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“Your Highness, we have obtained the Blue Diamond.”
Assistant Derek said with a pleased face.
"truly?"
Even Yuan, who rarely showed emotions, had a hint of joy on his face at that moment.
He had waited for who knows how long to get that blue diamond.
Because he came at a time like this, perhaps the child in Seret's womb had brought him luck.
Yuan smiled softly, and took the ruby wedding ring off his finger.
“They say it will take about a week to arrive, since it is coming from the Aki Continent.”
Yuan was about to answer Derek, when the door opened and Seret's maid entered.
“Ma’am, labor pains have begun.”
“Labour?”
Yuan quickly stood up, a nervous look on his face.
So, the baby will finally be born.
Yuan quickly walked out of the office.
The ruby wedding ring, which he no longer needed, remained alone on the desk.
Two weeks later, a polished blue diamond ring was in Yuan's hand.
He stared at him with an expressionless face, then smiled with a pale sneer.
“It's time for the funeral, sir. We should really leave now.”
Derek said in a low voice.
"It has to be. It's my wife's funeral."
Yuan stood up with a straight face.
He got up, but his feet didn't move.
He glanced at the familiar desk.
The past few days have been a blur, probably because he hasn't been sleeping well.
Will he be able to sleep after the funeral is over?
With this thought, Yuan left the office.
The funeral in the ducal monastery was sombre.
Viscount Enohater fell unconscious from grief, which caused some disturbance.
But Yuan remained unchanged.
He stared coldly at Seret's face lying inside the glass coffin.
Foolish woman.
Yuan still didn't know what effect her death was supposed to leave on him.
When it was time to say goodbye, Yuan approached Siret.
Her face, sunken among the flowers, was pale.
Even as he looked at her lying in the coffin, he did not feel that what he was seeing was real.
A woman who was always at home, like a piece of furniture.
He did not think that the disappearance of a single piece of furniture would make such a big difference in his life...
Maybe he'll continue to live well.
That's what Yoann Frecktwister was.
Yuan took out the blue diamond ring from his pocket,
He slowly placed it on the fourth finger of her hand.
The ring fit perfectly on her hand.
***
Darkness fell in the room.
Yuan sat on the edge of the bed, staring at Seret as she slept.
He had seen in his dream that she was lying inside a coffin.
He rushed here unconsciously.
The grief that choked him gave him a feeling of helplessness and despair that he had never known before.
He entered his fiancée's room without permission.
His heart did not calm down until he was sure that she was still breathing.
He had to come back right after, but he couldn't take a step.
So here he was, secretly watching his sleeping fiancée.
Siret suddenly stirred and woke up startled.
“Who… Who’s there…? Yuan?”
She recognized him in the darkness, and called his name in a surprised voice.
Without saying a word, Yuan pulled her to his chest.
When his body contained it, he felt like he finally regained his breath.
“Yuan, what are you doing?”
Seret fidgeted, trying to get away from Yuan.
“Just one moment… just one moment, Siret.”
Yuan said in a low voice as he hugged her tighter.
He just wanted to stay like this for a little while, to make sure that a woman named Seret still existed in this world.
“Your Highness.”
Syrit continued to resist, but Yuan did not let go easily.
Finally, she seemed to give up, and her muscles relaxed.
Then she asked in a calmer voice.
“What's wrong?”
That voice penetrated deep inside him.
He felt a strange sadness creeping into his heart, so his grip on her back tightened.
He didn't understand himself—
How could a trivial dream shake him so much?
After a long time, he finally let go of her from his arms.
“I had a dream.” He said in a heavy voice.
“A dream? Was it the same one? The dream in which I died?”
Seret asked him, remembering their conversation in the carriage.
"Yes."
In the darkness, Yuan felt until he found Seret's hand,
When he felt the heat of her small hand, a faint smile appeared on his lips.
“Are you curious again? To know if you wish me dead?”
“Or did you come running to kill me yourself?”
Yuan sighed deeply at her cold, sharp tone.
“Don’t act like you wish you would die at my hands.”
“Who in this world wishes to die?”
She said this with a harsher tone to her voice, and pulled her hand from his grip.
When her heat disappeared from his hand,
Anxiety suddenly crept into Yuan's chest.
That anxiety turned in a strange direction, arousing within him a wild desire for Seret.
He wanted to bite her neck and leave his mark there.
To delve into her body to prove that she is his woman.
“Seret.”
He called her name while suppressing the desire burning inside him.
“Whatever our relationship may be, it is not appropriate for you to visit me at this hour, Duke Frecktwister.”
said Seret reproachfully.
His behavior was strange to her—
To be disturbed like this by a dream?
How could a man like him allow himself to be led so weakly?
Or do you see him just pretending?
“Honestly, I feel like you're mocking me, Your Highness.”
Just as he did in the carriage,
As if he came at this hour just to mess with her again.
Otherwise, is it possible that Yuan Freaktwister would lose his mind for the sake of a dream?
“I'm making fun of you?”
Yuan's eyebrows twitched when he heard the word sarcasm coming out of Seret's mouth.
In fact, she was the one making fun of him.
If she had known the motive that made him come running, she would not have said that.
“A dream is just a dream.”
“A dream is just a dream.”
Repeat her words slowly.
Yes, she said—a dream is just a dream.
As soon as one wakes up, it is just an illusion that has no reality.
However, Yuan did not understand how such an illusion could make him lose his mind like this
“But seeing you die in a dream hurts me.”
He said in a low voice.
Even after he woke up, the trail continued to haunt him.
It was strange—nothing like him at all.
He is unable to control his feelings, and confuses dream and reality.
“This behavior of yours is unbecoming of Duke Frecktwister.”
"Know."
He knows better than anyone that this behavior does not suit him.
"Don't torture yourself because I died in a dream. Don't let it hurt you."
Because you don't have the right to. How disgusting.
Seret gave him a cold look.
He will kill her after she gives birth to his child.
And now he claims that he was in pain because of her death in the dream?
Even stray dogs will laugh at his absurdity.
Is he pretending to look human so she won't run away?
But she will not be deceived.
Seret stared at him in the darkness.
Yuan smiled weakly, then slowly got up.
“Sorry to wake you up. Go back to sleep.”
"Yes."
She replied coldly, watching him leave the room.
He stood in front of her closed door thinking—
Is this moment the impact?
Or is the world in which Seret died the reality?
And this present is nothing but a dream?
He felt like he was walking through a thick fog.
***
Seret exhaled as she sipped her dark cocoa.
She was thinking about Yuan's behavior last night.
When he came into her room, he seemed strangely weak.
She had never seen him like this before.
How many times have you thought that Yuan Freaktwister is not afraid of anything?
He always seemed strong and unshakable.
But yesterday, he was a completely different person.
“Why does he keep having dreams about me dying? It’s disgusting.”
She furrowed her eyebrows.
Has his passion for killing me reached the point of insanity?
Or was he angry because I embarrassed Lydia yesterday, so he had such a dream?
What a great love.
She was muttering angrily when a soft knock sounded.
“Come in.”
Before she could finish the word, Hannah had entered.
“Miss, have you finished your breakfast?”
"Yes."
Hannah approached and examined the tray on the small table.
When she saw that the salad and cookies were completely finished, she smiled contentedly.
Seret put down her cup, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and got up from her seat.
"I did well."
“Today is going to be busy.”
She didn't have time to think about the man who killed her.
She had a lot to do today.
In the morning, she has to go out for something important.
In the evening, she will receive her father, who is coming from Mushili.
“Hannah, get ready to go out.”
“Now? But the Viscount will arrive in the afternoon.”
“I have somewhere else to go in the morning.”
"where?"
“I'll go to Eve's house, and then we'll have lunch together.”
Seret smiled slightly.
When they finished getting ready, Seret left with Hannah for Eve's house.
Eve greeted them with a bright face.
The simple little house was crowded with children.
Eve, who has many siblings, seemed exhausted from caring for them.
Naughty children running and screaming,
Until Seret felt her soul leaving her from the chaos.
“Ta ta.”
While she was waiting at Eve's request,
Eve's little sister came staggering to her feet and grabbed the hem of Seret's dress.
When she noticed the little girl was late, she smiled sweetly.
Seret knelt down to meet the child's gaze.
The little girl's face brought back to her memory the image of her child.
The one whose face you have never seen.
She did not see his features, but it was the child she carried for nine whole months.
That alone made her love him with an indescribable depth.
He must have been smiling with such an angelic face.
How beautiful he would have been as he trudged along.
My baby.
My child whose name I will never know.
Siret's eyes filled with tears.