Story 1: Grandpa's First Love

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"Hey, Grandpa, how did you fall in love with Grandma?" The young Alisha asked to the elderly Marquess Joseph Valencia who looked at his youngest granddaughter.

"Oh yeah, I always been wondering about that too. I mean how did you and Grandma had something so special and healthy while our Mom...ended up with that fool" the young Elias said as expressing his disgust towards his disowned father.

It was a month since the siblings got to the Valencia March and started living as the Valencia than the Elizondo.

The Marquess looked at them by knowing that foolish of his son in law really did broke his family for some wrongful rumors about his daughter committed adultery.

He knew his daughter well and she would never do something like that to destroy her family.

He raised her well and taught her well.

"Some relationships don't always go like a happy after ever without any communication or trust. I mean it's not how I and your Grandma managed to have a happy relationship" the Marquess soon said which Elias and Alisha looked at their Grandpa.

He gave soon a smile as recalling his first fateful counter with the love of his life.

His wife, Nieves.

Flashback

"Marquess Valencia is back!!!!"

The people cheered towards the young man who was the young Marquess Valencia in his early twenties

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The people cheered towards the young man who was the young Marquess Valencia in his early twenties.

He was a very handsome man with raven black hair and golden eyes as wearing gold and black clothing of fine fabric.

Back then, he was known as the War Hero and the Empire's Champion.

The Black Lion or the Black Knight.

"Ah, another day, Your Lordship. Looks like we are going to have lot of work to do once we return to the March" one of his knights soon said which the Marquess soon sighs while he was riding his horse back to his territory.

"Your Lordship, you need to get a wife. I mean seriously, you don't know how long I been handling all the requests for blind dates!!!! I mean I'm going crazy! 400 unmarried and young women!!!! Dear Lord!!!!" His butler Alejandro shouted through all the frustration and exhaustion he been through by rejecting all those blind dates or even marriage introduction for the young Marquess Joseph.

I mean he was going crazy.

"Alejandro, I already told you many times that I don't want an arranged marriage by those vixens and greedy people. You know how that ended for my parents, my father was always busy and never pay attention for my mother while she was stuck into a loveless marriage as always swimming deeply with the sharks. I can't even remember one time we had a happy memory or even eat together as a family. I don't want that...After all, it never ended it well for them" Joseph explained which Alejandro was stunned before he looked away by knowing how harsh was his life.

His father was always busy and never pay attention to the previous Marchioness or him as he never slept in the same bedroom with his wife after they consummated their wedding night.

While his mother, previous Marchioness was stuck into a loveless marriage as she tried to be there for her son but she ended up falling into gambling and wanting more to satisfying her unhappy life.

Joseph was raised by the servants of his March and took care of him, when his father died of overworking who barely took care of his health and his wife in bedridden.

Joseph Valencia swore to be never became someone like his father or even had a wife who only care of reputation and luxury.

He didn't think in true love was real but if his partner was a close friend whom he could trust, then he would get married with that person.

"Alejandro, I'm going for a walk. I don't want to ruin my health and I wanted to be alone" the young Marquess soon said which Alejandro nodded before he walked out from his office.

The Marquess Joseph walked through the halls with all the paintings of the previous Marquesses of his household, including his late father.

'I don't wanna be like my Father....Always neglecting his wife and children while being workaholic... I don't wanna be like my Mother...being stuck in a loveless arranged marriage...I don't want that. I don't know what's true love looks like....And what's so special about a true love match or even being in love...' he thought as reaching to the garden of his mansion.

He was soon shocked when he saw his garden was filled of snow which it wasn't even winter season.

It was summer.

"What the hell?" He uttered before he soon look saw a woman who was looking at the roses.

"Hey! What are you doing in my property? You wretch!" He shouted which the lady soon turned around as wind soon blows her hood that made the young Marquess had his golden eyes widen.

It was a very beautiful young woman with a wavy, blond hair and clear blue eyes as wearing white hooded cape and a reddish pink dress with rose embroidery

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It was a very beautiful young woman with a wavy, blond hair and clear blue eyes as wearing white hooded cape and a reddish pink dress with rose embroidery.

'Whoa...' he was stunned by her beauty as the woman's soft features suddenly turn irritated.

"Huh?! Who the hell are you calling a wretch?! You little brat!!!" She shouted at him that stunned him by how she reacted by him calling her a wretch.

Never call someone a wretch.

"Umm, young miss, do you know who are you raising your voice against? I am-"

"Do I look like I gave a horse's shit! You little brat! You never call someone a wretch! That's very offensive to every women who's sensitive with their age! You rascal! Especially when it's a Marquess" she scolded him as Joseph was shocked by her behavior and how she was treating him if he was a spoiled brat who done something wrong.

"Wait, what's your age? I thought you were eighteen or nineteen?" He asked which the woman turned her head around and looking rather nervous.

'Well, if you're not human and lived for hundreds of years to thousand of years... You're still sensitive with your age. I mean I wonder how Magnificus would handle it' she thought as revealing she's not really human.

The Marquess looks at her as he never seen someone this beautiful like her before and also, very headstrong.

"What's your name?" He asked which she looked at him with her clear blue eyes that seems to be blue snowflakes.

"It's Nieves, Your Lordship...My name is Nieves"

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