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Chapter 26




Chapter 26
On the way back to the carriage, Evan seemed silent and angry.
For the first time, he looked out of the cold carriage’s window.
The night breeze blew over the open window and muddled the muffler. Juliana endured the silence, touching her muffler that fluttered according to the tune of the wind.
It wasn’t long before Evan spoke.
“When you were sick for two days or so. You probably didn’t know how much I wanted to stay with you. I’d have served you better than a maid who just started working.”
With one hand hanging by the window, he spoke quietly as if he were talking to himself.
“I can pay the price for more than everything that’s around you. Am I, not once, of any use to you?”
“It’s very useful. I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
Juliana barely answered. And frowned her straight eyebrows.
“You knew I was stuck in bed, but you didn’t know what I read there. Anna used a gardener to smuggle this book in.”
Juliana took the book out of her bag.
It was a novel that satirizes the divorce between aristocrats in a cheerful tone. Maybe that’s why the fame of the book spread like a pandemic among the nobility, saying it was very different from other novels.
It was also a novel that introduced a way to ‘divorce’ in the Ariakne Empire. For the latter reason, Juliana intended to take it as a light reference.
However, when she was reading it, she couldn’t complete it because she was so bitter that the middle process of an uncontested divorce was still so hurtful to one side.
Why couldn’t she read a novel in which neither side of the relationship would be hurt?
Juliana sensed directly that her mind had changed. Unlike the past, when it was easy to hurt Evan, it wasn’t the case these days.
However, that didn’t mean she really trusted him. Two months after she became aware of her previous life, Juliana was not confident enough to believe or to love him.
She just wanted to run away. The thought that she died in her previous life because she couldn’t escape from a miserable life was indelible.
– Leave me alone.
Juliana was 20 years old who had lived two lives, so she was very tired.
How could she explain all that? Would he love her if she told him this?
Maybe he’s stubborn in love because she didn’t accept him. Even if she accepts his heart, he will still fall in love with the heroine according to the original probability. Soon Juliana will be an obstacle to her.
“I don’t want to consider divorce in this childish way. That’s too childish.”
“Do you still think I’m lacking for you?”
Evan stretched his hand out the window and let it pass through the night.
He frowned slightly on his left eyebrow. He looked more like a god than the stone statue she saw in the temple, perhaps because his skin looked blue in the moonlight.
Juliana swallowed her saliva and tried to look like herself from the past.
“Of course.”
“Hmm.”
Even though Evan moved inside the rattling carriage, he crossed over without shaking. Then he bent his knee in front of her, and Juliana stuck closely to the wall of the carriage behind her.
“What, what are you doing?”
“Juliana. You know what?”
“What?”
Juliana quickly turned her head. One side of the crumpled muffler rubbed Evan’s cheek.
Why?
With his eyes closed, he put his head on her trail muffler and raised the corners of his mouth to smile.
“The blue rose contest will be held soon. It’s a stupid jousting contest where all the nobles with two legs and arms can participate. Well, you know. Knights riding on the horsebacks. I’m also prepared to have my heart pierced to dedicate roses to the idolized Lady.”
“Is that so?”
“You’re pretending you don’t know. I know you received many roses at the last contest.”
“As you said, it’s all useless.”
Juliana smiled awkwardly. And the Duke looked out of the window and held his sight on the view. Evan answered without looking at her.
“I know. It’s useless. That’s why I haven’t participated. Just because you put a lance in the hearts of the young people doesn’t mean you’ll get the love you’re begging for.”
“You know.”
“But-.”
Evan said, carefully grasping the end of the fluttering muffler.
“That doesn’t mean that I will miss the chance to legally deal with some fools who bother you. Don’t you think you should keep up with me since you’re taking me out in public and keeping an eye on them?”
“

you know.”
Juliana forced herself to speak in a haughty tone.
Before she wouldn’t have had any qualms about using him, but now it was different.
Juliana lowered her eyes, trying to ignore the stiff pain. Evan looked at her and wrapped her fluttering muffler around her neck.
“Juliana.”
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..”
Juliana looked up cautiously at the sound of her name.
She was trembling with fear. He couldn’t guess where the fear came from, and whether it would disappear, so Evan just looked at her and whispered.
“It’s okay. You can use me. In return, don’t try to take advantage of me by saying you’ll leave.”
As soon as he finished speaking, she let out a sigh.
At the same time, Juliana bit her lower lip. Evan felt nervous as he greedily looked at her plump, tinged lower lip that was slightly pressed.
The nervous tension wasn’t so bad. Juliana Auburn didn’t know that even though he was angry and nervous, he would never do anything wrong in front of her.
It was good that she didn’t know.
This secret was worth keeping.
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