Chapter 5 – 【 What Misunderstanding Brings 】 (Part 9)

Perhaps thanks to Cedric’s passionate care, Yuria woke up without much pain. She had returned safely, and the waiter, Edward, and Lesia were all secured. She thought it was all over.

But that was just the beginning. Cedric planned to eliminate the Spencer family for good. Lahen welcomed the idea with open arms. By the time the swift underground operations surfaced, Henry Spencer had little he could do.

When Yuria was kidnapped, Lesia received a relatively lenient punishment for revealing her location. Although it was a confession obtained through Cedric’s threats, Lesia, claiming she had been deceived, spilled all the evidence she had, both real and fabricated, and wrote a confession before fleeing to the Kingdom of Rinover. 

Since her life in the Kingdom of Rinover would be buried under debt anyway, they let her go. In reality, Lesia didn’t know that Henry intended to kill Yuria. She believed Henry’s words that she only needed to make it look like Yuria had eloped in the night. The goal was to create rumors of discord between the Princess and her husband, so the royal family couldn’t fully support Cedric during the vote on the railway construction rights.

However, Henry’s plan was different. He planned to put Yuria and Edward in a carriage and drive it off a cliff, framing Cedric for the crime. The story would be that Cedric, reunited with his first love, killed the Princess to remarry her. 

Lesia’s role was to become Cedric’s mistress and make a conscience-stricken confession. After Lesia’s confession, planted evidence would emerge, and Cedric would be arrested and face a highly disadvantageous trial. 

While Cedric was preoccupied with the trial, Henry planned to seize the railway construction rights and Cedric’s assets. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as smoothly.

Edward and the waiter sided with Cedric to save their lives. They provided testimony favorable to Cedric. Yuria also had to stand in court multiple times. The Duke was cornered with no way out. During the trial, it was revealed that the Duke’s family had even more debt than was known. Fearing they wouldn’t get their money back, creditors caused an uproar, demanding repayment from all sides.

Even selling the mansion and all their assets wasn’t enough to cover the debt. Meanwhile, the Duke was on the verge of receiving a death sentence. The Dowager Duchess made a deal with the royal family to relinquish the dukedom in exchange for sparing Henry’s life. Of course, the deal was not accepted. 

The Dowager Duchess put the dukedom up for sale, intending to repay the debt since she couldn’t save her son. The dukedom included all the Spencer family’s debts. There was only one person in the Kingdom of Leusen who could buy it.

The Duchess ultimately handed over the dukedom to the illegitimate child she so despised, securing a small mansion for herself. There, she would spend the rest of her life with nothing but the hollow t*tle of “Spencer.”

‘How does it feel to become a Duchess?’

‘Don’t act so proud when it’s not even something you gave me, brother.’

‘Look at that, you’ve already got your shoulders all puffed up now that you’re a Duchess.’

Puffed up? 

Not at all. She was just bewildered. Everything happened so quickly that she didn’t have time to gather her thoughts. She became a Duchess, something she never imagined. She had been away from Ritano for over half a year, staying in the capital. Although unexpected events occurred one after another, there was no significant change in Yuria’s daily life.

‘Princess, you just need to sit here quietly, enjoy yourself, spend money, and take care of your husband when the time comes.’

‘Take care? When have you ever taken care of me?’

‘I do it every day, taking care with my d*ck.’

‘…What kind of care is that?’

Well, she thought it didn’t exist. At first, it was like that. Yuria spent her days cooped up in the townhouse, just like in Ritano. Going out only led to various rumors, so she voluntarily hid.

She wasn’t bored. Riv and Merlin visited often, and Cristal and Evelyn also came by occasionally to keep her company. Tailors and jewelers were frequently summoned to the townhouse. When Yuria said she didn’t need any more jewels, Cedric scolded her for being too frugal.

To someone who casually bought a dukedom, Yuria might seem frugal, but she never considered herself frugal. Thanks to that, Yuria had no need to leave the townhouse.

Then one day, feeling inexplicably stifled, she decided to go out. But even at a glance, more than ten people were trailing behind her like a tail.

‘Are all these people following me?’

‘Yes, madam.’

‘Don’t you think it’s too many?’

‘…We can’t help it; it’s the master’s orders.’

One person even ran out of the mansion as if delivering urgent news. They said they were going to inform Cedric of Yuria’s outing. Yuria gave up on going out.

‘Do I have to report to you every time I go somewhere?’

‘No, the servants will do that. You can go out comfortably, Princess.’

How can I go out comfortably! 

With a line of servants trailing behind her as if it were an official procession. Even as a Princess, Yuria didn’t take that many servants with her.

‘How is this different from being confined?’

‘It’s different; you’re not locked up.’

Then he brought up her past like a weapon. She thought all misunderstandings were resolved. He said that while misunderstandings were cleared, the past didn’t change.

‘They say infidelity is like gambling.’

Who on earth told Cedric such nonsense?

‘Last time, I let it go with an arm and a leg, but this time, it seems like even taking the head wouldn’t be enough. Think of it as saving a life, Princess.”

Whenever he brought up the past, Yuria was like a mute with a mouthful of honey. Regardless of the intentions, infidelity was wrong. If she claimed it wasn’t wrong, what if Cedric decided to meet other women?

She knew in her head that he wouldn’t do that, but as her feelings grew, so did her anxiety. In the end, Yuria surrendered.

From that day on, Cedric’s monitoring became even more intense. Now, he didn’t even hide it. Still, as she melted in his arms every night, Cedric didn’t seem to mind at all.

But it was beyond her control. Only in Cedric’s arms did she find peace. The daily lovemaking was exhausting, but she liked feeling that Cedric still desired her.

In his embrace, Yuria found tranquility. If he ever lost interest, she would feel like she was drowning in a sea of anxiety.

“Uh, uh, mm.”

So, even when Cedric, busy absorbing the Duke’s family and acquiring the railway construction rights, found time to slip between her legs, she was secretly pleased. For a couple of months after moving to the capital, she didn’t resist and welcomed him.

“Were you playing with your p*ssy alone?”

“No, I, mm, wasn’t, ah, hng.”

He had no concept of day or night. Sure, that was possible. Cedric was really busy and even ten bodies wouldn’t be enough for him. But the problem was that there was no designated place. As long as they could avoid people’s eyes, he would lift Yuria’s skirt.

A closed carriage was something to be grateful for. Once, they were invited to a royal banquet, and she took his c*ck on a secluded balcony. They weren’t caught, but she felt mortified knowing she did such a thing in the palace where her parents and youngest sibling lived.

“Then why are you so wet, hm?”

“Wait, there, don’t bite like that, ah…”

The moment he bit her n*pple, the carriage jolted. The aching sensation spread from her chest, and Yuria barely managed to swallow the moan that almost escaped.

“I asked why you’re wet.”

“Because, ah, we did it in the morning too.”

Even doing it once a day would be enough to make her feel secure, but Cedric did it whenever possible. Two times, three times, it was almost strange that his c*ck didn’t wear out.

“Didn’t you wash afterward?”

“I did. But, mm, inside, it stayed…”

There was so much of it that even after bathing, his traces remained inside, flowing out.

“You have to put your fingers inside and scrape it out. Didn’t I show you how last time?”

As if to demonstrate, he scraped her v*ginal walls with the tip of his gl*ns. Yuria bit his shoulder and groaned, indicating she didn’t need the demonstration. Even if he showed her a hundred times, Yuria would never do such a thing herself. She’d rather change her underwear.

“I actually like it when you carry my seed inside you.”

Cedric stroked Yuria’s back, who was biting his shoulder, then grabbed her hips. The carriage was nearing its destination, so it was time to finish. He put a handkerchief in her mouth.

It was a gift from Yuria that he still used sometimes during m*sturbation. When they had s*x outside, he would carefully wipe the Princess’s lower parts with it. It was a useful and sentimental item, but Yuria recoiled at the sight of it.

Even though she sucked his c*ck well, she pretended to be innocent. Last time, she cheekily tried to steal the handkerchief, but he caught her red-handed. Thieves should have their wrists cut off, but the thief was so cute that he just punished her with his c**k.