Morning arrived. Lisa, deeply asleep, was awakened by Gella’s voice.
“Young madam, aren’t you hungry? The sun is already up.”
Lisa instinctively closed her mouth as she tried to answer out loud, and then she rolled over.
“Oh, were you unwell last night? Why are there wet towels everywhere…? Oh!”
Behind her, Gella’s startled voice came through. As she rolled over, her legs were exposed, and she felt hurried hands covering her with the blanket.
“Oh my, I can’t…”
Gella’s murmurs were followed by Pointy’s voice.
“Seems like the two of you are getting along well. That’s good.”
“Uh, well… yes.”
Lisa wished both Gella and Pointy would leave. She buried her face in the pillow and tightly shut her eyes.
“Are you going to go out with the young master and young madam again today?”
“I guess the young master would know,” Giella replied coldly.
“The princess seems to enjoy going out. Her complexion looks much better, doesn’t it?”
“Why do you keep calling her princess? She’s the young madam.”
“Well, she seems tired, so let’s let her rest. We should leave.”
Lisa heard them leaving and buried her flushed face deeper into the blanket. Gella’s worried voice lingered.
“Young madam, are you alright?”
Lisa wished Gella would stop talking, knowing she couldn’t respond.
“Oh, poor thing…”
Lisa waited for Gella to give up and leave.
.....
“Where?”
“To a pawnshop. It looked like she was stuffing something into her pocket, but it was too small to identify clearly.”
Two knights, assigned to tail the royal maid Maleca, were reporting to Jungkook.
“And then?”
“We split up to keep watch. I stayed in front of the pawnshop, and my companion confirmed that Mrs. Maleca returned directly to the mansion. Did you receive the report from the butler?”
Jungkook nodded.
“It was quiet until dusk when a hired carriage arrived, and an old woman entered the pawnshop. She had a bit of a scuffle over selling a brooch. We decided to follow her.”
“Is this the address where the old woman lives?”
The knight handed over a slip of paper. It was a familiar address somewhere in the suburbs.
A connection point between the maids, the Kwon, an old woman, and my father’s mistress.
“I just need to confirm the connection,” Jungkook muttered to himself with a sigh.
At noon, Jungkook returned to the mansion for lunch. Lisa pretended to be asleep in bed. Gella, who had been sitting by her side reading, stood up to greet him.
“Well done.”
Gella, unable to meet Jungkook’s eyes, hesitated before asking, “Young master, are you planning to take the young madam out again today?”
“Why do you ask?”
“The royal maids earlier…”
Gella lowered her voice and recounted the earlier events.
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The surviving princess {Liskook}
Romance"Fine, I shall give you my sister, dearer to me than anything." A bolt from the blue strikes the Jeon family, the heroes of the victory. Jeon Jungkook, the promising heir of a renowned military family, is suddenly ordered to marry the princess. Now...