I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration - Chapter 14

“Killian? What are you doing there?”

The quiet atmosphere stirred slightly.

“Ah, Lizé……”

“What’s wrong?”

Killian, who had been lost in thought on the balcony overlooking the moonlit garden, smiled faintly as he saw Lizé approaching, looking like she had come from the moon.

“No, nothing……”

“Nothing? Is it because of that fight you had with Cliff earlier?”

“Fight with Cliff? Me?”

“I mean…… about the estate inspection……” Lizé trailed off, unable to say more.

Suddenly Killian remembered how Cliff had taunted him earlier.

“Alas, that was nothing.”

“Then what is it?”

Killian met Lizé’s eyes looking at him with concern.

In the past, he used to love the way Lizé looked at him with concern, and sometimes he’d even purposely pretend to be in a serious mood just to be in her line of sight.

I still like the way she looks at me, but I’m not doing anything stupid to intentionally worry her. It’s not like I have anything major to worry about, just nagging thoughts about that woman since tea time earlier.

“Something’s bothering me.”

“You’re suffering alone again. Tell me, maybe there’s something I can do to help.”

“It’s not even worth your time.”

Killian smiled, but Lizé, ever the shrewd one, quickly realized something.

“Is this about Edith……?”

Instead of answering, Killian let out a long sigh.

“Why Edith? Do you still hate her that much?” Lizé asked again.

“She keeps bugging me.”

“Does she? Edith never even talks about you……”

Killian’s brow creased. “She doesn’t talk about me at all?”

“I’ve never heard Edith talk about you…… and the Duchess gave me a complicated look when she said she hadn’t heard of it either.”

“Ha……!”

He laughed, feeling a little absurd.

“Why? Is it because you want to talk to her?”

“Who wants to talk to such a woman!”

She’s a snake’s offspring.

Right now, she’s just lying flat on the floor, waiting for everyone to let their guard down. And when the time comes, she’s sure to show her fangs.

I don’t even want to look at her, let alone talk to her.

“Wow…… you’re hurting me like this?”

“I’m a human too.”

I don’t know why her words kept coming back to me.

No way, she got hurt by something like that?

We both knew it was an arranged marriage.

She was the brave one who set foot in House Ludwig alone because she had something to gain, knowing that she’d be ignored and suspected.

Such a woman can’t be hurt by a few harsh words.

‘Yeah, I’m sure she was just pretending to be hurt so she could stab me.’

She is the same woman who stood up to Cliff Ludwig without fear.

‘But why did she take my side in that fight?’

Even if it is no secret that he is in love with Lizé, he can’t just say it in front of the bride he just married.

Especially when that bride is the one who tried to take his side.

So he’s angry at Cliff for not being more forthcoming about his feelings for Lizé.

To his surprise, the woman who had just been hurt by him was snapping at Cliff, not him.

“That’s too bad, because I’m not the kind of girl who gets rattled that easily.”

As Edith snorted, she really didn’t seem to mind the petty criticism.

Instead, she seemed more angry at the rude person, and her response was uncharacteristically blunt.

‘Honestly, it’s kind of refreshing…… no, no, no. Why am I thinking this?’

Killian shook his head as if to clear the image of Edith winking at him, then quickly changed the subject.

“Oh, by the way. I heard you ordered new dresses the other day. My mother loves to dress you up in new clothes.”

“Well, I have a lot of dresses…… and I feel so sorry for her every time……”

“What do you have to be sorry about? It’s my mother’s hobby, and she’s always told us it’s no fun raising two boys. She can finally do her hobby, think of it that way and help her out.”

The Duchess, who has only raised two blunt sons, has always envied the family with a daughter.

Her husband and son are all knights, and she sometimes became depressed when all three were late due to training.

But when the Duchess brought in Lizé, who had been harassed for being the illegitimate daughter of the Count of Sinclair, she became much brighter.

It was all thanks to Lizé’s presence, no wonder the Duchess treated her kindly like her own daughter.

“In that case, buying Edith’s dress would have made the Duchess happier……”

“Huh? What’s that supposed to mean?”

Arched an eyebrow, Lizé gave a small sigh. “Actually, it was Edith who asked for someone from the boutique that day.”

“I take it she was planning to rake in the duchy’s fortune as soon as she got married?”

“No. That day, Edith only asked that the dress she brought be altered.”

“What?”

Killian was confused for a moment.

If the woman known for her extravagance had called in the dressmaker, she would have ordered several very expensive dresses.

She is famous for never wearing a dress she has worn even once, but why would she have it altered……?

“The Duchess suggested that since she had called the dressmaker, she might as well have a new dress, but she refused, saying that she couldn’t even wear all the dresses she had brought with her.”

“Does that mean…… she embarrassed my mother in front of the dressmaker?”

“Well, no, I don’t think so, but I did think that the Duchess was a little upset, I think she wanted to buy Edith something nice……”

Killian snorted in disbelief. “She’s got a way of putting people down, she is indeed the daughter of that snake man.”

“I’m sure Edith didn’t mean that, she was so excited when choosing the Duchess’s dress and mine!”

Lizé tried to put her arms around Edith, but Killian’s glare was uncharacteristically clear and harsh.

“I guess she’s too much of a prude to entrust her dress to the dressmaker, but she was okay with entrusting yours and my mother’s? How arrogant……”

Killian gritted his teeth. Then he remembered that what Edith had worn today hadn’t bothered him so much.

He couldn’t remember what it was, but somehow, unlike that immodest dress at the wedding, it seemed to barely show her chest.

‘If she’s showing her chest, I hestcan’t help but notice, because I hate it even more.’

Killian frowned whenever Edith unabashedly bared her skin.

Does she even realize what men are saying about her?

“If I could lick Edith Riegelhoff from head to toe, I would.”

“Ah, Edith, yes, with that yummy-looking skin!”

“I wonder if there’s a man out there who could stand to have her naked body in front of him? Hahaha!”

Killian could hear the giggling voices of men who were just as vulgar as she was.

Suddenly, he remembered his wedding day, when Edith showed off her voluptuous breasts.

She had fallen asleep in the bathtub alone, and her slender, pure white naked body……

His throat went dry for some reason, but Killian swallowed hard, quelling any urges that might have been rising in him.

“Did she play some kind of weird prank on you, like picking out a grotesque dress for you……”

“No, my dress was picked out by the Duchess and Edith together, don’t hate Edith so much, Killian.”

“I don’t hate her, I’m just wary of her.”

Killian patted Lizé on the shoulder, reassuring her that she was not the reason Edith was treated as such.

And at the same time, in his heart, he was disgusted with Edith for looking down on House Ludwig’s standards.

But another part of him wondered if the noble atmosphere of Ruayal’s Boutique might not suit her extravagant tastes.

‘I’ll have to find her another boutique to satisfy her extraordinary tastes.’

Of course, it was only for the sake of House Ludwig’s dignity.

He didn’t want her to go around saying, “I couldn’t even bring myself to ask for a dressmaker because it wasn’t up to my standards.”

***

Today, as I was thinking about the original story and adding and subtracting items to my “Right Living Habits” list, I suddenly realized something important.

In order to be grateful for what you have, you need to be able to fully enjoy it.

‘So let’s give myself a little luxury!’

I have a lot of money in my pocket.

When I got married, in addition to jewelry and art, I had cash from the Riegelhoff family as a dowry, because the Duke of Ludwig didn’t take it and gave it to me as pocket money.

The unit of currency in this world is the senna, and I have five million sennas. I don’t know the exact exchange rate, but it seems to be around 50 million won.

‘Fifty million won! Where should I spend this money?’

It’s the first time I’ve ever had to think about something like this. I realized once again that this was a fantasy world!

But I don’t know what to spend it on.

‘Dresses? No. I have a pile of dresses, and I don’t have anywhere to wear them. Jewelry and accessories? No, no, no. Who needs jewelry and accessories when you don’t have anywhere to go out in a dress?’

In 21st-century South Korea, I would have plenty of places to spend my money: I could eat the finest food whenever I wanted, could read books in the library at home, no dresses or jewelry needed, and could buy essential supplies all at once on a semi-annual basis……

But here, even if I wanted to spend it, I couldn’t really find anything to spend it on.

‘This is the first time I’m nervous because I have nowhere to spend my money on.’

I was shaking my crossed legs in frustration when Anna walked up and whispered to me.