Dress up
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Where Juliet was now was Maribel's residence, the innermost area of the Eileen Theater.
It was also the place where Stella, who had been expelled from her lover's position, had stayed with young Juliet until her death.
Juliet, who had long visited Maribel's secret rooms full of bad memories, was negotiating with the theater owner, working up the courage to bargain.
“Ah, no, no, you are still naive.
Why did you believe it would end once and for all?
If Duke Miguel likes you, your relationship with me will continue to be very good.
Otherwise, wouldn't there be other nobles if the Duke only had one night?
You are a rare beauty.”
“Owner of the theater, I’m not naive.
I think you are naive.
If I were given to Duke Miguel, I would whisper in the Duke's ear and not leave her alone.
I'm sure it's the same in the arms of other nobles.
You will always be anxious about how I will seek revenge behind your back, but wouldn’t it be better to avoid hurting each other?”
Maribel clicked her tongue as she watched poor, tacky Juliet wearing a brick-colored wig and changing her face to a dull color.
“You don’t even know the grace with which I created you.
Do you know who is responsible for your safe growth so far, and are you being so arrogant?
And call him duke.
Why are you so careless if someone finds out about this?”
“It’s just a matter between me and the theater owner.
I'll be careful elsewhere.
And I'm just being polite because I know how grateful you are.
I am doing this to repay the virtue you have given me in the meantime.
Why don't you tell me what I owe you?
“
Juliet's cheeky remark made Maribel snort and lift the pipe again and take a long drag.
“If you say so, I will show my sympathy.
There are five thousand terms.
What do you think?
It's bigger than you thought, right?
I didn't even introduce you personally, but it's very generous of him to offer such a large amount of money just because I recommended you.
”
Juliet was devastated as she squinted her eyes and smiled in satisfaction.
She never thought it would be so much money.
But she couldn't show it in front of the theater owner, so Juliet dropped her smug attitude and said politely: “Thank you for your words.
I will try my best.”
Maribel was surprised to see Juliet turn around and refuse to give in, even though she actually said twice the amount she had been offered.
She thought that the girl was not normal since she was a child, but even she had an open hand.
She would be an excellent actress if she went on stage, but she had to give up because she thought the Marchioness wouldn't leave her alone.
‘Who would want their husband’s lover’s daughter, who should be dead, to be alive in front of them?
This is bad.’
Juliet left Maribel's quarters, not revealing her inner thoughts as much as she could after hearing the amount Maribel said.
A few days ago, when she told Maribel that she was leaving the theater, she told her her plan.
At Juliet's imminent coming-of-age ceremony, at the age of seventeen, she would sell Juliet's virginity to Duke Michael, thus repaying the grace she had received until then.
She added that Juliet's life would flourish if she was pleasing in the Duke's eyes.
‘Don’t be ridiculous!
Would my life be in full bloom?
Even though he is the Duke, I can't sleep with a man older than my biological father, that will never happen.
I feel like I'm going to throw up just thinking about it.
If I vomit on that noble face in bed, I will die.
I don't want to be dead at seventeen.
My life is mine.
I think living undercover for the rest of your life is better than dying naked in bed.
I will never live a life that is in the hands of others.’
Julieta clenched her fist and looked at the theater, determined.
And today, a few days later, she visited Maribel and gave her opinion.
If she raised the compensation money that had been offered, she could try to ask for the money from her biological father, Marquis Anais.Although the Marquis had never looked for her or her mother, and had never offered any help since he kicked them out when she was five, he must have known that Stella had died not long after going to the theater and that her illegitimate daughter was growing up in the theater.
The Marquis Anais and her children used to go to the theater and enjoy the opera, but the Marquis had never been there again, although it was his favorite place to meet Stella and court her.
Maybe he knew she was here and was avoiding her.
Julieta thought this was a heavenly opportunity.
In fact, if the marquis did not go to the theater, she would have to try to meet him by all means.
For the first time since she began living in the theater, she knew that her biological father would visit her.
This incident was thought to be a sign that things might be going well.
But the amount Maribel told her was larger than she thought, and she was disappointed.
‘Will the marquis want to pay that amount?
Isn't it a large sum for the nobles?
Juliet, who lived in the theater and never touched money, only realized that it was a huge sum of money, but did not realize how large the sum was.
“I have no choice but to bump into him, whether it works or not.
If I’m not going to be held in the hands of a lecherous man, I need to stay alert and take the money.”
Juliet waited for the day the marquis arrived, determined not to become depressed.
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“Morgan, is that Marquis Anais?”
“Yes, it’s him.
It's been ten years since I saw him when he was young, but he's still handsome.
I don’t think he’s even old.”
As Morgan spoke, a man dressed in a gray coat was being escorted to the seat.
It was refreshing to see the aristocratic figure walking with the guide in an elegant manner, hidden in a corner.
Although she said that he sometimes visited and played with her when she was a child, she barely remembered seeing the Marquis since she was five years old when she was placed in this body.
At first glance, she remembered the much younger Marquis, but she couldn't remember anything in detail.
Since then, he has stopped going in and out of his lover's house due to the birth of his successor.
A blonde with fair, pink-tinged skin, green eyes and a solid, elegant and unpredictable body could hardly be considered to have a daughter Juliet's age.
That man in front of her was the one who irresponsibly abandoned herself and her mother.
She felt bitter when she thought about it, but she missed him.
Juliet was determined to be weak.
This man was a heartless man who left his daughter alone.
Parents are the ones who must take on the responsibility of having children.
Since he had abandoned his duty until now, it wouldn't be too much to ask her to offer 5,000 terns for herself.
Julieta kept an eye on the man, her chest throbbing and looking for a chance to ask for money.
"Father?" She was looking at the back of the marquis who was heading to the box, hidden invisibly, but the lady with bright brown hair affectionately extended out of the box welcomed him.
Juliet, who had seen his appearance, began to try to speak to him, but hid in the dark shadow again.
:Sa-chan
Sa-chan
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