I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke 202
I got engaged to the blind duke, Episode 202
"Even if it’s just a rumor, don’t you have the common sense to be careful in front of the person involved?”
Helena’s eyes turned cold at those words.
How dare a Baron’s daughter lecture her, a Marquis’s daughter, about common sense? If it weren't for the Duke of the West, she wouldn't even be able to talk to her! That's why she deliberately kept her away.
Helena lowered her eyes and readily replied, trying to hide her true feelings.
“Nothing has been proven yet, whether it’s true or just a rumor, right?”
“That’s right. Nothing has been proven.”
Helena sneered inwardly at Marin’s easy agreement.
She’s walking into her own trap.
“I’ll prove it. Then will you apologize?”
“Yes. Since I said it, I’ll take responsibility and apologize.”
Helena responded even more eagerly on purpose.
There’s no way to prove pregnancy here.
“Elmis.”
At Marin’s call, Elmis, who had been standing in the corner of the garden, quickly approached and took out something the size of a palm from her bag.
The bowl, with a hollowed-out interior, shone with a subtle black color, and inside was a transparent liquid.
The ladies who saw it widened their eyes in surprise. That is?
“You all know what this is for, right? I’ll prove that I’m not pregnant with this.”
For nobles, producing an heir was a very important virtue.
When the North, which always created amazing inventions, announced this, the aristocratic society was literally turned upside down.
Naturally, no noble could be ignorant of it. And everyone was astonished that Marin had brought it out so casually.
That one item was worth as much as a decent mansion, so everyone kept it safely at home.
“Dia.”
“Yes.”
Marin pricked Dia’s finger with a needle.
As Dia dripped a drop of blood into the bowl, the transparent liquid turned blue.
Red meant pregnant, and blue meant not pregnant.
While everyone couldn’t hide their surprised expressions, Marin stared straight at Helena.
“Apologize.”
Helena rolled her eyes with a bewildered look.
The reason she had invited so many socialite ladies was to humiliate Dia, not to be humiliated herself.
“Miss Scamjo?”
When Marin called again, Helena gritted her teeth.
To think she would bring such an expensive thing here.
Looking around, everyone was paying attention to her.
Helena clenched her fists tightly and turned her gaze to Dia.
She didn't want to bow her head to that woman, but now was the time to back down.
“I’m sorry, Miss Adria. I said some nonsense today. Please don’t misunderstand, I heard it from someone else.”
Dia’s clear eyes stared directly at Helena.
Helena avoided her eyes at the strange pressure.
And Marin had no intention of letting Helena get away with just an apology.
“Miss Scamjo, who did you hear that nonsense from?”
“……From here and there.”
Helena said quickly, trying to hide her anxious expression.
“I heard that Miss Scamjo was the one who spread the rumor.”
Marin drove a wedge in with a calm voice.
“What? Who dares to insult me?”
Helena tried to ignore her trembling heart and deliberately raised her voice.
“The Duke of the West.”
Helena’s pupils shook as Marin spoke plainly.
“Why would the Duke of the West insult our family?”
It changed from ‘me’ to ‘family.’
Marin shrugged as if to say, how would I know that?
“If you’re not lying, there shouldn’t be any problems, so don’t worry.”
“What…… do you mean?”
Helena flinched at Marin’s meaningful words. The anxiety that had risen from the bottom of the floor had finally reached her chin.
“Did you perhaps lie?”
Marin asked, tilting her head.
“No!”
Helena jumped up.
Her family was deeply involved in Western trade. If her family was harmed by the rumors she had created, her father would not forgive her.
Helena turned her gaze to Dia, who had an indifferent expression, instead of Marin, who was hostile to her.
That attitude of being indifferent all the time. It was similar to the Empress.
Even the sickly Empress went into seclusion after giving birth to the Crown Prince, and the social world was dominated by noble women.
If she could control Dia, who resembled the Empress, to her liking...
Her Highness the Third Imperial Consort was also a Marquis’s daughter, but Emperor accepted her as Imperial Consort late.
The Crown Prince was also the Emperor’s seed.
Surely, one day, that woman's true nature, which would reveal herself, would be revealed. Then the opportunity would come to her.
First of all, she had to win that woman over and get out of this place.
“Miss Adria, I’m really upset.”
Helena’s big eyes were filled with tears.
Dia stared at Helena, who was pretending to be pitiful, with calm eyes.
Now it was her turn.
“What are you upset about?”
“I don’t know why the Duke of the West believes the rumors. Please say something nice to the Duke of the West. Everything is a misunderstanding.”
“Then, you can prove that it’s a misunderstanding.”
“Yes?”
Helena asked back with a dumbfounded face.
“I proved the nonsense that I was not pregnant in this place. The Marquis’s daughter can also prove her injustice.”
“Pregnancy can be proven, but there is no way to prove rumors.”
Helena said with a still pitiful expression.
“What could be easier than that? Just tell us here who first told the Marquis’s daughter my rumors.”
Helena’s orange eyes trembled.
She created the rumors, so who would she say she heard them from?
Helena quickly scanned the ladies who participated in the tea party.
Everyone was busy avoiding her eyes.
The same was true of the ladies who were on her side.
Helena bit her lip without realizing it.
If she couldn’t say anything, her lies would be exposed.
At that moment, Priana from a humble Baron family caught her eye.
Just as she was about to say her name, Marin blocked Helena’s gaze.
“Miss, don’t try to cover up a lie with a lie. The future will not be easy for you with just what you have already done.”
Helena, overwhelmed by Marin’s stern eyes, moved her lips but couldn’t say anything in the end.
“Teacher, does not being able to say anything mean affirmation?”
“That’s right. If you’re upset, you should say no quickly.”
“I don’t think there’s any need to be here anymore.”
Dia, who glared at Helena coldly, went closer to Marin.
“I think so too.”
Soon, as the two left the place amicably, the ladies followed suit.
Helena, left alone in the empty garden, bit her nails with a pale face.
She became the woman who created the rumors of the Crown Princess. How could she handle this?
It was then.
“Helena!”
Her father’s thunderous shout echoed.
Surprised, she turned around and saw her father rushing into the garden.
“Father.”
Her father, who rarely raised his voice to her, glared at her with a reddened face.
“What on earth have you done!”
“Yes? Why, why?”
“All the Western trade has been cut off because of you. All the people who invested in our business are pulling out and demanding their money back right now!”
“What are you talking about right now? What happens if that happens?”
“Our family is ruined now. This mansion is also going to be handed over to the bank! Why on earth did you do that! Why!”
Helena recalled Marin’s warning with a pale face.
Did the words that the future would not be easy mean this? Our family is ruined?
“Why is that my fault!”
Helena shouted back with a bloodless face.
She was just jealous of the woman who would become the Crown Princess and told a lie.
The family is ruined because of one wrong word? How could such a thing happen in the world?
“Didn’t you say the wrong thing!”
Her father took out a crumpled letter from his back pocket and threw it at Helena.
Helena hurriedly picked up the letter and read it.
It was densely written with who she had spread the rumors to.
Below that, it said that all business would be canceled due to her.
The last was the seal of the Duke of the West.
Helena trembled as she read the letter again and again. Before she knew it, her legs gave way and she collapsed to the floor.
Her father looked down at her coldly.
“I’m thinking of expelling you from our family. Then the Duke will consider leniency.”
Helena was startled and grabbed her father.
“Father! Expulsion!”
“Then why did you say the wrong thing! The family comes first before you.”
Her father shook off her hand sharply and left.
Helena stared at her father, who was moving away, with empty eyes.
Everything was really over.