CH 1.5

CHAPTER 1: THE SUPPORTING ROLE IS ALSO QUITE DIFFICULT (V)

Part 006

New Year’s morning has dawned! That world didn’t have the beautiful custom of giving money. From the first day of the new year, there was only a bad habit of throwing people into a messy banquet hall and starving them. Crazy, did they do that for three days?

“Jenny, give me one more cookie.”

“It’s not possible.”

“If I eat one more cookie, who will die? Are you saying you’re going to die if I eat it?”

“You won’t eat it.”

Resolute… she wouldn’t even go in with a needle, their wonderful Jenny. All she had that morning was two cookies and two glasses of milk. No, how did one live with that?

“A vicious handmaiden is trying to starve me to death.”

Jenny, who was doing the final check on her dress while letting go of her reason in hunger, let out a sigh and then came back in front of her, met her eyes straight and said with strength.

“The lady said she didn’t like the corset, so I sewed it on to fit the waistline as closely as possible. The material of the dress is soft and not stiff, so if you eat it, your stomach will fill up as soon as you eat it, right? It will come out with a ball. Do you know? Even if you go to a banquet, you shouldn’t just pick something up and eat it. In the world, what kind of countess lady sticks her belly out at a banquet?”

Yes, she was all right. She was thankful to her for allowing her not to wear a corset. No, but that was also a world inhabited by people, and people may come out with a little belly. It’s important to have a belly. Wasn’t a person’s life important?

“What if my stomach comes out? My stomach is cute even if it comes out a little.”

She had a heartache, so she put air in her stomach and inflated it. It was quite exhilarating to see Jenny giggle and contemplate, but when she heard the sound of stitches coming undone, she freaked out and gave her stomach strength again.

“Oh, my God! Angie, call Angie! Right now!”

“Angie passed out after sewing all night until this morning. What should I do? Did it break a lot? Did it really break?”

When Jenny screamed and called Angie, the maid in our family’s chief bedroom, the other maids, Anna and Ruby, who had been lying down like losers all over her room, ran like zombies and clung to her sides. She couldn’t breathe and gave more strength to her stomach. Fortunately, the unfortunate incident of the clothes bursting did not happen.

Actually, she wanted to take it off and try again out of anxiety, but it takes an hour to put on and take off that damn dress. She was going to be late if she didn’t leave now, so she couldn’t help but put on her shoes. Jenny grabbed her as she was about to leave with a solemn voice.

“Lady, now it doesn’t matter if your stomach is protruding or not. If you do something wrong, your clothes will burst. You know what I mean? I’m going to hang myself from the cherry tree. Really.”

Originally, she didn’t think Ann was of such a character, but it’s becoming weird because she was weird.

“Okay. I’ll be careful.”

“Please save me. By all means.”

“Okay, Jenny. It’s scary, so stop.”

From yesterday until this time, the maids who were in a state of disrepair came out one after another to see her off with their ugly eyes shining.

“Damian, where are you uncomfortable?”

“It’s okay, don’t tell me, older brother. If I lose my strength, I’ll be in big trouble.”

Rootvan was worried about her, who tightened her lower stomach and sat with her back straight, looking uncomfortable everywhere she looked. She was going to hold out for the next four hours, just four hours, then look at the atmosphere and get out.

The cream colored dress with lots of lace and the loosely rolled hair were perfect today. She didn’t know that the belly fat that wasn’t much would be an ambush. She just had to be careful when she sat down. ’Ajaaja’ only when sitting down.

After getting off the carriage and entering the banquet hall with her father, who had arrived in another carriage, the attendant raised his voice and introduced them to the rest.

“This is Count Etihad and his family.”

She greeted her father’s acquaintances who were nearby, and asked her brother’s friends about their well-being, and then came out slightly. The hall was already full of people, probably because she was late. As she was looking around the hall thinking that she should say hello to the ladies she knew, Lady Laurel spoke to her first.

“Lady Damian.”

“Lady Laurel. Nice to meet you. Wow, you look so pretty today.”

Laurel, who has dark curly hair and dark eyes with slightly raised eyebrows, had a strong impression of him, so she had a face that was suitable for going with her to get a refund. Today, she looked much brighter than usual with a pale yellow dress, pearl decorations, and yellow makeup that matched her outfit. She responded with a nice smile on her face.

“Lady Damian, you look beautiful today. The cream colored dress suits you really well.”

In fact, Lady Laurel’s family, Countess Madeira, was a neutral faction close to the aristocratic faction, so they hadn’t had much contact with each other in the meantime. So even if they ran into each other, they only exchanged greetings, but after talking about her last time at her Philia’s birthday, she somehow liked her.

It’s her preference to express her opinion clearly without exaggerating. She must be a young lady who really wanted to talk, not the conversations of nobles whose half was rhetoric and the other half was spin. They walked around the hall, sharing her story of the secret news of the Duke of Bigor.

“That’s what happened. If the Duke passed away, it would have spread throughout Midoc, but I didn’t know.”

“That’s what he’s going to do, because the new Duke Bigor somehow held the funeral as a family head.”

“The head of the family? It’s rare. The head of a family in a ducal family.”

“In terms of it, everyone was puzzled because he was also a member of the royal family. He had been away from Midok for a long time, so there must be many people here today who are waiting for the new Duke of Bigor.”

“Has he been somewhere else?”

“Yes, they said he was in the border area for a long time as a member of the National Guard. Ah, over there is Lady Ailene.”

At the end of the story, Ailene, several young ladies, and many young children were gathered at the place Laurel pointed to with the tip of the fan. Their Chunhyang had ascended to the throne as the queen of society.

“I need to go say hello. Would you like to go with me?”

“I met them a little while ago.”

“Then, let’s talk again later. It was fun.”

“Then again,”

Unfortunately, after parting with Laurel, she went to Ailene’s, and Ailene, who found her, jumped up from her seat and approached her.

“Damian!”

“Ailene, long time no see. How are you?”

“Damian, I’ve been waiting for you. I have something I need to tell you.”

Ailene was nice enough to almost hug her, then she took her hand and gave notice to her group.

“Everyone, excuse me for a moment. I have something important. See you all later.”

Then she grabbed Damian and headed to the terrace. What about introductions or greetings? It was a somewhat rude situation, but she didn’t want to socialize, and she thought it would be okay if she was okay, so Damian followed her to the terrace and sat facing Ailene.

She gave strength to her stomach and straightened her back.

“I came up with a way!”

“Pardon?”

“How to avoid to get engaged!”

“Ah, really? What is it? What is it?”

“Dating!”

Huh? Love?

“Is that… are you okay? Isn’t your dad going to get you married?”

“Anyway, you’re probably going to be uncomfortable. But dating is for two people, so if we go out officially, won’t he be able to think of the man’s point of view and not be able to do anything about me?”

“The man’s position? Do you already have a partner?”

“No, it’s not like that. I’m going to look for someone from a family my father canaccept. I’ve made a lot of connections for that. How is it? Not so good?”

Ailene looked at her with the eyes similar to her homework sword master, Sarle.

Love, love… If she beated the crown prince, and if the duke could accept it, she would have to beat it a lot. Looking at Ailene with twinkling eyes, she wondered what the meaning of this worry was. If a pretty girl like that shined like this, well, even the king would be seduced.

The engagement story hasn’t come out yet, and since she was going to have her coming-of-age ceremony soon, she was not too young to date. If it’s not meeting secretly, but meeting after officially applying for a date, it would be hard for the Duke to oppose unconditionally. She would have to be aware of the position of the other family as well. The other man would have to endure the Duke’s checks and the crown prince’s friction well, but that kind of difficulty in dating Ailene should be funny. It’s not like she was asking him to fight a dragon, but she wondered if that’s enough.

The scandal of breaking up after dating couldn’t be good for the young lady, but it wouldn’t be bad to meet a good person and get married. Still, it would have been better if it was a method other than relying on someone. Although she felt some regret, there was no other way she could help, and since it was decided by Ailene herself, she must have found the way that suits her best.

“No, I think that’s a good idea.”

“Isn’t it? I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. It’s better than eating spoiled milk and getting a stomach ache, right?”

Ailene rolled her eyes and smiled. It must have been a dog she really didn’t like. Thinking about it again, it was a reasonable plan, so she accepted it right away.

“Yeah. I think I was too impatient with my haste. Each of your thoughts is a much more long-term and fundamental solution.”

“Isn’t it? Ah, now I feel relieved. For three days from today, all the households have attended, so I have to aim for Yeonhwa this time.”

“Don’t be too impatient and look for it. You shouldn’t found something worse while trying to avoid the crown prince.”

“Worse than Tyrellius. Whatever you say, we’ll find a much better man for us.”

The flower of the social world didn’t worry at all about how to twist it. All right, the main character didn’t do that. Even if one hit her on the cheek, she was the first one to hit me on the cheek.

“Has anyone thought of it?”

“First of all, the best candidate is Duke Bigor, who has succeeded to the duchy this time around. He’s young and very handsome. But he’s very blunt and cold-hearted? He likes friendly people. As you know.”

“Duke Bigor? I heard that the former duke passed away not too long ago. Oh, the new duke should be younger.”

“They say he’s 24 now. Well, he’s been away from the capital for four years. I’ll have to meet him to find out what kind of person he is. But you don’t know anything about the social world, do you?”

“I barely came today because I was studying, but well, I’m not interested anyway.”

“So like you.”

Ailene folded her golden-brown eyelashes and laughed softly, then got confused. She was like a fox.

She was still worried that she might end up meeting a tiger while trying to avoid it, but a tiger would pull out its teeth if it smiled. Ailene finished her story and returned to her pack.