‘Damn! Even the button is tormenting me! Why isn’t anything going right?’

She really had bad luck. The unlucky aura that had been passed down through generations of the Enchester family had surely extended to her as well.

“Haha. How did this button……”

“Did you firmly deny it all this time thinking you had lost this button?”

Amid the pouring congratulations from the surrounding people, Felix spoke to her gently. Though she wanted to cry, she forced a smile and opened her mouth.

“I didn’t have the pre. sump. tu. ous. thought that the Lady who caught your eye at first sight from just casually exchanging words would be me.”

“Oh my. I didn’t sufficiently convey my passionate feelings for you that night. Is that why you were upset and acted so coldly at yesterday’s meeting?”

Felix smoothly responded to her sarcastic words. Though she tried to deny it by even waving her hands in panic……

“Then I want to clearly convey my feelings…… will you allow me?”

Felix smiled deeply and grabbed her hand!

‘Why are you like this, really? Why are you being so clingy?!’

While she, whose hand was suddenly caught, made an expression as if she had lost everything in the world, those on either side of her began to make a fuss.

“Kyah! Oh my goodness…… oh my……”

“Yo, Your Highness, shall we excuse ourselves from here?”

‘No! You can’t!’

She screamed with her face, but the people of the Enchester family were already stealthily leaving the reception room, saying they would create time for just the two of them alone!

“Thank you, Baron. It seems I need to have an unfinished conversation with Marina.”

“Yes? A conversation, Your Highness?! Why is everyone leaving……?!”

“Marina, I’m counting on you!”

“Miss, I pray for your happiness!”

Not only the people of the Enchester family, but even Felix’s subordinates hurriedly cleared the reception room.

She barely turned her head with creaking sounds. In the middle of the reception room, Felix sat leisurely as if he were in his own home. His expression looked as relaxed as if he had caught his prey in his hands.

“Wha, what on earth is this situation……”

“I don’t know if you’re good at acting, or if you’re really surprised.”

“What? Acting?”

She barely opened her mouth with a stunned face.

“Didn’t you really expect me to come looking like this?”

Felix asked while sitting with his arms crossed in an arrogant posture.

“I wondered if you had even a little expectation. If you knew who it was that you saved at the ball.”

“It wasn’t something I did expecting any reward. It was simply kindness.”

“Ah, co.in.ci.den.tal.ly. You co.in.ci.den.tal.ly discovered me unable to control the sun power and helped me?”

At Felix’s barbed words, she frowned.

“What do you mean by that? What exactly are you taking my kindness for?”

Felix with a hardened face shrugged one shoulder.

What. Does he really think I’m some kind of spy?

‘No, if it’s the original Felix, he would do that and more. He was originally said to be a man with good instincts.’

The original work emphasized obsessively several times. That Felix had experienced danger by Kervic’s hands more than once or twice. So he was always careful of people, but just once, he was caught in the trap of rampage.

Felix’s gaze, which had become cold in an instant, seemed to represent his heart.

‘If you’re Kervic’s spy, you would have schemed to lure me out with your ability to control my power.’

“Ha! Like a paranoid patient!”

“Am I wrong? Then properly explain how you could coincidentally help me.”

She, who was about to insist it was simple kindness, had no choice but to close her mouth. In fact, she couldn’t say that this world was inside a book, and that she had transmigrated to that book and tried to change the original story, but suddenly felt pity and helped that Felix fellow.

Felix’s face gradually hardened as he interpreted her silence somehow. Just as the silence was turning into stinging anxiety, something occurred to her and she immediately asked him sarcastically.

“Then, did Your Highness the Second Prince come here to confess your love because you were so moved by the touch of a Lady you co.in.ci.den.tal.ly. encountered?”

‘If you’re going to suspect me like this, why did you move so noisily, even putting articles about falling in love in gossip magazines?’

Felix, who saw through her question, sighed deeply and answered.

“A love confession…… on the surface, yes.”

— Thud thud

Felix, who suddenly stood up from his seat, approached her. At that overwhelming movement, she shrank her body.

“Why, why are you doing this? Your Highness”

Felix placed his hands on both armrests of the sofa where she sat, blocking her front with his large and overwhelming body.

“I don’t have time to drag this out, so I’ll get straight to the point.”

“Wha, what? The point?”

“Marina Enchester, won’t you make a deal with me?”

It was an unexpected statement.

“A deal?”

“Yes. I don’t know what method you used, but the power you possess seems to match very well with my sun power.”

Felix carefully brought his finger to her cheek.

‘Ah, it’s hot.’

Even with just a very brief contact, heat rushed to her face. The water’s power that couldn’t be felt no matter what she did normally bloomed within her body.

“Marina, you felt it too, didn’t you?”

“Uh, uhh…… I, I don’t know?”

“Lies…… your expression clearly shows you’re feeling it too? Don’t you plan to tell me the reason you pressed your body close to mine that night?”

“I said I don’t know?! No, more than that, why are you making your words so misleading!!”

She glared at Felix while gritting her teeth, but he didn’t care.

“Well, I’ll hear that gradually. Right now I need the power you have. I want you to stay by my side whenever I want.”

“Whenever Your Highness wants……?”

“The contract period is about six months for now.”

He’s suspicious of me but wants to make a deal? No, maybe because he’s suspicious, he wants to keep me close and watch me.

‘No, it could be that he wants to compensate for his weakness.’

According to the original story’s flow, like the incident at the last Founding Day banquet, Kervic would obviously use all sorts of methods to make Felix’s power run wild. Whether the person was suspicious or not, using me would be Felix’s only choice.

When she couldn’t readily answer, Felix approached closer.

“How about my proposal?”

He whispered in her ear. As if asking whether she could refuse.

“In the end, you spread that rumor to propose this deal. But what if I don’t want to?”

“Don’t want to?”

“If you thought you could persuade me with all sorts of gold and silver treasures, you thought wrong.”

“I thought wrong……”

Felix just repeated what she said in a low voice like a parrot, whatever he was thinking. If he tried to entice her with dresses, jewels, and various luxury goods, it was a big miscalculation! Even though she looked like this, as someone who lived her previous life without material desires, this much was nowhere near enough!

“Then, how will you explain that time?”

“Yes?”

“You dared to undress me, a prince, and rushed at me when I tried to push you away?”

“!”

He continued to ramble incomprehensible words.

“Wha, what exactly are you trying to say?”

“And the missing button…… If it’s not a love story, it could become a story of stealing a button. One with imperial diamonds embedded in it.”

“……!!”

“If it’s a family falling into ruin like this, the motive would be sufficient too……”

Felix laid out his scenario as if talking to himself. According to his explanation, she would become a thief who used honey trap tactics to defile the second prince’s heart and steal an expensive button to make a hefty profit.

“Wait, you’re saying I stole the button?!”

“Hmm…… I heard that a maid who stole a silver spoon from the imperial palace was either beaten to death or sentenced to hanging……”

“No, wa, wait! Hanging for one silver spoon?”

What kind of country has such severe punishments?!

She tried to refute while even waving her hands. However, the moment Felix opened his mouth, not only hanging but also flogging were added to the charges one after another.

Seeing her face turn pale, Felix continued in a seemingly merciful tone.

“If that’s not the case, I’ll give information to the Enchester family. It’s a business investment matter, and success is guaranteed. With the luxury goods I brought today and the cash I’ll soon give you, investment will be sufficiently possible. If you accept my proposal, the Enchester family won’t have to endure cold winters anymore after today. If you don’t accept, you might be locked in prison…… and not see the coming spring.”

Felix smiled cunningly as he presented the conditions.

However, more than being annoying, she was scared first. She never thought he would frame her as a thief.

A pillar of the people being called a thief?! Her heart was already pounding and she was breaking out in cold sweat. She quickly hid her expression and worked her brain hard but……

‘If I accept the proposal, I’ll become a shrimp whose back gets broken in a whale fight!’

Even Felix, who orchestrated this current situation, is hard to handle, so what if the mastermind, the first prince Kervic, gets involved too!