When You Don’t Get Along With Your Husband - Chapter 32

The faces of the maids watching this gradually turned bright red.

“…It seems His Highness Gideon likes you very much.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, but perhaps you should gently suggest that he be a bit gentler. I’m worried you might start bleeding at this rate.”

Only then did Tatiana look over her bare body here and there.

Even to her, it was a bit embarrassing. However, she didn’t feel like sharply asking Gideon if her body was his canvas. After all, she too had drawn musical staves on his back with her nails last night.

It wasn’t on purpose, her hands just slipped while writhing… well, anyway, it was truly an accident.

But Gideon… rather liked it. He even demanded she scratch more, and later even pressed his forearm to her mouth saying, ‘Bite me, okay?’

At that time, he was like a beast excited in front of prey struggling to survive. The ecstasy of experiencing sexual pleasure for the first time was palpable.

But Tatiana’s gaze as she looked at such a Gideon probably wasn’t much different. After all, she had even said she wanted to do it again to Gideon, who was smacking his lips, seemingly unsatisfied…

‘You madman. You madman…’

Why did I say such a thing yesterday?

But Gideon seemed to have liked her words very much too. He didn’t bother hiding the cold smile hanging on his lips, and whispered while licking her earlobe.

‘We made a bet earlier, didn’t we? Who’s better.’

‘……’

‘If you want to do it again, that means I won, right?’

‘……’

‘No. Let’s say Titi won this one. Actually, I want to do it more than you do.’

The memories of last night gradually expanded, pushing into her head.

The day would break soon. Today’s sun would rise. Then shouldn’t she spend a diligent day as usual?

Tatiana cleared her throat unnecessarily and started stretching to shake off the embarrassing memories. She cracked her neck left and right, rolled her hands in circles to loosen her wrist joints, then her waist, shins, and ankles…

It was the same order as usual. However, the maids could feel that her movements were more intense than ever.

In fact, Tatiana wasn’t satisfied with just stretching right now.

Her mind was still full of sticky words and heated scenes. She wanted to wake up and loosen her tangled muscles, but what was waking up wasn’t her muscles but her reason.

In the end, Tatiana headed to Gideon’s personal training ground with her sword. And she started running on the dirt ground with a posture as determined as a soldier doing laps on the drill field.

As the clear, cool air rushed deep into her lungs, Tatiana, feeling better immediately, shared her thoughts.

“As expected… there’s nothing as refreshing as doing cardio on an empty stomach in this world.”

Running and walking are really good exercises. They’re popular among noble ladies because there’s no barrier to entry and anyone can easily try them. Sometimes they’re even mentioned at parties.

‘I’ve decided not to ride in carriages anymore, I’m going to walk. I’ll reach 10,000 steps every day to lose weight.’

But there are also people who respond like this to someone who’s just resolved to try something, while lying on the sofa holding a cookie…

‘You’ll never lose weight just by walking.’

They would argue and in the end, always look at Tatiana, who had been quiet, as if she were the problem solver. As if telling her to give the correct answer.

But she doesn’t know the answer either. There are too many variables.

Everyone eats differently and has different constitutions. An experimental group where variables can’t be controlled isn’t of much value as an experimental group.

Nevertheless, there is one thing she can answer clearly.

‘It’s better than doing nothing. At least walking improves your mental health.’

Tatiana kept running around the training ground to maintain her own clear and healthy mind. And when she completed exactly thirty laps, a bright red sun peeked out from the eastern sky.

Tatiana stretched once again.

Look! Even after getting married, the world remains the same! Even after spending a night with a man, today’s sun rises just the same!

Since such earth-shattering changes don’t happen easily, one’s swordsmanship skills must also remain the same.

“……”

Realizing that she was a bit crazy right now, Tatiana chuckled. And for the first time in a long while, she picked up her sword not to catch bugs, but to practice swordsmanship.

The blade carrying the dawn light looked much more auspicious and sharp than before.

Tatiana lowered her eyes and stared at the tip of the sword for a long time. What do outstanding knights usually think before swinging their swords? Tatiana once wondered about that. At that age, she even thought the troublesome superstitions each knight had were like, ‘Oh? That’s cool. It seems meaningful.’

‘Dad, what did you think about before going into battle? Uncle Samson said he always prayed to God.’

‘Hey, hey. Who has time for that? You just rush out and kill as many as you ca…’

‘……’

‘I thought about our country and people, Tania.’

Liar. Even kids know that much.

Tatiana chuckled and extended her sword refreshingly.

* * *

Gideon slept well. Although the time was short, the quality of sleep was higher than ever before. It must be because he went to bed feeling very satisfied and full last night.

However, the moment he confirmed the empty space beside him in bed, which was invariably vacant today as well, his eyebrows furrowed.

‘She slipped away alone like a wildcat again.’

It’s quite nice for a spouse to have a hobby. If it’s a healthy hobby like exercise, that’s even better.

Of course, sometimes you might feel neglected and abandoned, but marriage is a long-term game anyway. Married life can’t always be smooth.

So it’s not bad to create pillars here and there that can support a healthy daily life.

It’s encouraging for the partner to see their spouse finding vitality in other areas and maintaining their daily life again when faced with difficulties.

Gideon was rational enough to accept this.

He also had a high understanding of the field Tatiana was deeply immersed in.

He knew that he shouldn’t take away her sword and exercise. To put it a bit extremely, Tatiana was someone who could maintain a married life with anyone as long as they didn’t touch anything related to swordsmanship. Conversely, she was someone who couldn’t live with anyone if they interfered with her swordsmanship.

So Gideon knew he should endure, but… isn’t it going too far to be like this even the day after their first real wedding night?

The morning of a man whose wife only looks elsewhere was lonely. Moreover, there was one more thing that really baffled him.

‘She had… strength left to exercise? But she said let’s stop and sleep?’

Following the princess consort, when the First Prince opened the bedroom door and came out, the maids expressed their admiration with an ‘Ooh’ shape of their mouths.

If Tatiana had looked like a languid lioness returning from a hunt, Gideon looked like a male lion chasing after his female who had left his territory.

And when they saw the long nail marks on his sensual back, the maids had to swallow a gasp once again.

Although it was better compared to the princess consort’s body which was covered in marks, strangely, this side seemed much more suggestive and erotic.

Gideon paced from one end of the room to the other wearing only his pants. As if looking for prey that had escaped while he took his eyes off it, even though he had hidden it well in the storage.

He frowned and asked the maids.

“Titi.”

“…Yes?”

“Where’s my wife?”

As slight annoyance appeared in his ice-like eyes, Isabelle quickly stepped forward in front of the maids.

In fact, her destination was obvious, so this answer was rather unnecessary.

“She went to the training ground. But…”

“What.”

“She took her sword with her today.”

The war hero’s daughter was a confirmed exercise addict, but she had never properly shown off her martial skills. She always focused on basic exercises, rarely using the sword itself. Since coming to the castle, probably the only time was when she caught that moth.

Everyone found this strange, and Gideon was no exception, but he didn’t rush her.

He just stayed still, like waiting for the performer on stage to press the first key, like watching a caterpillar in its cocoon go through metamorphosis.

But if Tatiana suddenly felt like picking up her sword only today, that’s strange too.

If a woman who spent her first night wants to suddenly dance with a sword in the morning… how should the man who fell asleep contentedly interpret this?