“Did the Duke drink the tea?”

As soon as she entered the room, Margaret, who had been waiting there out of curiosity, approached and asked in a small voice.

“Yes. He seemed to enjoy it and drank it all.”

“Thank goodness we weren’t caught.”

“Indeed.”

“So what did you decide? Did the Duke apologize properly?”

“No. I’m going ahead with our plan for tonight.”

“The Duke is truly cold-hearted. If only he had been more considerate of your feelings.”

Margaret’s expression was filled with regret.

“Even if I had told him directly, I doubt he would have understood. It just means he has no interest in me. I didn’t want to go this far, but there’s no other choice.”

They had succeeded in administering the sleeping drug, but there was still a long way to go.

According to the plan, the Snake Duke needed to fall into such a deep sleep exactly three hours from now that he wouldn’t know what had happened.

So all they had to do was wait until everyone in the mansion was asleep.

While the veil of darkness descended deeply, Violet’s heart fluttered. Due to her anxiety, she kept pacing around the same spot.

Is he really asleep?

Though she believed the Snake Duke would fall asleep due to the potent effect of the medicine, there was still a possibility it might not work, so she sent Margaret to the Duke’s room as a precaution. She instructed her to check if he was asleep while asking if he needed anything.

The waiting time wasn’t long, but it felt extended. Her heart raced.

Knock, knock.

Startled by the knocking sound, her long ears popped up.

“He seems to be asleep. When I knocked, there was no response, so I opened the door briefly to check, and the Duke was lying in bed.”

“Really? The medicine must be working well.”

“That’s a relief. When are you going to move? We should act as quickly as possible since we don’t know when he’ll wake up.”

“I’ll move once Father goes to sleep.”

Violet and Margaret’s eyes met in midair, and they nodded with solemn expressions.

In the pitch-black night when everyone was asleep, the shadows of two people flickered in the mansion’s corridor, faintly visible in the moonlight shining through the windows.

Violet and Margaret, who had covered their faces as a precaution, minimized their footsteps to ensure no one else would notice them.

They had moved under the cover of darkness when secretly making the medicine before, but now her heart was pounding much more intensely.

After taking a deep breath before entering the room, Violet carefully opened the door.

Ugh! What’s this scent?

The moment the door opened, a subtle fragrance touched her nostrils. It wasn’t strong enough to notice at a glance, but it was concerning.

Sniff, sniff. Her nose twitched each time she smelled it. She slightly frowned with one eye due to the strange scent she had never smelled before.

At that moment, Violet discovered incense burning on the table beside the bed.

Is this it? It doesn’t seem like a problem.

Approaching carefully, she soon felt relieved after confirming that the incense the Snake Duke had lit was no different from ordinary incense.

Then her gaze turned toward the Snake Duke.

Margaret had said he seemed to be asleep, but she couldn’t be certain. To verify that he was completely unconscious, Violet waved her hand over his eyes.

Seeing no reaction, he appeared to be in deep sleep, but she still couldn’t relax. She picked up his hand and let it go.

Thud. Only when she saw it fall limply could she be sure he had completely lost consciousness.

Having passed the first step, it was time to move on to the next.

With her heart pounding, Violet took out the medicines she had kept in her bosom and placed them on the bedside table.

Can she do this well?

She was so nervous that just looking at the medicine bottle made her sigh involuntarily. She felt so shaky that her body seemed to stiffen.

No. She can do this!

With a determined mind, Violet clenched both fists.

She knelt beside Aslan and, with trembling hands, carefully lowered the blanket that covered him up to his chin.

The mental pressure was so intense that she could barely breathe, but Violet tried her best to overcome it.

“Huh?”

She finally summoned the courage to lower the blanket, but something felt strange as she pulled it down. Why was well-defined muscle visible with each inch of blanket removed?

“Why isn’t he wearing a top? Does he get hot easily?”

Come to think of it, she had heard that people who feel heat intensely sometimes sleep in just their underwear. So the Snake Duke might be the same.

Thinking it wasn’t strange for someone to sleep half-n*ked, Violet continued lowering the blanket more slowly.

Her heart fluttered in tandem with each subtle movement of the firm chest muscles gradually being revealed.

“How can it be so beautiful! Do men of the snake clan exercise their muscles every day?”

For a moment, her hand movement stopped.

She had only occasionally seen such things in picture books, never a man’s bare body in reality. Especially one with a sculpture-like physique, which made Violet’s face gradually turn red.

She felt a momentary urge to admire the Duke’s body but had to resist, knowing that delaying might lead to trouble.

Swallowing dryly, she began lowering the blanket again. She only needed to lower it until his pants were visible, then slightly loosen the waistband.

However, as she lowered the blanket further without seeing any pants, questions began to arise. Why couldn’t she see his clothes?

The moment she lowered it to his pubic bone, Violet was so shocked that she unconsciously threw away the blanket she was holding.

“N-n*ked?! Do snake clan members sleep without clothes?”

She couldn’t judge the tendencies of other clans, but her eyes widened in surprise at the male organ that was revealed.

Though flaccid between his legs, the man’s member displayed its majesty.

“My goodness. How can it be so big? It must be the size of my forearm.”

Since this was her first time seeing a man’s g*nitals in reality, she was so shocked by its beyond-imagination size that she could barely speak properly.

“Is that clan unusually large, or are all men this big? And what are those bumps?”

Different from what she had learned during s*x education, Violet was momentarily confused.

Ah, they said that species are sexually powerful. Is that why it’s big?

Recalling Ari’s words, Violet tried to understand the unfamiliar shape, thinking that each species might have different forms, but no matter how she looked at it, the dark reddish g*nitalia with protrusions seemed only grotesque.

No matter how she looked at it, she couldn’t imagine putting that thing inside her, so she felt relieved that she would never experience that object in the future.

No, that’s not the point. This wasn’t the time for such thoughts. She needed to cover that menacing thing quickly.

“When sleeping at someone else’s mansion, couldn’t you at least wear the pajamas provided?”

Violet reached for the blanket that had fallen to his knees with a displeased expression.

“Ugh, ugh…”

Even though she wasn’t directly touching the man’s organ, somehow she couldn’t properly grasp even the blanket.

With a grimace on her face, she picked up the thin blanket with the tips of her thumb and index finger. With trembling hands, she covered him up to his pubic bone.

“Phew, phew.”

She had merely covered him with the blanket, but suddenly the room felt filled with heat.

Breathing heavily, Violet tried not to look at the Duke’s body, but the almost perfect line from his neckline to his shoulders and waist kept drawing her gaze involuntarily.

It was her first time feeling such strange and unfamiliar emotions. She felt so strange that she momentarily hesitated whether to continue.

No!

Soon she regained her resolve. After spending days making the medicine and successfully putting him to sleep, she would regret giving up now.

What renewed her determination was stubbornness and anger. She felt she couldn’t sleep peacefully without teaching this arrogant man, who tried to resolve everything with money, a lesson. So she couldn’t back down now.

Violet took out the gloves she had prepared in advance and carefully put them on. Then she looked at the medicine placed on the table.

The green one was for helping er*ction, and the red one was for causing erectile dysfunction.

Was she supposed to gently apply the green medicine to the flaccid organ to make it temporarily er*ect? Then apply the red medicine before it wilted to cause erectile dysfunction?

With trembling hands, Violet opened the green medicine, poured some on her hand, and lightly stroked Aslan’s abdomen.

“It’s cold?”

The moment she touched the Snake Duke’s body, Violet felt that his body, unlike hers, was full of coldness to the point of feeling chilly.