My Ex-Fiancée Is the Female Lead in the Romance Novel

1 – Fiancee

The sky is clear.

The duke’s garden, which is decorated with all kinds of flowers, is blooming with a delicate fragrance in the spring.

But between the two men and women sitting opposite each other at the table among the flowers, there was a cold air.

“Ria.”

Seeing her unanswered calls, I called her again, feeling her heart boil like boiling water.

“Ria.”

“What is it, Cesar?”

It must have been an engagement relationship, but she put down the teacup with an expression that it bothered me to call her.

Looking into her blue eyes, I asked her questioningly.

“Ria. Do you know how many weeks we’ll be seeing each other now?”

Then she looked at me with impassive eyes. It’s as if they don’t care and take my words as just annoying complaints.

“I don’t know. I’m busy these days.”

It’s a lie. At best, I know she does nothing in her mansion except to do her embroidery or drink tea.

Perhaps she knows that I will soon find out that she is lying.

Still telling obvious lies is one of two things. They think it doesn’t matter if I find out, or rather, they want me to be disappointed in myself and fall away.

“Cesar.”

How long has it been since I heard her voice calling me? It’s really hard to meet Lia recently, so it’s hard to hear her voice calling me.

Maybe I have the will to apologize for my actions so far. I put a little hope, but as expected, vain imagination was smashed without a trace.

“I decided to go to the Imperial Palace Ball in a week with someone else.” “…Did the Duke allow it too?”

The Imperial Palace Ball, which is held once every five years, is a ball held so grandly that it can be considered that virtually all nobles gather in one place.

So naturally, the appearance and attitude seen on the spot will become an issue nationwide and spread quickly. Entering with different partners at such a place is an act that only exacerbates the rumors of discord between the two of us.

There’s no way the duke would have allowed this to happen, since it was an absurd act unless it was politically at odds with our family. As if my prediction was correct, Seria turned her head away from me and replied.

“No, so you have to convince me.”

“Why me? You know very well what kind of repercussions it will have if you enter separately while you are engaged in the first place. Why are you doing this!”

When I raised her voice, as if I was a little annoyed, she turned her head away and didn’t answer me.

I asked her again in her calm tone as if to soothe her.

“I want to go with someone other than me.”

“No. Just Cesar, I’ll go with you.”

Seria changed her knowing whether she had a sudden change of heart or whether she didn’t want to tell the other person.

“No. Please tell me who it is.”

“I hate it. You don’t need to know.”

“Ria. I am your fiancée. I have a right to know what kind of men my fiancée is dating.”

I then looked straight into her blue eyes. I soon gave up looking at her face because of her dry eyes that couldn’t read any emotion.

A sense of distance and anguish over the eyes that were once filled with all sorts of emotions had cooled so coldly that I couldn’t look at her face any more.

“Cesar.”

After a moment of silence, she quietly closed and opened her eyes and called my name.

I felt insecure for some reason at the emotionless tone that was no different from before. And my senses were exactly right.

“Go back to the Marquis’ residence today. See you at the prom.”

“Ria.”

When she was a little girl who didn’t know anything, she asked me to call her by her nickname, ‘Lea’, but she doesn’t respond anymore.

Perhaps I forgot that Lia is a nickname that only I used to call.

Looking at her as she passed through her backing, where the fragrance of her flowers still vibrated without looking back, I turned to her opposite side.

Duke I knew I had to go the other way to get out of me, but for some reason I wanted to walk in the opposite direction with her.

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No matter how high-quality ingredients are, if you cook without considering any combination, you will end up with food that you can’t eat. It is only when a seasoned chef figure out what ingredients go well together and cook it that it becomes high-end food.

The same goes for flowers. The scents of each other should be placed in harmony, but the flowers in the back garden of the Duke do not match each other at all. It feels like leaving the management to an inexperienced gardener.

Disillusioned with the situation in the garden, where all kinds of flowers are mixed together and cannot even smell each other, I quickly started to escape.

* * *

The family of the Marquis of Lombardy, or our family, is a family with a long tradition.

Even if you go back only three generations, you have served as the imperial family’s teacher for generations. But that was a thing of the past.

It was the Duke of Argenta who reached out to our family, which had become mediocre marquesses pushed out of the country just a few years ago.

Duke Argenta, who contributed greatly to defeating the nomadic tribes on the border, was given the title of duke by the emperor. But, like all communities, the aristocracy did not welcome the new duke.

He was a mere frontier commander until recently, but the nobles in the center looked down on him and ignored him. In that situation, the solution the Duke of Argenta found was simple.

It is to marry one’s own daughter to a son of a venerable family.

Then, thinking that he could naturally blend into aristocratic society starting with the next duke, he turned his attention to our family, which had been embedded in the provinces.

He brings our family to the center, and we add to the long-standing lineage of the Duke of Argenta.

An engagement made under the agreement between the two families, that was the engagement between Lia and I.

“So, is Lady Argenta still the same?”

“Yes…”

To the question of my father, the Marquis of Lombardy, I answered in a confident voice.

Her Not too long ago, I was full of her confidence that I would be able to bring her back to her old days, but her current affairs have eroded that confidence.

Will she be able to return to her childhood Leah?

Looking at her attitude today, I felt sorry for myself for having such futile hopes, but still, in my heart, I can’t let go of one line of hope in her that I can return her to her original state.

“Didn’t I tell you? You can break off the marriage if you want.”

“hahahaha…”

It has been almost 10 years since I came up to the capital and entered the central political world. At least it was our family who had developed the strength to survive on their own, so my father easily talked about breaking up the marriage.

Of course, business related to the duke’s family will be suspended, but thanks to the guild that I’ve been raising with great care for a long time, I don’t need to marry the duke’s family anymore.

But since I hadn’t given up on Leah yet, I let out my father’s words with a small smile.

According to her original story, the story begins in earnest after Seria, who feels repulsed by her unwilling engagement in childhood, spends an enchanting night with her second prince.

The novel begins to develop with the risky love story between the 1st and 2nd princes and the 2nd prince and Seria.

The biggest reason why it went like that is that the family of the Marquis of Lombardy, that is, our family, was still stuck in the province in the original work.

But I knew that undesirable circumstances would arise for my family if I let it go that way, so I tried my best to get my family to the capital.

Even so, I felt empty at Lia’s attitude, which showed signs of going the original way.

As expected, even if an extra like me intervened, wouldn’t the main story of the original work change?

Soon there will be a ball at the imperial palace where the 2nd prince and Seria will spend the night.

A decision will be made on that day. Whether my efforts were meaningful or not, whether Leah had any lingering feelings for me, or whether it had already disappeared.

* * *

On the day of the Imperial Palace Ball, festivals are held throughout the empire, not just for nobles.

As if those words weren’t absurd, as the day of the Imperial Palace Ball dawned, the entire capital was buzzing, even the mansion.

The Imperial Palace Ball starts in the afternoon, but knowing that if you leave on time, it will be difficult to get into the ballroom properly, so I promised Lia to leave early in the morning.

Since Lia broke her time promises so many times, I was worried that today would be the case, but I guess I thought that it couldn’t be until such an important day as the ball at the palace. .

It’s been a while since I’ve seen Lia properly decorated, and that was enough to catch my eye.