How To Get My Husband On My Side [meanie]

𝖢𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 7: 𝖲𝗉𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖼𝗅𝖾

After visiting the temple, I met the duke's exclusive tailor, who Minghao had called, and spent four days fitting new clothes, writing letters to Romagna family, and preparing for the banquet.

In the meantime, even Mingyu's nose could not be found, and according to Minghao, the summer season was surprisingly the busiest with various preparations.

Anyway, that was how my first Elendaleian social event arrived.

The jade silk shirt I wore during the Eucharist was the plainest shirt I had ever brought.

Cream-coloured leather shoes studded with pearls and summer gloves. Other accessories were only the aquamarine earrings.

My hair was also without any accessories and just left alone in its natural fluffy form.

My modest attire was quite unexpected, and the blunt-faced maids looked a little suspicious, but they asked no quastions.

"Wonwoo."

I'm grateful for having an ice sculpture-like face call me just by my name.

Standing under the hall stairs in all red, Minghao was like a mythical god himself. Phew, I can't believe he almost married Yeonjun. But the person next to him...

"Wonwoo, say hello. This is an old friend of mine,  Jungwoo van Furiana."

"Good morning, Wonwoo-shii. It's a pleasure to meet you." A cool smile that revealed his white teeth. A sparkling smile unique to a person who had lived surrounded by love made the viewer feel cheerful. He was beauty with a style that naturally attracted people's hearts regardless of gender and age.

His crescent-like eyes were violet-coloured. The clothes he donned, wrapped around his long, slender body like a glove, and his blond hair hanging around his face, seemed lustrous.

It wasn't dark blonde, flax coloured, warm-toned like mine, but paler, a cold platinum.

He was that childhood friend.

Why are you all so pretty?

My whole life was filled with beautiful people, but I felt like I'm still normal compared to some of the people from this world.

And of course, a childhood friend would be treated differently from a humble groom from foreign country.

I could tell by looking at the maid's eyes full of kindness.

Tch.

"Nice to meet you, too, Jungwoo-shii." I said shyly and Jungwoo's eyes turned wide for a moment before he turned back with a cheerful smile.

"Hao, you didn't tell me he was such a lovely person."

"You might have thought of me as a hawk-nosed warlock."

Minghao still had a perfect poker face on.

The way he looked at me while tapping his fan was a bit strange.

Was something wrong with my clothes?

"I ask for your understanding in advance that my brother's arrival might be delayed a little. It happens often, but..."

Aha, so that was what you've been waiting for.

I wasn't expecting him to come anyway. But I hoped he would show up later today.

I had to keep a close watch to create an image. That was my fate.

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A wagon with colourful insignia ran through the city surrounded by walls.