“Miss, someone has come to the mansion to see you!”

“Huh? Lecia, who came to see me from this morning.”

Lecia woke her up with an excited face.

‘I’m dying of sleepiness.’

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at Lecia. Shewas making a familiar expression. That expression full of expectation for something. Anxiety rose at her joyful face.

‘Please…… please……’

She quickly went to the window to check outside.

‘Why are you here again?!’

Several magnificent golden carriages were lined up in front of the shabby Enchester mansion. And she could spot the shameless second prince standing in front of the mansion door with his head raised.

“Good morning, Lady Marina.”

‘Good morning my as$! I’m not doing well!’

She despaired at the sight of his fine face shining even in the morning sunlight. Felix spread both hands and shrugged his shoulders.

‘Are you still planning to make excuses even after this?’

Beyond the window, at Felix’s confident gesture, she shouted at him with an absurd face.

“No! Where are you trying to enter!”

Felix made a sardonic smile and didn’t even answer, moving his steps into the mansion. Lecia called out to her as she stood by the window just stamping her feet.

“Miss! You can’t keep a guest waiting! Hurry and get ready!”

“Lecia! Let go of me, what preparation!!”

Even while being led by Lecia’s hand, she had to pinch her cheeks several times to see if this was a dream or reality. Surprisingly, all of this was reality.

— Creak

“No, no, in such a humble pla, place…… ho, how could His Hi, Highness the second prince!”

“Humble? Wasn’t the Enchester family mansion one of the great historic houses counted in the capital? Since it’s a place where I can feel the flow of past years intact, it would be a valuable experience for me.”

“Ah, ahaha……! I, is that so……?”

The baron couple welcomed him with open arms. Despite using honorifics, there was a strangely sarcastic feeling, and she frowned trying to confirm Felix’s intentions.

Baron Enchester laughed heartily with a very tense tone. The baroness covered her face with a fan that was so worn the fabric was falling off and let out a laugh.

“Oh right, look at my mind! Not even telling His Highness to sit down…… I’m so absent-minded like this. Haha.”

“I’m fine, Baron Enchester.”

“Pl, please sit comfortably here. Hey! Lecia, what are you doing? Not even bringing tea.”

‘Tea? Do we even have such a thing in our house?’

Soon she sat with her mouth tightly shut in a place too embarrassing to call a reception room. Squeezed right between the baron couple. The baron offered Felix the best chair in the house.

Lecia, who had brought only hot water since there were no tea leaves, stood with her back straight against the reception room wall, glancing sideways at Felix’s people.

“The reason I came here is none other than……”

Everyone in the reception room’s gaze turned toward Felix’s mouth. Felix, who had been building suspense for a moment, smiled refreshingly and gave orders to his subordinates who were standing.

“Stack everything you brought here.”

“Yes, we will do as you command.”

At Felix’s command, the attendants began to move busily.

“Wow……!!”

“My! Your Highness, how could you bring such precious things……!”

Every time the attendants moved busily between the carriages and the mansion, gorgeous dresses, jewels, and various luxury goods piled up in the reception room. Exclamations flowed from the baron couple’s mouths.

As all sorts of expensive items piled up, the gazes of the Enchester family members shook roughly. Felix had brought an enormous amount of wealth in three golden carriages.

‘Does he mean for me to see with my own eyes what he brought?! With that wealth…… it wouldn’t be enough just to restore this mansion, we could live without worrying about money for a lifetime……’

“Oh my, Miss……”

Lecia and the baron couple looked at her with highly excited faces. That was understandable. She too had never even seen such magnificent items gathered in one place. Not even in her previous life. Saliva naturally gathered at the corners of her mouth.

‘Uh…… he’s probably not doing this just to show off his wealth……’

Without realizing it, she swallowed her saliva.

— Creak

“……I came here so suddenly because I regretted the connection that couldn’t continue from the last ball. It would be nice if the Lady remembers me. That very hot night……”

‘What? What did he say? Hot, what?’

Felix, who had been sitting upright, crossed his legs with a somewhat seductive smile. The chair creaked at his movement. His gaze was fixed on her, burning hotly.

“I, I don’t remember……”

“Re…… remember of course! Of course she remembers, our Marina does!”

Before she could even answer in response to Felix’s words, the baroness struck first. The baron also nodded frantically. Lecia was almost on the verge of shedding tears of emotion, wondering what she was imagining.

Whether her daughter’s hot night was true or not, they were clearly planning to send her away, having been swayed by the wealth.

‘What are you planning to do?’

Felix lifted his chin toward her as if showing off. At his provocative gaze, she confidently raised her head and opened her mouth.

“I heard rumors that His Highness the Second Prince is looking for a woman. Since it was a gossip magazine article, I didn’t believe it much, but I didn’t know you were personally going around looking for women.”

“I was that desperate. The gossip magazine…… seems to have carelessly spread the story after a reporter caught wind of my desperate inquiries. I feel sorry that unnecessary attention seems to have poured on you, my ady.”

He was completely different from when he had pressed her at the market. The gaze he sent her clearly contained an intention to provoke her. In contrast, his words and attitude overflowed with manners and dignity. It was obvious that he intended to win the baron couple’s favor by any means.

“You said you were desperate, but I’m sorry. The lady who was with Your Highness the second prince might be someone else. I don’t have any proof.”

She had to draw a clear line. She too answered his words with a calm attitude to the end.

‘Now give up!’

Yesterday morning, she had told Lecia to throw away that button, so there was no way the button could be in this mansion.

“No proof……”

Felix, who had been sitting quietly, furrowed his brow and tilted his head. He seemed confident that she would keep his button.

‘Now, what are you going to do?’

This time she sent him a provocative gaze. It was the moment she thought she had succeeded in making excuses.

“Miss. I didn’t throw away that button though?”

“……!!?”

It was a bolt from the blue.

‘You…… Lecia…… you……!’

Lecia stepped forward with a triumphant expression. It was a confident attitude that she would raise the Enchester family in crisis. The baron couple’s tearful facesturning bright was a bonus.

‘This can’t be…… you really didn’t throw it away? Is that it?’

She reached out to stop Lecia. However, Lecia, who lightly avoided her touch, directly handed the button to Felix.

There was no time to stop her. Felix glanced at the button and smiled slyly.

“I should see for myself whether what the Enchester family’s maid gave me is really my button.”

“Here it is, Your Highness.”

Felix fixed his gaze on Marina with sinister eyes and gestured to his servant. At Felix’s gesture, one servant approached closely carrying his dress uniform from the banquet.

‘That outfit is definitely…… the clothes Felix was wearing at the ball?’

Unable to bear watching the situation unfolding before her eyes, she squeezed her eyes shut.

“It seems to be my button, but let me check properly once.”

“I am in charge of His Highness Felix’s attire. This outfit tailored for Founding Day was custom-made meticulously down to each button. But after the commemorative event ended, here, one button had fallen off the sleeve……”

At Felix’s words, the baron couple became agitated. And an elderly gentleman who had been waiting behind slowly walked forward and explained the design of the dress uniform.

“And the design of the button that should go here…… looks like this.”

The elderly gentleman took out a sheet of paper from his bosom. Looking closely, it was a design drawing of Felix’s outfit. You could see at a glance that every single button had been carefully designed. And……

“Go, goodness……!”

“It’s exactly the same!!”

Exclamations of admiration burst out from here and there in the reception room. They had confirmed that the button Lecia handed over and the button in the design had the same pattern.

She tried to refute with an anxious face but……

“It looks similar in design to the button on the opposite side?”

“If you examine the buttons attached to this sleeve closely, the designs are slightly different from each other. Moreover, only the finest craftsmen in the imperial palace can make them, so nowhere! Abso……lutely! nowhere else can imitate them!”

‘Ah. Are you going to deliver the final blow here?’

She despaired at the elderly gentleman’s clear answer. The baron couple and Lecia forgot their dignity and were almost sobbing while holding each other’s hands.

“Marina, our Marina is indeed that lady from the gossip magazine!!”

“To think the owner of this button belongs to His Highness, and Marina had this!!”

“Your Highness, you searched for days and days. Truly congratulations!”

The Enchester couple and even Felix’s attendants, everyone gathered in the reception room offered congratulations to Felix.