The Monster Duke Mistook Me for His Wife

The mask was removed, and the exposed face was terribly unfamiliar and cold.

 

“What are you talking about, Ria?”

 

Being wary of the sudden change of atmosphere, the man who paused again pulled his lips back and smiled.

 

A familiar smile turned towards me, but the unfamiliar face I encountered in that instantaneous moment could not be erased from my mind.

 

“Ria. Just like you were reborn, I was also born again. To see you.”

 

Reborn? No way. That person is obviously….

 

“… No way.”

“I understand. Surprised, are you? I was also really surprised. You are also the same. Nothing has changed.”

 

Flinched, I backed away from the approaching man. Then his wounded eyes turned to me.

 

“Ria, haven’t your memories come back yet?”

“Memories…?”

“You promised. Even if I fall to hell, I will come to see you again.”

 

The man looked out and shrugged.

 

“I promised to come back on a snowy day like when we first met, but I was too late. I’m sorry.”

 

Even if I fall to hell, I will come to meet you, on a snowy day.

 

This man knew everything up to the promise I had made with him.

 

So confusing.

 

Really? Is it really that person?

 

Despite the similar appearance, it was strange that he remembered the events of that day without making any mistakes.

 

Still, I couldn’t get rid of the discomfort.

 

Everything was a mess.

 

A man who did not miss the moment grabbed my hand.

 

Startled, I flinched. Because the man’s hand is warmer than I thought.

 

“Ria.”

 

But the hand that touched my ring finger was rough. The man touching the ring as if to break it whispered softly.

 

“Now, throw this and come with me.”

 

I clenched my fist, startled by the ring that started to fall out slowly.

 

So that he couldn’t take out the ring.

 

“I can’t go. No, I am not going.”

 

Dillian needed me. The only person who will protect him is me.

 

How can I leave Dillian just like that?

 

“But, you promised me. When we meet again, we will love each other as much as before.”

“I’m sorry, but that was not my promise.”

“… To keep that promise, I have to come and you are denying it.”

 

The wounded man’s eyes contorted. It wasn’t the kind of expression that could be made up.

 

Seeing that seriously hurt face made me feel like I was making a big mistake.

 

“Ria, we are destined. Even if we were born and reborn, we will meet again in the end.”

 

The moment he unfolded his theory of fate, the person I remembered was Dillian.

 

“I’m sorry, but I don’t believe in that. So please come back.”

 

I pulled out the hand he was holding. But the man did not give up.

 

When the man reached out his hand to me again,

 

The man’s wrist twisted with a tremendous amount of death.

 

“Get away from my woman. Right now.”

 

Dillian’s eyes flashed red and burned terribly.

  

***

 

 

Protecting Ria, Dillian’s eyes which were in his arms were unusual.

 

His eyes were full of life as if he would chew on the opponent at any moment.

 

“You wouldn’t say that you didn’t know when you saw the ring on her ring finger, would you? 3rd Prince.”

 

‘The 3rd Prince…?’

 

That man is the 3rd Prince? The man who always threatened Aina and kept Cassis in check, Manus?

 

Does that mean that face was the villain in the original story? Ria couldn’t believe it.

 

The fact that one of the villains had a face similar to the lover in her dreams and the face was distorted like a child who lost his mother.

 

The vision was suddenly blocked. Dillian’s wide back was blocking her way.

 

“3rd Prince. You’d better take your eyes off my fiancée. Unless you want to lose your purple eyes, the symbol of the imperial family.”

 

He hated the unique purple eyes of the imperial family, But there was no day like today that he felt so unwilling to see it.

 

He knew very well what the eyes that Manus put on meant.

 

No way he couldn’t know. Because Manus had the same eyes as himself.

 

He couldn’t stand and hated Manus’s gaze on Ria, even momentarily.

 

Dillian persevered.

 

Maybe he was going to kill Manus.

 

“Sir Dillian, I’m fine.”

 

The reason Dillian did not miss the last string of sanity was because of Ria’s warmth on his back.

 

“Do you think it’s okay to touch the prince’s body like this?”

“Don’t you think I can do more than that?”

 

Ria swallowed her saliva at the conversation between the two.

 

‘What should I do? I have to stop it, but I don’t know what to do.’

 

If she intervened by mistake, the primal fear that her throat would be crushed by the deadly atmosphere would occur, caught her feet.

 

At that moment when it looked like it was about to explode, there was someone who broke the tight air.

 

“Stop it. Dillian!”

“Grandfather!”

 

Ria ran to Therze and clung to him as if she had met the Savior.

 

“Please stop it somehow…!”

 

It looked like it was going to be a grave situation.

 

At Ria’s urgent face, Terzhe ran between the two of them. After that, Lexter followed at a leisurely pace.

 

“It’s my first time seeing you. Pre-duchess.”

 

First time my ass, the subject who was hit by the arrows I shot and had holes in his hands because of it.

 

Ria, who was mocking inside, accepted his greeting with a smile.

 

“I thought you wouldn’t come, I’m surprised.”

 

After getting attacked by me, I thought you were hiding because you were scared of Dillian, but you’re pretending to be brave?

 

Lexter’s eyebrows twitched, noticing such a deep meaning.

 

But that’s it. To Lexter, who is good at hiding his feelings, Ria’s provocation was nothing more than a Chihuahua’s humming.

 

“I have work to do.”

 

Lexter, who left a meaningful message, approached Manus.

 

“Prince, we have to go. I will escort you.”

“Yeah, let’s go.”

 

There’s nothing good about getting kicked out of a fuss any more than this. Manus, well aware of that fact, turned his back.

 

Of course, without forgetting to grumble towards Dillian until the end.

 

“Duke. No matter how hard you try and stop, the fact that Ria and I are destined doesn’t change.”

 

At the moment when he was moved by the words that scratched Dillian’s insides to the end, Terzhe quickly pushed Dillian’s back.

 

He feared that Sinaize would become the center of a rebellion due to the murder of the imperial family.

 

“Ria, you go in and rest.”

 

Terzhe, who pushed Ria to the room, forced Dillian, who did not want to go in, and close the office door.

 

“No matter how angry you were, you should have endured it!”

 

The loud scolding just like thunder rumbled through the office.

 

Even if it was Sinaize, assassinating the imperial family is a no.

 

Not only would the empire fall into chaos, but the imperial family would also be subject to checks, and then after things would become too cumbersome.

 

Sinaize is not going to collapse. However, if the opponent was the imperial family, it was not easy to lose.

 

“Be glad I didn’t kill him.”

 

But for all that happened, all he said was that he was glad he didn’t kill him.

 

“Ouch, my head.”

 

His strong body drooped as if he had collapsed on the sofa. Terzhe, who grabbed his forehead, groaned.

 

“Lexter, what the hell is that guy going to do?”

 

To bring Manus to tomorrow’s banquet without consulting. It was clear that he was mad, even if he was already mad.

 

‘He wasn’t that reckless, as expected, wasn’t that because he was given the title of count?’

 

Even though he was an illegitimate child, he was given the title because he inherited Sinaize’s blood. Couldn’t think it would come back poisonous.

 

It doesn’t matter if Lexter is supporting the 3rd Prince.

 

It is unavoidable that each individual has a different leader to support.

 

However, it had a slightly different meaning for the 3rd prince, Manus, to attend the birthday banquet of Terzhe, the elder of Sinaize.

 

If done wrong, he could appear to support him.

 

How will it be reflected in the eyes of the Crown Prince who is standing in opposition to the 3rd prince?

 

Although not involved in the situation, it was a hard situation for Terzhe, who was supporting the Crown Prince from behind.

 

“Please. Wait until the day of the banquet. After the banquet is over, they say they will go back….”

“It doesn’t matter whether it is tomorrow or now. If he approaches Miss Ria just one more time, then I will dig that eye out.”

“Dillian.”

“I’m not sure if he touched the family, but I can’t stand it if he touched Miss Ria.”

 

Terzhe looked at Dillian burning coldly and shut his mouth.

 

A guy is seducing his fiancée, who wouldn’t be offended?

 

Terzhe, who was excited by the grandson’s human side, said.

 

“I will attach people to the 3rd prince. And won’t let even an ant come near Ria’s room.”

 

It was Terzhe who had pushed Ria out until now, but starting from today, he was on her side.

 

And above all, the fact that Dillian was engaged to her and he tried to seduce her in the Duke’s Castle was an act of ignoring Sinaize.

 

Not only was the inside going to boil, but it’s going to explode instead.

 

“Write a letter to the Crown Prince, telling him to attend the banquet.”

 

If he knew that Manus was here, Cassis would rush to come like the wind.

 

“Hmm, if the Crown Prince comes, the nonsense talk of us supporting the 3rd prince will disappear. What are you going to do next?”

“I will officially announce that I support the Crown Prince.”

 

It was also intended to make him emperor as soon as possible.

 

Then, wouldn’t there be a justification to legally kill the 3rd Prince?