CH 34.2

He grinned as if he was bewitching, but Iveca swallowed her dry saliva because of her estrangement from the King’s usual appearance. It was unbelievable that such a sweet King could humiliate people like this. Many people predicted that there would be a unique personality hidden behind the King’s picturesque smile, but she did not know of anyone who encountered this situation.

“It’s the King’s order.”

The young King, with his blue, deep eyes, smooth appearance like a carved stone, and a solid body that matched his beautiful appearance, was openly teasing her. She answered in a low voice, sighing. There was nothing she could do about what had already happened, anyway.

“Maybe… You were there. There were no investigation staff, and you knew exactly the mundane jokes that weren’t worth reporting…… I believe you’ve been hiding.”

Daniel was no longer panicked but gave a slight look of surprise at Iveca’s calm reasoning. Iveca, who deduced a positive answer from his silence, continued in a low voice.

“We went to a bar in the university district where students who had just come out from college secretly took off their school uniforms and went there. It’s not a good place to get a sense of people’s lives. I think the reason you went undercover in such a place was pure because you longed for your past.”

Her face, which had turned white, suddenly returned to its colour, and her voice regained composure. Iveca continued without hesitation.

“But the past never comes back, and people change with the environment.”

Daniel was silent.

“You suddenly ascended the throne that you did not want and I know you miss your free past.”

That the King went to the bar where college students were going meant that he cared more about the happiness of the past than now. She was a timid child when she had just left the Count’s estate, but as she gradually became a different person, Daniel would also be a different person for his new throne. People were not that free from their environment.

“But in a new environment, there will be new people to match with you. If you live like that, you will become a better King than anyone else.”

After finishing her words calmly, Iveca lowered her head once more.

“I hope the conversation will be smooth enough and pleasant for you.”

It was advice that started with reasoning, identified his feelings, and then followed suitably. Daniel looked at her as if he were looking at a strange person.

Iveca knew well that even if she said sorry and kept quivering under his stare, her earnestness would not work for those who held the blade of forgiveness. Because she lived eighteen years trembling and it did not work for her family.

That was why she complied with the King’s demands neatly and ended the situation. The King’s disposition that she had observed for a month as more heartless than she had expected, but it was not vicious. She knew that if she answered this much, he would let her go now, even if there might be further disciplinary action against her.

But Daniel tilted his head and grinned.

“This is how you do it with your lovers? With love and attention?”

“…Yes.”

Daniel’s face lit up with interest as he looked at Iveca’s face, which swallowed a sigh. In fact, for a month, he did not show a slight interest in the investigation staff. Two days ago, he just thought it was unique to be an employee of an affiliated organization but speaking up for noble girls.

Her sister, Princess Ashe, was one of those pathologically disliked aristocratic children. Perhaps she did not like the entire relationship leading to a political union. However, he thought it surprising that an employee of an affiliated organization made a statement acknowledging the political spirit itself.

His close friends went away, and his brothers tried to kill each other. One day, suddenly, people he believed would be with him left, leaving only the lonely throne.

So last night, when he went out on a hiking trip with a lonely heart, he found Eve, who was laughing and chatting with her colleagues and drinking excitedly.

‘Eve, you must do a good job. Who knows that you can fill the most boring and blunt Kayden’s vacancy and become his closest aide. Tell him something gentle and funny. With love and care, as you do with your lover.’

‘Really, shall we aim for Kayden Ruth’s seat? If I become his closest aide, I’ll be promoted quickly, right? Should we do it before the seniors?’

Unlike the hard and formal expression that she used to present the report every day, her relaxed face was strange, so he sat still on the back seat. Then Daniel, who was at first taken aback by the bluffs that continued to make no sense, eventually burst into laughter.

This was because the cute appearance, who had unrelenting skepticism about love, and jokes that she was aiming for the position of Kayden Ruth, was different from the hard-boiled Bureau of Investigation staff that he saw every day.