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Chapter Sixty-One -
Eventually, Theodore brought Annette into her room with her slung over his shoulders and forcefully placed her on the bed.
While Theodore was giving instructions to the maid, Annette quietly stood behind his back and tried to sneak out of the room, but to no avail.
“Where is the nurse?”
“I have
I sent
Lisa to the hospital
Favoritin
.
Originally, you would
Bring
Reading Club today, so I had her take care of other chores.
I'm very busy, so allow me to
Finish
“My work is at peace.”
“O maid,
Send
In person
What to hospital
Favoritin
To bring
“Nurse.”
“Servant, there is no need to call Lisa.
Tell me
The rickshaw driver had a trip today
Canceled
“
At the same time, the couple turned to the maid and gave her contradictory orders.
“Also, don't act so crazy, Your Highness.
Lisa is tasked with completing very important work.
When...
I received
Hospital management, I asked her to work there and keep an eye on the place in case there was anything out of control.
It's very important work, so don't interfere
My affairs
And stop
Annoyance
Women at work.”
“O maid,
Ask
From the attending nurse
Right away
.
She is the person responsible for health
Her lady
, so this is the most important thing
Urgent
Now.”
“What lady are you talking about?
I am no one’s lady.”
Between the duke and duchess's disputing orders, the maid was lost and did not know what to do.
This situation was not something a single maid could handle alone, so she felt like she wanted to cry.
“First,
Bring
For me
A cup
Of hot tea.”
“Yes, ma'am.”
The maid ran hurriedly, happy that this would bring about an agreement between the two parties.
Unable to stay still, Annette stealthily tried to get out of bed, but when Theodore pressed her forehead with his index finger, she collapsed again and lay on her back.
Annette was so ill that one finger could overcome her.
“
Ammgh
“
Annette finally gave up while whimpering and buried her head under the pillow.
Her face, which was red from fever, was now red with anger.
The stubborn woman, who wanted to go to the reading club to please others while not even being able to overcome her anger, seemed irrationally cute in Theodore's eyes.
“Even if you don't let me
By going out
, I can
Lying down
And read the documents, right?”
“Work is done only when a person has a sound mind and sufficient wisdom
Don't take it
Resolution.
No
Be destroyed
Your effort
Previous via work
With a body
Sick because
Your stubbornness
Clumsy
.
Put in
Your consideration
My honor depends on what you do
As you
“My wife.”
“
Okay
Just keep your hand away from me.
“I won’t leave this room, that’s a promise.”
Annette finally realized that her stubbornness would not work.
When Theodore raised his finger, Annette stood up, then rummaged through the nightstand drawer and took out a handful of pills and shoved them into her mouth at once.
“Since I am
I had it
Medicine now, I'll be fine soon
I wake up
من النوم، لذا لا تتصل
Please
Please.
When you will come back, you will
Treat me
.
I ask you to concede a little to this extent.”
“What are these medications that
I ate it
Now?”
“It's a depressor
For fever
“It contains sleeping pills.”
Annette, who was about to drink a glass of water, stopped for a moment and looked sideways at Theodore.
“Please don't tell Lisa this.
In fact, Lisa told me not to.”
I eat
More than three pills.
But I can't help it, because taking one or two pills doesn't help
Useful
“With me.”
Annette made excuses that Theodore did not ask her about.
Instead of Theodore in front of her, Annette was more afraid of Lisa's complaining.
“You don't.”
Are you listening?
To tips
Your doctor
And don't care
Cheers
And you do
What
You want
Just, and you want me to keep this a secret?”
“It's not even my body, why would I even care.”
With his health
?
Originally, it was my body
Strong
And not
Slowly
In motor reactions such a weak body.
Do you?
You forgot
How I was
Horrible
Playing tennis?
Annette seemed to have gone red with embarrassment as she remembered being defeated by Theodore even as she boiled with fever.
It was admirable for Annette to say what had happened to her in her own words, but the first thing she said disturbed Theodore greatly.
“It's not even my body.”
Annette still believed that this body of hers belonged to someone else.
Theodore had never cared about her identity, but suddenly he wondered what her name was in his original world.
He wanted to ask her about it, but he was almost certain she would never tell him.
But that didn't matter.
Whatever her name had been, Annette was the Annette he spent his time with now.
Theodore decided not to be curious about her identity in the other world and focus on her being here with him.
“
Eat
Only the medication prescribed by your doctor.”
“In my world, it was my original body
Accustomed
to take this type of medication.
Don’t you know that my specialty was taking medicine without water?”
“Have you ever had a terminal illness?”
"Ballerinas usually live on painkillers.
There were several days when I was in so much pain that I couldn't
I could
Even standing on stage without taking painkillers, so it was a daily routine for both of us to drink
Our medicines
In the waiting room before the show starts.
I have
I used to
That
I eat
A much larger amount than this will relieve pain.”
Theodore tried hard to convince himself that Annette was just Annette, but in the end Annette told him a story from another world that he couldn't reach.
“Will
You continued
Dancing though it was
It hurts
Very?”
“There is no way out.
This is an investigation tax
Your dreams
.
I loved ballet, so I had to…
Be beautiful
With patience... for... for...”
Annette's words gradually faded away.
This was evidence that the sleeping pills were starting to work in her body.
Annette laughed lightly, then began to cough dryly.
“I have
You continued
By speaking
About pain
And illness
So much so that I
I started
I feel really sick.
If you hadn't mentioned these painful stories from the past, I wouldn't have started to feel so bad.
All this
Because of you
“Your Highness.”
Annette complained uncharacteristically, perhaps because she was sedated from the painkillers or perhaps because she had a fever.
“I'm very sleepy...but...Your Highness....”
Annette fell asleep while muttering unintelligible words.
Theodore sat near her and continued to look at her and monitor her condition.
Then Annette started snoring.
After making sure that she was sound asleep, Theodore called the maid quietly and carefully in order not to wake her.
When the maid brought a wet towel, Theodore wiped Annette's forehead and cooled her sore face, then left the room for a while.
Theodore had arranged for a suitable apology gift to be given to the reading club Annette was supposed to attend today, then returned with the investment proposals he needed to see and sat down next to her again.
On the bedside table were stacks of papers that Annette had to look at before bed.
All the papers were scattered all over the place, from papers related to the acquisition of Favoriten Hospital to comprehensive documents for Scheringen's properties.
It seemed that Annette was working every day before bed, and perhaps she was still suffering from the insomnia that Lisa had talked about a while ago, so her body became weak and she had a fever.
In fact, Theodore was also sleeping much less than usual due to investing in the mining business, but he didn't think he could compare himself to the weak Annette at all.
Theodore put the papers he had to work on aside and decided to pick up Annette's work first and finish it so that she could rest.
She carefully recorded the details of the funds requested.
When he thought about it more closely, it seemed to him that this was why she was so hot.
Theodore had no idea that this was something Annette had to work so hard for.
If he had known that, he would not have let this weak woman exert herself to the point of swallowing painkillers and sleeping pills.
Theodore was someone who wanted to become emperor even at the cost of Annette's life, but now…
…He didn't know if he still thought the same way or not.
Will he be able to risk Annette's life in order to become Emperor?
Theodore could not find an answer to this question.
He now had to prepare for a meeting with the investors he was supposed to meet the next day, but things were out of his control so he decided to postpone it until later.
The papers in front of him seemed blurry, but the woman, who was whiter than the paper, was clearly visible in front of him.
Theodore couldn't read anything, his focus was scattered, his eyes only fixed on Annette.
Theodore could not complete his work because of this woman.
He couldn't focus at all, so he turned his head the other way, but then he saw a full-length mirror hanging on the wall.
Theodore, unwittingly looking at his reflection in the mirror, realized a trivial fact.
He was sitting on the bed next to the sleeping Annette.
The man in the mirror was more blurry and in a more miserable state than the feverish woman.
Theodore looked at his face and at Annette lying next to him alternately and clenched his fists.
Something was squeezing his heart, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Those unfamiliar things that he had never received or learned before swept through his heart before he realized it.
Theodore stared at himself in the mirror, but then…
Theodore heard a strange voice from behind the mirror.
[You don't have to know anything about this.
So
You felt
anything like that towards someone,
So you should
Stay away from him immediately.
Because these things will
It swallows you
And it destroys you
only.]
His mother on the other side of his memory whispered something.
The past, which Theodore could not remember, pulled him into the darkness of the bottom.
[I'm sorry, baby, but you can't be
Happy
In
Your life
Absolutely.]
It is clear then...
[……..]
His mother Maria must have said something, but Theodor couldn't remember anything about it.
The moment he tried to remember the words his mother had left for him, a terrible headache struck him as if it would split his head in two.
Theodore calmly held Annette's head and patted her so she wouldn't wake up due to her moans of pain.
* * *
There was an awkward silence between Hugo and Casselia.
They were meeting in a place neither of them had any contact with at all.
Hugo broke the silence first.
“Will
You took
Your decision
?
“
I decided
To return to our original relationship with you, Your Highness.
The Shiringen originally served the Emperor, so even though my niece has created a turmoil between us, it's good to put an end to this misunderstanding.
And we act
Immediately in order for water to return to normal.”
“That's right.
So we'll try to recover what we lost and return things to their original state, right?”
The one who felt most threatened after the news of Annette's marriage to Theodore was Casselia.
Little by little, everything she planned was collapsing because of an unknown enemy.
If things continued like this, the victory and glory of House Scheringen would be lost.
Although there is no clear evidence, the change in the lives of both Casilia and Hugo was caused by the marriage of Annette and Theodor.
The two had to get rid of Annette and Theodore when they were just two reckless people who went unnoticed, but both Casilia and Hugo did not consider the Duke and Duchess a threat to them at that time.
But it is already too late to get rid of Annette and Theodore.
This is because their privilege was exposed and they broke the stereotype that they were useless people.
So Casselia now had to accelerate what she wanted to do, but she needed a strong ally to do it.
And for this reason…
Casselia searched for the most suitable partner.
“I have
She supported
The Shiringen family has long been the rightful emperor.”
“Yes, and I also believe that you will do so for a very long time to come.
If you are.”
You support me
As the next rightful emperor, the Shiringen family will once again find its lost roots and return to...
Glory to her
“The old one.”
“….”
“I heard that my uncle was messing around with the Sheringen people
Recently
But I will
I put it down
At
Limit it
And stop it
About this matter.”
Recently, Theodor searched for the Scheringen family members who were still against Annette one by one and put pressure on them economically by putting them in a difficult financial situation.
This was not Annette's order, but Theodore got those money-hungry to support her for the pension.
“I am grateful
For your generosity
And your thinking
In our family, but we will solve internal affairs
For Al
Scheringen within the Scheringen.
He doesn't need your highness
To intervene
In
Our affairs
“Family.”
“As long as you will.”
You support me
Until the end, you won't
I intervene
In anything
It belongs to you
“At all.”
Hugo was only Cassilia's ally, so she stopped his unwelcome interference in her family's affairs.
The relationship that united them was a cooperative relationship based on necessity, not a master-slave relationship.
This is because the name of Shiringen must remain a respected, honorable and proud name even before the Emperor.
“Originally, we have nothing in common except our current goal, so don’t try to interfere in what doesn’t concern you.”
“You
Right
“
The only common point that made them join hands was to target the same common enemy.
Their alliance was only there to break Annette Scheringen and get rid of her in any way possible.
This was an alliance between two of the most evil people targeting Annette and harboring evil against her.