The Duke, Who Didn’t Even Call Me by My Name Until Yesterday, Has Suddenly Started Doting on Me? - Chapter 13
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- Chapter 13 - Was the Duke saved? (Lydia's point of view)
Hi!! Here is Green Rose again! I started reading this mange not long ago and liket it so I decided to translate the novel <3 I hope you like it!!
Indeed, Lady Mariane was a very kind and wonderful person.
I didn’t have a very good impression of young ladies of my age, so I thought so, so there’s no doubt about it. I had only been serving Lady Mariane for about two months, but her generosity always saved me.
I had never been good at lying, and even if it’s just a pretense, if I tried to lie, I got hives and felt sick.
I thought it was a complete mistake for me to run away from my rural village and become a maid just because I admired her. At the first place I was assigned to, a young lady with thick makeup asked me, “What do you think?” I replied, “It’s artistic, like an oil painting,” and I was fired immediately. At the next place I was assigned to, a young lady who would lash out at the maids if she didn’t like something, and who was a total idiot in front of her fiance.
Her fiancé, who was very conceited and praised the young lady’s appearance, asked me, “Don’t you think so too?” to which I replied, “No. From my point of view, herr attitude and personality are the worst. And her taste in men is terrible too,” which made her fiancé feel uncomfortable.
However, the young lady was even angrier than her fiancé and chased me around, which made her fiancé faint when he saw it.
By the way, after that, it seemed the two broke off their engagement.
Anyway, I kept doing the same thing wherever I went, and after changing jobs several times, no one would hire me.
The Duke wanted to hire me, even though I was treated like a problem child, so I wondered why, but it seemed that the reason was this. He wanted someone who would give him their honest opinion about Lady Mariane.
When I first met Lady Mariane, she didn’t get cocky about her title of Duchess, but smiled kindly and bowed politely to me, a maid. Moved by her, I didn’t want to leave her side, and resolved this time not to speak my true feelings, which would be rude. But that resolve was soon shattered.
After trying on the dress adorned with ornaments that the Duke had given her, Mariane asked me, “What do you think?” I replied, “That dress is too flashy and doesn’t suit you at all, Lady Mariane. It makes me question the Duke’s sense of style,” and immediately turned pale and said, “Damn…”
But Mariane replied with a happy smile, “I thought so too! Thank you for being honest.”
After that, Mariane would often listen to the true feelings I would blurt out with pleasure. Her all-encompassing tolerance and kindness healed my troubled heart.
I thought I understood why the Duke was so in love with her.
If I had been born a man, I’m sure I would have fallen in love with Lady Mariane. And the Duke would surely have cast me away.
I was glad I was a woman. But that’s exactly why I wanted Lady Mariane to be happy.
To that end, I’d like to give the Duke some appropriate advice and help bring them closer together, but unfortunately, I’ve never been wooed by a man…! Or rather, if I were to see a man making such a bold advance on a woman, I was sure that if someone were to woo me, some ordinary pick-up line wouldn’t be enough… but I didn’t like that.
For the time being, put me in the back of your mind, but if you didn’t say something to the Duke, he would seriously start doing headstands.
“Duke, I think you should read the love guidebook.”
“A love guidebook? You’ve read something like that for a long time.”
“I bet it is. It’s probably old. Lots of stuff. Situations that women long for… pick-up lines… techniques… the guidebook that’s filled with all of those things is… a romance novel!”
“Oh…? So if I read that romance novel, I’ll get some big hints?”
“Yes. Instead of expressing love in an overly extreme way like you do now, you should learn how to love slowly, sometimes impatiently… and gradually. I think that’s what you need now.”
…I didn’t really know! For now, that’s all the advice I could give him, as I had no experience in love.
The Duke seemed convinced, and the frozen atmosphere thawed.
“I see. In that case, let’s collect all the romance novels in the territory right away!”
Right. That’s what you’d think.
Actually, that’s dangerous! Romance novels are incredibly broad and some of them contain somewhat unique elements, so it’s frightening to imagine what the Duke, who has poured all of that knowledge into them, might do to Mariane!
“Duke, please wait! That’s what I mean! The Duke is extreme! If possible, please leave it to me to prepare a romance novel! I will definitely research and prepare a novel that features a man who would suit Mariane’s tastes!”
“What? A man Mariane likes…? I won’t forgive him. I will kill him right now!”
“No, he is a fictional character after all! You can’t kill him or anything like that!”
“Then I will kill him and the author who created him and erase his existence!”
“Oh, this guy is so troublesome!”
While the Duke was freezing everyone around him like a snowstorm again, Mariane noticed the commotion and came to check on him. The Duke changed his attitude and said, “Mariane! Did you come to see me?!” and started pouring out his love for Mariane as usual.
I was tired… really…
That’s why she didn’t like to talk with the Duke alone. But no matter what anyone said, I thought the Duke’s honest and straightforward expressions of affection suited the reserved Mariane.
Even Mariane, who lacked confidence in herself, seemed to believe the Duke’s confession of love, and I was sure that his love was conveyed to her clearly. But only probably.
Even so, it remained a mystery as to why the Duke suddenly began to love Mariane.
When I previously asked the Duke, “You really love Mariane, don’t you?” he replied, “Yes, she saved my body and my soul.”
But I was sure the Duke changed right after he fell ill with a fever.
He had been ignoring Mariane until just before he fell ill with a fever, and it seemed that she never visited the Duke while she was bedridden.
If that’s the case, then when exactly did Lady Mariane save the Duke…?
Storyteller Green Rose's Words
Hi!! Here is Green Rose again! I started reading this mange not long ago and liket it so I decided to translate the novel <3 I hope you like it!!
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