power of the Imperial family and reigns in the north.

The Male and Female protagonists, who suffered due to the difference in status, were also protected by the Grand Duke and ended up marrying safely to establish a happy family.

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‘I I want to live my life quietly, I have to cooperate with this person in front of me.’

I approached him and offered a deal frankly.

“Please help me. Then, I will help you with my abilities.”

-ˏˋ ━━━━━━ ʚɞ ━━━━━━ ˊˎ-

(Terrence’s 3rd Person POV)

Grand Duke Lenz Terrence, looked closely at his fiancee who was right in front of him.

Terrence had never liked Eve even for a moment.

Because he considered Eve to be dumber than the hound he raised.

Hound dogs can at least memorize both the structure and smell of the forest, but Eve doesn’t have the intelligence to memorize the structure of the Imperial palace.

But she seemed a little different today.

It reminded me of how I was forced to receive flowers from her at the temple during the day.

This woman dared to block me and insisted on taking those flowers.

Even if I refused, I knew that she wouldn’t listen and would follow me around until I accepted it.

It was not bold, but shameless.

That alone is amazing, and even a small folded note was hidden inside the flower.

‘The note hidden in the petals was quite romantic, though.’

It wasn’t a strange thing.

Since adulthood, there have been countless women who’ve been trying to seduce him.

Terrence has been receiving blatant letters from all kinds of ladies over the years asking for secret meetings.

More than half of them were from this Princess.

And since he has always been busy, those letters went straight to the trash without even reading.

Again, he thought it was such a trivial temptation and tried to throw it away without even reading it.

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“Please…  Please keep this flower by your side and take good care of it.”

It was a fleeting moment, but Terence sensed the fear and anxiety hidden in that small voice.

Even the pale fingers that touched lightly when he was handed the flowers were stiffened with tension.

No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t feel like she was asking for a secret meeting.

I tried to ignore it at first, but the little voice that asked me to look at the flowers kept bothering me.

It was too uncomfortable to ignore and move on, he hesitated but unfolded the small piece of paper.

However, there was something completely unexpected about it.

It contained a description of where to find a part of the lost heirloom of the Duchy, along with the contents and a request to meet at the Imperial temple at this time.

As the Princess said, the statue of the goddess actually had a scabbard inside.

In the end, he entered the palace at the request of the Princess.

I thought I’d try to hear what she wanted to say.

Terrence was so assured that he wouldn’t be surprised no matter what she said.

Although he was the Grand Duke, he led a difficult life so that he would not be surprised by anything.

But the words that came out of his fiancée’s mouth were far more surprising than expected.

‘The Emperor would kill his daughter and frame me.’

Terrence patted the tip of his chin, in deep thought.

Even if they put aside what the foresight had to say, it was a story that had a lot of potential loopholes on it.

The fact that, once the Princess died, the person most likely to be blamed would be Terrence himself.

‘If I never told you about my foresight and just stated the assassination on our wedding day, you would rather wait and see if I would really be killed than help me in advance. Am I right?‘

Of course, if he had known that the Emperor was thinking like that, he would have neglected the death of the Princess.

It was far more beneficial for him to uncover the Emperor’s evil deeds after the Princess died than to save her as he discovered the truth.

The Princess in front of him was also aware of that fact.

‘It seems like she’s having a sense of realization.’

Like telling him that ‘I’m not that stupid.’

When he realized that the other person was of the opposite sex, the situation felt even more bizarre.

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‘On the one hand, I wondered if all of this was a ploy from the Emperor.’

But what can the emperor get from such a plan?

All the Princess wanted now was just to protect herself.

Terrence looked carefully at Eve’s white face.

There was no lie showing on her innocent face. Terrence seemed to really believe what she was saying.

He thought for a moment, then opened his mouth.

“You said that you saw me on the wedding day when you looked into the future.”

“Yes. But that……”

“Then let me ask you one thing.”

Terrence cut off Eve’s words and asked clearly.

“What was I wearing then?”

They said that lying is like a sandcastle.

Although it looks solid from the outside, it collapses in an instant if you touch the weak part.

To check whether the other person’s statement is a lie, it’s good to point out small details out of the blue.

No matter how hard she tries to make up a story, if it’s not something that actually happened, but a story made up of lies, there’s bound to be a loophole somewhere.

But Eve did not panic.

She stared blankly at Terrence for a moment before answering.

“You were wearing a black court robe.”

Terrence’s purple eyes widened a little.

It was yesterday morning that the butler said, “I will prepare a new military uniform before the wedding.”

At that time, he roughly thought of it, but then changed his mind right after he saw his little brother playing in the mansion’s garden around lunchtime.

At some point, his younger brother, Lot, was talking about the Crown Prince whom he had seen on the day of the event and said casually.

“Why doesn’t my brother wear a court robe? I want to see my brother in a court robe. I’m sure that you would look cooler than the Prince.”

It had already been several months, and it was a memory that Terrence himself had forgotten until then.

Since childhood, Terrence has only worn military uniforms whenever he goes to war. And he also wore it whenever he attended court events.

It was supposed to be the same this time, but he changed his mind when the words of his younger brother came to mind.

‘This time, I’ll be wearing a court robe, In black.’

The last court robe that he wore was probably indigo blue.

It’s not a bad idea either, but he thought that a plain color would be better this time.

Black would be fitting for a wedding.

That’s what he had decided. He hasn’t given his order yet, let alone the deacon, to prepare court robes.

It was definitely a coincidence that she got it right.

‘It could be a coincidence.’

Since Terrence always wore a military uniform for every event.

She may have thought that I won’t be giving her an answer for the clothes that I’ll be wearing most of the time, she might have thought that it would be court robes in a moment’s notice.

If the color is men’s clothing, it is navy blue, gray, or black. He doesn’t even have much gold or white clothes.

Even so, it felt strange that one thing was right.

Up until a while ago, he thought that it was completely crazy, but now he was like, ‘No way…….’

In fact, Princess Eve was born with the ability to foresee the future.

Although there are only a handful of times she has actually seen a foresight, and it is known that even that has disappeared after the age of 10.

‘Does that mean that she really revived her ability?’

It’s still unbelievable, but it wouldn’t hurt to check it anyway.

Terrence thought for a moment, then said.

“Honestly, what you just said is so nonsensical that it’s hard to believe it.”

“Of course you would. Still, if you wait a little, the eclipse will definitely be…”

“I can’t afford to wait five more days just to prove that you’re not crazy.”

Terrence cut the Princess’s words firmly.

“So if you really have regained your foresight….”

He said, looking intently into the other person’s bright blue eyes.

“Predict what will happen to me tonight.”

-ˏˋ ━━━━━━ ʚɞ ━━━━━━ ˊˎ-

(Eve’s POV)

“… What?”

What the hell is this?

For a moment, I thought I heard it wrong.

For me to see his future? Would that even work at this moment?

Of course, I remember the original story, so I can just tell him the contents of the original…..

‘But what would happen to the Grand Duke tonight?’

No matter how much I look back at the original story, I couldn’t remember what happened to the Grand Duke tonight.

‘… Tonight’s event doesn’t seem to have appeared in the original story at all.’

At this moment that focus of the novel was on Sorel, who went to war.

The work of the institution passes only with brief explanations in between the chapters.

The Grand Duke appears at the center of the story in earnest when Eve was finally murdered. What he was doing until then is not revealed in detail.

It was natural. No matter how hard I’ve read the original, I couldn’t know the actions of the characters in it.

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Wouldn’t it be boring to write down and describe each and every action of each character day and night?

Even the main character is not written in such detail.

After a lot of thought, I stammered and explained.