“What do you mean?”
Janet, who had drooped the corners of her eyes sadly in front of Erina, responded with a stiff response.
“Can’t you see it?”
The Crown Prince of Esland snorted in surprise as if she was being ridiculous.
“They’re stuck in the office all day, and they’re spouting nonsensical excuses on why they’re riding the same carriage to the Star Palace.”
The crown prince shrugged his shoulders.
“The answer is obvious.”
As Janet’s eyelashes trembled with embarrassment, the crown prince clicked his tongue.
“You’re the only one who loses if you’re so naive. Wake up.”
Despite her brother’s criticism, Janet couldn’t say anything and just bowed her head.
She has always felt pathetic for not being able to say anything in front of her brother, but it was difficult to break her habit she developed since she was young.
Miraculously, she was recognized by the Empress Dowager and played a more important role than the crown prince, who only knew how to use a sword, but she had no choice but to swallow the words she was trying to say because her tongue was still stiff.
She can be confident now. She’s no longer the bane of the royal family.
No, she has to be strong to protect the precious person she left behind in the kingdom.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t raise her head.
The crown prince smiled slightly at her lowered head.
“Well, don’t worry too much. Everything will be solved if the Duke comes to me.”
Janet clenched her hand tightly.
“The Empress Dowager told us to refrain from hasty behavior.”
Despite Janet’s warning, the crown prince laughed lightly.
“It’s too soon. But success is guaranteed, so we have to take this risk.”
“There’s nothing good that will come out from touching the Duke of Baloa.”
As Janet plucked up her courage again and stopped him, the crown prince just picked his ears as if he had nothing to listen to anymore.
“You’re so timid. You don’t have to worry.”
The crown prince, who turned his eyes out of the window, smiled slowly.
“I’m only going to frighten her moderately.”
***
It seems that I am off to a wrong start for my vacation.
A carriage trip should be spent while eating snacks and enjoying the scenery as you hold your excitement for your upcoming vacation.
I felt like throwing up when I was trying to read the small letters in a rattling carriage for two hours.
But every time I tried to sneak down the papers, a pair of red eyes glared at me as if they were going to pierce my forehead from the other side.
Knoxus must have felt sorry for me, so he peeked over my shoulder at the documents.
“Is there anything I can do?”
“Oh, yes, just in time!”
I put the document in his hand right away.
“I was about to get motion sickness, so I hope you read it aloud for me.”
As I grinned at my perfect plan, a faint voice fell over my head.
“How can you hand over confidential documents to others so easily? You’re unqualified as prime minister.”
With Cardan’s fierce glare, I had no choice but to take back the documents.
I was frowning to read a letter the size of a bean again when Cardan stole my papers.
Then he knocked twice on the wall to tell the coachman to stop the carriage.
“Get rid of your mistress.”
As the carriage slowed down, Cardan chinned to the Knoxus.
“What?”
I reflexively extended my arm as if protecting Knoxus.
No matter how twisted your mind is, how can you leave a person in the middle of a dirt road?
“What are you talking about? Why are you kicking out someone who’s been quiet?”
Cardan put a pile of papers on my head.
“What do you mean quiet? The way he peeped at confidential information over his shoulder was very inappropriate.”
He opened the carriage door wide.
“But you shouldn’t kick him out in the middle of the road!”
“Wouldn’t it be nice for him to sit next to the coachman?”
There was no way to refute Cardan’s words.
With my head rolling so hard, Knoxus got out of the carriage as if he had no choice.
“I’ll go away for now, master.”
Knoxus bid me goodbye politely and glanced at Cardan.
“If anything goes wrong…… Call for me.”
“Yes.”
I patted the reliable Knoxus on the shoulder again today.
“You and I are suffering a lot.”
When the carriage started again, Cardan removed the pile of documents from the top of my head with a satisfied smile.
“Give it back.”
I held out my hand.
“Even if I vomit due to motion sickness, I will definitely finish reviewing these confidential documents.”
A curt voice came out, but I didn’t try to change my tone more softly.
But instead of returning the documents to me, Cardan turned the report over to the next page.
The corners of his mouth loosened when I looked suspicious.
“You asked for these documents to be read for you.”
For a moment, I couldn’t quite understand what he was saying, so I blinked. Then Cardan rolled up his lips more mischievously.
“You say you’re about to throw up because of motion sickness, so I have no choice but to read these confidential documents for you.”
Such a nice, low-pitched voice began to fill the carriage softly.
Normally, the content of the document would have been a headache for me, but I fell into his sweet voice without realizing it.
***
“Hmm….”
Erina, who was asleep before she knew it, tossed and turned as if she was trying to find a more comfortable position with a groaning sound.
“Negligence, Duke.”
While criticizing lightly, there was a smile on the corner of Cardan’s mouth.
Eventually, Cardan, who moved to the other side, carefully laid Erina down.
As Erina lay on his lap, she relaxed her face like she was comfortable, and fell into a deeper sleep.
Looking at her breathing evenly, he remembered the time when she was sleeping on their way back after taking care of the greenhouse all day long when they were young, and a small smile leaked out.
“Erina…”
His voice was infinitely soft as he savored her name.
His hand, which had been wandering in the air for a long time, slowly swept her cheek.
***
“Heok!”
The rattling sensation woke me up.
“Are you up?”
Cardan’s voice came from too close.
I finally realized that something was supporting my head like a pillow.
As I rolled my eyes, I saw Cardan looking down at me.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty!”
Before Cardan noticed, I quickly rose up, wiping off the drool marks on his thighs.
“I guess I fell asleep without realizing it.”
Cardan shook his head as I tried to continue my gibberish excuse.
“Never mind. You looked very tired, so I left you alone.”
Looking at his face carefully, he didn’t look very upset.
And this position. Obviously, Cardan was sitting on the other side before I fell asleep.
I paused for a moment.
It was a situation that I couldn’t understand at all.
This is… It seems like he changed seats for me on purpose……?
“You kept frowning in your sleep as if you are about to have a cramp in your neck.”
Cardan responded lightly, as if he had read my mind.
And before I knew it, he nodded toward the view of the lake outside the window.
“We’ve arrived. The vacation spot you’ve been wanting so much.”
Looking out the window he pointed out, there was a breathtakingly beautiful landscape unfolding than I had imagined. Just as I was looking out the window with my eyes, I saw Janet’s carriage just stopped behind us.
“Your Majesty!”
“Why?”
As I called him in an urgent voice, Cardan asked, wrinkling his eyebrows slightly.
“This is not the time.”
I’m glad I kept the jewelry separately in the front compartment, not in the luggage compartment.
I picked up a jewelry box in a hurry and stuck it in Cardan’s hand.
“Go and hand this gift to Janet right away, open the door for her.”
It’s a time-sensitive matter, but Cardan only sighed.
“Come on! Before the coachman does, take the chance!”
I glanced anxiously at the coachman, who faltered down from the driver’s seat behind us.
Eventually, I clasped my hands altogether.
“I beg of you!”
Despite my earnest request, Cardan’s expression was much stiffer than when I drooled in his pants.
“Okay. I can’t help it if you ask me like that.”
I felt offended that his voice was strangely sharp.
When I was about to ask him to tell Janet, “This is a gift I chose because I thought of your eyes as soon as I saw it,” a large hand grabbed my hand.
The sudden movement stiffened me.
Cardan looked carefully at me and calmly put the documents scattered here and there on my hand.
Did he hold my hand to hand over the documents?
His grasp of my hand was so soft that I didn’t know if he was holding the document to hold it.
“I’ll be right back.”
After getting all the documents, Cardan bid a short goodbye and got out of the carriage.
I stared blankly at his quickly disappearing back and dropped my gaze on the documents piled up in my arms.
“……does it mean to work hard?”
However, even though I guessed so, I was still unsure.
When I got out of the carriage with all the documents, I caught Cardan opening the door for Janet.
Cardan, who waved his hand at the coachman and drove him away, opened the carriage door with a rough touch.
“Ah, ahh….”
It wasn’t the gentlemanly manner I expected, but it was too late to stop him.
Janet, who saw Cardan, was surprised and covered her mouth with her hand.
“Your Majesty…”
She must have been surprised by his wild gestures.
She was so shocked that even her face looked pale.
At the sight, I shook my head and cursed Cardan inside.
Are you trying to save the empire or not? We’ll be in trouble if you don’t cooperate!
It has always been Cardan who disrupts my perfect plan.
“Huk….heuk….”
Princess Janet, who was pale at that time, burst into tears.
To make matters worse, Cardan asked in a blunt voice that would not even comfort her.
“Why are you crying?”
I shuddered.
The romantic week-long operation I planned at the Star Palace seemed to have been disastrous from the beginning.
I’m about to jump in and sort things out somehow.
Janet spoke in a strained voice.
“I thought Your Majesty had forgotten me……. I didn’t know you’d open the door by yourself…….”
Janet’s eyelids trembled and her eyes, which were hidden by tears, were revealed.
Her light brown eyes looking up at Cardan were sparkling with overwhelming joy.
“What do you mean?”
Janet, who had drooped the corners of her eyes sadly in front of Erina, responded with a stiff response.
“Can’t you see it?”
The Crown Prince of Esland snorted in surprise as if she was being ridiculous.
“They’re stuck in the office all day, and they’re spouting nonsensical excuses on why they’re riding the same carriage to the Star Palace.”
The crown prince shrugged his shoulders.
“The answer is obvious.”
As Janet’s eyelashes trembled with embarrassment, the crown prince clicked his tongue.
“You’re the only one who loses if you’re so naive. Wake up.”
Despite her brother’s criticism, Janet couldn’t say anything and just bowed her head.
She has always felt pathetic for not being able to say anything in front of her brother, but it was difficult to break her habit she developed since she was young.
Miraculously, she was recognized by the Empress Dowager and played a more important role than the crown prince, who only knew how to use a sword, but she had no choice but to swallow the words she was trying to say because her tongue was still stiff.
She can be confident now. She’s no longer the bane of the royal family.
No, she has to be strong to protect the precious person she left behind in the kingdom.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t raise her head.
The crown prince smiled slightly at her lowered head.
“Well, don’t worry too much. Everything will be solved if the Duke comes to me.”
Janet clenched her hand tightly.
“The Empress Dowager told us to refrain from hasty behavior.”
Despite Janet’s warning, the crown prince laughed lightly.
“It’s too soon. But success is guaranteed, so we have to take this risk.”
“There’s nothing good that will come out from touching the Duke of Baloa.”
As Janet plucked up her courage again and stopped him, the crown prince just picked his ears as if he had nothing to listen to anymore.
“You’re so timid. You don’t have to worry.”
The crown prince, who turned his eyes out of the window, smiled slowly.
“I’m only going to frighten her moderately.”
***
It seems that I am off to a wrong start for my vacation.
A carriage trip should be spent while eating snacks and enjoying the scenery as you hold your excitement for your upcoming vacation.
I felt like throwing up when I was trying to read the small letters in a rattling carriage for two hours.
But every time I tried to sneak down the papers, a pair of red eyes glared at me as if they were going to pierce my forehead from the other side.
Knoxus must have felt sorry for me, so he peeked over my shoulder at the documents.
“Is there anything I can do?”
“Oh, yes, just in time!”
I put the document in his hand right away.
“I was about to get motion sickness, so I hope you read it aloud for me.”
As I grinned at my perfect plan, a faint voice fell over my head.
“How can you hand over confidential documents to others so easily? You’re unqualified as prime minister.”
With Cardan’s fierce glare, I had no choice but to take back the documents.
I was frowning to read a letter the size of a bean again when Cardan stole my papers.
Then he knocked twice on the wall to tell the coachman to stop the carriage.
“Get rid of your mistress.”
As the carriage slowed down, Cardan chinned to the Knoxus.
“What?”
I reflexively extended my arm as if protecting Knoxus.
No matter how twisted your mind is, how can you leave a person in the middle of a dirt road?
“What are you talking about? Why are you kicking out someone who’s been quiet?”
Cardan put a pile of papers on my head.
“What do you mean quiet? The way he peeped at confidential information over his shoulder was very inappropriate.”
He opened the carriage door wide.
“But you shouldn’t kick him out in the middle of the road!”
“Wouldn’t it be nice for him to sit next to the coachman?”
There was no way to refute Cardan’s words.
With my head rolling so hard, Knoxus got out of the carriage as if he had no choice.
“I’ll go away for now, master.”
Knoxus bid me goodbye politely and glanced at Cardan.
“If anything goes wrong…… Call for me.”
“Yes.”
I patted the reliable Knoxus on the shoulder again today.
“You and I are suffering a lot.”
When the carriage started again, Cardan removed the pile of documents from the top of my head with a satisfied smile.
“Give it back.”
I held out my hand.
“Even if I vomit due to motion sickness, I will definitely finish reviewing these confidential documents.”
A curt voice came out, but I didn’t try to change my tone more softly.
But instead of returning the documents to me, Cardan turned the report over to the next page.
The corners of his mouth loosened when I looked suspicious.
“You asked for these documents to be read for you.”
For a moment, I couldn’t quite understand what he was saying, so I blinked. Then Cardan rolled up his lips more mischievously.
“You say you’re about to throw up because of motion sickness, so I have no choice but to read these confidential documents for you.”
Such a nice, low-pitched voice began to fill the carriage softly.
Normally, the content of the document would have been a headache for me, but I fell into his sweet voice without realizing it.
***
“Hmm….”
Erina, who was asleep before she knew it, tossed and turned as if she was trying to find a more comfortable position with a groaning sound.
“Negligence, Duke.”
While criticizing lightly, there was a smile on the corner of Cardan’s mouth.
Eventually, Cardan, who moved to the other side, carefully laid Erina down.
As Erina lay on his lap, she relaxed her face like she was comfortable, and fell into a deeper sleep.
Looking at her breathing evenly, he remembered the time when she was sleeping on their way back after taking care of the greenhouse all day long when they were young, and a small smile leaked out.
“Erina…”
His voice was infinitely soft as he savored her name.
His hand, which had been wandering in the air for a long time, slowly swept her cheek.
***
“Heok!”
The rattling sensation woke me up.
“Are you up?”
Cardan’s voice came from too close.
I finally realized that something was supporting my head like a pillow.
As I rolled my eyes, I saw Cardan looking down at me.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty!”
Before Cardan noticed, I quickly rose up, wiping off the drool marks on his thighs.
“I guess I fell asleep without realizing it.”
Cardan shook his head as I tried to continue my gibberish excuse.
“Never mind. You looked very tired, so I left you alone.”
Looking at his face carefully, he didn’t look very upset.
And this position. Obviously, Cardan was sitting on the other side before I fell asleep.
I paused for a moment.
It was a situation that I couldn’t understand at all.
This is… It seems like he changed seats for me on purpose……?
“You kept frowning in your sleep as if you are about to have a cramp in your neck.”
Cardan responded lightly, as if he had read my mind.
And before I knew it, he nodded toward the view of the lake outside the window.
“We’ve arrived. The vacation spot you’ve been wanting so much.”
Looking out the window he pointed out, there was a breathtakingly beautiful landscape unfolding than I had imagined. Just as I was looking out the window with my eyes, I saw Janet’s carriage just stopped behind us.
“Your Majesty!”
“Why?”
As I called him in an urgent voice, Cardan asked, wrinkling his eyebrows slightly.
“This is not the time.”
I’m glad I kept the jewelry separately in the front compartment, not in the luggage compartment.
I picked up a jewelry box in a hurry and stuck it in Cardan’s hand.
“Go and hand this gift to Janet right away, open the door for her.”
It’s a time-sensitive matter, but Cardan only sighed.
“Come on! Before the coachman does, take the chance!”
I glanced anxiously at the coachman, who faltered down from the driver’s seat behind us.
Eventually, I clasped my hands altogether.
“I beg of you!”
Despite my earnest request, Cardan’s expression was much stiffer than when I drooled in his pants.
“Okay. I can’t help it if you ask me like that.”
I felt offended that his voice was strangely sharp.
When I was about to ask him to tell Janet, “This is a gift I chose because I thought of your eyes as soon as I saw it,” a large hand grabbed my hand.
The sudden movement stiffened me.
Cardan looked carefully at me and calmly put the documents scattered here and there on my hand.
Did he hold my hand to hand over the documents?
His grasp of my hand was so soft that I didn’t know if he was holding the document to hold it.
“I’ll be right back.”
After getting all the documents, Cardan bid a short goodbye and got out of the carriage.
I stared blankly at his quickly disappearing back and dropped my gaze on the documents piled up in my arms.
“……does it mean to work hard?”
However, even though I guessed so, I was still unsure.
When I got out of the carriage with all the documents, I caught Cardan opening the door for Janet.
Cardan, who waved his hand at the coachman and drove him away, opened the carriage door with a rough touch.
“Ah, ahh….”
It wasn’t the gentlemanly manner I expected, but it was too late to stop him.
Janet, who saw Cardan, was surprised and covered her mouth with her hand.
“Your Majesty…”
She must have been surprised by his wild gestures.
She was so shocked that even her face looked pale.
At the sight, I shook my head and cursed Cardan inside.
Are you trying to save the empire or not? We’ll be in trouble if you don’t cooperate!
It has always been Cardan who disrupts my perfect plan.
“Huk….heuk….”
Princess Janet, who was pale at that time, burst into tears.
To make matters worse, Cardan asked in a blunt voice that would not even comfort her.
“Why are you crying?”
I shuddered.
The romantic week-long operation I planned at the Star Palace seemed to have been disastrous from the beginning.
I’m about to jump in and sort things out somehow.
Janet spoke in a strained voice.
“I thought Your Majesty had forgotten me……. I didn’t know you’d open the door by yourself…….”
Janet’s eyelids trembled and her eyes, which were hidden by tears, were revealed.
Her light brown eyes looking up at Cardan were sparkling with overwhelming joy.
