# 6
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Even though the tone was filled with poison intended to hurt her, Ariana was not surprised.
I can only think about it carelessly.
The bedroom affair with me was actually just a convenient quenching of desire. So he also said that that child was a “mistake.”
That's why he didn't feel sad even when Beatrice died...
My mind became calmer.
She lowered her eyes and whispered softly,
“When the time comes to make room for the next woman, will you spare me?”
“This will come to a conclusion depending on what you do.”
Kenneth seemed completely uninterested.
He let her go and walked away like Ariana was dirty.
“There will be a banquet hosted by Count Byren, so get ready.”
“…yes”
This ends the couple's conversation.
The door slammed shut, and Ariana was alone again.
But this thorny conversation served as a good compass.
“I have to leave Kenneth's life.”
In my past life, didn't I discover the truth that I couldn't ask because I was afraid?
I will be abandoned at the right moment. And no matter how f-conscious Kenneth became in the public eye, he wouldn't get rid of me.
“In the worst case scenario, wouldn't I end up like those people hanging in the arena?”
Why doesn't he accuse me of a proper crime and kill me?
However, although I was once afraid of death, now I am not worried at all.
“Once I tried it, it wasn't that difficult.”
In fact, Kenneth must have been relieved that she died alone.
It would be a shame if it ended in a rather ugly way.
But Bibi (her child, Beatrice, was spoiled by Bibi)
Ariana clenched her hands so hard her nails cracked.
Even if Kenneth's life was turned upside down because of her and the Aberdeen family, he had crossed this line.
“Mom, I need you...”
Josefina has committed suicide, but she will try to be a different mother.
I will become a mother who makes her child happy. I will definitely meet Baby again and raise her to be a happier child than anyone else.
I wouldn't raise a child who would be wary of regular sweets like cake.
“Huh”
A tear ran down her cheek, but Ariana quickly wiped it away.
There was no reason to cry because I was sad.
This time, I will save the child and we will live together for a long time.
“You looked at my baby and said it was a mistake, Kenneth.”
But if you make a mistake once, you can make it twice.
So, this time too, Kenneth Clifford will make a “mistake.”
And I will disappear alone before he leaves me.
I'll take this person's child and go somewhere no one knows.
* * *
After finishing the conversation, Kenneth headed to the office.
I went to see Ariana in the first place because I thought she was causing a stir. Kenneth had no intention of spending the night with her.
Ariana is just a tool next to him.
However, his secretary, Roger Engels, seemed very dissatisfied.
The sharp-faced young man with red hair, pale skin, and green eyes was Old Kenneth's party.
“You must be careful, sir.”
He was also one of those close to him who opposed this union until the end.
No matter how much compromises with the imperial family, why Ariana Aberdeen?
“How useful is that woman?”
“And you think I'll be fooled again, Roger?”
“Well, that's not all!”
Roger felt sorry for Kenneth's careless rebuke. The person who finds the depiction of opera most shameful is Kenneth himf.
However, Roger was unable to hide his displeasure in the end.
“She is a woman who has nothing good to offer in the first place. Only the extravagance she indulged in during her engagement to the Crown Prince...”
Kenneth stared at the smoke from the cigar in silence.
While he barely overcame the killers and hid with the help of his family's helpers and the Dobris Kingdom.
People everywhere were constantly talking about how extravagant and debauched Ariana Aberdeen was as the future Crown Princess.
And also, how deeply she loves Andrew.
Everyone in the world knew this, but it was disgusting that she was as desperate as if that were not the case.
“Kenneth, can you give me one day on Wednesday?”
“It's okay even after this party is over...”
“You can think of it as an excuse, so please.”
“I never liked Andrew!”
In order to survive, she rejected her first husband as something that never happened.
I admit it was a wise decision, but it was clearly a terrible choice to save someone's life.
Even after more than a year of marriage, Ariana has remained the kind of pretentious person.
Kenneth took another deep breath on his cigar.
“But Duke”
Since when did Ariana always start using honorifics?
When he was a young duke, he was known as “Kenneth,” and calling him that for a long time was hypocritical.
“Okay, from now on... I was trying to be polite.”
I didn't like that.
Ariana's literature was imbued with disrespect.
In a situation where pleading was not enough, this situation was unbearably upsetting to me.
After the accident, Kenneth was bitter and uncomfortable if everything was not under control.
Ariana's recklessness also caused this kind of discomfort.
He had the right to grab the criminal, shake him, and then throw him away, but he could not allow himf to distance himf first and surrender. However, he did not reveal this muddy state of mind at all.
Because Kenneth Clifford no longer wants to be influenced by others.
“We will have her at the Duchess's place for a very short time, so stop bothering her.”
“Sir...”
“The Crown Prince got tired of the denial, and even my wife got tired very quickly.”
“Yes”,
Roger sighed regretfully.
However, Ariana Aberdeen will not last long.
“Now the Duke took his money because of the Imperial Family, but it was because of people like Lady Theodora Berrien.”
Count Theodora Beren's daughter, distinguished by her attractive black hair and eyes, was originally mentioned as a potential fiancée.
Furthermore, since her family ran a shipping company, it was a great deal for Clifford, who was at the forefront of developing southern tourism.
Wasn't it even her family that supported the Clifford family even when it was difficult?
“If you care about having an heir, you will marry that woman again.”
And Theodora Perrine herf probably thought so too.
In the end, Kenneth sent Roger away with an indifferent gesture. He only lifted the frame of the small table that was left face down on the desk when he was alone.
What was placed in the frame was a piece of the article that had been roughly torn up.
The woman photographed during the engagement party was smiling brightly with the happiest face in the world.
As befits an article that praises the beauty of gray-blonde hair and aquamarine eyes.
Come to think of it, Kenneth himf had known this woman since childhood, but he had never seen her smile like this before.
When Ariana Aberdeen talked to Kenneth, she would often look at the ground or frown as if it was embarrassing.
“But on graduation day, I will ask the person I love to come.”
“… Would you like to come?”
So I should have considered this offer suspicious.
She covered her face with her long hair, looking like she didn't know what to do, and ended up becoming a fool like no other in the world...
“I won't have much to write about after I graduate. I'm going to marry someone anyway.”
But out of all the lies, this was perhaps the only truth.
She must have been conspiring with her family to come up with a nice plan.
He smiled as he looked at old Ariana, who was about to become the Crown Princess.
“So this was your real dream.”
What do you mean by “planning to marry someone after graduation”?
“… I'm so sorry for ruining your glory.”
On a large scale.
He covered the ugly picture frame again.
* * *
Andrew Claude. Ariana's first husband, the Crown Prince, eloped less than half a day after the wedding.
Although he was a loser in the political struggle, his foreign reputation had been excellent even then.
He received honorable insults from men called “Saenim” because he never flirted with women.
So no one believed Ariana.
“If you go to wedding school, you should also experience the most important thing.”
It was actually a monster.
A very cunning and greedy monster and I don't know how he managed to hide his true nature for so long.
Even the upper-class men he hung out with were unaware of his vile nature.
However, the night before the engagement party, the triumphant and drunken man revealed his true nature to Ariana, who became his “legitimate” prey.