The Resetting Lady

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“What the hell is going on?”

“Hush, Isela. Calm down.”

Zion put his finger on Isela’s lips. Their place was mainly where men and women had a secret meeting, but it was not a wise choice to make a loud. Even if it is big and colorful, it is in the middle of the enemy camp. Let’s not stand out.

However, Isela grabbed Zion’s finger on her lips. When the tension was relieved, the voice grew louder and the fear turned into anger.

“Do you look like you’re calming down now? Why is Karen there? Who made me come all the way here despite all this trouble…!”

“Maybe she’s thinking of her own way to live. Once you see him well, he won’t die right away.”

He survived because he was seen well by Prince Gwiz. But he survived too well. I can’t believe you took his place in government. Karen next to Prince Gwiz, whom I met earlier, was spectacular. At least he didn’t seem to die right away.

Fortunately? But the future has become more troublesome. How can we get people out of the country who have been seen by the government?

Women who become royal government go through similar stages. Even high-ranking nobles do so. The law in this country makes monogamy a principle and does not recognize illegitimate children. Also, this country, which is heavily influenced by religious thought, is negatively viewed by unmarried women just causing scandals with men.

So those in power marry a man with weak political power or one of his men to give her a position.

‘Oh, is that why?’

Zion thought Karen might be thinking of running away from Prince Gwiz in the same way as Catherine did.

First of all, he enters his government to appease Prince Gwiz. But the government of royalty and nobility should be married. The government is different even though it may be the treatment of dead bodies in the basement that cannot be seen in public at all.

Zion knows the past of Catherine and Gwiz because he knows the gossip of society. Catherine fled from Gwiz, using her legal husband as a shield.

If Karen also points out that she would make Raymond her fake husband, Karen will also be more likely to get out of Gwiz. The relationship between the two is only known by Zion except for the two. Once Raymond’s relationship with Karen is not official, there is an opportunity to marry Raymond.

“Okay.”

“What?”

“I’m sure the government will marry him first, and probably ask him to designate him Lord Raymond. I’ve heard that Catherine, the mother of Karen, also solved it that way.”

“…what? What?”

“I’d have to be a married woman to be a mistress. I’m sure he’s trying to make it a government, not just a playmate, given to him officially brought to the party.”

“No, it’s not that…Why does Lord Raymond come up all of a sudden? Raymond, you mean your senior and my ex-fiancée?”

“Ah.”

Zion shut his mouth. I made a proper slip of the tongue.

I tried to find an excuse, but I didn’t let Isela do it.

“What does Lord Raymond have to do with Karen?”

“I said the wrong thing. Of course not him….”

“Then why did Lord Raymond come up with his name?”

“So….”

I’m not ready to tell Isella yet. She adored Raymond in the past. But I didn’t know about the relationship between Raymond and Karen. Raymond ordered that if Isela knew the relationship between the two, the fire would definitely fall on Karen, so keep it a secret.

“That’s not what’s important right now….”

“No, don’t change the subject. I don’t understand why Lord Raymond’s name is coming from there now. Why do you say Karen will ask you to designate Lord Raymond as her husband? What’s their relationship?

“I said the wrong thing. As you know, Lord Raymond is a man who knows my boss.”

“Lord Zion, didn’t you promise me to have a frank conversation to understand each other?”

Zion wanted to run away. No matter what Raymond said, it was not something he should care about. I should’ve just coaxed Isela into a safe house and acted cute. Isela’s eyes became thinner and thinner. Xion sweated cold.

“The truth is, I got her pregnant.”

The answer was heard from behind.

“…what?”

Zion looked at his boss with a almost crying face. Raymond smiled bitterly and entered the balcony space where Zion and Isela were located.

“Long time no see, Isela. All I have to say is that I’m sorry for getting tangled up like this again.”

It was a moment when it was revealed that he had kept it a secret.

Zion heard from Isela that Karen was pregnant. Thinking about it, he had no choice but to ask Raymond right before he moved with the bomb himself. What’s your relationship with Karen Haier? She might be pregnant now.

Raymond calmly confessed to Isela, who glared at him.

“It was an internal relationship with Karen.”

Isela felt a tingling sensation about the fact.

“So… a woman who hasn’t even married… Lord Raymond….”

“That’s right. I cut her off because I felt pressured to take responsibility for Karen.”

Raymond answered meekly.

“As I told you, I’m popular with people. After that, I realized how foolish it was to be tied to a woman.”

“…Can’t believe Karen… You haven’t told me a word about men….”

“Of course I had no serious relationship with her. Why would I have hung myself on only one woman?”

So I ended up meeting him for a while and leaving. If Isela had a gun, she would have shot Raymond. Isela continued the question to Raymond in a subdued voice.

“…when did you know Karen was pregnant?”

“Lord Zion informed me of Miss Karen Haier’s disappearance.”

To Karen, Raymond’s efforts to keep Isella’s arrow from turning were extraordinary even to Zion’s.

The long time that Zion had lied about how light Raymond’s lower part was finally shining. Raymond had become a son of a son who had conceived and fled because he had not slept with his ex-fiancée’s friend.

“You son of a gun.”

Isela opened her eyes blue and glared scornfully at Raymond. He cursed inwardly. She could understand why Karen wanted to be next to her.

I could see why he kept on playing the role of a maid next to him and why he kept trying to look good to people while not going back to his house and volunteering at the cathedral.

This situation may have made Karen even crazier. He brainwashed himself that he would not have been pregnant. He believed that he was infertile, but he instinctively moved to find a place to live.

Isela finally began to understand and sympathize with Karen. Sincerely, the eyes of the abandoned woman here were harsh. It was fortunate that he was not hit by a stone. So he would have done that and tried to please himself.

And it’s because of him that she suffered so much.

Lord Raymond Sayertes.

a faceless son of a world

In terms of both Isela and Karen, it was no different from having this much trouble because of him. Isela had to put up with her desire to push Raymond out of the terrace.

“…so why are you here now? So… I don’t know why the man who referred to me as a jerk is here. Why did a man who acted irresponsibly and freely come here all of a sudden?”

When Isela looked at herself with cold eyes, Raymond pointed his finger at Zion.

“Lord Zion Electra next to you convinced me. I didn’t want to sacrifice for the woman I met for a while. I think it’s stupid to live like that. But Lord Zion convinced me and told me your story.”

Raymond then knelt down on one knee to Isela, who looked at him displeased.

“You’ve come all the way here for Karen. You and Lord Zion, who are so courageous for Karen Haier, made me rethink my sin. I learned I shouldn’t run anymore. I knew I couldn’t run away. I now kneel down and ask for your help.”

The words were true.

“Please help me, Icela Evans.”

***

Isela is back at the party.

“Okay, but I don’t want to see you after this.”

“Yes.”

“Again.”

I don’t know how things will work out. If Karen were to point out Lord Raymond as her husband, as Zion said, would things go well?

“Icella, by the way… Is there anything we need to do now?”

“Just stand there, Lord Zion. I don’t think Karen’s going to point to Lord Raymond.”

“Why? It would be over if Karen, like her mother, just pointed at Sir Raymond.”

“That’s not be true.”

Isela immediately denied Zion’s speculation.

It can’t be. No matter how many people around him say that he denies and indulges Raymond, his external values were never small. He was a famous soldier and war hero loved by Prince Louis. In addition, he was young and handsome.

“Even if Karen asks, Prince Gwiz would never allow it. Only her true feelings about the prince will be questioned.”

“…I didn’t think too much. What do you think, Ms. Isella?”

“Sir Raymond asked me to help…I think Miss Karen will point you out.”

“What?”

Zion pointed at himself with an absurd face. Why is Karen herself? Karen and his relationship was a little bit more of a bad side than a good one. Then why does she point out herself as her husband?

“I know, it’s the government’s husband’s job, and you can’t let him choose a man of good relationship or a man of external value. It’s better to have a man who has a weak relationship, a low status, and is definitely interested in another woman. I need to find someone that your Highness would approve of, wouldn’t you think you’re the right one?”

Zion smoothed his back neck.

I understand. Karen will never choose Raymond if she rolls her head. I’m sure Karen will think so, judging by what Isela said. Raymond and Karen’s relationship seemed to have caused him to speculate too narrowly.

“Well, maybe I should get ready to be proposed…By the way, why did Lord Raymond ask you, not me? You’d understand if you told me. I don’t know why I’m putting you in danger.”

When Zion grumbled, Isela covered her mouth with a fan and looked at him.

“Of course I’ll get my permission on this plan.”

“Oh, um, yeah….”

“Do you not like it?”

It couldn’t have been. Zion was willing to obey his hostess. You don’t have to choose.

***

But Karen did not choose Zion. Of course, I didn’t choose Raymond.

Karen smiled softly at Prince Gwiz and asked for her husband.

“Dulan Lloyd would be good, Your Grace.”