I Became the Villain’s Wife - Chapter 43.1

Translator: Lioness

Editor: Lioness

Eun-woo had a crease on her forehead thinking that the development of Ikshid and Selena’s relationship was faster than she expected.

Walking along with Selena, she glanced at her side profile.

She didn’t know whether it was because she talked about the Crown Prince, or was it simply because Selena liked to walk, but Selena was certainly more excited than usual. A red color painted her white cheeks and with the breeze, Selena’s red hair fluttered and tickled her blushing ears and forehead.

Eun-woo looked at Selena’s face for a moment and was mesmerized. Seeing her friend in love was lovely.

“There is, Selena.”

“Huh? What’s wrong?”

Eun-woo shut her mouth for a while and bit her tongue. She hesitated.

“What if… I’m saying it as what if…”

Selena’s eyes glistened whilst waiting for her words. Eun-woo plucked her left courage to say the words she kept swallowing and spit it out.

“The person you really love made the wrong choice… What would you do if many people were harmed by it?”

It was the future of Ikshid. After bringing that up, she glimpsed at Selena.

What she said was taboo. Despite that, she was actually avoiding mentioning the future.

But when she thought that the end was coming near, she got nervous. Ikshid’s wrongful evils in the future and Tashian’s evil deeds under the pretext of Ikshid’s doing. Of course, it was difficult to imagine for a woman, for Eleanor, who knew the two of them.

In the near future, will they really turn this peaceful place full of despair and sighs?

She couldn’t believe it herself. Although the two men she knew now were the people who always quarrel over small things, they are still best friends who stand together beside each other, promoting Hellasium together and the future of the country lies in them.

It was ridiculous that such best friends like them would become each other’s worst opponents, and each other’s reason for death.

She sometimes had the illusion that these were all dreams, that she was the real Eleanor Miller, and all along, living as Lim Eun-woo was just her dream.

Well, everything is still peaceful, isn’t it? The future she knew may be just a daydream, and in fact, it might be different.

She consoled herself by saying, ‘The future will change.’ Every day was peaceful to the extent that she didn’t want her closed eyes to open, nor did she want to wake up, immersed in the happiness which felt like her body was floating in the air. Since, it was her first time experiencing this stability in this world.

Furthermore, isn’t there still time left? There is still time until the death of the current Emperor takes place and the coronation of Ikshid, and after that, things will go… evil.

That’s what encouraged Eun-woo’s optimism.

But somehow she could not relax at all. It was probably because she knew the ugly future herself.

She isn’t sure yet, but the situation is going to be a planned thing that will occur one after another that she can’t control. She was chasing the end of this, taking pictures of the important events she still remembered, as if she was drawing orbits around them.

“Are you asking this question with someone in mind?”

Eun-woo, who was deep in thought with her eyes fixed on her feet, was frightened. Her shoulders flinched and she waved her hands frantically.

“No! Never! That will never happen! It’s just… a what if!”

Selena waved her hand and smiled politely at Eun-woo, who denied it. She gently rubbed Eun-woo’s shoulder as if saying to calm down. Only then could Eun-woo accurately see Selena’s expression.

Selena had the usual calm look on her face. It was like, even if throwing stones into the sea causes few waves of water, and nothing happens, her mind would still remain upright and calm.

“I’m not sure. I’d be in a lot of trouble if that happened to me.”

Selena replied. But her eyes had already left Eun-woo’s face and looked at the distant garden.

Eun-woo followed Selena’s gaze and turned away. What came into her vision was the garden, but Eun-woo, who had spent more time living in Duke’s mansion than Selena, knew exactly where Selena was looking at. Selena was looking at the Duke’s office where the Crown Prince stayed the most.

“We must rectify the situation.”

Her voice came as steady.

Eun-woo looked at Selena with her slightly startled eyes. Selena threw away the serious expression on her face that surprised Eun-woo for a moment, and smiled playfully.

“If it was the person you really love… when you regain your senses, won’t you be able to come up with solutions and make up for the mistakes he made, together with him?”

Eun-woo stopped on her tracks, forgetting Selena’s polite response. It felt as if someone had cut the Mobius strip, which was constantly spinning and revolving around the same spot, with scissors. The cord with that was broken, but a new path emerged.

That was a very Selena-like answer. Eun-woo realized who she was in front of her.

Why did she even waste her time on useless worries? There was already an odd possibility right in front of her.

Selena was the hero of the Dark times of Hellasium. She corrected her fiance’s evil misdeeds, adjusted his mistakes, and rekindled Ikshid’s chaotic Empire. And besides, why doesn’t she drive this fussy life into a peaceful one? In a moment, she felt the foggy and rocky future, turned into bright.

Of course, that did not mean that the thorny path she had to go through would disappear.

Eun-Woo’s mind calmed down again.

“Lady Miller, you’re a little strange today. Are you sick or something?”

Selena asked her, feeling that Eun-woo was acting unusually. Eun-woo looked at her with her mixed feelings stirring inside. There was an innocent expression on Selena’s face, unaware of any hardship or pain she might go through in the future.

Eun-woo coughed and turned her gaze away to make excuses.

“No, I was thinking about getting married.”

“Getting married?”

Eun-woo pretended to be innocent by walking a few steps ahead of her.

“Yes, that is such a thing as any woman at our age would do.“

“Ah.”

Selena quickly responded. Eun-woo didn’t miss the timing and asked quickly.

“Selena. The marriage you had said which we talked about the other day… How did the story go?”

Eun-woo stopped briefly when she saw Selena’s expression quickly darkened upon her question.

Even if Eun-woo knew that Selena was somehow connected with Ikshid, it would not change the situation that Selena is currently struggling with an unfortunate proposal marriage.

The dowry was actually the problem. The Wellwood family, where Selena was born as the eldest daughter, couldn’t be rich. To be precise, due to the life the former Baron had, or Selena’s paternal grandfather, the current Baron is facing a financial crisis to be able to afford giving dowry.