Because She Had A Time Limit, She Became The Villain's Daughter-in-law - Chapter 129
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 129
“But like I said then… I’m desperate for your sympathy, Laria.”
“Evan, stand up for a second.”
I was so dumbfounded that my head went blank.
Even in the original story, he didn’t care if his wife was cheating on him or not. Besides, he was clearly indifferent to me as well. It was Evan who coldly told his good-natured wife, ‘I don’t like you as a woman,’ so I didn’t expect this kind of reaction…
“Aren’t you sorry for me? After you left, I couldn’t eat or sleep. While you’re giggling and having a good time with another guy like this…”
“Come on, sit down. I’m not going anywhere, so sit here.”
As I helped Evan stand up while wiping away his tears, I forced him to sit down. It seemed to me that there was a very absurd misunderstanding.
“Come back if you feel sorry for me… because I will change like him.”
“….”
“You would do anything if you feel sorry for me. Give me some sympathy, okay?”
“Evan, what is this now…”
“If my personality is a problem, I can fix it to be completely the same… Do you like his blue hair? A fine, white face?”
Evan’s cheeks were glistening with tears flowing again. As expected, he seemed suspicious of me having an affair after hearing rumors about Marcel’s original appearance… no, it seemed like something happened that I didn’t know that made such an idea come about.
“Even if you tried to divorce me and go to another man…”
“…Divorce?”
“You asked Princess Elanie to make the divorce law fast. Didn’t you abandon me because that didn’t work?”
“Evan, listen carefully.”
I handed him the handkerchief and thought for a moment because the situation had become quite complicated. Nothing was easy.
“First… you have a misunderstanding. Kyle Dart Ravonis is my borrowed name.”
Evan’s eyes began to lighten slightly.
“…What?”
“But that… I wonder what that means.”
Really, the suspicion that Kyle and I were having an affair was only a trifle.
“Borrowed name… what is a borrowed name?”
Evan muttered, narrowing his eyes.
“Are you doing this to protect him from me? Don’t worry, I will kill him gracefully.”
Saying so, he gripped his sword tight as if to break it as he made a remark that was very worrying.
“He’s not real. You couldn’t find him because he didn’t exist.”
“He was a ghost-like bastard who couldn’t be chased, but there were many people who saw him… How can so many people see a person who is only a borrowed name?”
I answered with a deep sigh.
“Yes, it’s all because of my outstanding abilities.”
“Ah…”
Evan murmured slowly.
“…I see.”
I calmly added, thinking that there would be no point in lying about everything now.
“Even in your house, I lied to everyone until the end, so making a fictional character is nothing.”
Hearing those words, he slightly opened his mouth, showing a clearly hurt expression.
Who was going to be so shocked when I cheated a little when my family was being held hostage? Now, as Laria who was no longer nice, I was about to say something again though Evan said with tears dripping down his face.
“…It’s your house.”
“Huh?”
…Was it not that he was angry at being lied to, but that he was angry when I used the expression ‘your house’?
“This is our house, Laria. Your surname is still Icard.”
His face couldn’t be said to have a good impression, but it was even badly damaged, giving off a very terrifying atmosphere.
“I still wonder why you are doing this…”
Evan couldn’t speak anymore because the door was slammed open.
“Lady Laria!”
It was Sven who somehow carried Neo in the study.
“There’s an attack… ah.”
Sven’s eyes turned to Evan across from me, and he froze.
“Laria.”
“Yes.”
“Do you like older men by any chance? If it’s not Kyle, is that your hidden man?”
“….”
“If I look older…”
“No, Evan. You already look a lot older than your age now.”
[ Editor’s Note: LOL, I can’t— this chapter is so funny (๑˃́ꇴ˂̀) ]
Originally, he didn’t look very young, but his face was so damaged from looking for me that he looked like he was in his mid-to-late 20s.
“Nyaaaaa, nyaa.”
At that time, Neo looked at Evan and started crying violently.
“Nyaaa, nyaaaa!”
“No, what’s wrong Neo!”
Sven clung to Neo, who struggled in surprise as he tried to capture it, but Neo started to rebel very violently.
“Nyaaaaaaaaaa!”
“This won’t do, Sven.”
I sighed and pulled out another chair.
“Sit down. Evan didn’t seem to believe me, so I needed a witness anyway. Oh, and…”
Of course, there was also a very important matter that should not be forgotten.
“Let my brother go, too.”
“That is…”
“I won’t run away. I can’t take my brother with me anyway. So I can’t leave .”
Eventually, a very strange combination gathered in my room. Evan and his lieutenant Nathan, Sven and Neo, and even Fred.
“Laaariiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaa…!”
The freed Fred rushed over immediately and hugged me as soon as the door opened.
“Laria! What’s going on here, huh? How the hell did this happen?!”
I thought for a moment that Fred might be the world’s most pitiful supporting character.
He left to study far away without good conditions, and he lost contact with the continent for several years. And a few years later, when he managed to find out the news, his parents died, his family was ruined and his only sister got married while sick.
He hurriedly wondered what was going on, and when he returned to the empire, he was kidnapped by his sister’s husband and dragged all the way here.
“Brother, um… you’ve been through a lot.”
“I heard you were sick! I just read the letter mother sent me before she died.”
Tears welled up in Fred’s eyes and eventually dripped.
“A fatal disease… It is said that several complications overlap with the garba lung disease… To think that my younger sister, whom I had barely met, would die soon…”
“…Ah.”
I quickly took out another handkerchief and handed it to my brother. Evan’s and Fred’s eyes were red and swollen, and it was a spectacle that they were holding lace-filled handkerchiefs.
“Stop crying, brother. For now, I’m fine.”
I patted Fred on the shoulder and continued.
“I have eaten okracia fruit since I was a child. Fortunately, there was an okracia tree in the backyard of the Duke’s residence and in the villa. So I’m perfectly fine now.”
It was Evan who immediately responded to those words.
“Then, are you really completely better?”
“Yes, when I was young, I got sick, but from a certain point on, I pretended to be sick. I am really healthy now.”
“Ah…”
He murmured in a low voice.
“…I’m really glad.”
But really, that wasn’t the problem. The fact that I didn’t have an affair and that I was cured wasn’t the end of all the conflicts. No, it might just be more complicated. Nothing was resolved, and nothing was communicated.
In fact, I wondered why Evan was so excited.
‘He had said firmly that he doesn’t like me as a woman…’
…Did he actually like me so much?
Even if he liked me, the kind and pure Laria he knew was not me. Even so, how could I ask him to marry Elanie in this atmosphere?
‘Still, I can’t tell him to ignore his father’s long-cherished wish to save his mother…’
When I was silent because I didn’t know where to start the conversation.
“Excuse me.”
Fred, who had been sobbing, glanced at me and twitched his lips.
“So, are you really getting better?”
“…Huh?”
“Hu-huh, what? Are you really better after you eat the oak fruit or something?”
Fred’s words made me freeze. Suddenly it felt like someone had hit me in the head.
What is Fred talking about?
Originally, he should have been muttering in front of my grave that if he had come to the Empire by now and I ate okracia fruit steadily, I would have been cured. However, with such a lost expression…
“Brother.”
No matter what I did here, it had no effect on Fred, who was on the eastern continent.
“Ocrasia fruit… you don’t know? You never heard of it?”
“Yes.”
Fred immediately nodded his head.
“My major is law, so how would I know the fruit of such a plant?”
“…Isn’t garba lung disease a common disease in the eastern continent?”
“What are you talking about? I never heard of the disease until mother’s letter.”
Apparently, because of Fred’s useless words in the original, I was cured. So, it meant that his knowledge was the cause and effect that enabled me to cure my disease and survive. Nonetheless, what was going on right now…
At that moment, I remembered the conversation I had with Serena in the past.
“How can you… save the dead?”
“I heard you have to turn back time.”
“What?”
“It changes the cause and effect so that they don’t die. Instead, cracks form, and according to the process of changing the causality, there is always a gap.”
While everyone was looking at me with strange eyes, I quickly searched my memory.
“I could obtain other things, but it was difficult to find an ocrasia tree. People don’t really use it as an ornamental tree. Management is also difficult.”
I was just lucky. Of course, my very rare cure was in an easy-to-find place.
“Well. It must be that Miss Laria has something to do with black magic or has the qualities of a warlock.”
I’d been diligently reading dark magic books for the past few days, but it seemed that I didn’t have the qualities of a warlock at all. According to the book, I should have manifested as a warlock, but there was no sign of that at all. If that was the case, that meant I was somehow related to black magic…
“If you use black magic, a crack will appear in the world because it is an unnatural power. There is a corner where things would go wrong.”
“But you… you are the child saved by the crack.”
My hands trembled at the momentary hypothesis that came to mind.
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zoetekim
Wait 👁️👄👁️
kuroneko_chan
Oooooo!!!! Someone already turned back time!!!????!!?!!!
Blysse
ohhhh i’ve had my suspicion from the time very start!!
so it seems the duke and evan succeeded in dark magic to turn back time, not for matilda but for laria
did the duke change his mind when laria died in the OG timeline?
i guess it all makes sense now