Raising my Fiancè with Money - Chapter 8

Stalker

TL: Jasmine

The noisy surroundings instantly dissolved. Lilia smiled bitterly at those people staring at her. However, because of her beautiful looks, she gave others angelic feelings.

Lilia looked around her quietly, those who met her gaze flattered.

She was not a parasite. How long will they stare at her, afraid she was going to suck their sweets? (T/N: it means they are kind of vary of her and afraid of her sudden change)

“It’s not good here, so I need to get some air.”

Lilia stepped away first.

Perhaps because of pride, Richard did not hold onto Lilia. Quietly, She heard Richard whisper close to her ear.

“She doesn’t usually do that, but she doesn’t feel good today.”

Knowing Richard’s nasty attitude in the past, Lilia has already been long used to it.

Maybe he didn’t know she was that kind of person, or he knew but pretended not to know. She had always wanted to ask him that in the past.

Lilia then walked toward the terrace.

Then she called the servant who passed by and asked,

“Would you bring me a bottle of strong liquor here?”

Lilia entered the empty terrace.

She drew out the curtain so that no one could see from the inside, and then she approached the railing. From the terrace protruding in a semicircle, she could see the garden at a glance.

Lilia looked down over the garden, and bitterness struck. In the place where the infested anger passed, a bewildered mind fell.

This time she already realized that Richard was a bad guy, but still everytime she witnessed it again with her own eyes, her heart was bitter.

‘You were always thinking of me as a water buffoon.’

The moment she learned about it, she became depressed. After a while, the attendant came in with a liquor bottle and a glass.

She put the glass on the edge of the railing and picked up only the bottle. As she pulled the cork, which was already halfway out, there was a popping sound.

Wanting to get drunk quickly, Lilia gulped down the bottle of alcohol directly.

If others were to see, they might point out how she must’ve been unsophisticated, but it didn’t matter anymore.

Either way, there will be all kinds of rumors tomorrow. The Bloden Young Lady, who used to be a pushover, became weird.

Drinking the liquor like water, Lilia put down the bottle.

“I have to make a plan to break off this engagement.”

After seeing what Richard was doing, she wanted to break the marriage as soon as possible.

Then she’ll pluck the bloody tears from Richard’s eyes.

‘If you’re this kind, it’s good if you can’t carry your face.’ (T/N: he acts like all kind and all so it will be good if he is unable to carry that face in public)

It was the moment when Lilia reached her hand for the bottle again. She heard the sound of the door opening.

Surprised, Lilia turned her head automatically.

“. . . . !”

Lilia opened her eyes wide when she saw an uninvited guest in haste. A tall man stood at the terrace door. Lilia observed his face with her mouth opened in surprise.

It was the pushover she met at the music box store.

He also stopped as if he was surprised to see Lilia. In an unexpected encounter, the two stared at each other silently for a moment.

“…. I’m sorry. I thought no one was here, I was too careless… I’ll be out soon.”

The man politely offered an apology first.

Lilia turned around and quickly called him up.

“Wait a moment. “

The big body came to an abrupt halt.

“It’s okay for you to stay here.”

It was only for an instant, but Lilia already saw his expression. He seemed very troubled. There seems to be an upsetting situation, so it doesn’t matter if it is only for a while.

“Thank you.”

After a moment of hesitation, he let out his breath, sighing. It sounds like a sigh of relief.

The man stood as far away as he could and didn’t move an inch. Lilia glanced at him with his back on the door. She thought about it when she saw him in the store. She really liked his physique.

His height was also superior to others, and his shoulders and body size were great as well. At a glance he looked as heavy and rowdy as a bear, but he wasn’t.

Although his bone’s structure itself was large, there was also a flexible line all over his body that made him seem to look strong.

Big but sleek, an ideal body that a sculptor would admire. His face also could be said to be handsome. In other words, however, he looked more spicy-hot than handsome.

Black hair that seemed to have enhanced a mystical feeling and blue eyes bright as a sky in the early morning.

The straight and dark eyebrows looked thick as if the painter had drawn them with a brush.

The eyes sculpted under the eyebrows were angled smoothly, creating an enchanting fierce look.

The glide nose bridge and broken porcelain-like jaw line were sharp, and the tightly closed mouth made a hearty impression.

The biggest impact above all was the facial expression. The first time she met him, he wasn’t that expressive, so he gave an impression of having a hard face.

‘If I don’t look closely, I’ll never notice.’

Lilia could read the feelings of others well.

It was because she had used to do stuff that made her deal with people, so she had the habit of looking at their mood and expression. So she was able to quickly read the man’s face that came up faintly.

But most people would never know what he was thinking or how he felt. The red light fell on the man’s face. The light seemed too dazzling, but he took it silently without even moving a step.

His body features seemed to be to keep the line shape. It somehow felt thick, on the one hand it seemed inflexible.

He opened his mouth after a long time.

“I’m sorry at the… I’m sorry.”

It was about what happened at the Orgel store. Lilia had helped the man, but then he offered a reward before they went separate ways.

“I made a mistake. I didn’t know you’d be offended.” (the man)

Lilia blinked slowly.

Suddenly, she wondered why he offered to give her a reward.

“So why did you offer a reward?”

“I thought it was a righteous thing to do, giving you a reward, since you helped me.”

But in that situation, isn’t it a bit wrong?

He gave her money all of a sudden.

He made a face that he didn’t understand, and he slowly explained why.

“Others were happy when I offered a reward in a similar case before…There was never unrequited kindness.”

His voice sounded calm, as if to recite the most obvious words. Lilia pressed her lips because she didn’t know what to say for a moment.

It’s natural to be kind when there’s a price, but there’s no one who’s kind without a price.

‘What a tough life you’ve been living…..’

She couldn’t fully understand him, but to some extent the misunderstanding seemed to have been resolved.

At least it wasn’t an act of bluffing or trying to belittle her. Lilia opened her mouth with a soft face.

“I was just doing a favour.”

“Favour…?”

He mumbled as if he were talking to himself. He looked like he never heard that word before. He seemed to be a person who didn’t know the meaning of the word “favour”.

“I’m neither your servant nor your employee.”

He was silent.

She didn’t think he could understand her perfectly, so Lilia spoke more bluntly.

“I mean, you don’t have to do anything like a case. I don’t need money in particular.”

Lilia emphasized the last words.

The man silently nodded slowly.

“Yes. I will keep it in mind.”

He repeatedly apologized again. It was a little burdensome to keep hearing about an apology, but it was fresh. It was because it was not so common that nobles gave up their pride and gave apologies.

‘I don’t know which family it is, but he’s polite.’

Lilia picked up the bottle again.

Still, it wasn’t appropriate to drink directly from the bottle, so she brought the glass she had put aside before.

She poured the drink into a glass and drank a sip.

As she felt his gaze, Lilia asked.

“Would you like to drink?”

“I am in moderation.”

He’s really an upright man.

And so Lilia didn’t recommend it to him any more and just continued to drink alone. When she almost emptied the bottle, she was already a little drunk.

Her disturbed heart was also a little softened. Lilia put down the glass and asked, looking at him.

“Can I ask why you suddenly jumped onto the terrace?”

As he hesitated, Lilia shook her head.

“If it is a private matter. It is okay if you don’t tell.”

She wasn’t trying to force him to answer.

However, whether he accepted it differently, she opened her shut mouth.

“…..I have someone with whom talks about engagement is going on.”

The man glanced at the terrace door in anxiety. Lilia, who hated her fiancé and came to drink alone, quickly became interested.

“Are you having trouble with someone who will be your fiancé, too?”

“Trouble……”

“Then what is troubling you?”

She looked back at him while he threw the question back, he lowered his eyes.

“I am being followed, and it’s getting uncomfortable.”

“Following you?”

It’s not particularly bad to follow another person in the banquet hall, was that something wrong? As Lilia stared at him curiously, he snapped his lips closed.

A man who couldn’t win the glance to tell me slowly gave an example.

The man, who couldn’t stand her stare anymore, glanced at her and slowly started to give an explanation.

“That little behaviour….It’s too excessive.”

The other party, who suggested the engagement, came to see him everyday or every night if he didn’t contact her for a while.

Whenever he didn’t say where he was going, she would somehow pretend to have met him by coincidence, and when he was with other people, the person would suddenly run wild like crazy.

Apparently the other party didn’t stop only there, she also has been coming and going with her family as she pleases.

Interfering in every single aspect in his life as if she has already become his wife.

‘He couldn’t breathe’.

(T/N: it doesn’t literally means he couldn’t breath but it means he was being under stress because of that other person)

Lilia thought when he finally finished talking.

“Wow. Stalker…..”

Lilia at first thought it wasn’t strange, immediately changed her mind. Judging from the nature of this man, it was obvious he couldn’t stand such behaviors.

Wasn’t he almost touted by the music box store’s clerk?

“……I asked her not to do this, but every time, I was ignored. I’m worried that it will only get worse after the engagement ceremony.”

Lilia gave a sympathetic look. Arranged marriages happen very often in noble families, but they were not stalkers.

The man didn’t even seem to like his future fiancé.

“That’s a big deal. You’d better discuss it with the family.”

“The family…..”

He shuts his mouth. As the face darkened in no time, Lilia thought that she had to change the topic.

“Actually, I also suffered a little because of my fiance this time.”

The man raised his head.

Looking at her in silence, Lilia said something she hadn’t said to her family.

“That person betrayed me.”

She wanted to open the door right now and shout at Richard to break off the engagement. However, there were too many mountains to overcome in order to break off the engagement.

‘If I had a higher status than Richard, I wouldn’t have been worried about this.’

When Lilia was trying to calm down and about to open her mouth to continue again. The terrace door suddenly burst open.

And someone jumped in.

“Sir Evantheon!!!”

Lilia was instantly sobered by a shrieking ringing voice.

“Evantheon, I was surprised you disappeared all of a sudden!”

A woman in colorful clothes with her long hanging navy hair, said while holding his arm. Standing at the end of the terrace, Lilia blinked blankly.

Evantheon, that’s a name she has heard a lot…

What, Evantheon?!

Lilia opened her eyes wide. Only one of these people at today’s banquet could be called Evantheon.

There was only one.

Karhan Evantheon, heir to the Duke’s family.

He was the main character of the rumor that everyone was talking about earlier.