Because She Had A Time Limit, She Became The Villain's Daughter-in-law - Chapter 132
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 132
The next morning, he had breakfast with Laria.
Although she made frequent trips to the bathroom due to her coughing, she still ate pretty well. At the same time, he couldn’t help but feel awkward about the two of them having a meal, so he was only looking at the newspaper.
“Hey, Evan.”
After the meal, he was eating dessert when Laria spoke to her.
“Is father always in the office like this? Can’t we go greet him?”
“Huh. On the contrary, if you go, he will be bothered.”
“Well. If it was me, wouldn’t he be happy?”
“What do you mean?”
“I am actually… hmm…because of my mother’s friendship, I was a rude daughter-in-law who had no choice but to pay off my debts.”
“Really?”
“You didn’t know.”
Soon, Laria gazed at Evan’s calm face and explained her past. She explained to him how she lost her parents and told him how Kallaudin brought her back.
“To be honest, I almost gave up as I moved from one relative to another who didn’t want me… You don’t know how grateful I am to father. I know it’s a bit absurd.”
“It’s not absurd.”
Evan replied calmly while eating the tart.
“Anyway, I was going to do as father told me to get married.”
“Huh? Why? It’s your marriage.”
So, he explained his situation to her as well. He even told her that Matilda had passed away while giving birth to him, and that he and Kallaudin weren’t normal father and son.
“Ah.”
Laria wiggled her fingers and sighed.
“Then, I shouldn’t even go near my father.”
“…Hmm.”
Evan frowned and asked.
“I haven’t talked to a lot of people, but… don’t you usually comfort me first at this point?”
“Ah.”
Laria blinked her eyes as she smoothed her pale pink hair.
“I’m sorry for you, of course, but isn’t it a bit better than me right now?”
Her natural voice made Evan stop eating the cake for a moment. Contrary to her kind and gentle first impression, it seemed that her calculations were faster than he thought.
“First of all, I think I need to arrange a place for myself to live in this house.”
“You are Lady Icard. How are you going to make a living?”
“The Lord’s wife, who came with only a pile of debt without a dowry… I think I know my place well.”
Laria uttered fiercely.
“Of course, it would be the way to live, not to be seen only by the highest power.”
“The highest power is… father?”
“Yes.”
She muttered with a face lost in her brooding thoughts.
“Somehow, even after bringing me in, he completely neglected me. I thought it was not a normal marriage, but then the optimal strategy is…”
“You don’t have to think about it that complicatedly. We are already married.”
When Evan spoke bluntly like that, Laria laughed as she looked at him.
“You say that because you have a lot.”
“What?”
“People like me who don’t have anything should lie flat and pay attention.”
“….”
“Originally, I thought I was going to be a bit mean to you.”
She gave her tart to him.
“But according to what you said, I probably won’t have to. You just do what father tells you to do.”
Evan missed the timing to get angry at her because he was eating the tart she had given him. Still, one thing was certain… the wife in front of him was not as gentle and kind as she seemed. She even seemed cleverer than he thought.
“Please take good care of all kinds of information in the future.”
“Do you think I will bring you information or something?”
“Yes.”
Laria answered without hesitation.
“Because I feel good. Even though I look a little weak, I’m a little smart.”
“I know that.”
“Do you have anything to ask of me?”
With her words, Evan thought for a moment before he spoke, “…Rather than asking, I have something to agree on.”
“What is it?”
“It’s better to have children after we reach adulthood.”
“A child? Wasn’t that what happens when you get married?”
“It happens when you sleep hand in hand at night while you are married.”
It was because he had overheard the academy students discussing this topic. So when he calmly explained it, Laria showed a surprised face.
“Oh, really? I did not know… I will have to be careful.”
Although she pretended to be smart, it seemed that there was something she didn’t know as well.
“I was shocked when I first found out. Let’s be careful of each other.”
“Yes. I was a bit surprised, but it was something I should know someday.”
Laria rolled her eyes once and smiled.
“That was close. Thanks for letting me know.”
Then, she coughed a few times and eventually ran out to the bathroom.
Few people were looking for Laria and Evan because Kallaudin himself was indifferent to them.
Laria seemed to be considerably weaker than he thought. She couldn’t leave the room, and she coughed often. Kallaudin’s indifference, combined with her illness, prevented him from doing anything. He did not receive the Young Duke’s education, let alone make friends in the social world.
Of course, Evan was too young to be interested in Laria’s life.
Evan packed his things and immediately went to the training ground and began training her swordsmanship. His swordsmanship training was overseen by the commander, Ludva.
Ludva taught him things he didn’t know… things he had doubts in his heart but no one had ever said directly. Evan, who made Matilda die and made the Duke unhappy because of his birth, should not be happy.
As he went to training early in the morning and returned at night, he had little time to face his wife, Laria. At the same time, Laria, too, was sick, so she seemed to have no room to care about him.
“Excuse me.”
However, when she sometimes woke up at dawn because of the cough, she asked him first.
“That swordsmanship training… do you have to do that all day?”
She asked doubtfully.
“You keep having a bad face…”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Evan replied curtly and picked up his sword.
“Why doesn’t it matter?”
Since she couldn’t even get out of her bed, Laria said disgruntledly.
“I am your wife.”
“…What is that?”
Hearing Laria’s words, Evan sighed and replied lowly.
“Anyway, you and I got married without ever seeing each other and not having a wedding ceremony.”
He had no choice but to say that. It was because he agreed with Ludva that their marriage should never be happy.
With his plain words, Laria barely raised her body and said.
“Then, you…”
She held her stretched handkerchief to her mouth as if she was coughing.
“…Does it have nothing to do with you that I am sick?”
“I know you have a doctor.”
“How did you know that?”
“The servants told me. Father has assigned you a doctor. Was the name Avery?”
“That’s right. You knew.”
Laria coughed a few times before she spoke loudly.
“Anyway, we’re a couple, and we’re not unrelated.”
“Well. I have no intention of getting along with you at all.”
Evan answered coldly, and he left the room without even looking at her face.
‘…She must have been hurt.’
At some point in training, Ludva gave a wooden sword to him after using a real sword himself. Therefore, the wounds on Evan’s body continued to increase, and he forced training that seemed unreasonable to anyone to him.
‘But, it’s better to draw a line from the beginning.’
Evan put up with the pain and thought about it throughout the training.
‘Because no one wants to get along with me anyway…’
Recalling his memories from the academy, he barely held back the urge to apologize to Laria. And that night, Evan was sleeping and slowly opened his eyes to a cold hand on his forehead.
“Evan.”
Worried purple eyes were looking at him in the dark.
“Are you okay? I think you’re very sick. You have a fever. Shall I call a servant?”
“No, it’s okay. Don’t make a fuss. Be careful not to hold hands.”
“I am still very careful. It’s night, and we’re sleepy.”
While she didn’t know what to do, Laria struggled to get her body up. Then, soaking one of her handkerchiefs in cold water, she placed it on his forehead.
“You look so strong, why are you in pain?”
“It doesn’t hurt.”
“You are stupid. I mean, this hurts.”
“Stop worrying and go to sleep.”
“How can I do that? You kept moaning and fussing.”
Certainly, he wasn’t feeling well. It seemed that all the things that had been accumulating too much for a while came over at once.
“Did you wake up because it was noisy? Then I’ll go to the sofa over there…”
He uttered it bluntly, and Laria immediately shook her head.
“What are you talking about? How sad it is to be sick alone.”
Then, she smiled and wiped away his sweat.
“I don’t know anything else, but I’ll take care of you when you’re sick. I am your wife.”
He hesitantly asked cautiously.
“I spoke meanly earlier, why are you being nice to me?”
“Ah.”
Laria, who was lying on her side on the wide bed, smiled.
“Because I have no one else to turn to except you.”
“…Huh?”
“If I had been a little less sick, I would have somehow become a powerful figure in this family, but now I can’t do anything… So shouldn’t I be good to you, the next person in power?”
“Didn’t you say the other day that you wouldn’t give me any trouble?”
“It’s not getting into trouble, it’s just managing this much.”
Laria kindly replied.
“So, don’t be burdened and just get well.”
“You say you’ll be good to me though is this the best you can do?”
“Of course not.”
Laria’s answer was quick.
“Why? Shall I try my best?”
Seeing her figure smiling mischievously like that, again, Evan thought she was very cute.
“Evan.”
Her little hand ran through Evan’s hair.
“Looking at the book you were reading earlier, it was very difficult.”
“Huh?”
“I’m proud of you. You’re really great.”
As she spoke in a kind tone, a fever suddenly began to rise in the back of his neck.
“Still, I still like children’s books.”
How soft her voice was, Evan couldn’t even answer and blinked at her.
“Later… I will read you a fairy tale until you fall asleep.”
He liked the way her hand stroked his hair, even making his body languid.
“Let’s live well as a good couple.”
It was so sweet that his whole body felt itchy. He unknowingly tries to nod at her like a puppy, but her tone suddenly changes.
“How is it?”
As usual, it was a wild and confident voice.
“How’s that as a joke? I am good at this, right?”
“….”
Evan seemed possessed, and he immediately felt his self-esteem hurt. How funny he would have been if he had just nodded his head right away.
“But it hurts so much that I am forcibly scrapping this crazy talent… cough, cough, cough.”
As Laria turned her head and coughed, he frowned as he looked at the blood on her handkerchief.
“…Are you okay?”
“Does this look okay?”
She coughed a few more times before she limped.
“But well… the doctor father gave me always takes good care of me. I won’t die.”
He wasn’t surprised because he had seen her not feeling well since day one, but every time she vomited up blood, it worried him.
“Still, how was it?”
“What.”
“Because you’re doing your best to be nice to me.”
“…I’m tired. I want to sleep.”
Evan closed his eyes.
‘She’s so damn good that I fell for her,’ he didn’t want to say that.
However, he had other thoughts in his mind.
“I am your wife.”
…That sounded like the truth.
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rei-chan
Nah, I’m not crying 🥲
Awww, my poor babies 😭
Rifaman
Now I’m sad, I hope Evan give big punch to the Duke in this timeline and after their back because Evan and Laria completely Duke’s puppet in this timeline. And OG Laria is really dead